Maritime Museum Trip

Stick Insects

We are learning about Stick Insects. 

We used bullet points and key words to help us take notes for our writing.

Curtis + Sefa - " When Stick insects are in danger they fall on the ground and play dead" 

Hayley- "They can lay 1, 500 eggs" 

Malia- "They can blend into trees, this is called camouflage" 

Aaliyah- "They like to eat leaves" 

Fonterra Milk Folding

We have learnt how to properly fold our milk cartoons. Folding our milk cartoons like this means that they are able to be recycled more efficiently. 

The milk cartoons are sent to Thailand to be recycled into roof tiles and books for school children!

Little Gardens

For our Environmental Art Room 9 is planting  a vegetable and herb garden in colourful tyres . Yesterday we all got to put together a new world little garden. Miss Spies gave us each an extra one  to take home and make with our whanau. We are learning about the life cycle of a plant and will be watching them sprout and grow in the next few days and weeks. Pop into Room 9 to check them out! 

The Impossible Bridge

Today we read "The Impossible Bridge". It was about a class of children who tried to make a bridge from one table to another table. This inspired us to give it a go. We started by talking about what an engineer is- We learnt that engineers design materials, structures and systems. So we thought we could be engineers for the day and design and build a bridge (structure). We got into small groups and used sticks, wool, straws, sellotape  and cardboard.  Mr Williams came in and judged our bridges, the criteria was how strong, stable and safe our bridges were. The winners scored a whooping 30/30 and had amyleigh, Wali, Runnna-mya, Mereka, Allena, and Wiremu in the group!

Ka Pai to all our fantastic engineers today!! :) 

Ask us about different kinds of bridges!! 

The Impossible Bridge