Thursday 29 October 2015
Monday 26 October 2015
Super Learners in Room 3
This term in Room 3 we are learning about money. This is very important with our school gala happening this term.
We have big plans for the Gala and really want to keep our school pool open.
As well as preparing for Gala we have been doing our class chores and getting "paid". This has been teaching us all about working hard for money. Our money is fake money, but at the end of term we will have a Room 3 shop where we can buy things with our money.
Room 3 have been working extra hard to get their classroom jobs done, and are making sure it is a job well done so that they get their full pay. If they do half a job they get half their pay and if they don't do their job they don't get any pay. They have secret "banks" where they put their pay and they are very keen to count their money at the end of each day.
We have created our list of jobs as a class and these were pulled out of a hat to decide who was doing what. Some of the jobs are big responsibilities, such as using Miss D'Ath's keys to open the ipad cupboard, and to open the resource room for fruit. Room 3 tamariki have all stepped up to these responsibilities and at the end of the day are very proud of doing a job well.
We are all looking forward to our store at the end of the term. We will keep you posted about how it all goes.
Miss D'Ath and Room 3
We have big plans for the Gala and really want to keep our school pool open.
As well as preparing for Gala we have been doing our class chores and getting "paid". This has been teaching us all about working hard for money. Our money is fake money, but at the end of term we will have a Room 3 shop where we can buy things with our money.
Room 3 have been working extra hard to get their classroom jobs done, and are making sure it is a job well done so that they get their full pay. If they do half a job they get half their pay and if they don't do their job they don't get any pay. They have secret "banks" where they put their pay and they are very keen to count their money at the end of each day.
We have created our list of jobs as a class and these were pulled out of a hat to decide who was doing what. Some of the jobs are big responsibilities, such as using Miss D'Ath's keys to open the ipad cupboard, and to open the resource room for fruit. Room 3 tamariki have all stepped up to these responsibilities and at the end of the day are very proud of doing a job well.
We are all looking forward to our store at the end of the term. We will keep you posted about how it all goes.
Miss D'Ath and Room 3
Wednesday 14 October 2015
Envrio Schools Kai Moana Education
Today we had an amazing enviroschools trip.
It began with a trip down to Whangawehi where we met the Aurora, and their crayfish catch for the day. Rob and Selwyn where there to show us what they had caught for the day, and showed us how they loaded them onto the back of the truck.
From there they drove them around to Nanny Doi's house where they have special crayfish pools. These pools are where the crayfish stay before being trucked down to Wellington, and from there they fly out to China.
Once we had had a look at the crayfish in the pools, and asked Rob and Selwyn questions about the crayfish, we wandered around to the fishing club for lunch.
After lunch we had three different activities to head off and do. With Whaea Jenni we pretended to catch some "laminated" fish. We had to identify what fish we had caught and find our whether or not it was a legal size.
With Aunty Ali we learnt about how to get Paua correctly, and without harming them. We even had turns at shucking the paua. Aunty Ali had even cooked up some Paua for us all to sample! It was delicious.
Nanny Rae was very kindly monitoring us all on the rocks and making sure we didn't disappear around the point. We had a lot of fun finding limpets, and crabs, as well as avoiding the incoming tide!
It was so nice for us all to get out in this beautiful spring weather and make the most of all that is around us here in beautiful Mahia! We are all very lucky that all the information we learnt, we can now put into practice when we all go to collect our own kai moana.
It began with a trip down to Whangawehi where we met the Aurora, and their crayfish catch for the day. Rob and Selwyn where there to show us what they had caught for the day, and showed us how they loaded them onto the back of the truck.
From there they drove them around to Nanny Doi's house where they have special crayfish pools. These pools are where the crayfish stay before being trucked down to Wellington, and from there they fly out to China.
Once we had had a look at the crayfish in the pools, and asked Rob and Selwyn questions about the crayfish, we wandered around to the fishing club for lunch.
After lunch we had three different activities to head off and do. With Whaea Jenni we pretended to catch some "laminated" fish. We had to identify what fish we had caught and find our whether or not it was a legal size.
With Aunty Ali we learnt about how to get Paua correctly, and without harming them. We even had turns at shucking the paua. Aunty Ali had even cooked up some Paua for us all to sample! It was delicious.
Nanny Rae was very kindly monitoring us all on the rocks and making sure we didn't disappear around the point. We had a lot of fun finding limpets, and crabs, as well as avoiding the incoming tide!
It was so nice for us all to get out in this beautiful spring weather and make the most of all that is around us here in beautiful Mahia! We are all very lucky that all the information we learnt, we can now put into practice when we all go to collect our own kai moana.
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