This year on 28 June the Matariki star cluster rises into our skies signalling the beginning of a month of celebration.

During Matariki we acknowledge what we have and what we have to give. Matariki celebrates the diversity of life. It's a celebration of culture, language, spirit and people. 

Matariki is our Aotearoa Pacific New Year.

Matariki is a time for making special things for family and friends - share a meal, share family stories, learn about the stars.

Matariki is a time to plant trees and winter crops. A time of new beginnings and reflection.

click on the image to find out more about Matariki.....................

Kapo Kapo Matariki Festival 
celebrating the stars of the future......

More from Bec and Harold....We were excited that today we got to visit Harold again.
We loved going inside his special classroom.

Today we talked about choosing a variety of food for breakfast, morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner.

Thanks Bec and Harold. We had so much fun. 
See you again next year.

If you want to go to Harold's website, click on the link below.
You can play games, sing songs and colour worksheets.

http://www.lifeeducation.org.nz/KIDS.html

This morning we were so excited about going to see Bec and her helper, Harold the Giraffe at the Life Education Caravan.
The focus of the visit was to learn about eating a VARIETY 
of food to give us ENERGY.
We made a food puzzle about the food we eat lots of and the food that has sneaky ingredients like sugar, salt and fat..

Please ask your child what they have been learning about.....

   

Congratulations Rhian - Our Gym Star of the Day

Alphablocks......

Life Education is a charity that provides children with the knowledge to make informed choices about their health, respect others and learn to appreciate their uniqueness.

Don't forget to get to school early tomorrow. 
We are going to see Harold at 9.00am

A special visitor is arriving on Tuesday.......

I wonder who it is?

Here's a clue.........

STRIKE.......

Today we went to the hall to watch and listen to the Strike percussion band.
They had an amazing selection of drums.
We watched as they made music with fire and played lots of different drums.
The drums were really loud. 
We thought the show was very cool!

The music was loud but I liked it - Rhian

I liked the fire -  Finn

I liked the fire. They made it big. - Jessica

They did a trick with a soda can. They put it on their head. 
It was funny. - Max

I liked the music. I liked the drums. - Emily

The drums were loud. I liked them. - Dylani

I liked it when they played the big drums. - Paige

The drum were loud. I liked it. - Arielle

I liked the drums. - Oscar.

The drums were noisy. - Ronin

I liked the noise that the drums made. It was fun. - Dylan.

Cross Country Running - Papakowhai Style! on PhotoPeach

Enterprising Rata Tahi! Selling Jelly on PhotoPeach

Today we were so excited to read a comment on our blog from Finn's Nana Pat who lives in England......

Gymnastics

Our Inquiry focus has been Science.
We have been learning about materials and what makes them change.

We have heated and melted chocolate.
We have dissolved and cooled jelly.
During these experiments we have learn't to make a prediction
of what we think will happen and 'observations' using our senses
of sight, sound, smell and taste.

We learn't about writing a list of instructions which is very important in science. 

To end the topic we decided to make, package and sell jelly. Very Enterprising!

Last Monday we asked (surveyed) Mrs Powell's and Mr Graham's class to find out how many jelly cups we need to make. 
We found out the most popular flavour was raspberry.

Today we made the jelly with the help of Sara's Mum and Harold's Mum.

Then we designed the containers for the jelly. 

Rata Toru made this poster using Comic life

Tomorrow when the jelly is solid we are going to sell it for 20 cents a cup.