Last Friday we went to Kohupatiki Marae with the whole school. What a fun day of learning we had.
Read our stories.

I went to the marae and I liked it. It was fun and I was happy. I went on the bus
and I liked going on the bus.       Grace.

I went to the marae. It was fun. I made a cookie there.   Lauren.

I liked the biscuit.      Jade C.

I went to the marae. It was fun. I made a feather.     Cailin.

I went on the bus to the marae. I played for a little play.    Jai.

I went to the marae. We did weaving and we made poi. We went down to the river. We threw seeds in the river because we were asked to. I felt funny because there were big kids.     Isabella.

I liked icing the star biscuits and I liked running around at lunchtime.   Kouper.

I made cookies at the marae.    Jahvis

I liked the bus ride to the marae. We like the bus. We went on the bus. We sang the songs
on the steps.      Indy.

Here are more stories.

Tilly went to the marae. We made biscuits and after that we made poi. Then we did weaving with material. Then we went down to the river, then we made a cloak of feathers.
Tilly.

At the marae my favourite thing was making the poi because I got to swing it.
Blake

I went to the marae and I got to make the poi.    Sam

I went on the bus. I liked sitting with David and Tewairemana. It was a dinosaur bus.
Kyah.

I am listening to a story at the marae. It is about a tuna.    Charlie.

I liked blowing the seeds in to the water, so the river knows us.    Tewairemana

I went to the marae on the bus. I played with the poi.    Ranginui.

I went on the bus to the marae.   Aidan.

I went to the marae.  Jackson.

At the marae my feeling were good so, so, good because it was exciting. I liked the river.
My good thing was when we went on the bus because we went so fast.    Cameron.

I like the marae. Kids went on the bus to the marae. We did poi. It was fun.   Kahu.

I went to the marae and I had fun at the river. I listened to the teacher read us a story.
Lachlan

I went to the marae and I went on the bus. I did weaving with my friends.    Jade F.

Flying Our Kites

Today we went to the Museum to find out a little bit about Matariki. 
We found out that Matariki is the name of seven stars or The Seven Sisters.
We might see them to the East just before the sun wakes up in June.

Gaynor read us a story about a Kuia and a Spider. We watched Rhonda weave flax into flowers, fish and stars. Just like the Kuia in the story. We had fun looking for the spiders around the room.
Then we had to find the stars in the exhibition like a scavenger hunt.

 Then we got to do some weaving like Rhonda and we made paper kites. There was a lot of concentrating.

 When we got back to school we went out to the playground to fly our kites. That was fun.

Flying Our Kites

We made hedgehogs with Mrs Prebble. We used the tops of acorns. Then we wrote a story about our hedgehog.

Look at our leaders today.