Year Four Dive into the Hauraki Gulf

Today Year Four began an inquiry into the beautiful marine park on our doorstep - The Hauraki Gulf. 

To begin we watched an awesome video by the Young Ocean Explorers: https://www.youngoceanexplorers.com/yoe/video/996166153015#cplayer Which animals did you see?

Hunter "I saw sharks, jellyfish & big whales"

Constance "I saw octopus, dolphins and orca"

Ella "I saw a crayfish"

Aliana "I saw a fish"

Camelia "I saw a marlin, a bottle nose dolphin and a sea turtle"

Jasper "I saw a manta ray"

Georgia "I saw a lobster and a stingray"

Ciara "I saw a black pertrel, a gannet and a whale"

Harvey "bronze whaler shark"

We located the marine park on a map and where Sunnyhills is located as well.

Next  we researched the English meaning of some of the place names:

Quinn & Zoey - Whangaparoa means bay of whales

Eloise - Whangamata means bay of hard stone.

Payton - Waiwera means hot water

Allan - Aotea means white cloud

Alsonso - Rangitoto means bloody sky

Waiheki means trickling water - Milana & Jessica

Flynn - Motutapu means sacred island

Hauraki means North Wind - Edwin

Afterwards we read a KCC Magazine all about the wetlands found in the Hauraki Gulf and did a Kahoot Quiz to test our comprehension.

Lastly we thought about how we can protect the marine park. Plastic litter is a big issue and we can help by bringing a litter free lunch.  The children with litter free lunches went into a prize draw for Paradice vouchers.

Well done to the winners:

Room 6 Zoey & Max - 14 tamariki had litterfree lunches  WELL DONE for the most litterfree lunches in the year group

Room 5 Harvey & Camelia - 12 litterfree lunches. 

Room 4 Anderson & Vivaan - 13 litterfree lunches

ROOM5 collected a WHOLE BUCKET of litter in just 10 minutes.  Almost all of it was from lunchboxes :(

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