Pit Stop Fitness:

 While the weather is nice we like to get out and enjoy the sunshine and fresh air. Te Puawai enjoy playing games, especially Basketball. Today for our Pit Stop break we played 'Golden Child' where one team shoots goals to stop the other team from running all the way around the court and tagging the next person. Once the whole team has run around the court that team is the winner.

Whole School Waiata Practice

 As a school we practice the waiata that we will be singing at our end of year prizegiving. These songs are in English and Maori, celebrating two of the official languages of Aotearoa. It is a great time for the Te Puawai students to show their excellent role model skills and for the school to participate in an activity together, showing our school value of Porihanga or Community and Partnerships.

Soccer with James

 Today we were lucky enough to have James Coleman come in and teach us how to play Football through some really cool, fun activities. We learnt how to dribble the ball, control the ball, shoot goals and keep fit while playing Football. 

Blog Commenting

 In Te Puawai we are learning about what makes a thoughtful, helpful and positive Blog comment. By commenting on other peoples Blogs we aim to help others learn and improve their work , just like they help us when they comment on our Blogs. In our class we use the following sentence starters to help us write our comments.

Project Energise

 We are very fortunate to be part of the Sport Northland Project Energise program. Over recent years our Energiser has been Garth, but we now have a new Energiser named Morgana. Students across the school have enjoyed learning how to stay fit, healthy and active every second Monday with Morgana. She has taught our students how to stretch before and after games or physical activity and fun, new games that they can play. The students have thoroughly enjoyed having Morgana at school and look forward to learning more from her.

Google Hangout Scavenger Hunt

During our Google Hangouts we have been having a lot of fun participating in scavenger hunts. One day Mr Masters gave us a letter and we had to find something beginning with that letter. Even Sir joined in! One of the letters we had to find was 'H'. As we went through all the things that everyone found that started with the letter 'H' we had to laugh when it got to Mason T. He found a 'Harry'. We all laughed!

Here is Mason with the 'Harry' he found:

Kiarn's Bug Hotel

Bug Hotel

Check out the awesome work Kiarn and his whanau have done:

WALT: We are leaning to identify different materials and equipment needed to build a bug hotel.

Materials and Equipment List:

Saw
Drill
Screws
Wood
Hammer
Tea tree sticks
Metal hooks
String

Building My Bug Hotel:

We gathered wood from around our house. We found Tea Tree, Japanese Cedar and Macrocarpa which is wood that we have collected from my Nana and Poppa’s farm.

In the top box we have hung herbs using metal hooks and string. We also put an air plant in because it doesn’t need soil to grow,  it only needs water to grow.

In the next box we have a birds nest out of our garden. Don’t worry there were no birds in it when we found it. There is also a Flax flower, Palm tree stick, Magnolia bud, and an off cut of wood.

And finally the last two boxes have bamboo, shells, flowers, Tea Tree and pine cones.

By Kiarn

Cricket Festival Day

WALT: We are learning how to play cricket, using the correct techniques.

We were very fortunate to participate in Cricket sessions with Kea from Northland Cricket, last year. Unfortunately we did not get the opportunity to have our Cricket Festival Day last year, so we had our own Cricket Festival Day today. The kids enjoyed the few minutes we got to enjoy playing cricket until it started to rain. We all ran for cover and decided to plan another cricket day in the near future.

Te Puawai's Assembly Term 1:

In Te Puawai we have been learning about the Treaty of Waitangi and how it is an important part of our countries history. We learnt about it through Drama. We wrote a script based on an article we had read and came up with some actions to go with it. We made sure we spoke with loud, clear voices, used hand gestures, body language and facial expressions to show how our character was feeling. We had lots of laughs, especially when we got to dress up. We enjoyed sharing what we had learnt with our whanau and Kura.

Visual Pepeha

In Te Puawai we enjoy learning about Tikanga Maori or traditional ways Maori did things. We have been learning about 'Toku Pepeha'. Our Pepeha makes links to important parts of the environment, our whanau group, meeting place and other things that are important to Maori. When we introduce ourselves, using our pepeha, people make links and are able to identify where you are from and who you may be related to. Some of our class knew their own pepeha and used this to create their visual pepeha. The students who did not know their own pepeha were given the school pepeha to use. The following are some examples of the visual pepeha Te Puawai created.

Fathers Day Art

Happy Fathers Day to all the Fathers, Uncles, Papa's and caregivers of our Tamariki. The children in Te Puawai have worked hard to create cards and letters to thank you for everything you do for them. Here a few examples:

Cross Country

On Tuesday we competed against 5 other schools in our annual Cross Country. Overall it was a fantastic day and great weather. As a joint writing activity Te Puawai and Te Kauru came up with some descriptive sentences to describe how their experiences at the Cross Country. Take a look at what they came up with:

The contestants blanketed the grass like fresh, blue snow - Bailey.

I spotted a massive hill and sighed to myself - Serenade.

Finally, I could see the finish line but I was sinking in the stinky mud. Wait, that's not mud, its cow pats.
Disgusting!!!  Frano

My heart thumped nervously as we warmed up, ready to start - ?

I rolled down the hill like it was a huge wave of water and ended up squeaky clean at the end - Leah.

Everyone burst off the line in seconds, leaving Sir in the dust - Dylan.

Oh no……… a humongous, undodgeable mud pit was in the way - Serena.

I gallop through the gate getting a lucky start nearly hitting Tawa in the face - Harlen.

The oozing mud squelched between my toes - Aria.

I collapsed, feeling triumphant but unfortunately, I didn’t make the top ten - Paige.

We shot off like a bullet, into the distance - Yug.

I waited anxiously at the beginning with a tense grin - June.

As I was pushing my way to the top of the steep hill, I thought “yes, nearly there” - Charlize.

Go! Sir shouted, then everybody hurtled forward like a stampede - Jake.

I could see the rough, curved track with a lot of dried up cow pats - Isabella.

My heart was pounding, my legs felt like jelly but I knew I couldn’t give up, so I pushed

myself to keep going - Jasmine.

All competitors waited nervously for Mr Windelborn to break the awful news, begin the run - Elly.

I could hear the crowd slowly silencing, then there was nothing except the sound of thumping

feet down the hill - Darius.

As I ran down the hill, the wind flowed through my hair, giving me a refreshing breeze - Manaia.

Hill after hill! Finally a flat surface for me to run on, so I sprinted as hard as I could to get in the

top ten - Eva.

Halfway through the course, feeling quite dehydrated and puffing frequently - Lyrik.

The sound of mud oozing through my feet, squelching as the sludge got thicker - Izaak.

As I’m running I catch sight of Lake Ngatu, looking as flat as glass - Layton.

It was exhausting! I could see my rivals staggering behind me, trying to keep up - Caedance.

 After the race I was really thirsty and dehydrated - Tianah.

Before my race I was somewhat confident, but as soon as I had to go to the starting

line my legs started trembling and my heart started pounding - Bobby.

I started pumping my legs as hard as I could - Damon.

 I had been waiting for so long that I had become extremely nervous - Isaac J.

When it was my turn to race I got a bit nervous, especially because I thought I had

no chance against this many people - Kara.

We stretched & stretched until sir said, On your marks, get set, Go!! - Lincoln.

“Ok, focus on sprinting. Sprint, sprint, sprint” - Timo.

I was speechless, but at the same time I was so happy - Kalani.

Dad told me not to let the nerves take over - Lucas

When I finished my legs were dead! - Harry.

Every time an age group went, it got closer to my turn. I was getting nervous - Aurora.

It was nerve-racking and I was steaming hot - Hazel-Rose.

It was time to go home for a rest - Tristan.