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Year 4 - What makes us a GreenGold Enviroschool?

 

Year Four wondered what we do at Wakaaranaga to be an Enviroschool:

Planting trees - Holly

Planting fruit trees - Leleya

Take care of animals - Milly 

Take a litterfree lunch - Collins

Learn about the environment - Rosemary

Take care of the bees - Amber

Take care of the trees and bushes - Hiraya

Take care of  chickens - Leleya

Isabelle - pick up rubbish and put it in the bin

Oliver - make a veggie farm

Henry - worm farms

Zane - don't break anything

Hugo - use a reuseable water bottle

Torres - Reuse rubbish

Margoh - reuse grocery bags

Put food scraps in the compost - Alton

We went on a scavenger hunt all around the school to discover the  places and practices that help to create a sustainable future.  Have you seen the new chickens in  the Whare Hei Hei?

Afterwards we explored the GreenGold Enviroblog, where all our learning and actions are recorded: https://wakaenviro.blogspot.com/

Next week we are going to begin our Sea Week studies. Will you go to the beach this week?

Year 1 What does a plant need to grow?

Today Year 1 explored what a plant needs to grow.

We all got to hold a tiny seed. 

We looked at it up closely, held it tightly and then planted our seed in our Waka Mara Kai.

 

We also practised mindful eating and tasted some of our very own Waka Pears from our fruit trees.

We then draw our own flowers and drew what they need to grow.... sun, water, soil, compost, space.

Lastly, the morning classes watered the seeds we planted this morning.

Year Two Look at Life Cycles

 Year Two got scientific today looking at life cycles.  We discussed the life cycles we already knew. McKenzie knew about butterflies starting out at eggs then caterpillars and chrysalises. 

We then learnt how honey bees also follow the insect life cycle - egg, larva, pupa and adult.

We watched a video, acted out the stages, labelled and diagram and finally wrote a sentence about each stage.

Before our break Ms Everitt read a funny picture book about metamorphosis.  

To finish our session we took action by spreading mulch under our fruit trees.  We saw lots of bees on the blossoms.

We tasted some yummy pears from our very own fruit trees!

Next time we will learn about bee anatomy.