Rūma Pīwakawaka had a fantastic day at the 'Kiwi Centre'. Our main reason for visiting was because we have been learning about our native Tuna . We were very excited (and a little nervous) as we each got to get up close and feed the Tuna a piece of meat with a pair of tongs. We also found out some interesting facts and information about Tuna from our knowledgeable guide, building on our current knowledge about Tuna. We saw the Kiwi being fed, observed various animals native to Aotearoa and had a lot of fun catching and releasing crawlies. A big thank you to the parents who came along to allow this action packed morning to happen.
Ruma Piwakawaka @ Hokitika School
Nau mai, haere mai, welcome to our class blog. We are a class of year 1, 2 and 3 students at Hokitika Primary School, Hokitika, New Zealand.
Thursday 21 September 2023
Monday 3 July 2023
Piwakawaka have been busy in the school garden!
Thursday 25 May 2023
Piwakawaka have been learning about length
Dear family and whānau,
For the last two weeks in Piwakawaka we have been exploring activities which develop an awareness of length and area. We have been using words like: long, short, tall, big and small to describe objects.
Longs and Shorts
Ask your child to look around at home and find objects that are short and long. Once they have a collection, you could ask them to put them in order from shortest to longest to reinforce their learning :-)
Monday 12 December 2022
Counting and proportion Christmas decorations
Today we created some beautiful wreaths. We practiced our counting while we waited for the hot glue to dry. We had to consider what decorations would look good on our wreaths and where to put them.
Thursday 8 December 2022
Good cat or bad cat mystery.
We had a mystery to solve in Rūma Piwakawaka on Thursday. Whaea Maria's cat had been catching skinks and bringing them into the garage. Whaea Maria had collected and frozen the skinks so we could study them.
We got out our magnifying glasses to see if the cat was killing good or bad skinks.
Whaea Michelle also showed us that some skinks had short tails and some long tails and some no tails. Whaea Michelle taught us that skinks loose there tails so they can escape cats trying to eat them.
We also looked at the skinks under the microscope and took photos. Quinn said "There is no scales on the tail. Oh that rhymes!" Their feet are a bit like our hands
Some of the tamariki were brave and touched the skinks. "It feels like a soft blanket." said Talisa, Jessie said "It felt weird!" Vann said "It felt scaly." Maddy agreed and said "It felt a bit like a snake because the scales look similar."
Unfortunately we think from our investigation that Missy is a bad cat as she has been catching native skinks.
Friday 25 November 2022
Fractions tea party
We have been learning about fractions. We are learning what is a half and a quarter of a whole like our playdough cake and cups of tea.
We have also been learning what a quarter and a half of of number of objects is like our wooden biscuits.
We had a nice tea party with lovely manners.
Tuesday 8 November 2022
Drama - Hairy Maclary Scattercat by Lynley Dodd
Mrs Bowes and Whaea Michelle helped us create props to retell the story of Hairy Maclary Scattercat. We practiced 3 times before we recorded it.