Our Kiwiana Eating Experience!

Here are some children making hokey pokey with Emma...

 

Today we got to experience eating Kiwiana style. We had three lovely mums come in and help us make Honey Rice Bubble cakes, Pavlova and Hokey Pokey! Yum... It was a day of treats that wouldnt have been possible without Emma, Liz and Jo! So thanks.

 

Here is our pav mixture before mixing it all up!

 

Here are some kids watching the Pav in the oven...

Above is Meile-Rose trying out the hokey pokey!

And.... Broden :)

Noah and Kelliemarie trying out the hokey pokey!

Ben looking a bit unsure about the whole thing!

The gorgeous Kelliemarie tasting the hokey pokey balls.

Holly showing off her hokey pokey balls!

Meile and Teiria stirring the hokey pokey to stop it from sticking to the pot!

Ben overlooking that the girls are doing it right!

 

 

 

 

The Three Great Mates by Levi, Ben, Marty, Noah and Blake

One wet Wednesday morning three great mates wanted a change. The three great mates lived near the Waikato River. Since the ETA had wiped out their homes their lives had changed a lot. Cruden the Crayfish had a girlprawn but when the ETA workers were clearing their homes she got taken away to The Prawn Park. Piri the Pukekho lived in a drain, but it dried up and the ETA workers put cement in it for the new road. Tony the tuatara was a road worker, one day he was trying to load cement into the cement mixer, but he was too slow that it dried up before he could finish. Kine the kiwi came out and shouted ANGRILY, “You were too slow and all the money we spent on the cement got wasted because of you! Get out of here YOU’RE FIRED!”

All the great mates decided that the ferns are much greener on the other side of the Huka falls bridge. Cruden the Crayfish decided he would cross because he wanted to get his girlprawn back. The only problem with crossing the bridge was that there was a ginormous Australian eel underneath. As he approached the bridge Quade the Quick Eel flicked out of the water and growled at Cruden, “Hey you! Nobody crosses this bridge unless they can score a try against me”. “Sweet as bro, she’ll be right”.

Quade was unaware that Cruden was a crayblack. Quade raced to the tryline but Cruden the crayfish nipped the ball off him and zoomed like a four wheeler to the tryline. “See ya bro, I’m off to save my girlprawn”. Quade slithered angrily back into the water.

Piri the Pukekho decided to the cross the bridge because he had heard about a pond where Paradise ducks lived. As he scampered to the bridge Quade splashed out in front of him. “Hey stickbird! Nobody crosses this bridge unless they can score a try against me”. “Too easy, mate” replied Piri. “This will be a piece of pavlova”, snarled Quade. Quade quickly wriggled towards the tryline but Piri used his feathers to tickle Quades gills which made him drop the flax ball. Piri swiped the ball up with his wing and skidded to the try line. “I’m no pavlova, see you later mate” and off went Piri.

Tony felt lonely and decided to cross the bridge to get a new job at Tuatara Century. As he slowly stomped to the bridge nobody appeared so he carried on. When we was halfway across Quade heard him thumping up above him. Quade was so exhausted because he had just had two games of rugby. Quade tried to jump up onto the bridge but the gates opened and the water flushed him away back to aussie. Tony slowly plonked across the bridge and saw his great mates and said, “Kia ora mates”. The three great mates lived happily ever after.

Week Four Achievement Award

This weeks achievement award for room 15 went to...

MARTYN

For always having a positive attitude and being a great helper to other students.

 

Marty is always one who others can count on for advice or further explaining of an activity. His positive attitude rubs off on those around him. Well done Marty, his award was presented at Team Tauhara assembly yesterday.

NZ Flags

We designed our own NZ flags which we think represent NZ better... Here are some examples of our art and concepts which we shared in assembly this week. Tariq and Aimee were the presenters and half the class explained why they chose the things they did to Team Tauhara.

Here is Levi showing off is Maori koru design...

Above is Meile-Rose sharing some possible concepts...

Above is Jacob showing off his rugby playing kiwi...

Here is a very proud Laura of her concepts...

Above is Kelliemarie at the final stage of her artwork!

Above are Aimee, Mackenzie and Kahlia working on their masterpieces!

Here you can see a lot of busy children creating some AMAZING pieces of art!

 

 

Week 3 Term 2 Reading Gurus

Mackenzie
Meredith
Charlotte
Max
Marty
Deemanthi
Kahlia
Aimee

Wondering about maths at home?

 

http://www.nzmaths.co.nz/maths-our-house?parent_node

Octopuses explaining how to use a number line...

Here is some of the Octopus maths group explaining how to use a number line. Here you can see Aimee, Tj and Charlotte.