Year 6 Kaitiaki - Adopt A Park

 Year Six have started a long term project to enhance our local biodiversity:

Year Rua Wonder About Our Waka Bees

 

Takahe Room Iwa - What we already know about bees:

James - if you get stung by a bee use baking soda

Charlotte - bees pollinate flowers

Kaylee - bees pollinate flowers so they grow then drop seeds on the ground so more flowers can grow.

Isaac - bees make honey for us to be healthy

Arianna - bees die when they sting you

Keeva -  stay calm if you see a bee

Eddie - bees help our environment

Kendrick - 

David - bees favourite colour is blue 

Liam - bees like purple too

Charlotte - when bees pollinate the petals fall off and they turn into fruit

What we wonder about bees …

Alex -How do they get the nectar?

Arianna - What do bees do inside the hive?

Isaac - Why do bees get nectar?

Marco - how do the bees get the flowers?

Keeva - how do bees sting?

Liam - how do bees make honey?

James - why do bees make honey?

Kaylee - how do they make hives?

 Kakapo Room Rima have already planted flowers for our bees - tino pai rawa atu! I wonder how else we can help our Waka Bees ...

Kakapo Room Rima - What we already know about bees …

Tiziano - I know that bees when they sting they die because the sting is part of their body.

Christina - bees like flowers because there’s pollen inside

Ivory - bees like violet flowers  the most

Sahaj - bees go to flowers

Chloe - bees collect honey for people who like honey and there’s only one bee that doesn’t work and that’s the queen bee

Isabella - bees work hard and when they get tired they die but they can still sting people

Rhubab - bees die from some weeds like moth plant

Jack - bees are nature and don’t kill them

What we wonder about bees ...

Jayden - how do bees sting?

Victoria - how do bees make honey?

Christina - do boy bees sting?

Tiziano - how do bees enter their hive?

Jack - what are bees? What does their body look like?

Jannie - what does the queen bee do?

Anita - when does a bee sting wear off?

Well done for Litterfree Lunches in Tui Room Tahi

 

We're learning how we can make choices to protect our oceans. Litterfree lunches are a great way to reduce waste that can blow into the sea.

🐢 ❤  Well done to these children in Tui Room Tahi for bringing a naked lunch 🐢 ❤ 

 

Tui Rooms Tahi, Rua, Toru, & Wha Go On A Rubbish Hunt

In our Year One EfS lessons, we're wondering how we can make our school more sustainable. 

After our karakia and waiata, we read 'Kiki Kiwi and the Travelling Trash'. We discovered from Kiki and his friends that trash travels down the outside drains to the moana and can hurt sea creatures.

Then, we took action by going on a rubbish hunt around the school. We found lots of trash, but how did it get there we wondered?

We sorted the trash into 3 piles - paper, food packages and building waste.

This is Tui Room Toru's piles.

Which was the biggest pile? Food packages by far!! 

Outside drains lead straight to the sea, in the afternoon we made sure ours were litter free.

I wonder what could we do to reduce our school rubbish? Comment below if you have some ideas:

Repurpose, Reuse, Recycle a Waka Eco Challenge for Home

 Kia ora koutou!

Watch the video to find out about our new Waka Eco Challenge:

You can email photos of your creations to daniel@wakaaranga.school.nz

Want to find out how to make your own bee bath from natural and recycled materials?  Watch the Whanau Living video:

Last of all you could listen to a story all about a recycled bike:

Check out these Waka kid creations:

Sophie's Video - creating a recycled desk tidy

Jeremy's new pot plant

Maya's bottle vase

Alyana's pen holder

Audrey's bird feeder