Holiday Fitness Program

Hungry bin. A continuous flow worm farm.

Simon from KCDC has given us a worm farm!!!!  Room 10 assembled it today and added our food scraps we have been collecting.  We remembered the instructions Simon taught us and followed them while putting the Hungry Bin together.  For the best environment for our worms we have to limit the amount of citrus (mandarins and oranges) scraps.  The worms also don't like spicy foods, onion, garlic, leeks, capsicums, meat and dairy, bread, pasta and processed wheat products.

Matariki Song

Wednesday 25th from 5.30pm we are hosting a Matariki Celebration in our school hall.  Please come along and join in.  Everyone is more than welcome.  There is a sausage sizzle provided for the children and adults are asked to contribute an item for a shared dinner.

Here is a song we have been learning - to the tune of the Makarena

Matariki


Matariki
Tupu a nuku
Tupu a Rangi
Wai Ti
Wai Ta
Wai Puna Rangi
Ko Ururangi te Potiki o te tokowhitu
O te Whanau Matariki
Hei

RAINBOW POEMS

The children have made some stunning Rainbow Poems which are brightening up our back wall in the classroom.  Feel free to pop in and have a look and read.  The children needed to write positive describing words about themselves for each letter of their name.

How to make Bangers.....

Click here to be taken to the website that will show you step by step instructions on how to make an origami banger.  Imagine this is what is happening to give us the loud noise of thunder during a storm.

1. Thunder is the sound caused by lightning. Depending on the distance and nature of the lightning, thunder can range from a sharp, loud crack to a long, low rumble (brontide). The sudden increase in pressure and temperature from lightning produces rapid expansion of the air surrounding and within a bolt of lightning.

e-asTTle

We have spent a little bit of time changing everyones passwords and making sure all members of room 10 can login and access their e-asTTle information.  You are also able to login and see your child's next steps and achievements at home just by following the instructions below.

OPENING TODAY

DIALLED INDOOR SKATEPARK AND TRAMP PARK
Isaiah's Aunty runs the dialled park in Tauranga and there is one opening in Porirua today!!!
Another party venue or holiday place to visit.
Click here to be taken to the website.  Looks like heaps of fun.

Max to the Max - Maths Energiser Game

WARNING = This does create a loud environment in class while playing!

A fiercely competitive Room 10 playing Max to the Max as a starter for our maths lesson.

The children need to make a decision on where a number (rolled by the dice) should go to ensure the largest number is created.  Eg:  The highest number should go in the largest place value.  In this particular clip, I've used a 10 sided dice instead of the standard 6 sided dice.

Skills the children are working on while playing are:
Place Value
Addition (using working form)
Probability

Bread Mould Experiment

On Wednesday 11 June, we sealed up a piece of white bread in a zip lock bag.  Before we sealed the bag, we moistened the bread.  We all knew some mould would grow but we didn't know exactly how it would form.

Bread with NO water added

Bread with water added but left in a dark cupboard

After 8 days our bread started to look rather revolting!!!!  Turns out the mould growing on our bread is called 'Rhizopus Stolonifer'.  The interesting thing we found out was that moisture certainly helped the moulding process as our bread without water only had a tiny speck of mould growing.

Riley's bread is growing something much different!  We are wondering what it could be as he used water from home and was in a hot place until its arrival at school.

The tiny speck of mould is all that grows on the 'dry' piece of bread which was bagged on the same day.

This is the bread from the cupboard.  Growing only where the water was added.

Oakley's Joke = Why did the mushroom go to the party?  Because he was a fungi (fun guy).

After 20 days growing mould, some interesting things were beginning to happen.

The dry piece of bread only seemed to grow the green mould variety.

The bread with moisture added grew a whole heap more!!!  Yuck!!!

In this clip we saw that fungi grows until there is no more matter to consume.  Ash-Lee and Vanessa's bread seems to be doing something similar.  The mould and fungi growing is breaking the bread down and as it crumbles, it is getting smaller and smaller.

Ethans bread has developed quite considerably since the last photo update.

There are harder blobs of yellow (it looks like egg yolk).  You can also see the hyphae reaching out for more organic matter.

Planting at Pharazyn Reserve

On Friday 6 June, Te Aramoana syndicate travelled to Pharazyn Reserve to plant native trees.

The council are trying to re-create the wetland area and we get to help each year which is awesome!

Troy the Magnificent

Mountain Biking Race

A few of our Year 6's joined some Year 7 and 8 students in the Kapiti Schools Mountain Bike Race held down at QE2 park.  Congratulations to Alfie and Nathan who place 1st and 10th.  Great effort.

Sumdog Wellington Competition

Wow!!!  Room 10 are amazing!!!  Check out our results.  It is the 4th day of the Wellington competition and we are sitting in 2nd place.  We also managed to win the daily prize today!!  Wahoooooooooo!!!

Composting - Session Two

We had so much fun today making our mini worm farms.  Every child in Room 10 has made one today and they'll be bringing them home if they can transport them safely.

Composting - Session One

Today Simon Calcinai from KCDC spoke to us about composting and what sort of material can go in one.  We talked about 'Nitrogens' = Wet and 'Carbons' = Dry
Eg:   Some examples of Nitrogens are - Apple, Sandwich, food scraps, plums, grass, manure
        Some examples of Carbons are - Sawdust, newspaper, ash, egg shells, hay
We also talked about waste that we shouldn't put in our compost.  For example, meats, plastic, cans, dog poo!
We also talked about Therma and Verma composts.  Verma are our Worm farms where the worms do all the work.  Therma composts are the composts that need sun and water to get all the bacteria breaking the matter down.

Week 5

This week we are lucky to be starting our 'Waste Management/Composting' unit.  This week we have two sessions with Simon Calcinai from KCDC on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon.  He has emailed the Te Aramoana teachers and we are going to need the following for some of the activities;

·        Homework: We will be making mini-worm farms during lesson three. Students will be asked to bring from home a clean 2L milk bottle, and some compost ingredients (preferably in an ice-cream container or similar). As backup, I will have spare milk bottles, and we can find some compost ingredients around the school (e.g. leaves, grass clippings, shredded paper…) I will give a reminder during lessons one and two.

AND ON FRIDAY........
Arbor Day
Planting Trip to the Pharazyn Reserve, Waikanae Beach, on the 6 June

Each year, 5 June is Arbor Day. This day is also called World Environment Day. For the seventh year in a row, the Pharazyn Reserve Focus Group has invited primary school pupils from Kapanui and Waikanae Schools to be involved in planting  at the Reserve.

This Friday (6th June) children from each of the Te Aramoana Syndicate classes will travel to the reserve by bus, and parents are welcome to travel by car and join us to assist with the planting.

Before the Pharazyn Reserve was named, it was the Waikanae Waste Water Treatment Plant. Over the last eleven years since decommissioning, the ponds and immediate surrounding areas have been undergoing a natural sanitation process.  The entrance to the Reserve is located at the junction of Rutherford Drive and Paetawa Road, Waikanae Beach, and extends from the eastern side of the ponds to the beach.

The Pharazyn Reserve Focus Group was set up nearly a decade ago from public nominations and since then planting and planning has begun around the pond areas, based on the 20-year Management Plan for the Reserve.

Over the last few years about 6000 grasses and flaxes have been planted by school children along the eastern and southern sides of the southern pond.

This year more grasses and flaxes will be planted in a different area of the southern pond.

On the day

Class groups will spend approximately ¾ hour on site. Along with planting plants and maybe mulching, there will be a talk and planting demonstration. The children will also be given an opportunity to look at how the plants planted in the past few years have grown. Members of the Pharazyn Reserve and supporting groups will be supervising and helping the children to plant.

It will be important that we keep to the scheduled times of arrival and departure as children will be coming and going all day as we have other pre-arranged activities at school. Please note that Rooms 6-7 will need to leave before 9 o’clock so those children will need to be at school early.

Rooms	Leave school by	At reserve	Return by	Teachers
6 & 7	8.50am	9.15-10am	10.15am	Mr Corlett/Mrs Lumsden
5 &10	10.25am	10.40-11.30	11.45am	Miss Shaw/Mrs Cameron
18 &19	11.55am	12.15-1pm	1.15pm	Miss Lake/Mrs Fearon

Children may want to wear older “gardening clothes” to school and change into tidier clothes they have left at school on their return.

What to bring on the day - It can get quite muddy down there so Gumboots/ Jacket/ /plastic bag for gumboots etc.                                       

Parking - Follow the all-weather track through the gate to around the back of the brick building to where you will see the helpers / students.

Safety - Planting will be next to the water in the southern pond. If needed, all KCDC vehicles have first aid kits and KCDC staff  are trained first aiders. Children will be able to wash their hands after planting.

 

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