As part of Earth Day here is a link to the song "Just One Earth".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9rRjQB2mwg

Earth Day - Wednesday 22nd April

As well as growing trees we are going to be making bird feeders to encourage the tuis.  Please save any plastic drink bottles you have over the holidays so that we can re-use these to make the bird feeders.  Have a great time in the holidays, and remember that you can always come down to school and water our garden on hot days!!!

IF YOU WOULD LIKE SOME MATHS HOMEWORK FOR YOUR CHILD TO DO AT HOME, YOU MAY FIND THIS LINK USEFUL.
http://www.mathscentre.co.nz/Topics/Mighty%20Maths/B/ 
 It has free downloadable booklets called "Mighty Maths". These follow the New Zealand Maths Curriculum and are levelled according to your child's age.  I hope you find these helpful.

We are learning Te Ako Ritenga.  We used this learning process to design a castle for our playground.
By Jazmine, Lucas K, Reuben and Armita

We worked together to make this robot for our school playground.  By Isabelle, Julian, Luka and Alex.

We are tidying up the garden area outside Piako.

Today for Explore, we are learning to work together and the process of trial and error.  We are making a paper plane for Little Red Riding Hood to visit her grandmother quickly and safely.  We are trialling different models of paper planes.
http://www.amazingpaperairplanes.com/Simple.html