Room 22 and 19 Seaweek promotion

Today, the Year 6 classes in Rooms 19 and 22 looked into our Waka waste.

Do we have a litter problem at Waka? A quick survey of our lunchboxes showed that Room 19 had 45% of the class with a litter-free lunch today at school. Room 22 had 35%. That is a great start. But.......

 A 15-minute litter hunt around our school produced an astonishing amount of litter. We were really amazed at how much there actually was.

The classes decided to take action by making a collaborative display with  Aotearoa sea animals 

promoting bringing litter-free lunches to school. 

You can check our messages on the windows of Piwakawaka

Room 18 Waste Wise for Sea Week

 In Room 18 we reviewed the Enviroschools Guiding Principles with a discussion and a Kahoot.

Next we reviewed how far we've come with dealing with our waste.  We watched this video from four years ago Waka Waste Audit 2022 

We discovered that our litterfree lunches are still tracking around 40%

Is lunchbox litter still a problem?  A quick litter hunt showed us that, sadly, it was.

We had a brainstorm ...

How might we encourage more tamariki to pack a litter free lunch?

Dihan - posters

Fariya - a booklet

Ava - if you have a litterfree lunch you can wear mufti

Hector - if you bring a litterfree lunch you get housepoints

Riley - make a speech Ava - litter clean ups but if you have a litterfree lunch you don’t have to do it.

Savannah - make a video

We'll passed these great ideas  on to our 

Eco Warriors and spent the remainder 

of our lesson creating Litterfree Lunchbox 

posters for the Education for Sustainability 

room.

Year Three Crazy for Kai

 Today, Year Three continued their inquiry into kai.  We talked about the different times of day that we eat and the names we call these meals.  There's lots of different names for meals like some breakfast, brunch, paramanwa, tea, dinner, snacks, morning tea, dinner, supper, afternoon tea etc.

We talked about different families and cultures eat different foods for meals, but we all eat a mix of healthy kai to keep our tenana (bodies) going.  

We chose our own menu for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks.  

Before morning tea we learnt some Te Reo Maori names for food with a fun wordsearch.

We talked about how our senses are important when it comes to our relationship with food. we got to taste some pears from our very own Waka Orchard. 

Year Four Sea Week Celebration

Today Year Four are celebrating Sea Week by beginning our inquiry into Tikapa Moana / The Hauraki Gulf.

We began by discussing our own experiences in the local marine environment.  Then we watched this incredible video We identified all the animals we saw living on our doorstep:

Seal        stingray        Orca        Shark        Turtle                           Whales        Dolphins

Pufferfish                    Jellyfish                    Manta Ray                    Claw fish    Snapper

King Crab                   Swordfish                Crayfish                        Octopus        Seabirds

fur seal    Squid            Marlin                    Sea star                        Hammerhead    fish

We mapped out Tikapa Moana and located Wakaaranga School on the map too.

Afterwards, we read an online magazine about the wetlands that form part of Tikapa Moana.  There was a fun Kahoot to check our comprehension.

Lastly, we conducted an audit of the litter from around our school.  We discovered lots of plastic lunchbox litter.  Can you pack a litterfree lunch to help the oceans?