All Creatures Great and Small- Bug Studies with Puriri Class

We have been working as tuakana and teina this term to investigate the bug life in our school. We have identified different physical features of bugs and classified them based on what we have discovered.

We also worked together to make a bug hotel. Hopefully a lot of bugs check into their new habitat and help us to create a diverse ecosystem in our school.

 

W.A.L.T: identify Polygons

At Home Passion Projects

This term we have been learning from home. We have been learning heaps of amazing things with our families. We documented the processes we made to share them with our class mates. Check out some of our "At Home Passion Projects" below.

Lockdown Lego Challenge

While we are learning from home we have been sharing our ideas on how to keep busy. There are a lot of keen lego creators in our class so I will be updating this post with all of the lego creations that we have made so far.

Kearan's Quad bike and Kayak click on his blog to read more about it.

First Enviro Day of 2020

This week we had our first Enviro day for 2020. We combined with Kauri and Totara class and revisited the Enviro sites around our school. We were looking at each habitat and noticing what made them unique and how we needed to care for them in the future. We thought about what was threatening each habitat. We could see a lot of damage which had been done by the drought and by weeds in each area. We worked with Rob to brainstorm ideas on how we would like these habitats to look in the future and what we needed to do as Kaitiaki to take care of them.
We have a lot of ideas for our Enviro days this year, now we just need to find some helpers....🙋

Water Safety 2

We had another great Water Safety session with Averil. We practiced saving people in rough conditions. We made the pool rough by splashing and pushing the water with our body boards.

We had to save our friends using the body board. We made sure it was attached to our wrists and threw the body board to them and told them to hold on.

Once they were on we could tow them back to shore. A good way to swim back is to hug the board and swim on your back.

We also learnt some different ways to float:

Lie on your back to save energy.

Mushroom hold is useful in the surf, if you get pushed around in the waves.

Swimming with LeeAnn

With Lee Ann we have to practicing drills for Breast stroke and Free Style.
To work on our free style we started with Superman drill. It is important because it gives works on your upper body strength.

Catch up arms is a drill to focus on your arms and learning to pull the water through.

Breaststroke
We did One arm, double kick so we would focus on our arm movement and trying to be stream lined. We needed to time our arms and legs with our breath.