Eco Warriors doing the Mahi

 Our eco Warriors helped replenish the Mara Kai with much-needed nutrients to help our veges grow.

Thanks Team!

Hearty Year Five

 Year 5 investigated how active travel is good for our heart & muscles.  

First we discovered more about the heart by reading a text in our digital workbook:

Next, we recorded our pulse at resting, walking, running and cool down. Lastly, we graphed and analysed the results. 

After morning tea we got our heart beating by moving mulch to help our native trees grow. 

Next time, we're looking at how active travel is good for our muscles and mental health. 

Celebrating Conservation Week with Rotorua Island Educators

 

Today Year Six were lucky enough to celebrate Conservation Week with educators from Rotorua Island.

Rotoroa Island is a pest-free conservation sanctuary in Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf. It is an ecological and heritage destination.

 

We learnt about the importance of biodiversity, our unique native animals and what threatens them, with a presentation and five fun hands on team activities.

Tim and Sean made a summary of what they had learnt.  See it here

Perhaps you can plan a family outing to Rotoroa Island next school holidays 🏝️🦜🛥️

Year Five Cooperate and Compete to Get to School Safely

  Today, Year Five continued their sustainable energy Travelwise study.  We first used our digital skills to plan a safe, active travel route from home to school on the Auckland Transport Journey Planner. 

We are learning to work together as a team to identify road hazards and overcome them. 

We competed with other classes to solve another giant jigsaw.  Last week, we voted to make our competition girls vs. boys. Here's the timed results: 

Rooms 14 & 17 Girls 6:05

Rooms  14 & 17 Boys 6:30

Rooms  15 & 16 Girls 5:49 WINNERS!!

Rooms   15 & 16 Boys 8:31

We decided that working as a team helped us work faster and making it a competition made it more fun.

Next, we put red flags on the children acting in unsafe ways and talked about how we could solve these problems so they could move about safely.

While one team was making the jigsaw, the other team first read through our Enviro blog. Then, visiting the native bush walk, we used magnifying glasses to take a closer look... 

Kids Eating Seasonal Kai

 Today, we went on an autumn kai hunt to see how the food we grow at school changes over the seasons. In summer/raumati we could pick pears and apples. Now we can pick carrots. Some of us wrote recounts about our outside adventure.

We learned that eating in season means, cheaper, fresher and more sustainable kai. In our books we created a cut and paste seasonal kai chart and finished with a fun word search. We talked about how what we eat changes over the year.  For example, we eat cherries at Christmas time  and feijoas in autumn. Lots of citrus fruit is available  in winter right when we need the  extra Vitimin C for coughs and colds.

We finished our lesson by eating the  carrots we had picked.