Junior Celebration Day

The junior school had a fantastic day celebrating all their hard work over the year! The day begun with a swim at the pool followed by a visit from Santa who arrived in Zac's Dad's police car!! All the children got a wee gift. The children got some hot chips for lunch and in the afternoon the water slide was a hit! The day was hot!! We had so much fun! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Star laid her first egg!!

We were so excited to find a teeny tiny egg in the nesting box of our hen house yesterday morning! This teeny tiny egg belongs to our youngest chicken Star! We have had Star since she was a one day old chick! 

Look at how small her egg is compared to a normal sized hen egg! 

 

Can you spot the teeny tiny egg?  

 

Star when she was a baby chick just one week old! 

 

Completed Concert Advertisement Posters

Our completed concert posters. We are proud of our designs and Miss McKenzie is super proud of us too! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our Performance: The Gumboot Song

On Friday night we had our Gore Main End of Year Concert. We sung and danced to The Gumboot Song and absolutely loved it!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Concert Posters

Our inquiry this term is 'What makes a performance?' This links with our school concert. The children have been busy today creating posters to advertise the school concert. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chicken Update

Our chickens are producing fantastic eggs! Here is a photo Miss McKenzie received early one morning of a happy young lady eating her Gore Main egg! She said it tasted delicious!! 

 

We are needing some help with our Gore Main hens over the school holidays! If you live close to the school and are happy to help look after the hens over the school holidays please keep your eyes and ears open as Miss McKenzie will be handing out application forms so you can apply to look after the hens for a period of time. Miss McKenzie will in touch with the families who are successful and provide training! 

Two Messy Monsters Play

Enjoy watching the Pekapeka reading group (with Max and Brodie as extras) perform their play.


 It is the day of the Book Fair and the twins, Jo and Pete (played by Sophie and Sam) have forgotten. They race to find a costume to wear before deciding to go as monsters. Little do they know there are real monsters in the house! Big sister, Sarah, (played by Isla) gets the blame for the mess created by the monsters. Poor Sarah!

Kahurangi Dance Group

We were treated to a performance by Kahurangi a dance group from the North Island.

They told us Maori legends through dance. We loved their traditional Maori costumes. We saw lots of koru on their costumes. Now we are spotting koru everywhere!! Our favourite part was when they showed us how they use weapons and even got some Gore Main boys up to demonstrate too!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Explanations: How a bee makes honey

Last week we researched how a honeybee makes honey and wrote an explanation to explain this process.
We had to make sure we had included an introduction and a conclusion as well as the steps taken in the honey making process.
We then self assessed our own work and buddy checked each others.
At the end we published our writing using Google Slides.