Finn McCool

A traditional tale from Northern Ireland. This is our version of the legend of the giant Finn McCool.

Soda Bread

We made soda bread as part of our topic on Ireland this term. We have adopted Ireland as our World cup Rugby team!
Try it out.

As part of our comparative studies of New Zealand and Ireland, we looked at traditional irish dancing. With the help of YouTube we learnt some simple irish dance moves. Take a look at our greenscreen fun!

Poetry Work

Kauri 3 wrote poems in response to poetry written by a very young NZ poet- Laura Ranger (she has an anthology of her poetry written at ages 6-9). We wrote using the same structure as her poem "The Sea" Have a look and a listen to our versions. Leave us some comments please.

Music lesson

We worked with Miss Christensen and in a short time were able to identify notes and read music, play the notes on tuned instruments and perform short pieces in a group. Thank you Miss Christensen. Enjoy!

Ripa Rugby

Kauri 3 had a fantastic Ripa Rugby training session with Kalvin. Take a look at what we learned.

Science

Kauri 3 had a day of Science with Mrs. Faaofa-Olderhaver. Take a look at how they got on learning about Chemical reactions.