Mihi Mihi

In oral language, we are going to be working hard to learn our mihi.  To help us with this, we are making a visual representation called our mihi mihi.  Today we were colouring in our names which is one of the very first parts of our mihi we will learn.  Some of us completed these in a patterns.  Some of us chose to do them in our favourite colours.  Some of us just coloured them in in a variety of colours.  They are going to look wonderful on our mihi mihi posters that we can use to help us to learn our mihi.

Miss Cultrera and Miss Browne were very pleased at how careful the learners were completing this part of their mihi mihi because they know how special these will be.

Ka pai Red and Blue Homebases!

Discovery Time

We again had another busy week at Discovery Time.  We had helpful helpers in the garden, scientists watching the caterpillars and butterflies, bubbles, birds in the forest and a designer at work with bottle top lids.

Butterfly Feeders

This week in investigations we wanted to learn what butterflies eat and how they can get their food.
We learned that sometimes butterflies need some help to get food. We decided to make some butterfly feeders to hang from the trees.

First we needed to tie the string on to the lids. We then made the strings bright and colourful by threading beads and cut up straws onto them. We know that butterflies like bright colours.

Next week we are going to hang these from the trees in our butterfly garden and put some fruit out for them to eat.

We wonder what fruit they will like?

Te Waka o Matariki - Numbers to 10

Some of us are learning how to recognise the numbers to 10.  We used our interest in caterpillars to find the numbers and order them to 10.  We worked together to find the numbers and then put the caterpillar together individually.