Acorn target

With three days of wet weather we've been getting out when we can. Rather than getting out lots of gear only to have to put it back again with the next shower, we've been making use of the bounty of nature. In this case falling acorns and leaves. We started aiming at the post then, moved back, then shifted to a leave stuck in the post as with practice our aim improved. We had to learn not to get to close as sometimes acorns miss or bounce back and hit us. Several children are now hitting the leaf from several meters back.

Our Trip To Pouerere Beach

Our Dancers

Catch up time

Finally getting a chance to catch up with Term 4's stories.

We Can Stomp

Some of our finds from our beach trip

Spiny star Papatangaroa

Spider crab

Mud crab, Kairau with eggs.

Marbled rock crab, Rērere

Periwinkle, Ngaeti

Mottled brittlestar, Weki huna

Kina, sea urchin

Common shrimp, tarawera

Chitin, Papatua

Sea Centipede, Weri moana

Kahuku

The swan plant Keagan's granddad gave us has picked up quite a crop of caterpillars over the summer and more are coming on the new plants we brought as well. Some of them have been hatching out from their chrysalis, while we watch.