Friday, 6 March 2020

Week 5 - Sea Week

We celebrated Sea Week at school last week.  Our literacy and numeracy learning was based around experiences related to the sea.  We investigated the theme for sea week which was Connecting With Our Seas and the whakatauki: Ko au te moana, ko te moana ko au  –  I am the sea, the sea is me. You can find out more here.  

On Monday, we experimented with the filter feeders mussels.  Mussels do a super job of filtering seawater.  You can find out more about mussels and the important job they do here.  Unfortunately, our experiment wasn't very successful but we hope to have a go another time.

Following that, we completed some shared reading, looking at the Science Hub website and also investigating the story Kutai in the school journal.  From all of this knowledge, we started to create some infographics, explaining what mussels are and why they are important for healthy seas.  You can see our experiment in action, and some of our infographics in the slideshow below.



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4 comments:

  1. Hi Te Ana Ako
    Wow you knocked my socks off around your mussels facts.
    It reminds me of the mussels that I have found before.
    Why do you think the experiment didn't work?
    From Kererū Learning Space

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  2. Hi Te Ana Ako - it looks like you had a really exciting week in the mornings when I wasn't around! This made me think of the science experiments I used to do when I was at school as a student. I wonder if you could give us a hint how the story 'Kutai' related to Sea Week?
    Thanks,
    Miss McGrath

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  3. Hi Te Ana Ako' I'm Brittany
    I liked how you told us alot of infomation about what you did on Sea Week. It made me think about the times I do experimentes at home. Maybe next time you could add some more photos of what you did on Sea Week.
    Blog you later.

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  4. Hi Te Ana Ako I'm Amara. I really like the way that you are doing work about sea week. It reminds me of when I did fcts about sea week. Maybe next time you could write about what your favourite part of Sea Week was. Blog you later!

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