My Flight to the Netherlands!

HI! WHAT A DAY! We left Kerikeri yesterday and flew to Auckland and that took half an hour, then from Auckland we flew to Hong Kong for a stop over which took 10 hours and lastly we flew to Amsterdam which took 12 hours. 24 hours in total! We just arrived in Amsterdam and we are staying with my half/step Auntie, Natalie and her partner Joust. Here are some photos of our flight. I will be blogging every couple of days!
This is the tiny dessert we got on the plane!


Me beside the plane window!




The view from the window!




The plane wing!
Freya xxx

Student Led Confrences

On Wednesday Te Ngahere held Student Led Conferences, a new and improved Parent Teacher Interviews. Student Led Conferences are when the student leads the conference instead of the teacher and the student talks to the parents instead of the teacher. Mine was at 4:30. My Dad, Mum and I sat down in Te Ngahere. I showed them my evidence of my Art, Inquiry, Maths, Reading and Writing. We got given my report. In Writing and Reading I am Above and in Maths I am At in the National Standards and we are only half way through the year, so I think I am going pretty good. Here is my Google Drawing that I showed.

Matariki Whanau Celebration

Last Thursday Paihia School held a Matariki Celebration Day. At 6 in the morning some kids went down to the beach to see the Matariki Stars. Then they went back to school for breakfast. There were lots of fun activities planned for us. We did Family art, which is sketches of koru and kowhaiwhai patterns that represented a member of our family. We played games like Maui Matou and Rakau with Harko Brown. We planted shrubs and plants around the pump track for our bird corridor. After that we had a giant shared lunch outside the whare. There were cakes, biscuits, wraps, sandwiches and chips piled on the long, white tables. The food was AMAZING! That day was most definitely the best.

Matariki At Waitangi

Last week on Tuesday Paihia School went to The Waitangi Treaty Grounds. We played games like Rakau and Maui Matou. We wove Flax Kites and had Kite Flying Competitions. We planted trees. Tessa and I planted Nikau. It was really awesome. When we walked back to School my legs were jelly and I nearly DIED from happiness and extreme tiredness!😆😫

Fidget Spinner Art

A few weeks ago, Te Ngahere wrote a persuasive about Why Fidget Spinners Should Not be Allowed in Class of School.  For the follow up activity Te Maunga and Te Ngahere made Fidget Spinner Art. The WALT was use space, crayon and dye. First we lightly sketched out our Fidget Spinner design, next coloured it in with crayon. Finally we dyed them. Here are some pictures and my persuasive .

Ice Cold Cream

A few weeks ago Te Ngahere started to work on some reading around how ice cream is made. The WALT was to answer inference questions. The teachers promised that if the whole class finished their learning plans, then we could make ICE CREAM on Friday. On Wednesday we got lucky and everybody finished them. So we made ICE CREAM! We had to work in peers so I was with Astin. After that we wrote a recount. I was focusing on Metaphors. Here are some pictures and my recount.

Tim Tipene's Visit

Last week on Thursday, Tim Tipene came to assembly. Tim Tipene is a talented NZ author. He read us some of his books, my favourite was Hinemoa Te Toa. These are some of his books: Maui the Sun Catcher, The Wooden Fish, Taming the Taniwha and Kura Toa. He was super funny and I had A LOT of fun!