We have been learning to make connections to the people and places that are important to us.

Taonga is a shell.

I have chosen my Taonga because it reminds me of my family and helps me feel connected to my mum and my dad. Mum and I get shells and my dad goes in deep water to get mussels. The shells we gather are so cool and dad only got very big muscles he got no small mussels.  

The place I connect to is punakaiki  because I go there with my family you can make sand castles and get shells.

I have been able to make other connections in the classroom to ruby because we have connections to our favourite place which is punakaiki because it a place for the my family to do something together.   

This is our classroom photos of our favourite

place.