Room 14 investigated how bees make hoeny today. We started our lesson by trying the honey and writing about it. Next we followed a Mystery Science online lesson and created a flow chart to show the steps bees take to make honey.
Lastly, we went to visit the native beehives and planted flower seeds to feed the bees.
Today Room 11 found out about pests that like to eat our crunchy cabbages in the mara kai. We saw holes in the cabbage leaves but the snails were hiding. We picked three cabbages and ate them.
Archer "It tasted plain. It was green."
Ruby "It kind of tastes oniony."
Sophia "WE ate the cabbage. We found the cabbage in the garden. It tastes like onion. I hate onion"
Mila "The cabbage tasted a bit peppery."
Azara "The cabbage smelled a bit weird but I still liked it".
Kacy "Today at enviro we were learning about growing cabbage. It tasted a bit peppery. I ate nine pieces. I love it!"
Kate "Today we ate some cabbage and I love it."
Leo "My cabbage didn't really have a smell."
Theo "The cabbages were yummy."
Kenny "I like to eat cabbages"
Valentin "We learnt how to plant some peas. They like to grow up sticks and string so Mrs Daniel put some stuff for the peas to grow.
We also spread compost and planted peas.
Next time we see Mrs Daniel we will see if our pea plants are growing.
Today we learnt about Aotearoa's special kawakawa plant. It has many uses including making a healthy tea. We tried the tea with Sunny Honey.
After lunch we explored the mara kai and learnt about the amazing world history of tea. Did you know it was first drunk in China?
Next time we see Mrs Daniel we're going to create our own herb teas.
Today K2 launched into our learning by exploring biodiversity and the carbon cycle with KNZB Climate Ready Classrooms. We discovered human action is unbalancing the carbon cycle and played a fun game to explore the importance of biodiversity.
Next we investigated the Greenhouse Effect and Carbon Footprints. We used https://www.futurefit.nz/questionnaire to work our our carbon footprints. The average foot print was 8.4947. International travel effects our footprint the most.
We discovered we can offset by eating less meat, have an electric car or use public transport or walk, compost, less long haul travel, and being careful with energy use.
Learning about climate change can be a bit sad so we talked about things we do to cheer ourselves up like walks, reading, playing sport, gardening and being with friends.
Lastly we focussed on the actions we can take to reduce our footprint and broke into groups to see how we could encourge this action in our community. Some ideas included writing a Kahoot, creating posters, writng a picturebook, a Scratch game, a boards game and a video.
After morning tea we helped to offset our carbon footprint by planting native hebes. Their flowers will feed our bees too.
Room 19 spent a little more time inside than expected today, because of the fire in South Auckland. We learnt about pest insects in our Mara Kai, drew our 5+A Day mascot, Fredge and made playdough snails.
We're investigating herbs & spices and their uses. First we tried some fresh tomato and basil soup, all grown in our own school gardens. Next we broke into groups for a hands on senses quiz.
We ended our lesson by a quick kahoot to review and weeding the Edible Gardens.
