Week 3 - Shadows and Light ponder

Over the next two weeks, Kaiwhare class will be learning about light and shadows. We have started by exploring some journal stories, experiments and online activities on Sciencekids.co.nz.   We also have a blog ponder to share our knowledge and ideas. Please contribute to our online discussion in a Cybersmart way. Remember to have a buddy check your post to see that it makes sense and that you have used punctuation correctly.

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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