We brainstormed ways to share what we learned in our Travelwise Ready, Steady Go learning.
It was great fun folding up our mini books and using our creative skills.
Sunday, 13 September 2026
Year 5 think about how to share their knowledge
Year Five Travelwise Teachers
Today Year 5 took the opportunity to create picture books to share what they have learnt about how active travel helps the environment, our bodies and how to be safe when we're getting to school.
It was great fun folding up our mini books and using our creative skills while listening to calming music.
Next time we're looking forward to sharing our books with Year 1 & 2 before we do a post test to see how much we remember from this unit of work.
Monday, 7 September 2026
Room 2 Learn what our bodies need to GROW
Today we looked at what our body needs to grow.
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 Ms Everitt's carrots, and had a big drink of water.
Next, we drew ourselves and what we need to grow.
Rooms 1, 3 and 4 Explore Healthy Lunchboxes
Today, Rooms 1, 3 & 4 thought about the right things we need to grow. We played a game so we could get all the things we need:
- sleep
- love
- healthy food including 5 serves of fruit and vegetables
- exercise
- water
Next we coloured a variety of kai and divided it into everyday healthy lunchbox foods and party food. Healthy lunchbox kai and water mean we'll have energy to learn and play all day.
Room 1 exercised our minds with some yoga.
It is Olivia's birthday today in Room 2. She might have some party food to celebrate. Sugary food is lovely sometimes for special occasions.
Sunday, 6 September 2026
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.
Monday, 31 August 2026
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?
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.
Sunday, 30 August 2026
Room 1 Fuel up with Fredge
Today we looked at what our body needs to grow.
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"
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