Orongomai Blog's Photo on Thursday, 30 June 2016
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Shared Kai for Matariki
What a wonderful way to end our Matariki celebration with shared kai. Thank you so much for bringing along a plate.
The Hawk and the Squirrel by Mrs Kelly's writers
The Hawk and the Squirrel It is Autumn in the forest. Leaves are twirling like ballerinas as they drift down to the ground. Suddenly a squirrel pops out of the leaves and furiously scans the ground for nuts lying quietly on the crumpled leaves. A dangerous hawk glares over at the fearless squirrel.Suddenly the squirrel sees the huge hawk and he trampolines off the swaying branches of towering tall totara trees and leaps right onto the hard ground ready for the tremendous chase.The squirrel springs right onto the nearest tree he can find, jumping from branch to branch, tree to tree, until he nervously jumps into a nest to hide.The squirrel waits anxiously as the hawk swoops down beside the nest and smashes the nest to pieces. Squirrel falls as fast as a racing car down to the patched ground.The chase goes on until the squirrel furiously leaps right on to the dark chocolate coloured trunk of the tree and hides in the nearest hole he can find.The hawk finally gives up and flies away.Th...
The Hawk and the Squirrel by Mrs Kelly's writers
Hawk and Squirrel It was Autumn in the forest. The golden-brown leaves were dancing and twirling all the way to the ground while the sun was flashing through the ginormous trees. On the ground, crunching through the leaves, was a tiny cute brown squirrel. The squirrel scampered about hiding under the leaves and then popped out. He scurried around looking for nuts. He grabbed a nut and then ran up a tree but he didn’t notice a hawk staring at him with big, beady eyes. The hawk walked with his razor sharp claws chipping the branch to take a closer look at the squirrel. The squirrel didn’t notice anything until suddenly the hawk launched into the air flying and swooping after the squirrel. The squirrel scurried away as fast as he could and just escaped. The squirrel scampered up and down trees until finally he saw a nest. He raced into the nest terrified and huddled inside thinking he was safe until… the hawk swooped onto the nest, knocking it over. The squirrel jumped to the gro...
