Beehive Glow Up

 

Making our beehives more colourful, was a suggestion from our 2022 GreenGold Reflection and today it became a reality.  Mrs Daniel and the Eco Group glued on the wooden flowers that Year 5 painted last year.  Just in time for the Jubilee celebrations!

Travelwise with Year Fives

 Year Five are learning about the benefits of active travel. We downloaded a digital workbook and completed a pretest. Next we worked together to complete a giant jigsaw puzzle. Check out the time-lapse of Room1:

We made a competition by timing it. And the winners are:

Room 3 6:19

Room 2 6:25

Room 1 9:36

Lastly we placed green flags on environmental benefits and yellow flags on physical benefits. 

Next week we'll learn how to travel safely. 

Eco Group Celebrate Eye On Nature & Reflect

 Today the Eco Group celebrated a successful trip to 'Eye on Nature' .  We started by unboxing the goodies that the Manukau Beautification Trust gifted us when we left.

Wow there were gloves, compost, seeds, booklets and so many resources full of ideas so we can take action to help te taiao. 

We reflected on what we learnt on our trip with Auckland Museum, Beez Things, Auckland Council and Conservation Volunteers:

Evie "I learnt how the eels are becoming extinct because of the dams and how some people are putting rivers around the dams"

Taryn "We learnt about plants that native and that you can nibble on for a snack"

Louisa "I learnt that waka's are made of trees that 100's of years old"

Vinuka "I learnt about the eels life cycles"

Hunter "I learnt how to play instruments with just nature"

Blake "I learnt about long fin and short fin eels"

Toby "I learnt that there's one type of native eel - longfin"

Alexander "I learnt what its like to have a bee suit on"

Evie "We learnt about the Maori Gods and beginning of the world"

What actions could we take inspired by our day?

Vinuka "Pull weeds and catch pests"

Evie "We could write letters to people with the dams and make posters and videos to try and make a difference"

Alexander "Go to a science lab and make something to kill varoa mites"

Alexander "Make Sunnyhills candles"

Toby "Make medicine with propolis to cure cancer"

Olivia "We could make beeswax wraps and have a shop at the Howick markets"

Evie "We could protest"

Taryn "We could kill the wasps"

What amazing ideas! Next week we can use the beeswax from our Beez Things hives to make beeswax wraps. That will help us bring litter free lunches.

Thank you Manukau Beautification Trust and sponsors! 

Eco Group at 'Eye On Nature'

 Today, the Eco Group had a extraordinary day out at the Eye On Nature Event held by the Manukau Beautification Trust at the Botanic Gardens.

We took part in four activities throughout the day hosted by Auckland Museum, Beez Things. Auckland City Council Parks and Conservation Volunteers. It was a wonderful opportunity to connect with experts and learn how we can promote our own well being and the well being of the environment.

The activities included making musical instruments, exploring a glass beehive, finding Edible native plants and testing the health of freshwater streams. All the hosts were impressed with Sunnyhills tamariki's enthusiasm and knowledge.

Thank you Manukau Beautification Trust and all the sponsors for this opportunity! Nga mihi nui to our parent / caregiver volunteers!

Year Five Mahi in the Mara

 
Today, Year Five learnt about how they can earn cash and win prizes while helping our environment in the annual Moth Plant Competition. 

Then they put in a massive effort in our Mara Kai, weeding and harvesting. 

Awesome team work Year Five! Nga mihi nui! 

Year Four Weed Busters

 Today, Year Four learnt about the dangers of pest plants that have been introduced to Aotearoa.  We discovered weeds are plants in the wrong place and pest plants threaten our native flora and fauna.

We can take action by entering the Moth Plant Competition:

We love hands on learning and helping our kura, so we ended our lesson with a big weeding session to tidy our school for the upcoming 55th Jubilee.  Well done Year 4 what wonderful team work!!