Pekapeka stories from Te Mata School
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A safe space for Mason the skink
Hi, I’m Jake, and I found a skink at my friend’s house (Mason’s house). It was hiding under all the...
NZ Reptile A to Z
Sherry Xie shares about some of our amazing native mokomoko | lizards, pepeketua | frogs and our tuatara in this...
Helping Our Native Birds of Prey
By Eden Fearnside, 7 years old Photos by Julia Fearnside My name is Eden and I think birds of prey...
McKENZIE BAY, WAIPU
Continued Story from Wild Things issue 153 By Madeleine Aged 7 McKenzie bay is super cool, when I found it,...
Torn paper mountains -by Rourke (age 7)
An activity from our Ngahuru issue of Wild Things Rourke (7) biggest imageMatilda (5) bottom leftand Mum (top right) We...
Hoiho has an adventure
Hoiho has been exploring my garden. He enjoyed listening to the happy bees visiting our beautiful flowering tree.He also met...
Lockdown Observations
I noticed all the birds coming back again I to our backyard. We have got lots of Tuis, Kererus, Piwakawakas...
Lockdown playdough insects
We have had some creative fun after exploring our backyard and collecting bits and bobs from the garden. Check out...
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