Our Whale Paintings

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The Legend Of The Seven Whales

We are almost finished painting our whale pictures. 

We read the story "the Legend Of The Seven Whales"

and this was motivation for our paintings.

The Legend Of The Seven Whales

Long ago in Maori times there lived a powerful Tohunga. He was the master of seven giant whales. Those whales set out each day to collect information and news for the mighty Tohunga. Each whale had to be out at sun rise. The names of the whales were Tahuturia, Tukituki, Korito, Onepoto, Iwetia and their baby Brother Hikinui.

 Every day the whales would travel to many different parts of the ocean but each one had it’s favourite. Tahuturia talked to the orcas. TukiTuki chatted with the dolphins. Korito loved to hang out with the sharks. Onepoto had sword fights with the sword fish. Iwetia liked to listen to the dozy John Dory. And baby Hikinui just floated around in shallows doing absolutely nothing.One day Hikinui relaxed so much that he couldn’t get to sleep. He kept jumping up and down and being as loud as ever. This made the other whales angry so they told to be quiet and go to sleep.  In the morning when the other whales set out Hikinui stayed behind because he had finally fallen asleep. The other Whales had just left their sleeping spot when they realized Hikinui hadn't come with them. All of a sudden the loud voice the Tohunga thunder across the ocean. “ You stupid whales!” he cried “you have not done what I have told you to do.. Now I shall punish you all”. And with that he turned them all into hills!! These days they are known as the hills of Wairoa. And baby Hikinui is still fast asleep and won’t be waking up anytime soon.

Lady Bird Game

We hope you enjoy this Lady Bird game.

Under Water Counting

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Fractions

Try this fractions game.

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Discovery TIme 27 May

 We made an octopus.

 We painted pictures.

 We worked together to construct with the marble race.

 We drew on the computer with the crayola programme.

Check it out on the side bar of our blog.

 We made mini booklets about sharks.

 We made popcorn.

 After we had cleaned up we ate the popcorn.

 We tried out a new puzzle about police cars.

Training For Cross Country

We have been training hard for Cross Country day at

 Rabbit Island on 1 June.

Here is Max. Look how fast he is running!

Making Sushi With Shon

Logan's dad is a chef. Today he came to make sushi with us . Yum, yum, yum!!

 Shon told us about washing the rice.

 Antony is washing the rice. In Japan the sushi chefs take 7 years learning

 to wash the rice.

 Shon showed us how to assemble the sushi.

He showed us how to roll the sushi on the little mat.

 Then 6 of us made sushi for the whole class.

 Wow Logan! You can make great sushi too!

 "Yum, yum" said Chloe.

 What a feast!

 We all enjoyed it so much.

Thank you Shon. You are a real star!!

Discovery Time 20 May

 Threading activities.

 Josiah made some popplets on the iPad.

 Some people made klikko models.

Casey loved the neck lace she made with the beads.

Crab Stories

Today our writing focus was to write an imaginative story called " I am a crab" so that we could display them with the paper crabs we made yesterday. Most of us wrote these stories all by ourselves. we hope you enjoy reading them.

I am a crab. I walk sideways under rocks. People look at crabs. I can pinch you. I have eight legs and two pincers. I like to pinch people. I actually have 10 legs, including 2 pincers. I am  red and I am a hermit crab. I live under a big rock.

By Antony.

I am a crab. I can scuttle.

I have 10 legs.

By Joshua.

Some crabs pinch you. Some crabs scuttle.

Some crabs have shells. Seahorses eat crabs.

By Jackson.

I am a crab. I live in a rock pool. I snip toes all day. I scuttle all day. I sleep in the rocks and I fall off the rocks.

By Levi.

I am a crab. I can snip everybody’s toes. I can scuttle in the rock pools. I hide in the seaweed and the sand.

By James.

I went in the water and I am a crab.

By Isabella.

I am a crab. I scuttle. I pinch. I hide under sand. I have a shell.

By Tom.

I am a crab. I live in the rock pools. I have pincers. I hide in the rock pools.

By Chloe.

I am a crab. I have pincers. The rock pool is my home.

By Sienna.

I am a crab. I have 8 legs and 2 pincers to attack my enemies and I am a hermit crab.

By Logan.

I am a crab. I live in a rock pool. I crawl out over my rock pool to have a swim.

By Max.

I am at the rock pool. I saw a crab. It was orange. It had 10 legs.

By Casey.

I am a crab. People come to see me on the weekend. I hide under the rocks.

By Aaron.

I am a crab. People come along. I snip lots of wiggly toes all day. They don’t go near me. Some people pick me up and take me home. I hide in the mud and in the rock pools.

By Josiah.

I am a hermit crab. I live in the sea. I have 10 legs. I change shells.

By Blake.

I am a crab. I am red.

By Lochie.

I went in the rock pools. I scuttled on my legs.

By Logan.

I snip people’s toes. I live in the rock pools.

By Zavier.

I am a crab. I like to scuttle on my legs. Some people come and see me. I live in the water.

By Gemma.

I am a crab. People come to see me.

By Heidi.

Making Rock Pools

Today it rained!

We had to cancel our trip to the Tahuna Rock pools.

We made our own rock pools. Gemma's Mum helped

us hot glue some pebbles and shells to our paper plates.

We had looked at videos and books to see what lives in the rock pools.

We made our own models this afternoon.

Can you see what is living in our rock pools?