Te Pihinga Football Skills with Mainland Football!

This term on every Tuesday we have been learning about Football. We have been lucky enough to have Mainland Football teaching us lots of skills including; kicking, working together as a team, passing and defending. 

Thank you, Mainland Football!
From Te Pihinga 

Kids to Town

Thursday 25th of August will go down in the Yaldhurst School history books for being an incredible day, where Yaldhurst School and Te Pihinga showed off how great they were to Christchurch.

Miss Sutherland and Mrs Spragg were so impressed with how well each member of Te Pihinga conducted themselves on the bus to town, in eating their morning tea outside the Art Gallery and as we waited patiently for our groups to start. 

 Next you all continued to be amazing as you walked around the Art Gallery looking at all the artwork. Mrs Spragg even got a compliment from one on the employees after her group left the Britten display. The lady was very impressed with how the group sat and listened to John (the fab volunteer who showed the group around).

Then Yaldhurst School performed to the large audience that had gathered. We are pretty sure Mrs T wiped a tear away after watching the junior school perform Tena Koe and It's a Rainbow. It was pretty mind blowing.

Finally you all sat down, ate your lunch and then walked like the Model students you are to the Botanic Gardens. And the photos tell us how much fun it was.

Ka pai tamariki for being so incredible and for showing Christchurch what a HERO school we are!

(And thanks fantastic parents for coming to help!)

What happens when Coke & Mentos meet?

Today for writing we did something a bit different. We got to watch a science experiment. We learnt a new word called 'hypothesis'. This means that we have to think about what might happen, a prediction. Each of us wrote our prediction. Some of us thought things might explode, some of us thought the coke might catch on fire or turn to ice. Some of us wondered if the coke might change colour. 

So we went outside to see what happened. Check out our video.

A Reading Group Activity

Today the Sam-I-Am's spent some time putting what they had read about into action. With the help of a wonderful mum, Trudi, they followed the instructions on how to bake a happy cake. They did a wonderful job, including working hard to break the walnuts open (not an easy job) and it tasted delicious!

Ka pai Sam-I-Am's!

First Day Back For Term 2!

Welcome back everybody from Te Pihinga! A special welcome to our lovely Te Kakano students who are now apart of our Te Pihinga family- we are very pleased to have you with us on our journey.  

We have all settled in very well, Mrs Spragg and Miss Sutherland are very impressed with your flexible and resilient attitudes to all of the new and previous changes. We have already noticed that our readers, mathematicians and writers have improved over the holidays and in Term 1, thank you TP families and TP children, we are looking forward to seeing how we all improve this term. 

We have taken a few images from throughout the first day and the teachers have seen some enthusiastic learners especially in Geometry and other learning areas. Enjoy! 

Celebration Friday!

In Te Pihinga we are very creative and busy children, we love sharing our fantastic work with everyone. Lately we have been working in groups, pairs and as individuals to achieve our goals in literacy. Working together is helping us with our participation and co-operation skills. 

Celebration Friday is a time where we are able to share a piece of our work from the week, we are super proud of all of our work in Te Pihinga. Below are a few images during Celebration Friday, Ka pai team! 

Come check out our work from last week in TP! 

Some fabulous explanations 

The Loraxs sharing their diorama's to the class

K's diorama based on a journal text 

The Foxes sharing their work based on a text 

The Hortons sharing their restaurant menus

A pair sharing their fabulous menus 

The Sam-I-Ams performing their puppet show

                  

Hand made props based on a story from their guided reading session 

               

Easter Fun Day

Thursday was a fun filled day, we were busy making our brilliant hats for the Easter parade and many other creations. On our last post we shared some amazing pictures of us creating our hats. In the afternoon we got to share our hats to the whole school in the parade, we even got to see Te Kakano, Kauri and Rimu share their wonderful hats too. 

We watched in anticipation as the eggs were thrown off the roof by Mr Mathews to see whose egg was the strongest! There were some brilliant and well thought out creations to withstand the force. Next, we had Egg Jarping, this was a success! Our Te Pihinga students were professionals at Egg Jarping. 

We hope all of our families had a safe and enjoyable break. 

Below are some images of our Easter Fun Day.