Matariki Soup

 Yum !!!  Matariki soup is delicious. 

What a fun time we had grating, peeling, and chopping the vegetables we had brought to be in our soup. 

We enjoyed our Matariki soup with bread and sat together eating it. 

Thank you Mums who helped us!!

Walk to Seeleys Gully

 Kākāpō hub had fantastic weather for our walk to Seeley's gully on Thursday. 

Thank you so much to our parent helpers !!! You are amazing. 

The children made lots of observations about what they could see, hear, feel, and smell. 

Walking through the bush for about 15 minutes we made our way to the top of the gully where Geoff (a volunteer in the gully) shared the history and his knowledge of the trees and plants. 

We learnt that 30 years ago it used to be a donkey paddock and before that a Māori Pa site. The gully links up with our bottom field Putikitiki. 

Open morning

 We had a lovely open morning last week sharing our writing and reading programme with the parents who visited. 

Thank you for visiting Room 6 !!

 We loved showing you our learning. 

Te Ara o te Ngahere

 Today we celebrated the opening of our nature trail Te Ara o te Ngahere. 

This trail has been years in the making and is finally ready to open.  We were so thankful for the efforts of many people over the years to get the track to where it is today. 

After a blessing from the kaumatua, our whole school walked down the track and watched the kapahaka group perform some songs.  

What a beautiful day !!

Room 6 Museum trip.

 Room 6 Museum trip. 

We had a fantastic trip to the Waikato museum this week.   Elaine, our guide, shared her knowledge about early migration to New Zealand and the voyages across the pacific.  

We got to see different types of waka and the Te Winika display ~ a warfare waka.  

Then Elaine told the story of Matariki.   

Finally we each made our own waka to take home.  We looked around us at the different cravings, each telling a story, to inspire our waka designs. 

Thank you to our parent helpers and Elaine for the fantastic trip. 

Tane Mahuta week.

 This week Room 6 has been exploring trees!  We wandered slowly down the nature trail, observing all the different trees on our way down to Putikitiki (bottom field).  

When we got there the children were given time to look in a natural hut and all among the bushes.   

We found lots of natural treasures.   

For tane mahuta week our class has adopted a tree to look after.   It is the plum tree next to our class.  

As the kaitiaki, we wondered how we could look after it???  

After a little bit of research,  we found out the oldest fruit trees in New Zealand were planted in 1820 in the Napier and Kerikeri area. From Ms. Jones we found out that our plum tree is between 4-5 years old.  Her tips for looking after our tree were to use compost, mulch, and very importantly not picking the plums before they are ripe. 

The Plum tree.