Room 1 Investigates the Life Cycle of Plants.

We reviewed our learning from the last session.  What does a plant need to grow?

Hazel: "A plant needs Sunshine."

Melissa: "Water."

Kia: "Don't forget love!"

Elliot: "Compost is good for the plants."

Zacharia: "We have to give heaps of space for a plant to help it grow."

We then looked at the life cycle of a plant.

   

Did you know all living things have a life cycle?

Year 3 Sandwich Chefs

 Today Year 3 thought about whole foods vs processed foods.  W grouped kai from least to most processed and thought about how it changes. 

What are the ingredients of butter? An orange? What about yoghurt? Now what about a muesli bar or ice cream?

How does food processing change the appearance, taste and texture of our kai? 

Afterwards, we put our learning into action by designing and making our own healthy sandwiches.  They were delicious!

Room 6 Explore Trees and a very different one!

Today, we focused on the Story book "Woowee!  Look at that Tree" by Ben Knight

A fabulous story about a tree that grows differently from every other tree.

We acted out how the tree grew...

We talked about how important it is to be you and how wonderful we are all different. We looked at the story and drew what happened in the beginning, the middle and the end.

Lastly, we went out into nature, chose our favourite tree and sketched it.

Brooklyn:  "I made different-sized branches"

Emily:  "I drew 8 branches. "

Layton: " I drew different knots on my tree."

Geovanna:  "I drew skinny branches. "

Room 2 Explore leaves, trees and being Unique

 Room 2 started our session with some time in nature. 

                                                      We collected leaves from our trees. 

We collected 10 leaves. 

Then we put them in a row. Can you count 10 leaves in a row?

This afternoon, we focused on the Story book "Woowee!  Look at that Tree" by Ben Knight

A fabulous story about a tree that grows differently from every other tree.

We talked about how important it is to be you and how wonderful we are all different. We looked at the story and drew what happened in the beginning, the middle and the end.

Vera-J: "The tree grew bendy, and now the children like it."

Felix: "The other trees grew straight, but he was bent. The children were playing on the bent tree."

Cohen: "It is raining on the tree to help it grow.

Kotomi: "Some tree were long and grey, but our tree was special." I the end they children play with the tree.

Eneriko: "Some trees were straight, and one tree was like this..."

Project Jonah Visit Year 4

 Today, Year 4 had a very special visit from Michael and his walk-through whale from Project Jonah.

What do we already know about whales?

Nolan "Whales hearts are bigger than people"

Luke "As big as a car"

Evelyn "They live in the ocean"

Kyrie "Whales are fat and juicy. They breathe air"

Eiden "Whales are thick"

Aiden "Whales are the biggest mammal"

Eden "Whales have a spout to shoot water  and to breathe"

Celine "They can hold their breath for 20 minutes."

What did we learn after visiting with Michael and his whale?

Charles: "The humpback whale has the biggest arm of all animals"

Atlan: "A humpback whale can eat 6 tonnes of krill a day"

Hiraya: "Some whales have baleen, but some do not"

Nico: "Blue whale hearts are bigger than small cars"

Collins: "Humpback whales are the only whales that have long tubercles for smell"

Gaynuka: "Humpback whale sing loud"

Millie: "They have eyes on their sides, so they can't see forward very well so they use smell and hearing to locate things"

Bryn: The fluke is made out of cartilage, the same as our noses"

Rylee: " When the humpback whale sprays out of the blowhole, it is not just water. It is snot, air and water"

Verage: "Humpback whales work together to eat krill by blowing bubbles while spinning underneath them"

Thank you so much, Michael and Project Jonah.  We loved learning with you!

Pestfree Cadets & the Furry Vermin

Today, in Session Two  of  Pest free Cadets we began by creating a predator free sanctuary.  We had to choose the native animals to place inside the fence and the pests to keep out. Ethan talked about some of the amazing native species we have in New Zealand like the luminescent limpet, the puriri moth, the Kiwi & tuatara. then he told us about some of the destructive pests that harm our native animals.

We were amazed to see taxidermy specimens of some of the pests that threaten our unique native species.  

Ethan handed out fake poop and footprints for us to match to the pests like master trackers. 

Next time we are gong to set out tracker tunnels to see which pests are in our environment.