Discovering mosquitoes...

Mark Disbury (Isla's dad) is a mosquito expert.  He taught us so much about mosquitoes, and then we got to capture larvae from a tyre (where mosquitoes love to live) with a pipette and put it into a sample jar.  It was so much fun!

Tu meke kapa haka time!

 "We are learning new things with the poi" - Maia

 "We are learning to flick the poi on our wrist, not on our back" - Shakira

 "I was having a great time at kapa haka with the poi" - Chelsea

 "It was so challenging learning to do the poi" - Angie

 "I am doing well at poi" - Mya

 "We are trying our best, and doing it for the first time" - Jess

 "I enjoyed having time with the poi" - Saryjah

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 "I am having a tino pai time" - Kayla

 "It was fun hanging out and practicing the poi with other people" - Alita
"It was exciting learning how to use the poi" - Julz

"It was frustrating at first being the tuakana, but in the end they all got used to it" - Arana

"I felt proud and nervous" - Mason T

"It was fun.  I was having a tino pai time" - Mason A

Tokoeka's mihi whakatau

Our mihi whakatau this morning went so well.  We have so many people to thank:

• All our whānau who were able to come this morning - your presence was so appreciated
• Ngahere tamariki who taught us Te Waka, and supported us today
• Sheridan for doing our ribbon cutting
• Mr Webby for delivering a whaikōrero
• Whaea Raima for helping us make sure we had everything in the right order
• Mrs Hunt for delivering the heated up morning tea, and the tea and coffee
• Mr Chalmers for taking these great photos for our blog
• Ourselves for giving 100% to our mihi whakatau and making our teacher incredibly proud!

Te Aute's whaikōrero.

Sheridan doing the ribbon cutting.

And...Mrs Grant's dad made us some lovely shoe shelves for our cloakbay, which just arrived today.  What a great way to end a great day!