Term 3, Week 4

Thank you very much to those families who made it along to our Poormans Stream visit last Friday (in spite of the weather and the changing plans!). We loved learning about stream management and ecology - what a fun, hands on way to aquire new knowledge! We are also very excited about another outing – tree planting on Monday 6 August at 11am, all welcome :)

Also last week we really enjoyed meeting the visiting Chinese teachers (and using our Chinese greetings and introductions!), and we were so impressed by the Recycling Circus show. What great acrobatics, and what important lessons about sustainability!

This week, as well as tree planting, we will keep ourselves busy with reading, writing, maths, Bible in Schools and our weekly trip to the library (now back on Wednesdays as usuaul). We look forward to working with the COW on Thursday, and to continuing our focus on te reo and on tikanga maori, including myths and legends. We’re very enthusiastic about acting, and hope to create some of our own plays which will use some of our te reo phrases and be based around these myths and legends. If all goes well, we’ll be sharing these plays with the junior syndicate a few weeks from now.

We welcome back Mrs Fleur Jessop who will be with us on Wednesday . We are so thrilled to be getting back into our regular art program, and this term our focus will be on creating kowhaiwhai patterns. We also welcome back Mrs Desiree Thiart who will be with us on Monday while Miss Driver is on leave. We LOVE Mrs Thiart’s special magnet stories!