Year Three - Where's the kai?

 

Haere mai Year Three for another year of Education for Sustainability!  Today we began by sharing what we had for breakfast.  We're learning about different types of kai and where it comes from.

Then we shared different types of kai on cards.  We played a guessing game, then we discussed the kai in with our classmates.  Lastly, we decided how we can group the kai. 

Afterwards we went on a hunt around the kura to see where we are growing food and what types of food we could find.  We picked pears and plums along the way.

After our break we thought about the difference between the fruit in the supermarket and the fruit that we were eating off of our own trees.  We drew diagrams to show the difference.

The fruit from our own trees is so much fresher, cheaper and takes less energy. 

Next week we are going to learn Te Reo kopu for our kai and when we can grow certain foods. 

Sharing our Travelwise Mahi

 

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Year 4 - What makes us a GreenGold Enviroschool?

 

Year Four wondered what we do at Wakaaranaga to be an Enviroschool:

Planting trees - Holly

Planting fruit trees - Leleya

Take care of animals - Milly 

Take a litterfree lunch - Collins

Learn about the environment - Rosemary

Take care of the bees - Amber

Take care of the trees and bushes - Hiraya

Take care of  chickens - Leleya

Isabelle - pick up rubbish and put it in the bin

Oliver - make a veggie farm

Henry - worm farms

Zane - don't break anything

Hugo - use a reuseable water bottle

Torres - Reuse rubbish

Margoh - reuse grocery bags

Put food scraps in the compost - Alton

We went on a scavenger hunt all around the school to discover the  places and practices that help to create a sustainable future.  Have you seen the new chickens in  the Whare Hei Hei?

Afterwards we explored the GreenGold Enviroblog, where all our learning and actions are recorded: https://wakaenviro.blogspot.com/

Next week we are going to begin our Sea Week studies. Will you go to the beach this week?

Year 1 What does a plant need to grow?

Today Year 1 explored what a plant needs to grow.

We all got to hold a tiny seed. 

We looked at it up closely, held it tightly and then planted our seed in our Waka Mara Kai.

 

We also practised mindful eating and tasted some of our very own Waka Pears from our fruit trees.

We then draw our own flowers and drew what they need to grow.... sun, water, soil, compost, space.

Lastly, the morning classes watered the seeds we planted this morning.