Easter Baking!

We were sooooo lucky to do Easter baking today! We made Easter Bunny cupcakes, Easter Chicken cupcakes, Easter Egg nests and Easter chocolate bark. Yummy! A huge thanks to Kylie Mulcahy who organised the activities and brought all the ingredience. Also a big thanks to all the Mum's that helped: Reuben's Mum, Monty's Mum and Sophie.B's Mum. Happy Easter Everyone!

Esther and Margaret

We had a visit from Esther the bunny and Margaret the Guinea Pig. They came to Piako 1 for a visit!! Let's do and amazing writing 😀

Digging Deeper!!

By digging deeper means we need to add more detail for the reader! 

Aidan's Crab!

Look what Aidan has made from his library book! He is very creative!! 

Working on our 3D model of the Multi-Purpose Track

We have done a lot of research and investigating about what would make the Multi-Purpose Track safer and more fun.  Now we get to make it all!!!!  We have been painting the track, making signs and designing road markings on the concrete.

Science Kits: Up Up and Away!!

Here we are exploring our science kits! We had a box with balloons, string, straws and cello tape. We had to use these things together and problem solve how we could make something fly or float down 😀we were very clever at working collaboratively! 

Phonics

My clever cookies found 31 words that began with 'w' during phonics earlier in the week!! We are going to see if we can beat it next week with a new letter 👍

Light Me Up - Science Kits

We had so much fun making simple circuits this afternoon!! We discovered that a circuit must join up and not have any breaks in it. Super fun!!!

Workshops - Making helicopters (Science)

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We made helicopters and tested them with each other

PBL Multi-Purpose Track

We visited other classes to get their ideas about safety and fun ideas we could change on the 

Reuben shares his bird from the book he read!!!

Buddy Class!!

Wahoo go Jackson!! His group taught him new ways to catch and throw! What awesome little teachers 😀😊

Buddy class

A new way to pass! Go Tay 😀😊

Buddy Class with LC5 😊

Every Friday we have buddy class with LC5! Today we are catching and passing with our buddies! Look as us cool kids go!! 😀 

Friday Smart Moves!!

Today Piako 1 did smart moves in the hall!! We have a blast and are getting very clever at the rotations. Check us out!!! 

Insect PBL time!

Today we could opt into Write It, Read It, Act It, Build It, Draw It.

Here is our creative problem solving with caterpillars and their habitats ! Can you see the HUGE caterpillar with the eyes and eybows? What about he block one with scaly skin? And check out the apple tree habitat so the calerpillars have lots to eat. I love the butterflies that Sean has turned his caterpillars into. Very creative problem solveing Piako 1!