Inquiry Ben's Group Video

Inquiry

We have been learning about how people move  so that we can do plays and videos.  Aileen said that her picture was of rock stars and ballerinas and people had come together to see them.  Harrison looked like this after the game of soccer that he played when he jumped up in the air because his team won. Elizabeth said that people had come together for a disco and this is what they looked like.

Aboriginal Pictures

We have been making aboriginal paintings that show sympbols and use dots. People come together to do this art and to view it.

Thank you oranges

Thank you to the following for sending us oranges.
Liz and Wayne Higgins Growers
Tumu Timber
Main Freight
East Coast Packaging Ltd
Mt Erin Fruit Services
Havelock North Village Lions
Hastings Heretaunga Lions
New Brighton Lions
Glenmark Lions

We love eating oranges.

Pūkana

Who will win???

Inquiry Treasures

I liked making the koru patterns because it is a treasure to Maori. Kaitlin

I liked making the koru because we drawed a koru and then cut it and traced it on a piece of paper and coloured it in with pretty colours. Abby

It was really fun and its a very nice thing to do. MacKenzie

I liked marking around the koru. Skye

It was fun because you could do lots of koru. It is an important part of Maori.  Maynard

Fun Day at School

Look at our nails

Parachuting

Are you from Canterbury???

Must be the clown

I am going to write a recount about my holiday.  This is the kind of writing you will be doing at the start of the year.  See if you can find the words that show that this is a recount.

On January 1 we packed up all our camping gear to go camping at Totaranui.  It took a long time as we were going away for three weeks.  We looked closely at the weather forecast to see what the weather was going to be because we did want the weather to be good when we put up our tent.

The alarm went off at a quarter to two in the morning, that was really early! We left at 3.30am. We travelled up through the Lewis Pass and finally got to Totaranui at 11.30am. It was very hot. We found a site near our friends and put up the tent.  We unpacked all our stuff.  It took a  long time. Lots of people helped us. Then we went for a swim, the water was really nice and warm.

The next day my brother and his partner arrived so we helped him unpack.  They went home after a week and then Ruth, Ben, Alice and Gemma arrived for a week.

We cooked in our camp oven which was fun as it was on the fire.  Each day I went for a run along the Abel Tasman walkway.  It is just so beautiful and peaceful. A very special place for me.  We also went out in our little zip zap boat.  I only went when the sea was flat. 

We all had a wonderful holiday.  The weather was great. We loved being there with our family and friends.  Next year we will do it all again.