Hot Compost with the Carbon Cycle Company

Thanks to a very generous Mana Ora Youth Resilience Fund Grant, today we were able to get HOT COMPOSTERS from The Carbon Cycle Company.

Tim and Rodrigo came to help the Eco Warriors build the composters and to tell us more about how composting works.

Everyone worked hard even in the rain to level the metal frames and slide in the wooden sides. Next we layered up brown mulch with green scraps to form our first compost starter.

ALL food waste can go in these very special composters.  HOORAY!

Watch this video to see how our system will run:

Photos with the Eco Warriors:

 

Pekapeka with Year 5 & 6

 Today Year Six started a new mystery topic.  We learnt that when scientists classify animals it is called taxonomy. We began by studying the similarities between a mystery skeleton and a human skeleton.

Did you know that all animals can be separated into two groups - vertebrates and invertebrates?

We could see a backbone so the mystery animals was a vertebrate.

We discovered the mystery skeleton was a bat.  We're going to study them because Peter and Zahara from Pestfree Howick said they live close by. We want to know how to protect this unique species.

"A species is a group of organisms that can reproduce and have off spring that can reproduce" 

What did we find out?

"Bats are the only mammals that can fly" 

"They use echo location to hunt" - we played a game to show how this works.

"Bats have similar bones to humans" 

 "All species have latin names."

Room 18 had time to do a crossword too.

What did we learn from the article and interview?

Cairo "A senior scientist's nick name is Bat Man"

"NZ bats are endangered" Payton

Max "There are bat flies that live on the back on the bats and eat their poop"

Zimon "Some bats live in Fjord land and Milford Sound" 

"The short tailed bat pollinates the wood rose" Andrew

We watched, read, played a fitness game and reviewed with a Kahoot. Next time we're looking forward to taking action to protect our unique bats.

Room 18 had time to do a crossword too.

Year 5 think about how to share their knowledge over 2 sessions

 We brainstormed ways to share what we learned in our Travelwise Ready, Steady Go learning.

We are going to create picture books to share what we have learnt about how active travel helps the environment and our bodies, and how to be safe when we're getting to school.

It was great fun folding up our mini books and using our creative skills.

Lastly, we shared our knowledge with classrooms 1 and 10.