Today is a sad day. We have to say goodbye to our lovely cusp students, Mr. Smith and Mr Davies.

We have loved having you both in our class. We have had some amazing experiences. We especially liked the police visit. Oh and making a cake in our classroom and the different smells lessons. Also dancing reading maths. Lots and lots of cool things. We hope you carry on and become great teachers. We will all miss you heaps and heaps.

Our inquiry has led us to investigate different cultures and how they celebrate special events. First we celebrated Matariki the Maori New Year. This made us wonder how other cultures celebrated special events. We have looked at the Koi Carp festival in Japan and now we are completing Diwali the festival of the lights. We asked Mr Davies to draw Rangoli on our outside deck to welcome parents to  our shared lunch. We enjoyed coloring them in. They were fantastic. Our parents loved them. Diwali is a wonderful festival of lights and colour.

We are learning about other cultures and how they celebrate special events. We looked at the Indian celebration of Diwali. It means the festival of lights. We made Lanterns to celebrate Diwali.

Our lanterns look super.

Grandparents Day 2015

We are learning the colors in Maori. We made a rainbow from the colors we were learning.

Our Shake out practice

We had a fantastic visit from the community constables. We got to sit in the police car and push all the buttons. It was the best day ever!