From Moo to You - Farm Visit

Last week the junior school was lucky enough to have a look around the Shore's farm. The children were able to see the process from 'Moo to You' first hand! A huge thank you to Mark Shore who was a fantastic host! Also a big thank you to the parent helpers who made this trip possible. 

Anzac Art

At the end of last term we talked a lot about Anzac Day and what it means to different people. We then created some art. Each piece of art is showing poppies in a different way. 

Alfie's, Max's and Bella's art 

Toby's, Melania's and Henry's art

Jayden's, Lucy's and Riley's art 

William's, Addi's and Isabel's art 

Jack's, Elia's, Brooke's and MarkThomas's art 

Nathan's, Marco's and Elliot's art 

George's art

Light the way.

For our tuning in session we experimented with light. In these photos we were seeing what happens when you poor water in a glass that is placed on top of a counter. To our amazement the counter disappeared!! We then learnt that this is called refraction. 

Dioramas

We have been working so hard finishing our dioramas of our habitats.  We have written reports about our habitats. Make sure you check out our individual blogs to see all of our wok.

Mustelids!

Incase you haven't heard already, our poor chicks that we incubated were put outside because they were stinking up the classroom,  were killed. :(

Our chicks hatching from the incubator

Jonah the first chick hatching.

We have endeavoured on a journey to find out what killed our pets. We have done some research and think that it is probably something from the mustelid family. Our research can be found in the post below. We also discovered that these pests are wreaking havoc to our native bird population and have been doing a lot of reading about pests and our wildlife in class.


Yesterday, Nathan bought in some ink tracks from Gotcha Traps Ltd. We put them out with different baits.

Peanut butter lure

banana and honey lure

ink tunnel

tinfoil attracts stoats

chicken lure

When we checked the tracks this morning we were a bit disappointed with only finding one print. Hopefully we lure more in tonight. Here is the track:

See if you can figure out what left this track with the guide below:

What made these tracks?

Pests in New Zealand - a shared reading document produced by Manatu and Tawhai

We are learning how to make graphs

Netball is the most popular sport for girls.

Rugby is the most popular sport for boys.

Netball is played by most students.

No one plays rippa or soccer.