Today the students in Moana went on a field trip with the students of Kotuku.

We went to visit the old school in Kotuku.

The students were quite fascinated with the grounds and we talked a lot about what kind of school it was back in the day.

They came up with some very thoughtful ideas and we discussed what games the children might have played. It was suggested that they played knucklebones. So we came back to school played knuckle stones.

 We have been thoroughly enjoying this beautiful weather. Especially our walks in the bush and swimming in the lake.

We are also doing lots of hard literacy and play based learning.

Numbers in Nature and Time in the Garden

 Moana students made patterns and number representations out of natural materials today.

They also did some weeding and vegetable-hunting in the school garden!

MOO-ana's MOO cows!

 We read some stories about cows and their MOOs today. Moo is one word, but it can be said in different ways to show different feelings. 

We each made a cow picture - each cow is doing something different. Imagine how their moos will sound?

Animal and their colours.

 This term our overall theme is animals. We have been learning about the colours of different animals and why they have the colours they have. We then used our blending skills using pastels and then we dyed them.