Welcome Back To School

Welcome back to school. What an exciting year of learning we have ahead of us.

We are lucky to have Stefan Mateariki, a student teacher from The University of Auckland, teaching alongside Miss Gormly for part of this year.

Matua Stefan is a Cook Island Maori puapi'i (teacher), who loves sports, dance, drama, art, music and reciprocal teaching and learning.

Matua Stefan is looking forward to joining the Tamaki Primary School community this year.

Santa Comes To Tamaki Primary

Yesterday Santa came to our school.
We had so much fun opening presents and playing with them.
Thank You, Santa!!

Krypton

Sam

Rakeena

Kadius

Puanesi

Martha

Halayla

Misty

Aaliyah

Looking after my unicorn.

Vaitah

Halayla and Aaliyah playing barbies

Ani

The Monster's Hand Experiment

The monster's hand is going up in the sky. It exploded!

By William

The vinegar smells from the monster's hand.

By Pili

The hand is fat!

By Epalahame

Ani's First Art Sale

Today was our school's Art Exhibition. Ani was very proud to sell her first painting. A boy brought it to give to his sister whose name is Violet. Her next painting is going to be for her mum who's favourite colour is violet. 

Creating Art

A Virtual Trip To The Beach

Manaiakalani Film Festival

We were learning about native creatures that live in the bush. 

Our movie is about a virtual trip into the bush.

We wrote the script and had fun using the green screen.

We hope you enjoy watching our movie.

Social Sciences- Economic World

Where does strawberry flavoured milk come from?
Yesterday we found out!
We played a game where you had to earn money to buy a milkshake.

In groups of three we made our own houses. We all had jobs to do so we could earn enough money to buy a milkshake at the end of the game.
Some of us were farmers. We got paid to milk a cow and pick strawberries.
Others worked in the milkshake factory. We bought milk and strawberries from the farm and turned it into flavoured milk.
Ten there was shop keepers we sold the milk in our shop.

Everyone earned $3, but out of this we had to pay for electricity for our houses and petrol for our cars so we could get to work and to the shop to buy a milkshake.

By the end of the game we only had $1 left! Just enough to buy a milk shake!

Our Rangoli Patterns

We made these rangoli patterns by sprinkling coloured sand onto a template.