Year Five Rangatira

 Today, Year Five showed our rangatiratanga by sharing our Travelwise learning with the Year One's and helping to get our kura ready for the open day.  Mahi pai!

Year Three - Dirt Made My Lunch

 

Year Three are learning about the FBI - fungus, bacteria and invertabrates.  Our super hero clean up crew.

What is fungus? 

Aiden "Mushrooms are fungus"

Vincent "Like mushrooms that grow on things like old wood and rotten things in the ground"

Edison "They spread nutrients to the trees"

What is bacteria?

Amelia "Some bacteria is not bad"

"Bacteria can easily spread"

What are invertebrates? 

Don't have a back bone.

Kaylee "Like a crab"

Ananya "A snail"

Aila "A worm"

We saw the FBI breaking down food.  GROSS! So why are they so important? They break down dead things and return the nutirents into the soil.  Without them we would have no kai!

How did dirt/soil make our lunch?

Koen "My potato chips are from the ground because potatoes grow in the ground"

Today Year 3 learnt about the FBI - fungus, bacteria and invertaebrates.  We watched them break down fruit.  GROSS. So why are they so important to life on earth?

Brylee "They help plants grow because they eat the dead stuff and make it into soil so plants can grow"

And alllll our food come from plants grown in good soil.

We investigated our lunchboxes to see how all our kai came from the soil.

Chace " My chocolate cookie is from the ground because the cocoa beans grow in the ground and the flour is from wheat that grows in the ground"

Lucas "The sugar is from sugar cane that grows in the ground"

"Pepper comes from the soil becasue it's peppercorns"

"My oranges are from soil" David

Even things we thought were not from the ground like Yukult we realised still needs nutrient rich soil as it's made from milk from cows and cows eat grass that grows in the ground. We thought about honey too ...bees drink nectar from flowers that have grown in the ground.

We went to the school composters to see the FBI at work. Then we picked an ate a cabbage grown with the soil we made from food scraps. Yum. Thanks fungus, bacteria and invertebrates. 

Next time we're going to feed our Mara Kai with compost ready for spring planting. 

Year Six Estuary Habitat Dioramas

 

Year Six got arty today to share what we had learnt about the different habitats that make up our estuary environment.

The estuary has six different habitats:

Mud flat

Mangrove

Shallow/Deep water 

Seagrass Meadow

Sandy Shore

Year Four Sea Heroes

 

Today Year Four used their powers of persuasion and literacty skills to create postcards for Prime Minister Christopher Luxon.  We wanted to share our learning about the moana and our hopes for the future.  

Ms Daniel is going to send our postcards to The Young Ocean Explorers so they can present them to parliament in September.