Bike Day at Tamaki Primary School

Thank you Mike Greer for our wonderful new bikes and a big thank you to Tamaki Regeneration Project, Bike Hub, Our Local Police, Auckland Transport and our parents for putting on an amazing day for us.

Today is Bike Day. We did bike day in the shed. At bike day there was cookies and milo. We could make badges and we could colour in pictures and we can ride the new bikes around the track. When everybody was finished we all went to class.

By Martha

You have to go to the lego bike, then the people count to 50 then you have to go and get some milo and cookies. Then while you are drinking milo and cookies you should sit down on a chair and I had fun.

By Anthony 

I went to the bike and it was fun. It was like fun fun because we ate cookies it was cool.  I like cookies and milo.

By Lopeti

I went to the badge place and I made a badge.  Sa Dah went on the bike and Sa Dah fell and Hifo called her friends to help Sa Dah.

By Hifo

It was a big day.  We had cookies and Milo.  At TPS we learnt how to ride a bike.  If we got red black and green then we got a Milo.

By Kyera

Learning To Count On From The Biggest Number

Today Krypton learnt how to count on from the biggest number.

This Is How We Solved Today's Maths Problem

Today's Maths Problem

Six girls from Te Waipuna o Tamaki and 4 girls from Room 1 want to make poi. How many girls want to make poi altogether? If they make two poi each how many poi will they have altogether?

Tongan Language Week Celebrations

We have been celebrating Tongan language week these are videos of us performing at our special Tongan assembly today.

Learn Create Share Through Seed Planting

Learning New Vocabulary

 We learnt how to plant seeds. We had to say what we were doing as we were doing it. We used lots of new vocabulary and phrases like 'a pair of gloves', 'seed tray', 'scooping up soil with a trowel' and 'sprinkling our seeds with water to make the soil damp'.

Create

We created instructions so that we could teach someone else how to plant a seed. Here is some of our writing.

Share

We shared our new learning with other students in our school. They had to follow our instructions. It was really fun.

This is Kadius explaining the garden ecosystem.

Exploring The Garden

Ako Day

Today was Ako Day. We taught the rest of our school and Saint Kentigern Girls' how to plant seeds.

We had to explain the process.

Our Garden Ecosystem

We have been learning about how the living and nonliving things are connected in the garden ecosystem.
Here is Krypton's video to explain it.

Pulling Out Weeds From Our Garden

Today we got our garden ready for planting. We pulled out the weeds and put them in the compost bin for the worms.

Toko used the new words he learned in his writing.

Cyber Smart - Tall Towers (showing smart relationship qualities)

We worked together to make tall towers showing smart relationship qualities like being helpful and showing friendship.

The boys made the tallest tower working together to show helping and respect.

The girls worked together to show manaakitanga and friendship.

Fun At Music

How far can you make the car go?

 Using an inclined plane to make the car move then measuring the distance. 

Exploring Our Dual Language Books

Sharing Our Learning During Ako Day

Craigs Pirate Story

Sa Dah's Fairy Story

Sending Our Hearts To Christchurch

Rock Pooling and Bush Walking

We loved going to the beach to look in the rock pools and walk through the bush. 

Spiders

Check out our interesting reports about spiders!

A spider has 8 legs. A spider is not an insect. Spiders have venom and 8 eyes.

If a spiderling loses a leg it can grow it back. Spiders lays silk out of their bottom.

Daddy Long Legs are not a spider. Spiders don’t eat flies. They drink the blood.

By Sosaia

Spiders are not insects.

Spiders build webs in the kitchen.

By Craig

Daddy long legs are cousins with spiders.

Insects have three body parts, spiders have two body parts, and spiders have eight legs. Spiders are an animal. It is small.

A spider has hairy legs. If a baby spider loses a leg then it can grow a leg back. Insects have six legs.

Spiders make spider webs from their bottoms. Spiders have yellow spider webs. They have heaps of legs, eight eyes, and legs.

By Kiera

Spiders can make webs and they can trap flies and save them and then eat them.

Spiders lay eggs. Spiders have 8 legs.

Spiders suck blood. Spiders are scary.

By Anthony

Spiders are not insects. They are an animal.

They live in caves and they have two body parts.

They have hairy legs and if they lose a leg they can grow a new one.

By Te Pirihi

A spider is an animal.

They have fangs, venom, and hairy legs.

By Misty

Spiders have eight legs and eight eyes.

By Virginia

A spider is not an insect.

A spider has eight legs.

When a spiderling loses a leg it grows a leg.

A spider has six eyes.

A spider can lay eggs.

A spider has an exoskeleton.

A spider makes a leg

A spider has eight eyes.

A spider sucks blood.

By Sa Dah

Spiders have two body parts and they are not insects.

By Florence