Singing

Here we are practising our waiata for assembly this week "Tai Aroha". We have been practising for a long time and hope that you are able to come and watch us on Friday.

ICT Afternoon Group

In the ICT afternoon group, we have been exploring different apps on the iPad. Today we used imovie, imovie trailer and pic collage to display our collaborative group work.

Our disaster posters: As a group, we had to think of a disaster and how we would escape from that place. We had to think about objects that we might need.

This is what we came up with...

 

Maori legend art

The Environment Group

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

have troubled our poor mother earth.

Giving and following directions

Created using Pic Collage. http://pic-collage.com

Sent from my iPad

Storyboards

Gardening Groups

This week in our Tuesday afternoon gardening groups we planted some plants in the garden boxes. We planted basil, mint, peas and some beans.
We also researched some edible plants to find out what plants suit what climates and what is the best time of the year to plant them.