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