Today Room 5 learnt about bugs that are helpful in the Mara Kai and those that are not. We watered the garden, drew helpful and unhelpful bugs, did mindful yoga and lastly shared The Lorax in preparation for the Tread Lightly Caravan next term. The tamariki were amazed to learn that trees give us the air we breathe. Why else should we protect the trees?
Thank you to King's Plant Barn Botany & Enviroschools for the beautiful new plants for our Mara Kai and Junior Playground garden. And thank you to Room 29 for helping to plant them.
Room 6 learnt about what threatens and helps our vegetable garden. We inspected the Mara Kai and found some vegetables had been munched by snails, slugs and caterpillars. Xaria sprinkled Quash to helped protect them. We like slugs and snails in the compost but NOT eating our kai.
The tamariki then tried some silverbeet fresh from the garden:
Olive "It tasted yummy"
Rylee "The silverbeet was green"
Tyler "We ate the leaves"
After lunch we collected compost and worm tea in buckets and put it on the garden so our vegetables will grow BIG! Lastly we had a story and a Cosmic Kids Yoga class.
Room 29 continued their native bird study by comparing and contrasting Takahe and Pukeko. We've all seen Pukeko wandering around our local wetland area but did you know they have a very special endemic cousin called the takahe? We research and recorded how pukeko and takahe are the same and different.
Year Four focused in on one of our most impressive Hauraki Gulf residents: Maki or orca. They are otherwise known as killer whales even though they're actually dolphins.
Year Three tamariki continued their worm inquiry this week. After playing FBI tag, we read information and recorded facts we found interesting in our worm booklets. Did you know the longest worm in NZ grows to ONE POINT TWO METERS??!!
After morning tea we helped our fruit trees and local worms by mulching. We can't wait for the pink blossoms to turn into peaches.
Today, Year Three completed their worm promo posters. We created our own cartoon worms and researched facts to share. What do you think? Have they convinced of how wonderful worms are? Afterwards we helped create new worm homes by moving mulch.
Today we thought about all the beautiful manu that live in the Hauraki Gulf and how we can protect them. We were really excited to hear that the godwits will be arriving soon, all the way from the Arctic. Each of chose a bird to research and we shared our mahi in a poster. Which is your favourite manu?
Check out our mahi here
Sea Birds we know:
Hendrix - magpie
Eva - seagulls - red billed seagulls,
black billed seagulls, black backed gulls
Emma - pukeko
Zoe - oystercatchers and variable oystercatchers
Sparrows & pigeons
Rufaro - mallard ducks
Taylor - blue herons
Ben - Little Blue Penguins
Pied shag
Pied stilt
Godwits
Petrels
Australian Gannet
Shearwater
Year Five acted today to share our Travelwise picture books with Year One and Two. We loved reading the picture books and talking about how to to get to school safely using active travel. Lastly, we completed a reflection on this fun unit. Thanks Auckland Transport for all the resources! Next time we're going to start learning about sustainable energy,
Today Year Five helped to test the health of the Wakaaranga Creek with Kathryn from Watercare. We learnt about the common risks to our loca...
