A great day for Gardening

It was a sunny afternoon so we decided to make the most of the day and head out to the school garden. We fertilised plants, tuned the compost bins, weeded and tidied the garden shed and propagation tunnel. It was lovely to get a couple of hours in to make the place look spick and span again. 

As we are an Enviro school we love learning in our environment. It is a chance to learn hands on tasks that we can use at home. Gardening is such a satisfying activity.

  

Piwakawaka Calendar Art

This term we have been learning about Notan art. Notan is a Japanese art form, that balances poitive and negative space. There is no wasted paper because you use both the pieces of paper either as the positive image or the reflection.We completed our art works for the school fundraiser. Should our school community wish to buy a calendar , notebook or mousepad it is printed with our art work on it. The school gets a percentage of the sales. We hope you enjoy looking at our art.

Crawl Fish Stream

On Tuesday we went on a class visit to Crawl Fish Stream. Our class was investigating the health of the water in this location. We tested many aspects of the waterway to establish its health. We looked at the temperature of the water, flow rates, invertebrate populations present and periphytons in the waterway. We measured the water flow in the stream, stream bed composition, and water depth. All of the aspects were considered before we could pass a judgement on the stream health. The class undertook this activities because we got a School Kit from Dairy NZ. We chose Crawl Fish Stream because it was within walking distance of the school so we can repeat our visit at different times of the year to monitor the health of the waterway. Our favourite activity was racing the orange downstream and timing it between two points to work out the flow rate of the water. There was an awful lot of maths involved in our investigation.

Football Fun with Matt

Today Matt gave student is Piwakawaka a chance to show off their football skills. As well as drills we has us the opportunity to play a game. Matt is from the Football Association and he is promoting football as a sport for Westland children. Piwakawaka really enjoyed the drills and loved the game. Matt was impressed with the skills on display. Awesome effort Piwakawaka.

Junk 2 Funk Costume making

For Junk to Funk me Renny, Lucy, Olivia and Xanthe are making a super virus. It is made out of boxes any rolls, egg cartons  and tape. we glued it together with a hot glue gun.  It is fun because it is my first time using a hot glue gun.  We took turns using the hot glue gun. We did it at Renny's house in the shed. We had 2 packets of chips and we ate them all. My favourite thing was using the hot glue gun.

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Posted By Sofia to Sofia @ Kaniere School on 7/29/2020 12:36:00 pm