1st Time Bloggers

 It's official!! Our Year 4's have published their very first blog post. 

They are on an awesome digital journey and this blog post is just another part of that journey. There was a lot of excitement when they were able to embed their poster (google drawing) into the blog. We are very proud of them. Please take the time to go and check out their blog posts and maybe even leave them a comment.

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We love to read!

 Mrs Taylor's Readers found out what their new theme for reading over the next three weeks will be today.  We spent our Reading session "getting hooked" on our new themes. We loved getting to share our new knowledge combined with our old knowledge with others in different groups. 

Panem is looking at lizards and they were interested to find out that the Komodo Dragon is the world's biggest and most vicious lizard. The members of Panem got out the metre rulers to find out exactly how big they could grow too. Did you know a Komodo Dragon can grow up to 2.5m? This is the length of Emily and Oliver together!

Did you know that the Corona Virus is not the only health pandemic in history? In 1918 the Spanish Flu caused an international pandemic too. Treasure Island are looking into this. This is what they had to say after checking out the 'get hooked' section.

Other groups are looking at the Otago Gold Rush, Antarctica and Giant Prickly Stick Insects.

Don't forget to check out the students individual blogs to find out about their learning on these themes.

Cross Country

 On a very cool, windy day our superstars took part in the school cross country event. With all the works going on at school, we had to use the Yaldhurst domain as our starting and end point. 

Our Year 4's had to run  1500m.   

Our Year 5's had to run 2.1km.

There were a lot of red faces by the end but everyone was super proud of themselves for finishing. 

Way to go Te Mahuri, way to go!!!!

Welcome back to Term 2!

It's great to be back at school. We are all back and rearing to go for another fabulous term. We started the term with our mihi whakatau to welcome our new students and their whanau to our school. Mr Robertson reminded us that we are all one family and that we are all important in making our school a great place to be. Our school is a really awesome place!

Over the holidays, work started on our new playground, specifically a new scooter track. We are really looking forward to seeing that develop over the coming weeks. Exciting times ahead!

What's coming up in term 2 in Te Mahuri? Well we are continuing with our inquiry about where we live and the places important to us. Then our next inquiry will be about being detectives. I know that Ms Lange and Mrs Taylor have got some pretty cool experiments for us to do. It's also cross country time at the end of next week so I hope everyone has been taking Ms Lange's advice and doing some training at home.

With sooo much happening this term, don't forget to keep checking our blog for regular updates about our learning and other activities.