Biba's Grandad's Talk

Learning about the Kauri from Biba's grandad Ron.

We were so lucky to have Biba's Grandad come in and share a little bit of his expansive knowledge about trees with us.  He knows so much and is so passionate about our NZ native trees, especially the Kauri.  He taught us many things and hopefully has made us wonder about a lot more. 

Room 5 and Annie Cowsill would like to thank you, Ron, so much for giving up your time and for all the wonderful things you brought in to show us.  Biba make sure you show Poppa  this blog,

     This is a baby Kauri tree leaf.

Here we are showing the size of the 400 year old Kauri's trunk.  It's girth. It has made us wonder how many children it would take to show Tane Mahuta's trunk.  Ron thought about 15.

Look closely at this.  Your challenge is to find the kauri trees in our playground now that you know what the leaves look like.

Wasn't this piece of bark amazing, Ron showed us that so many different plants grow on the Kauri.  It's like it has its own little garden growing up the trunk.  We will have to investigate more about this.

Please could you post a comment about:

1. something interesting Ron told us
2. something that Ron made you wonder about
3. something you would like to say to Ron

Thank you Damar for putting these photos on the blog.

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Flower Show

The Flower Show.

What a fantastic way to start Term 4.  It was a trip down Memory Lane when Room 5 went to see their buddies in Room 15 for the Flower Show.  Please, Room 5 can you add a comment about what you remember when you did this wonderful activity in Kakariki!

The room looked so wonderful.

Our buddies had worked so hard.

There was an incredible dinosaur.

We all listened hard to our instructions.

Monty has made a great sheep.

We loved the elephant!

Another cool creature!

Jack W talking to his buddy.

Jackson showing how to look after a little buddy!

Everyone looking closely.

Frankie bending down so he can talk carefully to his buddy.

Rhys and Edwin looking at the train.

Then we helped our buddies write acrostic poems.

Seb and his buddy wrote a great poem.

Science expo

Here are some photos of the enthusiastic scientists in Room 5 sharing their science investigations and findings into Magnetism. We all now know that MAGNETISM is an important part of how our world works.

Everyone - Scientists and visitors - look so engaged and focused!

Life ed session 2

The Digestive System - session 2

We were introduced to Bob!

Joban knew where the intestines are. Ojas suggested the liver. Berenger said the stomach.

Alfie thought the digestive system started at the mouth.

Teeth, saliver and tongue were important key words for this part.

When we spew we spit out stomach acids

These are NOT sausages!  These are the intestines. They suck up all the vitamins and minerals to put into the blood.

The large intestine. This squishes all the waste from the food together.

This is the gall bladder. It produces bile.

This is the pancreas which manages our glucose.

Hana asked how our legs work so we looked quickly at our nervous system.

Finally we got to see Harold and tell him what we had learnt.

Sybilla was chosen to talk first and give Harold a hug.

Here is Jack hugging Harold before sharing what he had learnt.

Harold got us to dance and sing about being healthy. Now can you add a comment about other things  you learnt about the Digestive system.

Life ed

Room 5 went to their first life ed session where we thought about different types of food. We shared our favourite foods and then we had to sort them into: 

• eat lots of these each day
• some of these each day
• eat as treats.

This is what we first thought.

We had a go at sorting foods on to the food pyramid but we did get some things wrong.

What can you see is wrong?  Look closely and comment on where these foods need to be moved to. Make sure you write your name at the end.