Rooms 1 & 2 Eat a Rainbow

 

Today Rooms 1 & 2 were learning about "Eating a Rainbow" in Education for Sustainability with Ms Daniel.  We fueled up with water and fresh oranges from Ms Everitt's tree, then played master tag. We learnt with Fredge and 5+ Aday that our bodies needs lots of water and five serves of different coloured fruits and vegetables everyday, so we have energy to move and learn.

We brainstormed all the different coloured kai we knew and compared to Milo the Monster's suggestions. Afterwards we created our own rainbows of fruits and veggies and tried roast purple kumara from the school gardens.

Elliot "The liked the crunchy bit on the kumara"

Hazel "The kumara was a bit tough"

Eden "It was mushy and squishy"

Avy "It was yum. I liked the organges too.  I enjoyed playing master tag."

Melissa "The kumara was so good.  It was my first time trying it."

Luna  "The kumara was sticky."

Caden "The kumara was so sweet."

Kasonoi "It was my first time trying kumara.  It tastes like chips."

Mia "It smells like fries."

"Kumara is yum!" Lachie

Next time we are going to learn about why the compost is so important for growing our kai.

Year 3 Where do all the leaves go?

 Today, Year 3 began their EfS lesson by playing in the leaves by the Junior Playground.  

We wondered what happens to all the leaves that fall off the trees ...

Harshveer: "The fungus, bacteria and invertebrates destroy them"

"Mr Dowden rakes them up." James

"The wind blows them away." Robin

Alice: "I think they might go into the soil."

Nixon: "Maybe they stay there."

Lilly-Rose: "I think they get blown away."

Emilia: "I think the FBI eat them."

We took part in a Mystery Science lesson and created a paper model to investigate how the leaves seem to disappear over time.

What did we discover?

"Worms and invertebrates eat the leaves up" Hala

"When you leave stuff too long, it gets mouldy" James

Otis: "Decomposers break up the leaves."

Rungsheg: " Fungi, the mushrooms."

Advika: " Bacteria."

Dylan: "The worms."

Afterwards, we observed the FBI at work and helped to feed our trees by spreading mulch.

                                                 

Year 3 Investigate the Gross World of the FBI

 Today, Year 3 learnt about the incredibly important, but gross job that fungus, bacteria and invertebrates (FBI) do for our world.

Akhi "They make compost"

Ibaad "They make compost out of food scraps".

"Bugs  are super heroes because they turn dead stuff into soil." Robin

We talked about how all our food comes from the soil, so we need the FBI to keep turning dead stuff and scraps into nutrients for our soil.  

We went on a discovery walk to see where we could see evidence of the FBI at work.

Alex "I saw a rotten banana peel in the worm farm."

"I saw black mushrooms in the native bush walk growing on a tree."

"I saw a orange mushrooms and a worm." Robin

"I saw red fungus" Hala

"We saw the stink horns and when they grow they die a  few days later. They have red tentacles and they have black inside.  They smell stinky." James

"I saw a rotten log" Kaida

Back at the classroom we did some more research on the amazing red stinkhorn fungus we found.  Did you know the reason they stink is that they attract flies to spread their spores?

Afterwards we dug in our Mara Kai to see invertebrates and to see if there were any kumara left.

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Year 2's Honey Helpers

Today, Year 2 began their lesson by revisiting  our learning so far:

- life cycle, 

- parts of a bee 

- and how bees make honey.

We completed a cut-and-paste to review how bees make honey.

Then we were able to taste some of our very own Waka Bee Honey!

Grayson: "I think my honey was from a rose bush."

Ronica: "It was such a treat because it was yummy!"

Remi: "It tastes like a dandelion."

Leo:  "It tasted yum!" 

Liam: "The honey was sugary."

Sophia:  "I had a lot of honey."

Mackenzie: " My one was like it was from a white rose."

Zoe:  "The honey was really sticky."

Daniel:  "I felt my honey was from a sunflower."

Richie: "Me too!"

Grace: "The honey was sweet and yummy."

Bianca:  "It was very lumpy, but it was good.x"

Liam:  "The honey was so yummy, I finished it all, now I am ready for another."

Yenuth: "It is golden yellow."

Olive: "It smells sticky."

Sasmi: " It smells like a flower."

Jehan: " It is a bit grainy on my tongue."

Ian: "It tastes like real honey!"

Jacob: "It is golden, and it tastes like very good honey."

Erin: " It tastes sugary and sweet."

Afterwards, we toured our gardens and bee hives.  We observed all the flowers and the bees covered in pollen returning to the hive.  Luckily, there are lots of camellia flowers out for our bees to eat.  Please don't pick them!

Year 2 Learn about the Parts of a Bee

 First, we revisited our learning about the bee life cycle. Then we went on a walk to check out how our bees are doing. As it is winter, the bees are not as active at the moment. 

Next, we walked around to see if there were flowers on our trees for our bees. We found some, but not enough. Flowers are very important for our bees.

Room 11 saw 5 different types of flowers in the Mara Kai for our bees.  They need variety in their diet.

Do you know that without the bees, 1/3 of our fruit and vegetables would not exist?

We had a taste of the mandarins from Ms Everitt's tree...

Mackenzi: Ï didn't have a pip in mine!"

Eva: "I only had one pip."

Cern: "It is sooooooo sweet."

Greyson: "It tasted a bit sour, but inside it was sweet."

Daniel: The mandarin smelled really good."

Zara: "The mandarin smelled a little bit sour."

Richie: "I had 2 pips in my Mandarin, and I swallowed them both!"

Thank you Bees, for the Mandarins!

Then we labelled the parts of the bee and drew our own bees.

Lastly, we played a fun dice game to race to create our own bee with all the body parts.

Next time, we're looking forward to learning about how bees make honey.