Sunday 30 October 2022

Our Lizard Lounges Continue 🦎

 Year Five reflected on last week's learning and pushed forward with or Lizard Lounge and Skink Suburb planning.



Ximena, Emma & Mansor are looking forward to sharing their plan with Ms Von & Mr Dowden tomorrow. Check out their Lizard Lounge design below:


Also presenting  ...
Maia & Charlotte
Keying & Allison
Jessica & Lucus













Monday 17 October 2022

Year Rua Become Bee Mathematicians

 


Today Year Rua learnt about how bees are clever mathematicians. They make honeycomb out of perfect tessellating hexagons.

We made and drew tessallating hexagons.

Lastly we weeded the flower gardens we are growing for our honeybees.







Sunday 16 October 2022

Year 5 Begin our Lizard Inquiry

 


Year Five are learning about lizards. We were lucky enough to have Frazer from Sustainable Schools share the knowledge he gained when he worked at Auckland Zoo. Did you know NZ is home to over 80 species of lizards?

We're wondering how we can encourage more geckos & skinks to make Wakaaranga their home.
We did some more research and reviewed with kahoot. Lastly we began to map out an area for a lizard lounge.




Year Six Pop Up Estuary Exhibition

 Year Six are championing our unique estuary animals.  We want to get the word out about who is living in our estuary and how we can protect...