Cryus is going to teach you how to make a bay blade

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We Are Learning About New Zealand Birds

Opharas has been learning about tūī.

Toko Has been learning about kiwi.

Sam and Krypton Solving Our Fraction Problem

Our Stories About The Nest

Here are the stories we wrote about the nest Miss Gormly brought into school.

The nest looks like a pīwakawaka nest and a kereru's. I think its a piwakawakas because it's little. 

By Hifo 

The Nest Story 

The nest had a spider in it. The nest had sticks in it. The nest was brown. I think the nest belongs to a piwakawaka.

By Saryah 

The nest is made of sticks and dirt. 

By Rakeena

The nest is wet inside. What bird is it? I saw a spider in the nest. 

By Ani 

We were going in the tree. I looked at the birds nest. I was taking it out. 

By Tarzan 

The bird eats worms and he likes grapes. 

By Robert

Miss Gormly found this nest in the garden. We looked at it closely to see how it was made. We were wondering which type of bird made it.

Frog Maths

Our New Topic of Inquiry; Pests!

Today Auckland Zoo came to our school to talk to us about pests. We are going to do an inquiry into the pests within our community.

We are wondering what sort of pests we will discover.

Tamaki Primary Fun Day

Fish For Lunch

Miss Gormly caught a fish and brought it to school for us to eat.
We measured it to make sure it was longer than 30cm. Then we filleted it, fried it and ate it.

Tarzan

Ani

Toko

Saryah

Literacy Turns Into Maths

This week we have been reading Monster's Vest.

How did Monster feel when he received a new vest?

We made our own new vests and felt very proud wearing them around our school. We have to do lots of problem solving, keep trying and work collaboratively together. We also learnt about measurement.

Challenge 1

Make some clothes to fit Teddy.

Challenge 2

Working in pairs make a vest to fit your buddy.

Watch our video to see the process.

Making Playdough

Today we had fun making playdough. We learned some new words like combine, knead and consistency.
Here is some of our writing and a recipe for you to make your own.

How To Make Play Dough

Ingredients

• 2 cups plain flour
• 1 cup salt
• 1 tbs oil
• 1 cup cold water
• 2 drops liquid food colouring

Method

1.Combine plain flour and salt

2. Add water, food colouring and oil. Mix until ingredients are combined.

3. Knead well.


4. If consistency is too wet add a little plain flour.

We Are Learning To make Repeating Patterns

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