Bucket Filling

A few weeks ago we had our first bucket to be filled right up to the top!

Hayley worked hard to earn warm fuzzies by being a bucket filler not a bucket dipper.

Well done Hayley. The Piwakawaka Team is very proud of you!

Brainstorming

Our Piwakawaka writing group has been learning about different ways that we can plan for our writing.

We learnt that we can make a brainstorm and write our ideas instead of drawing a picture.

We had fun sharing our ideas with each other and can't wait to practice this in our writing next week!

Handwriting Stars

Today in the yellow room for handwriting we wrote the letter y. Miss Smits had such a hard job choosing the handwriting superstar that she had to choose two!!

Mason worked hard to make sure his lower case y's were sitting nicely on the line.

Collin made sure his capital Y's were starting at the right place every time!

Well done boys we are very proud of you!

Fluffies at Crisp Cafe

Maya and Riley went to collect up lids for our investigations project.  They went to Fendalton New World, a rest home, Aorangi Bakery and Crisp Cafe to collect the lids and say thank you.  At their last stop they had fluffies.  See if you can spot the milky moustaches amongst the giggles!

Cultural Day Dress Up

Look how proud we all look!  We enjoyed dressing up in our culture's clothes and sharing these with our friends.  What a great day we had at our special school.

Reina's Japanese Dance

Cultural Week Performances

We were very lucky to have special performances as part of Cultural Week and one of our Piwakawaka students was a wee star!  Reina and her mum and sister were part of the Japanese group who performed a special dance for us.  We really enjoyed joining in with them and learning a little bit about the Japanese culture.

 Go Reina!  We were so proud of you!

 We also had a South Korea Drumming Group who did an amazing performance.  We enjoyed watching how they worked together to make amazing sounds.