Easter Fun Afternoon - Hat Making in Te Māhuri

Te Māhuri threw themselves into hat making on Thursday for the Easter Fun Afternoon.  In Te Māhuri 1 we were fortunate enough to have Rebecca helping us out making hat bands for us.  Thank you Rebecca - your quick work making and fitting people's hat bands was such a help getting us ready in time for the hat parade!

We were really impressed with the amount of sharing, co-operating and encouragement we saw as everyone worked hard and fast to create all the wonderfully creative hats and accessories you can see in the pictures below. 

T1W8 - Get Writing New Zealand!

For the last couple of weeks Te Māhuri has been taking part in an exciting writing programme with other schools from all over New Zealand.  We have been given buddy schools and have been working on a set of postcards to send to each other.  The Weka and Kiwi writing groups have been working with Mrs Hancock and have a buddy school up in Hamilton.

On our postcards we are writing a metaphor about ourselves to share with our buddy class.  In our writing lessons we have been learning about metaphors - describing ourselves (or other things) by comparing ourselves to something else.  When we explored our playground we came up with some great metaphors about what we saw:
The sky is a big blue blanket over the top of us
The trees are a line of soldiers standing straight and tall 

We noticed that our postcards all had part of a picture on the other side.  After we finished writing our metaphor on our postcards, we spent some time solve the puzzle of what picture the postcards made.  Worryingly, we found that our number 19 postcard was missing!  We hunted high and low to try and find the missing postcard, but with no luck.  Thankfully, a couple of days later we found the postcard, and so we have a full set to send to our buddy after Easter.

Our almost completed puzzle - missing postcard no. 19!

T1W6 - The Circus came to School

Te Māhuri was so excited when people from the circus came to visit us on Thursday after lunch.  We could hardly wait until it was time to find our places out on the netball court so that the show could begin.  The show was a small taster of some of the acts we would be able to see at the Weber Bros Circus.  We learned some interesting facts about the acts at the circus, such as our Ringmaster being from South Africa and the funny clown being from Mexico.  At the end there was a chance to win tickets to the show for those that remembered all the interesting facts from the show ... Casey from Te Māhuri used his amazing memory powers to win a ticket - ka pai, well done!