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 our food cards into different groups. We sorted by colour, shape, size and also 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

Year 6 Estuaries and Te Ao Maori

 Today, Year 6 learnt about why estuaries are important to Māori and how Māori view their relationship to estuaries.  

Year 4 Voyagers

As Aotearoa is a remote island in the Pacific Ocean, our inhabitants have had to be master voyagers.  We began our lesson by brainstorming all the ways humans can cross the moana.

Some ideas included:

boat, submarine, swimming, canoe, helicopter, plane, jet pack, jet ski, paddle board, yacht, cruise, bridge, kayak, waka, hovercraft, ferry, catamaran, windsurfer, seaplane, raft. Can you think of any more?

We watched videos about our navigational history and read an article about one of the early Polynesian explorers.

After we recorded what we learnt, we drew an ocean-going waka with its double hull and V-shaped sails.  They were much quicker than the European ocean-going ships.

Rooms 1 & 2 Eat a Rainbow

 

Today Rooms 1 & 2 were learning about "Eating a Rainbow" in Education for Sustainability with Ms Daniel.  We fueled up with water and fresh oranges from Ms Everitt's tree, then played master tag. We learnt with Fredge and 5+ Aday that our bodies needs lots of water and five serves of different coloured fruits and vegetables everyday, so we have energy to move and learn.

We brainstormed all the different coloured kai we knew and compared to Milo the Monster's suggestions. Afterwards we created our own rainbows of fruits and veggies and tried roast purple kumara from the school gardens.

Elliot "The liked the crunchy bit on the kumara"

Hazel "The kumara was a bit tough"

Eden "It was mushy and squishy"

Avy "It was yum. I liked the organges too.  I enjoyed playing master tag."

Melissa "The kumara was so good.  It was my first time trying it."

Luna  "The kumara was sticky."

Caden "The kumara was so sweet."

Kasonoi "It was my first time trying kumara.  It tastes like chips."

Mia "It smells like fries."

"Kumara is yum!" Lachie

Next time we are going to learn about why the compost is so important for growing our kai.

Year Four Learn from a Marine Biologist

Today, Jess from the Young Ocean Explorers visited Year Four.  We were amazed to learn about Jess' career as a marine biologist working with Kelly Tarltons.  One career highlight was helping to save a three flippered turtle called Waiwai Toru. Jess also worked with NanoGirl and now is continuing her science education pathway with the Young Ocean Explorers. 

Jess gave a fascinating presentation that included a quiz, videos, a smoke machine and even giant bubbles. We were able to explore how animals communicate with sound under the sea and hunt with air.

What did you find out, Year 4?

"A sperm whale is the loudest animal" Qiurui

Diamond "A killer whale is stronger than a shark"

"Orcas eat stingrays" Kayden

"The turtle Waiwai Toru lost a flipper" Evelyn

Eiden "Sea creatures make lots of sounds"

"Herrings talk by farting" Luke

"The front of the sperm whale's head is called a melon" Amy

"How sound moves through water." Margot

We were sad to hear that while 30% of land is protected in NZ, only 0.38% of the sea is protected.  What could we do to protect more of the sea?

"Build a robot to clean up rubbish. We've been working on that in digi.

Special drains that can't let rubbish out or in

Use a magnet that attracts the rubbish

Make more marine reserves

Put posters up that we make

Write letters to the Prime Minister

Call DOC 0800 DOCHOT if you find a sick animal on the beach."

Three tamariki who were listening really well won prizes!

Rooms 24 & 25 were lucky enough to have extra time with Jess where we delved deeper into ecosystems, especially the ecosystem of a rock pool.

Firstly,

we had to guess what we were holding....

Next, we consolidated our knowledge with a Kahoot.

Next time, we're going to make posters to promote litter-free lunches.