Year Five Mood Boosters

 Today, Year Five explored how active travel is great for boosting our mood, and brain function.  We learnt that exercise helps us sleep better, learn easier and makes us feel happy.  So active travel each morning is a no brainer!

First we read information about brain function and answered comprehension questions.  

"I learnt the circadian rhythm is like your body clock" Valeria

Thivnesh "The hippocampus helps you remember and learn"

"Endorphins make you happy  and exercise gives you endorphins" Jasper.

Next, we logged our current mood and then compared this data with how we felt after exercise.  

Lastly we designed a badge to promote active travel as a mood booster. Some slogans we thought of were:

- Bilal "Run for Fun"

Tate "Walking makes you happy for the day ahead"

"Don't sit it's time to get fit" Lavinia

"I like to bike to school and you should too" Haven

Payton "Walk it and talk it"

Education for Sustainability isn't just about learning, we also take action to help our local environment.  Today we mulched the native bushwalk as our mahi for the mara. Great delight was had in finding worms, centipedes and beetles!

Oh dear look at the litter we found. Well done Year 5 for cleaning up as we mulched. And super well done to Litterfree Lunchers.

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...