Year 6 Wrap up Estuaries

 Today, Year 6 concluded their estuaries topic.  We were learning to summarise and review a topic.  

We began by pair-sharing an article that reviewed estuaries and how people value them.  We discussed the difference between values and points of view.  As an Enviroschool, we value sustainability, but our point of view about our estuary may change over time.  

As we've learnt more about our estuary, our point of view about how important it is has changed.  We 'Hand up pair shared' our points of view. It was great to see we've developed an understanding of the importance of estuaries, but sad we didn't feel like the estuary was clean enough to provide kai.

Next, we listened to an RNZ interview about mangroves and did a Kahoot to assess our comprehension.

 Then we discussed all the aspects of the estuary we've learnt about and listed them.  

It was time for the students to be the teacher! We wanted to create our own Kahoot to test how much we have learnt about estuaries and people's view of them.  We co-created success criteria for our Kahoots, which included:

- At least 10 accurate questions that make sense and have capital letters and full stops.

- Cover these topics:

What is an estuary

Our local estuary

Habitats in estuaries

NZ estuary animals

Maori and estuaries

The importance of estuaries

We used our inquiry books, posters, the internet and the EnviroBlog to help inform our work.

Lastly, we randomly selected class members Kahoot's to play.

We're looking forward to our brand new mystery topic next time.

Year 1 Learn what our bodies need to grow.

 Today, Year 1 looked at what our body needs to grow. We know what a plant needs to grow, but what do we need?

https://5adayeducation.org.nz/assets/site/resources/eBook2/#/ebook

Fredge talks about fuelling up a car with the right things: 

the right kind of fuel, water in the radiator, and taking it for a service, 

Our bodies are just like cars. So went outside for some exercise, some water and tasted some super sour sorrel...

Caleb: "It tastes like salad."

Monika: "Sour is my favourite!"

Adrian: "It is sooooooo sour and sweet"

Sophie: "It tastes a little bit lemon and a little bit lime too."

Elsa: "It tastes like an orange"

Next time we look at healthy lunchbox options.

Room 1 Fuel up with Fredge

Today we looked at what our body needs to grow.

https://5adayeducation.org.nz/assets/site/resources/eBook2/#/ebook

Fredge talks about fuelling up a car with the right things: 

the right kind of fuel, water in the radiator, and taking it for a service, 

Our bodies are just like cars. So went outside for some exercise, tasted some super sour sorrel...

 Eden: "It was very sour, but it was yummy."

Kai: "It tastes like lemon."

Olivia: "It tastes like a very sour lemon."

Zacharia: "I grow this at my house."

Oliver: "It was delicious."

We came back inside and had a big drink of water, then discussed what things we need to grow...

Hazel: "clean fresh air"

Kaylen: "healthy food"

Cortez: "Drink lots of water'

Ollie: "sleep"

Elliot: "exercise"

Year 2 Hexagon Heaven & Bee Disco

 Today we found out how bees are mathematicians.  Did you know honey bees can make perfect hexagons?  We brainstormed all the shapes we knew.  Did you know some shapes fit together perfectly?  That's called tessellation. By looking carefully at some honey comb we discovered that bees make hexagons out of wax that tessellate perfectly. 

We used popsicle sticks to make our own hexagons and then joined with others to tessellate our hexagons across the floor.

Afterwards we drew a hexagon tessellation in our bee books.  Amazing maths work Year 2!!

For our brain break we went to the Mara Kai to check out if there were any flowers for the bees.  We saw pansies, stock, borage and rosemary flowers.

We worked so hard we had time to complete a fun bee wordsearch.

We also learnt about how bees communicate by dancing and come up with our own bee dances in groups.

Lastly we finished off our Bee Books as we are moving on to a new topic about birds next term.  Look out for the Bee Books coming home.

Rooms 3 and 4 Learn about eating a Rainbow

 Today, Rooms 3 & 4 were learning about "Eating a Rainbow" in Education for Sustainability with Ms Everitt.   We learnt with Fredge and 5+ Aday that our bodies need lots of water and five serves of different coloured fruits and vegetables every day, so we have energy to move and learn.

We fuelled up with water and fresh tangelos from Ms Everitt's tree.

Monika said, "I like that we can plant the seeds"

Yuvika: "It tastes yummy!"

Lucy: "It tastes sweet."

Alex: "It was pretty much yummy!

Zayne: "I had 3 pips in mine"

Ronni: "It tastes really sweet"

Olivia: "Mine had 3 pips, and it was very sweet"

Eden: "It looks similar to an orange, but it is smaller."

We then sorted food cards into different groups. We sorted by colour, shape, size and also into fruits and vegetables.

We brainstormed all the different coloured kai we knew and compared them to Milo the Monster's suggestions. Afterwards, we created our own rainbows of fruits and veggies