Swimming

 We have had a great start to swimming this week! Our instructors have been amazing at teaching us how to stay afloat and blow bubbles. The hard part has been swimming with our feet off the ground. We are looking forward to learning boat safety and life jacket safety skills next week.

The battle of Wesley Mountains performance

Cook Island Language WEEK

In preparation for Cook Island Language week, Hoiho has been working on creating Rarotongan drumming beat patterns to celebrate Cook Island culture. We have also been making head leis and created a dance to go along with our drumming. We are so excited to perform at Assembly this Friday and hope you can make it.

Fear Factor

On July the 30th the Hoiho team played Fear Factor. We were put in teams and blindfolded. We had to try different jelly beans. They would either taste disgusting or delicious. Juzaiah tasted a red and orange jelly bean and Miss Bound said "it will taste like strawberry and banana or DEAD FISH!" His face scrunched up and twisted, he looked like he was going to vomit but he didn't. Siobhan had a black one and it was going to taste like chocolate pudding or skunk spray. She was smiling and doing a thumbs up. Can you guess which one she got?  

Hoiho Newsletter Term 3

Art Rotation

Wow! On Wednesday afternoons Room 4, Room 5 and Room 8 do an art rotation. Art rotation is when you are mixed up with other classes to get to know them. You go to different art areas like drama, dance, art and music.
First, we went to drama with Miss Grigg. In drama we had to act out the play The Gruffalo. We learned to use our facial expressions and different voices when we perform.
Next, we went to art with Miss Bound. We learned about symmetry and traced to create the other half of our animals. These are in the photos above.

BOOM! BOOM! BANG! Lastly, we had music with Mr To'oala. We learned to make beats with the drums. Some of us got to sing 'This is me'.
We love the art rotation and it is so fun, we hope we can do it next term!