Topic Time

Today we began talking about this term's topic. We watched an imovie featuring lots of photos of NZ places, people and kiwiana and guessed that we are going to be discovering all about NZ and what makes us New Zealanders.

In groups we listed and drew pictures of all the things we know already. Some of these things were.....

We have -

Yellow eye penguins

Lots of sheep

Mountains called Mt Cook and Mt Taranaki

A big lake called Lake Taupo

A Prime Minister called John Key

The Beehive is in Wellington

The Sky Tower is in Auckland

We know of The Sounds, Dunedin, Nelson and Invercargill

We love.....

Pavlova

Kiwifruit

Hokey Pokey Ice cream

L & P

The All BLacks

Richie McCaw

We wear.......

Gumboots

Jandals

tiki and greenstone

We also wrote some questions we would like to find the answers to this term...

How many people live in Christchurch ? Sophie

Why are hangi's called hangi's? Neo

Why do Kiwis only exist in NZ? Nate

Why are jandals and gunboots popular shoes in NZ? Gracie

Who discovered NZ? Logan

What is Tauranga and is it in NZ? Brigit

How long would it take to walk the length of NZ? Max