The Fish Kit!

We hired a kit full of activities from Te Manawa. We moved in groups around several activities.
Some tasks included... Is it a fish?
                                     Native fish.
                                     Is this fish the right size to keep?
                                     Fish role play
         We hope you enjoy the photos showing our fun afternoon activities.

Our Swimming Sports

We apologise for the delay- technical issues! We hope you enjoy a snapshot of our Sports!

Remember our Duathlon will be held at school on Wednesday 1st April. We are asking the children to wear their House t-shirt or a t-shirt which represents their house coolur. We hope to see you there!

Looking Flash !

Wow!  Have you seen any students at Hokowhitu School wearing weird coloured shirts ????

These shirts are our house T Shirts!  You can buy them from the office.  There come in 4 different colours.

If you are in Kakariki house then you will look very smart like our model.

If you are in Kahurangi house then your T shirt will be blue.

Whero you should buy a red T shirt.

Kowhai you will look like the beautiful flowers on the kowhai tree.  Kael knows you will need a yellow shirt.

Writing to Describe

We are learning to write to describe. For fun today we arranged for one of the teachers to dress up and kidnap a child from the class. ( the children knew that this was going to happen so no one was frightened).
We pretended to ring the police, who asked for a description to help them with their search!
We had to be clear and include all the details that we could remember.

WANTED:

The Kidnapper had black hair, a green handbag, a black flowered dress, red sunglasses and mesh covered her face. She had a blue bow on the top of her head and behind it she had a tiny little hat. Emerald had been kidnapped.

By Eli

(fortunately by morning tea Emerald had been found thanks to Eli's clear description and normality had been restored to the class- phew!)

Hurricanes!

Ruma Iwa won a radio competition and had a visit from the Hurricanes.
The whole school got to meet some very special visitors, thank you Jacob!!!!

Reading Activity Ruma Whitu

Our reading group read a story about how to create a bird-friendly garden. We looked how to make a bird feeder. Today we melted some fat/ lard and stirred some bird seed into it. We pushed the seed mixture into the spaces in the cones. We tied string on to pinecones so the feeders could be hung in a tree.

It was fun and I can't wait to see the birds eating it.

By Maiya.