Animal Adaptations

We had a great trip to the Auckland Zoo.

We are learning about animal adaptations - the way animals are suited to their environments.
Frazier, the zoo teacher told us about alligators and crocodiles, Galapagos Tortoises, lemurs, and how they are suited to the places where they live.

We got to touch a real snake-skin that was nearly three meters long.

Zoo Trip on PhotoPeach

Making Our Trash To Fashion Items

Today our class was a massive workroom with creativity and 'making' happening everywhere.


Making Our Fashion on PhotoPeach

Shocking!

This week we had a visit from Vector, the lines company. Esther gave a fun talk and helped us to learn lots of information about how to keep safe and identify electrical hazards.

Matariki

Come and check out our Matariki display in the classroom.

Max's Design

Max designed a new uniform for the American Soccer Team for the Olympics. Check out his colours and attention to detail!

Nutrition

Today Jenny Robb, a dietician talked to some Middle School classes about nutrition and food labels on a range of breakfast cereals.
The students read the nutrition labels and looked at how much sugar is in each type of cereal. They then grouped the cereals by how much sugar was in each.  We learned that rolled oats and Weet-bix are the recommended cereals because they have very little sugar.

Where are we?

We are learning about basic NZ geography in our class.  One way of testing how well we know about NZ is this group activity of putting place names on a map. Ask your child about it.

Nature Walk

Last week Mrs Grant took the class on a walk to the nature trail. We saw some interesting sights. There were bugs, insects, seeds and more.

Nature Walk on PhotoPeach

The Water Cycle

This is my favourite water cycle song.  Yes. I have a favourite one.

The Water Cycle

We are starting to look at WATER for our Topic work.
Here is a repetitive but catchy song with some of the key vocabulary to do with the water cycle.