Water Safety Skills
For the past fortnight, we have been swimming every day. While we learn to swim, we also learn to be confident in the water and to learn water safety skills. These skills will be necessary when we are older and participate in the boating programme.
Do you Remember?
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Do you remember crunching and crunching on an apple until my wiggly tooth zoomed out? That was the September holidays. Do you remember thinking it was just a very crunchy bit on my apple? That was the September holidays. Do you remember smashing and crashing my hut to search for my tooth and succeeded? That was the September holidays. Do you remember my dad losing my tooth and I found it? That was the September holidays. Do you remember getting $5? That was the September holidays. By Remy |
Do you remember when we got off the bus? Do you remember the wind howling and blowing our hair? Do you remember how nice it felt when we stepped into the cosy café? That was the September holidays. Do you remember the feeling in my tummy when I ate my cheese toastie? Do you remember the noise of me sucking my strawberry milk shake up the straw? Do you remember the brownie that I mostly fed to the seagulls? That was the September holidays. By Jess |
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Do you remember us waiting for the waves to get big enough? Do you remember we got the surfboards? Do you remember we went into the ocean? That was the September holidays. Do you remember when I fell off my board into the waves? Do you remember I had to climb back on my board? Do you remember balancing on my board and riding on the waves? That was the September holidays.
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Do you remember us driving to the airport? Do you remember us grabbing our suitcases and pulling them to the door? Do you remember us saying goodbye, waving to Grandma? Do you remember us taking off, being lifted into the sky? Do you remember us landing in Australia, it felt like we were bouncing on the trampoline. That was the September holidays. |
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Do you remember when I got an ice cream from Balclutha? Do you remember biting into the ice cream, it tasted like Oreo? Do you remember it made my teeth freeze? Do you remember the ice cream melting? That was the September holidays. By Riki |
Do you remember when me and my mum and dad went to McDonalds? Do you remember I had a happy meal, it came with fries and chicken nuggets? Do you remember on my dad’s fries it had a competition? That was the September holidays. Do you remember my dad won and he got free food and got me an ice cream? Do you remember I licked the ice cream, swallowing the sweet taste? Do you remember when I finished the ice cream I wiped my face on my sleeve? That was the September holidays. By Taze |
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Do you remember driving for 20 minutes to Sandfly Bay? Do you remember setting up the tent to sleep in? Do you remember roasting s’mores to eat? That was the September holidays. Do you remember dipping my toes in the freezing water? Do you remember running across the squooshy sand? Do you remember watching the sea lions fight? That was the September holidays. By Jack |
Do you remember getting shoved off the plane? Do you remember running and hurrying to hug Peter and Maddie? Do you remember getting in the fancy car? That was the September holidays. Do you remember playing with O’nchu? Do you remember O’nchu stealing dad’s socks? Do you remember making new friends at the rivers? That was the September holidays. By Martha |
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Do you remember going to Picton and I saw my cousin Jack? Do you remember going to the pool, it was awesome when I dived down headfirst? Do you remember training my Auntie’s dog with my friend Lottie? Do you remember driving around the town to McDonalds with my cousins in the car? Do you remember a strawberry sundae? Do you remember it tasted like jam, it was soft and gave me a brain freeze? That was the September holidays. By River-Rose |
Do you remember getting tickets at the machine? Do you remember playing games in the machine? Do you remember we were playing the dog games? Do you remember pressing the bone button fast? Do you remember trying to get the balls into the dog’s mouth? That was the September holidays. By Eazrianah |
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Do you remember me and my brother, we were walking to the Gardens? Do you remember me and my brother bouncing on the trampolines? Do you remember me going down the slide, it was fast? That was the September holidays. By Caius |
Do you remember being excited to ride a horse? Do you remember going up the steps? Do you remember sitting on the horse? Do you remember riding the horse? That was the September holidays. Do you remember going to the river? Do you remember drinking juice in the water bottle? Do you remember seeing the horse eating hay? Do you remember patting the horse? That was the September holidays. By Aylah |
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Do you remember chilling with my family? Do you remember playing with Tekoha? Do you remember going down the smooth slide? That was the September holidays. Do you remember me and Tekoha playing tag, I was running away from Tekoha? Do you remember hugging Tekoha when he was sad? Do you remember me pushing Tekoha on the swing, it was lots of fun? That was the September holidays. By Jaih |
Do you remember going to my cousin’s birthday? Do you remember going on my cousin’s trampoline and bumping and crashing? Do you remember having cake? That was the September holidays. Do you remember having lollies, they were called lollypops? Do you remember me giving my cousin a present? Do you remember when it was over? That was the September holidays. By Mahalia |
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Do you remember feeding the giraffe and it snatching the food off us? Do you remember seeing the big gorilla opening the bottle with its teeth? Do you remember watching the meercats standing up like humans? That was the September holidays. Do you remember the lion walking back and forth swishing its tail? Do you remember the people throwing the wallaby tails over my Mimi’s head for the lions and blood getting splattered over Mimi? Do you remember the porcupine slowly walking around on the ground? That was the September holidays. By Clementine |
Do you remember us packing? Do you remember us having ice cream, it was fanta? Do you remember the 6-hour drive, it was long? That was the September holidays. Do you remember playing on the PS4? Do you remember going the zoo and dog park? Do you remember feeding the giraffes and watching them feed the lions, tigers and cheetahs, they were eating big pieces of chicken? That was the September holidays. By Frank |
Beverley Begg Observatory Visit
Families from Rūma Pipi and Rūma Tepetepe visited the Beverley-Begg Observatory on Tuesday 10th September as part of our study on space.
We learnt more about the night sky from Warren and Ash, our guides. We got to look through different telescopes at the moon and Saturn. We saw some star clusters too. The children impressed with what they knew already and asked some great questions.
Matariki Poems
Our very own new year is now a public holiday, with Kiwis around the country marking it on Friday, June 24, this year.
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Matariki Nine twinkling stars up above me Spending time with my family and friends The start of the Māori New Year Matariki By Martha |
Glow Matariki whetu Seven sisters in the night sky Shining brightly Twinkling Matariki whetu By Clementine |
Matariki The Matariki stars glow in the pitch-black night sky The start of the Māori New Year Spending time with my family |
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Matariki Glowing stars above the Earth It is a time to look back when people pass away and spending time with your family |
Matariki The stars glow in the night sky with a twinkle Nine Matariki stars By Mahalia |
Matariki We have a feast and we watch the Matariki stars shine and glow up in the sky By Eazrianah |
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Matariki The Matariki stars twinkling up in the night sky above the town Matariki breakfast eating outside under the stars By Caius |
Matariki Having breakfast with my friends and my family Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle little stars By Macie |
Matariki Eating breakfast under the night sky The stars glistening With my mum and dad Glowing over the Earth It is a time to spend with your family By Taze |
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Matariki Stars glistening up above in the sky There have been many stories Nine sisters Māori New Year By Jaih |
Matariki Twinkling in the night Is the 9 sisters Up high in the sky Family and friends Gathering together for kai. By Jess |
The Matariki stars are twinkling and shining over my house. By River-Rose |
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I am going to look at the bright Matariki stars with my family and friends. By Frank |
The Matariki sister stars in the sky. By Riki |
Nine twinkling stars in the Matariki sky. By Aylah |
Our Haiku Poems
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Turtles they live in the sea they use their flippers to swim their shell protects them By Macie
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Kingfish they eat little fish swing their tails left and right hiding in seaweed By Taze
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Octopus they eat fish and crabs squirt ink, escape predators! their tentacles swish By Jess
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Sea Anemone found in the rock pools wave their tentacles around trying to get food By Jaih
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Narwhal has a horn so sharp live down deep in the ocean leaping in the air By Martha
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Clown Fish swimming side to side they live deep in the water eat fish and seaweed By Caius
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Sea Stars they have lots of arms move slowly over the rocks looking for some food By Mahalia
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Seahorse they eat tiny fish camouflage in the seaweed keep away from crabs
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Crabs scuttle on the sand looking for food for dinner hide under the rocks By Ragnar
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Jellyfish they eat small plankton sting prey with their tentacles floating in the sea By Jack
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Tiger Shark they eat fish and squid they are apex predators lurking in the sea By Remy
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Hector’s Dolphin they swim in the sea swimming silently around catching fish for tea By Clementine
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Our Butterfly Stories
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We had a monarch butterfly. It started as a caterpillar. The caterpillar ate most of the leaves on the swan plant. Then it made itself into a chrysalis. Then it transformed into a butterfly!! It dried out its wings. Then it flew away. I think its going to the Botanic Gardens. It might have got into the Botanic shop. It might sneakily be trying to get an ice block! By Remy |
We got a swan plant from Rūma Pipi with an egg on it. Then the egg hatched and out came a baby caterpillar. It ate and ate the leaves of the swan plant. It gets bigger. Then it went into a chrysalis for two weeks. Then it turned into a butterfly. I wonder where it went. By Martha |
Our butterfly started as an egg and then it changed into a caterpillar. It ate and ate and ate leaves off our swan plant. Then it formed a chrysalis. The chrysalis was green. Then it hatched out into a butterfly. The butterfly was black and orange. It was a monarch butterfly. It dried its wings and then it flew away. I don’t know where it went. By Jack |
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We got a swan plant. On the swan plant was a caterpillar. The caterpillar ate and ate and ate. It turned into a chrysalis. In the chrysalis, the caterpillar ate itself. Out of the chrysalis hatched a butterfly. The butterfly laid eggs. By Ragnar |
We got a swan plant from Room 5. There was a tiny caterpillar on it. It got bigger when it ate lots and lots. It made a chrysalis. Then after 3 weeks it turned into a butterfly. I wonder if it was a female or a male. Last time it was a female because it had an extra spot. This time I forgot to see! It had to pump its wings. Then it flew away. It should lay some eggs. Then they will turn into a caterpillar. By Clementine |
We got a swan plant from Rūma Pipi. It started with an egg. It turned into a caterpillar. Then it ate and ate the leaves. Then it turned into a chrysalis. Then it turned into a butterfly. By Caius |
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It is butterfly day. Last week our butterfly hatched. I wonder if it will lay its eggs at our school. When it hatched it flew over to the window and dried its wings. Then when it was ready we put it outside on the flowers. All the Junior classes got one egg on their swan plant. Today we planted the swan plants in the edible garden. My table did our swan plant. Remy and Jaih planted Room 5’s. Caius, Xanthe, Ragnar, Clementine and Mahalia did Room 8’s. By Jess |
We got a swan plant. It had a caterpillar on the swan plant. It ate, ate and ate all the leaves. After it turned into a chrysalis. The chrysalis was hanging on the swan plant. Inside the chrysalis it turned into a butterfly. By Mahalia |
There was an egg. It hatched into a caterpillar. The caterpillar ate and ate all the leaves. The caterpillar turned into a chrysalis. A butterfly hatched. By Macie |
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We got a swan plant. On the swan plant, there was an egg. The egg cracked into a caterpillar. The caterpillar had to eat and eat to get bigger. Then it went into a chrysalis. It become a butterfly and it flew away. |
My classes butterfly egg hatched. It turned into a caterpillar. It ate and it ate leaves. After it ate, it turned into a chrysalis. It stayed in there for a while. It turned black. Then the other day it transformed into a butterfly. We let the butterfly go. By Jaih |
When our egg hatched, it turned into a monarch caterpillar. The caterpillar had yellow and black stripes. It ate and ate until it turned into a chrysalis. Next the chrysalis hatched into a butterfly. The butterfly stretched its wings out to dry them. It flew around our classroom. We opened the window and door so it could get out. By Taze |
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