Year Three Helping to Create an Eco Friendly Carnival

 

We're excited for Carnival this Friday!

What are we looking forwards to?

Eveline "Noodles* and rides"

Alton "Chocolate trailer*"

Margoh "Food stalls* and toilet toss game*"

Ryder "Hamster wheel and the tea cups"

Hiraya "Looking forward to Snot Man*"

"I'm looking forward to face painting" Rosemary

"Bouncy Castle"

"Bungy Trampoline"

Rock Climbing

Popsicles*

Sushi*

Cake Stall*

Sausage Sizzle

Juice*

Cotton Candy

Mini donut

Ferris wheel

Prizes*

Fizzy Drinks

Police and fire truck

BUT there is can be a problem with Carnival when you are an Enviroschool.  It can make a LOT OF WASTE.  

*These stalls create waste 

We decided to create posters to promote the carnival and promote being environmentally friendly at carnival.

We needed to include theses main ideas:

WAKAARANGA CARNIVAL

4:40pm - 7:30pm

THIS FRIDAY

We also wanted to include environmentally friendly messages like:

Pick up litter

Keep our carnival clean and green

Bring your own bag

Bring a drink bottle

Please use the right bin

We wanted to make our posters fun and colourful.

Look out for them around school!

Spending Our $500 Wednesday Challenge Winnings

 Last Friday we were presented with $500 for our awesome involvement in The Wednesday Challenge.  

The Travelwise Leaders began to think about I we could spend it:

- planting trees in the nature walk

- plant signs

- butterfly garden

- sculpture garden

- bird feeders and bird bath

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Year Six - Creating Fun Resources for Our Enviroschool

 We want to create fun learning experiences for Wakaaranga tamariki to teach them about being part of an Enviroschool.

In groups we have come up with scavenger hunts, picture book, online quizzes, fitness games, a play, a jigsaw, online games, and songs.

We can't wait to present our ideas and put them into action.

Anastasia made a jigsaw puzzle 

Xiao Dao made a wordsearch

Keeva's group made a rubbish sorting PE game

Isaac made an Enviro Minecraft World

Luke created an online rubbish sorting game. 

Next time we are going to finish our activities, reflect and share. 

Year 6 - Enviro School Reflections

 Year Six want to pass on a fun learning acitivity for future Waka kids to remind them about what makes our kura a Greengold Enviroschool.

First of all we got thinking:

What have I loved and enjoyed learning during my time at Wakaaranga and being in Enviro classes?

REFLECTIONS

We shared slideshows and collaged our favourite memories over the years in EFS.

What PLACES make us an Enviro School?

• Beehive
• Chickens
• Nature walk
• Sensory garden
• Compost
• Veggie garden
• Worm farms
• Lizard lounge
• Enviro classroom

What PRACTISES make us an Enviro School?

• Planting kai
• Eating kai
• Harvesting eggs, honey, veggies
• Litter-free lunchboxes

We reviewed our Enviroschools journey 2020 - 2025  on the Enviroblog and found the activities we enjoyed the most:

We wondered how can we teach future generations about our school and EFS...

Examples: 

Scavenger Hunt, Kahoot (quizzes), ONline games, jig saw puzzle, cut and paste activity, colouring in and labelling, sketching, dioramas, crossword puzzles, word searches, vidoes, plays, a song, poster, picture book, pamphlet, board game, 

Success Criteria

• Brainstorm ideas for a fun engaging learning activity to teach Waka kids about how, why, where and what makes us an Enviroschool

• Record the WWWWH

• Record the resources you will need

• Research content

• Check your idea with the teacher

Next time we are going to work on our learning activities. 

Year Four Manu Moana

Today Year Four used our literacy skills to find out more about the sea birds that like in Tikapa Moana / The Hauraki Gulf.

How do we know an animal is a bird?

 "Wings and feathers" Noah

"Different beaks" Kaiya

Kanuka "Different kinds of feathers"

"Hollow skeleton" Andrew

"They are close relatives to dinosaurs" Zimon

"They lay eggs" Juliet

We split into groups and researched sea birds in general from four articles.  Each group of four presented four facts to the class.

Afterwards, we narrowed our research to focus specifically on one sea bird.  We needed to create a  fact file with their name, habitat, diet, photo and  how we can help them.

See our fact files here

Year 2's Penguin Party

Today Year 2 continued their close look at the native manu of Aotearoa by focussing on korora / penguins.

What do you already know?

"They are in the south pole mainly" Ibaad

"They like being in the water and diving in" William

"They lay eggs" Alice

"They have a orangish yellowish beak" Miabella

"Some live in dry places like sand and some live in the snow" Ethan

Juan "Blue penguins live in NZ"

"There's lots of different types" Lilly

"Penguins catch fish" Maneesha

"They live in the Antarctic" Eric

"They are rare" Kellam

"They swim" Emmelia

"It looks like they are flying in the water" Logan

"They can slide on ice on their tummy" Emile

What did you learn?

"They protect their babies"

Juan "They live to 8 years"

"They are good swimmers" Syzel

Logan "They change colours when they are moulting and all the feathers change"

"They spend most of the time in the water and come up on the land at night"

Year 4 - MANGO - SHARKS

Mango - Sharks in the Hauraki Gulf

What do we already know about sharks?

"Sharks are very important to maintain the balance of the ecosystem in the ocean." ~ Aria

"Sharks eat only meat." ~ 

"Sharks need to swim to breathe." ~ 

Mango and Te Au Maori

We learned that sharks are highly respected in Maori culture and some of their warrior moves are derived from the movement of sharks. 

E.g - certain Porakau moves are from hammerhead sharks!

We drew a shark seascape to document our before and after learning.