What a Treemendous lunch!

Room 12B had the best attendance (class members and whanau) at the Treemendous planting day. As our prize, Ms Vanderpump shouted us a scrummy lunch of hotdogs and chips out on the new performance deck. What a great end of term treat!

Transformation art

For maths we have been using our transformation skills to create a piece of mathematical art. We used squares, rectangles and triangles and had to show rotation, reflection and translation. Here are a few:

Room 12B's Mihimihi

Lately we have been putting together and learning our Mihi.

Mihimihi are introductory speeches which take place at the beginning of a gathering after the more formal powhiri. Mihimihi involve individuals standing to introduce themselves by sharing their whakapapa (genealogy, ancestral ties) Maori people use the mihi as a way of making connections with one another.

Everyone is room 12B has a Mihi and has given it to the class. We also created digital presentations. Here is George's:

What a TREEmendous day!!!

June 5th was a very special day at HNI. Today was Arbor day, a day for planting, nurturing and celebrating trees. It was also World Environment Day, a day for promoting awareness and care for our environment. What better way to acknowledge both of these events than to do some planting! 

Our wonderful Treemendous area is almost complete, and today we helped by each planting a small tree, shrub, grass or flax. In fact, the entire school did their bit throughout the course of the day and it is looking spectacular. 

There are more plants all ready for planting tomorrow at our final Treemendous planting day and celebration. 

We can't wait to start using this awesome new outdoor space!