Week 5

Te Kori Rakau

This week Kowhai have been using the Rakau!

We have even tried throwing the Rakau to our partners.   

Wellington Zoo Trip

Did you know that tigers eat horse and beef meat minced together.

Did you know that an ostrich has two eye lids.  One is blue.

Enjoying Lunch

Which giraffe is called Zahara?

What country does this animal come from?

Education Living Room

Liz the blue tongued stink.

Writing down how a monkey can adapt to its environment

Enjoying the African Village

Writing down how a turtle uses it shell to adapt to its environment

What does a cheetah use to adapt to its environment

Week 4

House Group Folk Dancing

On Friday during Folk Dancing the school was divided in to their House Groups!

We performed four dances ensuring that all children had a turn to dance.

Great Dancing Waiohine!

Bugs! Bugs! Bugs!

The Dung Beetle

Harvey and Louise from the Greater Wellington Regional Council came to talk to us about the mysterious Dung Beetle.

A Dung Beetles Tunnels

Gall Flys that have been used to eat the seeds to control the noxious weed Wondering Dew.

  

Dung Beetles help to take the fertilizer from the farm paddocks in to the soil so that it doesn't run off in to New Zealand's streams and rivers.  

Week Two

Art Week

Over the last two weeks all of the children in Kowhai have completed some pieces of art that will displayed in the hall for 

Art Week.  

Here is a sneak preview of some of them.

Mini Beasts

Autumn Trees

Week two -new dictionaries

Thank you very much to the Rotary club for giving all the year fours at Solway an amazing dictionary each!

Term 2 Week 1

Physical Education

We have been learning to throw the ball using a chest pass and a bounce pass that are used in netball.  

We are learning to dribble the ball like in football.

  

Well done Kowhai - excellent dribbling skills.