Science fun

Whilst we have Mrs Johnston, who is a science whiz, we are enjoying some science activities on Wednesday afternoons. 

Take a look at some of the things we have been doing!

In week one we found out about the properties of bubbles. We discovered:

This week we looked at different properties of a variety of liquids.

Privileged Learners

This has been an amazing week of learning opportunities. This week have had visitors from the Far North District Council come and share with us about pest plants. We are learning to be experts about the plants in our environment that cause harm to our native bush. We got to see and feel some and we know how they can be spread.



Next we had a visit from David. David is an author and a journalist. He shared with us about some of the things he has done as a writer, some of the places his writing and taken him and the times when he has realised how much power words have to change the world around us. We have been doing lots of learning about persuasive writing and the writing process. Thanks David for sharing how this looks in the world.

The Whitebait Connection - Wairoa Stream Trip

We have had so much fun learning about the importance of whitebait in helping us to evaluate the health of our waterways. Do you know what five species of whitebait are?

Isabel, Whitebait Connection, has been sharing with us the instruments, tools and processes involved in testing the health of our local stream. 

Our trip to the stream was great. We had a little precipitation but we were prepared to be a little wet so that was all good.

Water, water everywhere!

Wow, so many things happened in Week 5 and now we are ready to race into a new week!

Zeb has returned from his trip and has received his first ever learning certificate. Well done Zeb! Thankfully Zanthea was able to be with him for much of the trip so I'm sure that he felt well looked after. Take a look at what he thought of the trip in his daily diary!

On Friday we had our first disco for the year with a nautical theme. Thanks to all who supported the fundraising efforts of our Year 5 and 6 students who will be closer to meeting their camp fundraising goal. Some amazing costumes.

This week our year 4 students are heading across to Kerikeri High School pool for their swimming sports on Tuesday. We know there are some nervous and some excited young swimmers. We wish them all well.

Zanthea and Zeb brought back a song about looking after the terehu. Here are the videos to help us learn the actions and tune. We're going to spend some time in class learning this song and the actions to present at an assembly! Maybe you could learn them too!

Learn a terehu waiata from LEARNZ on Vimeo.
Aroha nga terehu from LEARNZ on Vimeo.