"Hmmmmmmmmm I'm not so sure about George. I saw him drop some lunch wrappings and do you know what.........he didn't put them in his lunchbox and take them home! I think you need to teach George about doing the right thing!! But- you know he can make a mistake........and then fix it and move on.....that's fine. Have a word with him though please!" Jude George felt very sorry and decided to collect rubbish around the school. Please make sure that rubbish goes back into your lunch box as we are a rubbish free school.
We are learning about debates and as part of our inquiry, we want to find out about the environment. Our inquiry is called, "who should look after the environment". So far we have made brainstorms. We think that everyone should look after the environment.
Yesterday, we did Google Hangout with Room 10 at Kelburn school. They are near Zealandia. They are very lucky because they see lots of native birds such as kaka, tuis, sparrows, kereru and they even saw a shag fly over the other day. They are also interested in the environment and want to trap pesky rats and other pests. They talked about smart rats who managed to dodge the traps. They are designing different traps that will attract the rats.
We also found out that Mahutonga have also been setting traps for the rats down the bank. The rats are not going for the food in the traps as they don't feel comfortable enough to eat there.
By Lizzie, Max, Ben, Mateo, Jan, Finlay, Izar, Liam, Zach and Theo B
Enviromment by Theo B
Care for the environment, oh please please please,
our future depends on us, it realy does please.
it’s for me, it’s for you
it’s for everyone on the globe
let’s keep our earth clean and very bright green
just care for it it’s now a big deal
if we did look after it a few years ago this would not
This week in sustainability we have been finding out about water. Water is important because it helps plants grow and they would die without it. You can set up a watering system at home by using a plastic bottle to put in the ground next to the plants and drip feeding them. You can also put a timer onto your garden hose so that you don't waste water. We found out that the Maori word for water is wai.
We are taking part in the What's for Lunch Gardening program which provides us with great reading and activities around the gardens. You will remember that we did the sustainability program in term 2 and each week we learned about a new resource and how we can manage it. The site is interactive and now accessible at home.
Go to:
http://www.whatsforlunch.co.nz/wp-login.php?redirect_to=index.php
Worser Bay School Pupil Login
Username: WorserBaySchool Password: tomato
And access the interactive story, hands on activities and other follow up activities.
In the middle of last term we went to the tip to explore what's in our backyard and inspire some ways we can help to maintain our wider backyard. Here is a presentation to show what we learned and some of the ways it made us feel. We are now in charge of the reducing, reusing and recycling of the school.
We have enrolled in the sustainability unit of the What's For Lunch programme. Every week we will be learning about a different resource and how we can be sustainable with this resource. We will be doing science experiments around each resource and have follow up readings. This week the resource is water. One of the coolest things we learned is that some of the water we have today was around when the dinosaurs were around!
"Hmmmmmmmmm I'm not so sure about George. I saw him drop some lunch wrappings and do you know what.........he didn't put them in his lunchbox and take them home! I think you need to teach George about doing the right thing!! But- you know he can make a mistake........and then fix it and move on.....that's fine. Have a word with him though please!"
