Mau Rākau with Matua Sean

 We have been lucky enough to have Matua Sean every morning this week, teaching us basic mau rākau moves. We really enjoyed it and showed some awesome listening skills and natural ability. 

On Friday we organised some strength competitions e.g. longest plank, longest bridge. Check out how strong we are:

Calaise and Maringirangi took our chairs away! Lots of trust happening here.

Cake Stall and Mangamutu Stream visit

We had another cake stall this week and have almost raised enough money for our bus to Matai Bay. Whaea Chanelle has been selling ice blocks for us to help raise the last $100 we need. Amani and Calaise made a fabulous sign to advertise our delicious cakes. It must have worked because we sold out very quickly.

We also had our visit to Mangamutu Stream. 

On Wednesday we walked down to Rāwiri Taiwhanga Park to test the water quality with Rosie from the Whitebait Connections Drains to Harbour programme. It was lots of fun using nets to scoop things out of the water so we could examine them. 

Unfortunately we found a lot of Gambusia fish in the stream. Miss Nicola took them home to feed her pet koi as it is illegal to put them back into the waterways. Click on the link if you want to learn more about them.

Ashleigh and Mei head to the water with their net.

Junior inspects his catch.

Rosie explains to the class what they need to look for.

Caitlin on a mission.

Ashleigh and Patungahere identify the bugs and fish they caught.

We had a busy day being scientists.

2A sentences

 We have been learning to use two adjectives together, separated by a comma. Here are some of the sentences we used in our story writing this week:

The door knob was hot, slimy and melting! - Ahzaria-Lee

I went swimming in the clear, blue ocean. - Anahera

She is a mean, skinny bully. - Monique

There was land with a sandy, hot beach and a cold, blue ocean. - Jordan

One hot, sunny morning a mean girl started bullying a nice girl. - Lee-Ayla

Free lunches and Drains to Harbour

We enjoyed our lunch on Thursday and Friday - a Subway wrap and a strawberry yoghurt. We are participating in the Ka Ora, Ka Ako - healthy school lunches programme this year. Click on the link to find out more about it.

Rosie, from the Drains to Harbour programme, came to talk to us on Monday about healthy waterways. We started with a clean bowl of water and slowly added things to it to show what happens to our streams and rivers if we don't look after them.

The water is clean and clear to start with.

Ew! Nobody wants to swim in that water now.