Dinosaur Puzzle

We have been working hard to finish the 500 piece dinosaur puzzle that our lovely Sarah donated to us.  We finally finished!  What great team work.  Thanks Sarah!

Shrub Shake!

Have you ever done a shrub shake?  We have!  On Monday morning we went outside to shake some shrub branches over a piece of paper, so many things fell out!  We brought our shrub shaking papers inside and wrote about them.

We think a shrub is like a little city with so many things living in it.  Imagine how many things live in a healthy forest...

Sanctuary Mountain Writing and Triaramas

We have been creating lots of writing since our Sanctuary Mountain, Mount Maungatautari trip.  We selected some pieces of writing to publish and created 3-D triaramas to create impact and display our writing.

  

  

  

Native Forest Birds

We created pencil sketches of our native New Zealand forest birds.  We used our pencils to shade and show detail.  What clever artists in Ruma Piwakawaka!

  

  

Windy Leaves

In Ruma Piwakawaka, we collected leaves in the wind, jumping, stretching, bouncing, leaping... 

Our artwork shows us moving our bodies and catching leaves.

  

  

Buddy Reading

Before school buddy reading began today.  We are so lucky to have some wonderful senior students who will come to our in the mornings before school to listen to our reading.

Thank you, buddies!

Sanctuary Mountain

We started at the Sanctuary Mountain classroom, at Pukeatua School.


We ate morning and lunch at the same time!  Then we hopped on the bus and wet for a walk through the wetlands.



It was such a beautiful day walking down the hill to the wetlands.



Sue showed us the pest-proof fence.  It keeps out the possums, stoats, ferrets, ship rats, rabbits, weasels, pigs, deer and mice.  This keeps the forest healthy and keeps the native birds safe.   The pests can't get in to eat the plants or the birds.




We were so lucky to see 2 takehe.  There are only about 270 left in New Zealand!  They eat grass roots by holding the grass between their toes.  The look like pukeko, but they have shorter legs and fatter bodies.  They have green and blue feathers.  The name "takahe" means red beak.



We went on a tuatara hunt.  We didn't find any but Sue told us lots of tuatara facts.  Did you know their teeth are actually bone?  Did you know the can live to be over 100 years old?  Did you know they can hold their breath for an hour?