Thursday, December 3, 2020

Brilliant Bird Feeders

 Today we completed the final phase of our Science inquiry by making bird feeders to help bring more birds into our gardens. We tried to be kaitiaki by using recycled or natural resources. 

There were apple bird feeders, pine cone bird feeders, cookie cutter gelatine bird feeders and bottle bird feeders. 










If you would like to try making cookie cutter bird seed ornaments at home, you might like to try this simple recipe.



Tuesday, December 1, 2020

Visitors

 It has been lovely to have some special visits from our Ahuriri friends. The Whio tamariki have been great buddies, showing them around Huritini. 






Monday, November 30, 2020

Measurement

Today at Maths time the awesome learners / ākonga in Whio were measuring things around the studio, using our blocks and metre rulers to compare objects that were longer/shorter/the same length. There was a lot of estimating, measuring, collaborating and hands-on fun!













Sunday, November 29, 2020

Huritni Assembly

 We were so proud of the children on Friday. The presenters were awesome, they were so confident and spoke very clearly.


We think everyone did a great job singing the kindness song as well as learning sign language to go along with it.

Here are the Whio children singing and signing the song:







Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Library time

The Whio children love going to the library.

It is always great to see so many books being issued, the children are really thinking about the types of books they want to read and it's great to see so many of them picking chapter book to take home.

This week was our last chance to issue books as Mr MaCallum will be collecting all books for an end of year stocktake, so from next week the children need to make sure they are bringing back all of the books they have at home.

Summer reading slips will be available from the library next week - this is for children who would like to take up to 12 books home for over the summer break. They will need to bring the slip back to school signed by a parent.