Our year Tahi, get up close and personal with our Worm Farm and Compost

 Our year Tahi, get up close and personal with our worm farm and compost.

We are learning about the compost life cycle and how it helps 

with our sustainability at Waka.

Look at these fantastic worms that help our scraps decompose.

We needed to get a closer look...

Equality Game with Year Ono

We played a game to explore the idea of equality & privilege as outlined in this video:  

This is what the tamariki thought:

AT THE FRONT OF THE ROOM ...

Life is sometimes unfair

Even if life isn't fair you have to push through

Life's not fair get used to it

You can choose where you begin in life

You can't get everything you want in life

It was fair because we were allowed to stand up

I have good aim

We tried hard and so we got it in

IN THE MIDDLE

The higher you are the more you succeed and the lower you are the more you fail.  If you start off low you'll fail.

People at the back could be trying really hard but the people at the front could be cheating

AT THE BACK

It wasn't fair

I'm bad at throwing

The people at the back have a disadvantage

Maybe the paper didn't even want to get in the bucket

you can't have everything in life

If you have everything you can feel empty.  You have to fail and keep trying.

We had a disadvantage and there were things in the way

If you're at the back you have to do a perfect shot so there's a lower chance and if you're at the front it was easy.

A bit like life because people were in our way

How can we help others who aren't as privileged? Mufti for World Vision on Friday, Food Bank at Christmas ...collect foil for survival blankets for homeless -  https://www.chippacketproject.org/ 

Climate change will bring issues of inequality and poverty.  How can we make sure we create a healthy sustainable world for all?

Chip Packet Project - Tangata Me Te Taiao

 Today Year 4 explored and identified needs and wants.  We learnt those living in poverty don't have all of their needs met.  We're working towards a healthy, sustainable world in which EVERYONE has their needs met.  Two ways we identified that Wakaaranga addresses poverty is our annual World Vision Mufti Day this Friday and annual Christmas food drive.

We investigated becoming part of the Chip Packet Project, so homeless people can have survival blankets made with repurposed chip packets.

2023 Pestfree Cadetship

 

31.7.23 

Our second session with Ethan today. 

We had a closer look at some of the pests that have been 

introduced into New Zealand. 

They are all affecting our native plants and birds.

We even had a look at their poop (not real) 

and track marks so that we could identify them.

7/08/23

Today Ethan from Pest Free Howick, visited for the last time, to complete our Year 5 cadetship.  

Firstly we applied our new knowledge to come up with ideas to protect our environment.

 Our Eco System Protection  Design Solutions:

 - cameras to protect habitats

- a robot army with laser beams to detect and eliminate pests

- microchips to give native animals scary voices for scaring pests

- fake eggs filled with poison

- a slippery netting over trees

- protected islands with domes

- sound box to scare pests

Next, we set up tracker tunnels to assess which pests are at Wakaaranga.  We'll set them out tomorrow.

Lastly, we reflected on our cadetship and gave the local board our feedback.

Thank you Ethan and Pestfree Howick for an amazing experience!

Anyone for a cup of tea?

 Year 4 Researched different-shaped teapots

from their chosen country and cultural patterns

and designed so awesome teapots.