Tapaono Maths

Our Tapaono Maths group doing a warm up of traffic light to practice their place value and get their brains ready for new knowledge that will challenge us! 

The Busy Bees are Firewise!!

Nick and Mark came to show us how to be Firewise! We learned that in a fire we shout “FIRE, FIRE, FIRE!!!” and we get down, get low and get out. We practised this and Nick and Mark were impressed!

We also got to see the fire engine. We learned that firemen use an axe to get into houses that are burning. They also use special masks that give them oxygen so they can breathe.

We have taken home our firewise books so we can plan an escape route with out families.

Busy Bees First Trip!

We went on a bus to the Regent to see Mr McGee and the Biting Flea. It was very exciting!!

We thought the show was very funny and entertaining as it was a bit silly. 

Our favourite part was when the man took off his clothes after the flea bit him. We also liked it when the cow have the bucket a ginormous kick. We thought the king was hilarious because he are too much then burped and farted. 

Here's what we thought of the show: 

Show and Tell

We love bringing in things to share with our friends on Fridays. We can talk about our specical treasures and are learning to include who, what, where, when and why in our descriptions. 

Singing with Bright Bugs, Tohora and Little Einsteins

We love our Friday morning singing with our friends in the Bright Bugs, Tohora, and the Little Einsteins. 

The favourite songs we sing can be found on our songs page on our blog. 

WALT: Identify Nouns

Today we learned how a noun is a person, place or thing. 

Here are some of the nouns we came up with: 

Busy Bees can cook!

We were very lucky to have the exciting opportunity to cook healthy food with Chef Chris! We had so much fun learning about vegetables and how frogs legs taste like chicken! 

We are bucket fillers!!!

We read the book Have You Filled a Bucket Today?  Here is a clip of the book: 

We reflected on ways we can fill other people's buckets:

- We can put our hand out and the other person can put their hand out and we can help them up (Benjamin) 

- If someone is new in the school we can help them by showing them around (Keira) 

- We can play with people if they have nobody to play with. We can invite them to be our friend (Heidi) 

- We can say nice things to them if they are feeling sad or if they aren't sad and we notice nice things that they do (Jacob) 

Some of us also drew some fantastic looking buckets during discovery time this week: 

Keeping Ourselves Safe

This morning we met constable Helen who will help us learn how we can keep ourselves safe. Today we learned about how our bodies belong to us and who can and can't touch us. 

Discovery Time

We had such a great time during discovery with the Bright Bugs. We have been learning to show our Whakawhanaungatanga (positive relationships).

Here were our initial ideas on how we show our whakawhanaungatanga during discovery time.

•        If someone is doing an activity by themselves we can go and be their buddy (Angus)
•        If you do something wrong to someone like accidently hurt them you need to apologise and make sure they are alright (Atta)
•      You can tell people how much you like their creations if you are on art on making something (Clara)
•        If someone trips over you can help them by giving them a plaster (Eshaan)
•      Play with people who don’t have anyone to play with (Chelsea)
•       If someone gets hurt we can get a teacher and then look after them (Awhina)

Welcome Back!!

Welcome back to Term 4! I have loved hearing about all the lovely adventures the Busy Bees have had during the holidays! We have another super busy and fun term planned.

We have started our athletics and we will be practicing on Monday and Wednesday afternoons for the next few weeks. Our Althetics Day is Wednesday 12 November. If you want to be one of our fantastic parent helpers please let me know! 

Lynley had a little lamb...

His fleece was white as snow!

We loved meeting Cloudy this week. We got to pat him and helped feed him some milk, which was a new experience for many Busy Bees. Vanessa was super proud that everyone gave it a go, even when we felt a little scared.

Ross Roadshow

Today we saw some VERY talented students from Ross Intermediate. They sang and they danced for us. We put our yellow hats on to reflect on the highlights:

“They did amazing dancing” - Awhina and Chelsea

“They did good singing. Our favourite was I just want to be king!” - Heidi and Keira

“The dancing to the happy song and footloose” - Benjamin

“I liked the girl who did the selfie after Happy” Bryah, Clara, Zoe and Matty. 


Jacob liked the host the best. We then reflected on what made him a good host. We thought he must have practiced a lot and he had a big loud voice. He looked at the audience a lot and knew everything he was going to say by heart.

We were told only a few students from each group came. We wish they whole group could have been there. Awhina wished her “totally wicked” big brother Rawiri had come too!!