Enviro Day

Today was another great Enviroday. We planted thirty natives with Nixon's gran, Terri. She kindly donated them to us and helped us with digging and planting. It was great eating the feijoa and kiwifruit crumble Whaea Jorja's group made, after all that hard work! We finished off the day with a story read by Amiria, in Kahikatea.

Enviro Awards

Last night Oruaiti won the Northland Regional Council award for Environmental Action in Education. It was a great night and we are super proud to have won!

Production Masks

Today we started to papermache the mask onto the Nikau fronds. We also did another light layer of papermache to smooth over wrinkles and bumps. They are really starting to take shape now! 

Production Masks

Kauri class are doing really well with their production masks. We are making life-size Anglerfish with moving jaws to eat up all of the cephalopods on stage!

Tuakana/Teina

Today Kauri class were treated to some awesome reading from Donny in Nikau class. He read about squid which was cool because we have been learning about cephalopods which is the family squid belong to. We hope Donny comes back soon!

Super Neat and Tidy

We are practising our handwriting every day in Kauri. We are loving taking pride in our printing and book presentation. We use a pink highlighter to highlight our success, and a green highlighter to highlight next steps.

Smiley, happy, people!

Here in ruma kauri we love to celebrate success. Here is a snapshot of some success from today's mahi!

Phonics

Kauri class are loving their phonics lessons. We are enjoying the combination of movement, sound and sight to help us learn particular sounds in a word. Today we were working on ir sounds.

Production Masks

Today we started making our anglerfish masks. You can already see that they are going to be realistic and quite scary!

Kahikatea

Kahikatea is the new name for the outdoor learning space. Students from all of the classes are now timetabled to use it for their learning. Below is a photo of ruma kauri listening to a story with Whaea Fiona while getting comfy on the been bags in the covered area of Kahikatea.