Welcome back for 2024 - Lizard Lounge finishing touches

 Ms Everitt and Ms Daniel are excited to kick off Education for Sustainability for 2024. We hope you had as much fun out in nature, over the raumati, as we did. Ms Everitt visited Zoolandia and Mrs Daniel saw tuatara and orca in the wild.

Look out for our upcoming Seaweek Competition and check out the finishing touches on the Lizard Lounge. See you soon tamariki ma.

Rooms 14 & 21 Mulch Our Lizard Lounge

 After we had learned about types of energy and how it transforms, Rooms 14 & 21 mulched the Lizard Lounge.  The mulch will trap in the moisture and feed the lizard-friendly plants.

Next time we have EfS we will be looking at how New Zealand generates electrical energy sustainably.

Lizard Lounge continues its Journey

 

Last year our Year Fives began wondering about how we could create a place for lizards to live in our school environment.  We researched, listened to a guest speaker and planned out our lizard gardens.  Next we presented our ideas to Ms Von and Mr Dowden.  They agreed to fund the project!

Since then Mr Dowden has boxed up the area and laid weed mat.  We've also collected large logs from around the suburb.  Mrs Murray has made ceramic lizard houses.  

Today the Eco Warriors planted native bushes in the area that Mrs Daniel and Ms Everitt bought in the weekend..  It was muddy good fun. So our lizards have places to live and thingsto eat, we planted cordylines banksi, springy mounds, pohuehue & spreading manuka.

Next we'll spread mulch in the area and lay out the ceramic houses ready for our new lizard friends to move in.

🦎 Sharing Our Lizard Lounge Learning

 

Our Year 5's shared their Lizard Lounge plans with Ms Von, Charlie Dog & Mr Dowden & . They agreed to go ahead with this work. Hooray!

Mrs Murray is going lead a specialist art group to help enhance the area too.

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

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.