Alistair Fraser - demonstrates his musical instruments

Today, Alistair Fraser came to our school and showed us a great variety of instrument. These were all made from natural resources, such flutes made of wood , bones of animals, shark's teeth, whale bones and snail shells.  He demonstrated  the many sounds all of these instruments produced.  We were fascinated with his performance and maybe, in the school holidays, we might find items we can use for our own instruments.

Matariki workshops

Last week we were very busy with Matariki workshops. Some of us helped prepare the evening feast, carved soap pendants, made flax flowers, practised with pois, created a digital pa or cooked and ate kumara. It was such a fun day learning about Maori traditions. Then we ended the day with shared kai with our whanau as we celebrated Matariki together.

Space song

Rooms 3 and 4 performed their amazing space song at the last school assembly. Click here to check it out!

Kilbirnie School Run-a-thon

Today. we had our Kilbirnie School Run-a-thon.  The Junior classes ran laps on the bottom court and the Senior classes ran outside the school gates and around the block.   Each time we ran a lap, we were given a mark on our hand to show how many laps we had run altogether.

          In this photo, we are holding up our hands to proudly show the number of laps we have run.

SPACE PLACE

Here we are on the bus on our way to Space Place.  We were so excited as many of us had not been to the Planetarium before.

When we arrived at Space Place, we met Troy and Blake who were going to be our guides for the day.

We split into two groups. One group went into the Planetarium and the other group went into a classroom where we learned all about the planets and stars.

Troy told us all about the sun and how it gives out heat and light.  We were amazed to find out that over a million earths can fit inside the sun

Hugo, with the help of a torch and Maya holding the moon, showed us how there is day and night.

Before we went into the planetarium we had our morning tea.

This is a picture of us in our cosy seats looking at all the stars and planets.  We also watched a show about two children and a robot going into space to find out why we have seasons.

There were very tired children on the bus as we traveled home.  We had a great day and learnt lots of new things.