Wonderful wetas

Room 12 have been looking at the little animals that live in our backyard 🐝🐞🦗🕸🐜🦋

Today we went on a weta hunt.

We found one baby boy in the Kea weta hotel and one grown up female in the cabbage trees. Do you know the difference between the boys and girls? Ask a Room 12 learner to tell you 🙂

Our weta are special. We look after them.

Twins and Triplets Day for Walking To School Week

Funky Hair Day - walking To School Week

Get Hooked on Nature - Our Design Technology Project

Ben Klasky's TED talk inspired our Year 5 & 6's to come up with a solution to the question "How might we encourage kids to get hooked on nature"

The results have been awesome! Our Year 5 & 6's problem solved in teams and incorporated lots of technology in their solutions. Projects included card games, scavenger hunts, videos, food stalls, eco classroom designs, raps and web sites.

Below is a video about Auralie & Holly's Bugstagram website:

Find more examples of our projects by searching for "Get Hooked on Nature" on Youtube

Dissecting Kutai

Today Going Gold dissected kutai (greenlipped mussels), as part of our prep for the Marine Metre Square Project.

Did you know the Hauraki Gulf used to be completely covered with mussels that filtered the water clear? Unfortunately humans stripped all the mussel beds destroying ecosystems and leaving the water murky. We wondered what could be done to fix this.

It was so fun to dissect the kutai and identitfy the parts. A mussel dinner will never be the same again! Did you know they have a foot? And the beardy bits are actually called byssal threads? They're the part that attaches the mussel to the rocks.

We found some surprise crabs in our mussels and did further research about them. They're called pea crabs. They use that mussel as a place to live and eat its food. Some of the crabs had eggs.

Valentina said its the most fun thing she's done in Enviro so far.

We wonder if we'll find mussels on our MM2 field trip ...

Room 19 & 18 Eat a Rainbow

Today we foraged in our edible gardens to create delicious salads. Look how colourful they are!

Eating a rainbow of fruit and veges everyday is an easy way to get a variety of vitamins and minerals our bodies need to learn and grow. And they taste great too!

Can you identify some of our salad ingredients? Comment below!

Room Tekau Ma Tahi Create Weta Wonderlands

Room 11 have been researching wetas. They have created hotels for them with the materials left by one of our knowledgeable Greengold Reflection guests. Let's hope they protect our tree weta buddies!

Stay tuned to see if we get any guests.