Sharing Lockdown Learning & Art Competition for All - Bee Aware Month

 

Here's something for all my creative eco warriors at home: 

You might like to enter the Bee Aware Month Kids' Art Competition. It's open for kids aged 3 to 13 and the 12 winning entries will feature in a special Bee Aware Month calendar!

Entry forms can be found here: https://bit.ly/2W6UORw

All entries need to be in by 30 September 2021. Winners also receive some awesome prizes supplied by Arataki Honey Visitor Centre Hawke's Bay Awapuni Nurseries Environmental Protection Authority NZ Egmont Honey Apiculture New Zealand

Good luck!

Lockdown Learning: Check out Amelia & Lithara excellent research on hydro electricity as part of our Sustainable Energy enquiry:

 

What delicious things can you make from your Mara Kai?

 

This home learning is aimed at Kauri Whanau, but all our GEMs are welcome to try creating something delicious from your garden. This is my garden pesto and citrus fizz:

Looking forward to seeing your creations, Mrs Daniel

Watch this video to see how to make green garden pesto: 

Update - Well done Sienna - she made a leaf salad soup... apparently it was disgusting. 😄LOL.  I do like the flower garnish.  Thanks for sharing and keep playing in nature.

Year Four Distance Learning - Tea Time

 

Kia ora Team Wha,

Just because we're learning from home doesn't mean we have to stop investigating the wonderful world of tea.  Click on the image above to find out more!

Look forward to hearing about your tea paintings and homemade herbal tea.

Ka kite,

Mrs Daniel

christined@sunnyhills.school.nz

Litter Less - A Distance Learning Lesson with Mrs Daniel

 

Kia ora koutou,

I hope you're all managing to get outside and enjoy nature.  Have you noticed any signs of spring?  I have sparrows building a nest in my camellia tree and mini daffodils in the garden.

Above is a lesson on litter. Do you remember Kiki Kiwi? There's a two stories, an online game and a litter hunt challenge.  I hope you enjoy it and let me know how you get on by emailing christined@sunnyhill.school.nz

Keep safe & have fun,

Mrs Daniel

Litter Less Lesson

Distance Learning in Mrs Daniel's Virtual Classroom

 

Kia ora koutou, 

Hoping your time at home is peaceful and you have a chance to get outside and enjoy nature.  Click on the image above to enter my Sustainability Virtual Classroom of awesomeness.  All the pictures link to different activities, videos and challenges, so have fun exploring.  

As always, I'd love to hear about what you've been up to.  You can email me - christined@sunnyhills.school.nz

Be kind, stay safe & have fun,

Mrs Daniel

UPDATE:

Check back here to see GEMS' home learning:

WELL DONE AVA for her card to give to special guests along with a gift of our very on kawakawa balm:

Rongoa - Making Kawakawa Balm

 Year Four have been exploring uses for our herbs and plants.  We've made kawakawa tea and now we're making kawakawa balm.  This is a traditional Maori rongoa (medicinal practice).

Kawakawa Balm

Ingredients

2 cups olive oil

2 handfuls of kawakawa leaves

120grams bees wax

Equipment

pot            stove top        grater        sieve        wooden spoon

measuring jug                  

small glass jars with lids

1. Soak the kawakawa leaves in the olive oil for at least 24 hours.

2. Measure your beeswax and grate.  We're very lucky to have our own Sunnyhills beeswax

3. Warm the olive oil and kawakawa leaves.  Do not boil. 

4. Melt the beeswax into the olive oil.

5. Sieve the leaves out.

6. Pour into glass jars.  Allow to cool before putting lids on.

 Kawakawa stimulates blood supply to underlying tissues, helps aching muscles, relaxes cramps, decreases swelling, has a mild anesthetic effect and is antibacterial. Kawakawa is naturally comforting.  

Use kawakawa balm on rashes, cuts, scrapes, dry skin or as a lip balm.

Find out more by watching this episode of Whanau Living:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS7ZZhxjM9E 

Te Taonga nei te Kumara

 To end our Matariki time we read "Te Taonga nei te Kumara" and then we dug up the kumara in our Edible Gardens. It was like finding treasure! 

Next week we're looking forward to taste testing the kumara. We'll also turn our compost piles and use the compost that's ready to feed the empty kumara beds - i wonder what we can plant next?

We knew our kumara were ready to dig up because the leaves had turned kowhai yellow.

We all took turns to dig.

🐝 Working Bee to Prep our Grounds for Planting 🌳

 

Sugar snap pea pods & Chinese mustard greens

 Today Year Tahi learnt about eating in season, that way we get a fresh variety of local fruit and veges that cost less.

We ate sugar snap pea pods and spicy Chinese mustard greens from our gardens.