TE PUAWAI COMMUNITY CONCERT

Last night we had our annual Te Puawai convert and hangi.  The children all sang so beautifully and the food was delicious.  It was great to see so many friends and family come and watch us perform.

We would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate Brooke, Ryla and Fai'ana who were awarded the privilege of being named Junior Kaia for 2019!

WHITE CHOCOLATE GOES TO KOSMO'S HOUSE

White Chocolate had a blast at Kosmo's house last night.  He played Hide and Seek with Kosmo and his cat called Kitten

Kitten is a great Hide and Seek player!  He found White Chocolate hiding in some of the trickiest places!

OUR FAIRYTALE ASSEMBLY

Today was our assembly.  It was a huge celebration of us helping the Fairytale Characters over the past few weeks.

Some of us dressed up as fairytale characters especially for the assembly.  Holly and Conrad's mum took these amazing photos...

And... look who wrote to us to say how good our assembly was!  THE FAIRY GOD MOTHER!

TE WHIRINGWHA

Today was a pretty special day in Piako Rua.  The teachers and Pa Jack talked to us about Te Whiringawha.  On a Marae, there are four different roles that people play.  They are:

Ariki

• Leader

Tohunga

• Expert
• Treasure

Mangotoa

• Defender
• Protector

and finally...

Aronui

• Adminiatrator
• Carer

The teachers explained that we are made of parts of each of these.  Some of us have more Aronui for example, than others.  When we grow, we might change but in the meantime we had to have a think about what colours we thought we are now.

We each were given a stylised picture of a person that we had to colour in.  We needed to think about how much of each colour we think we are.  The teachers were amazed with how well we knew ourselves.

You might like to talk to us about this at home.  You will be pleasantly surprised with how well we can articulate what we talked about today.

Welcome to Term Four

Kia ora whanau

With the end of the holidays in sight, I thought I would sent a quick email so you know what we will be getting up to this term.

We will be continuing with Make it Monday Challenges. We would really appreciate you sending along your boxes, tubes, containers and other bits and pieces on Mondays, so that the children can re use them.

We have Athletics Sports Day at Massey on the 21st of November. We will be training at school each day, so we would really appreciate you sending your child in suitable footwear for running.

In Maths for the first few weeks, we will be learning about Time and Temperature. You might like to watch the weather on TV with your child as this is a great way to help them learn about temperature. After that, we will me moving on to learn about Money.

We look forward to seeing you all on Monday.

Warmest wishes
Jo Lunn

WHAT A GREAT FRIEND

In Piako Rua, we like to think or ourselves as a family, a whanau.  Every now and then, one of us does something that make the teachers go "awww..."  💖

The other day, the teachers had one of those moments.

Maddy had brought her HUGE soft toy seal to share with us since we have been learning about the Living World. 

When Mika was over in the library at Reading time, he found a book about seals.  He quickly came back to class to share the book with Maddy. 

Thanks for being a great friend Mika.  You are a treasured part of our Piako Rua whanau xxx