Term 4 Inquiry - Sustainability

Akeake has been continuing our inquiry into sustainability. We opted into an activity and over 2 afternoons made our projects -

Some of our activities were making bee feeders,

making beeswax food wraps

as well as making paint and chalk. 

Te Wiki o te Reo Māori

 

Today, some of the children in the hub performed in the Kapa Haka group at the Kaiapoi library. Those of us back at school learnt tī rākau - Māori stick games and did some weaving pictures that are on display in the hall foyer.

 

We also completed some koru art. Ka pai to mahi!

 

Calendar Art

We are all working hard to create a colourful, quality piece of art for the fundraising calendars. Here's a sneak peek! 

 

Swimming

We have daily swimming lessons at Kaiapoi Aquatic Centre in weeks 2 and 3. 
We have been learning how to safely enter and exit the pool, swimming techniques and water safely. 
We love swimming!  

Life Education

Over the last two weeks, the children have loved visiting Harold in the Life Education truck. The colourful lights are still a highlight. The children have been learning about the food pyramid. They know that food from the ground they should eat lots of, food from animals they should eat some of and food from ingredients a little of.

Matariki Celebrations

What a fantastic way to finish our Matariki celebrations.

Jason from the Kaiapoi Public Library came along to our hubs.

We sang songs

and listened to a story.

We watched puppet theatre.

Then we created 

our own Matariki stars.

Strand Maths - Measurement

We have been learning about length.We have been using non-standard units to measure and compare objects.We also created our own rulers to measure in centimeters.We understand that we start at zero and measure from the edge of the object.

 

New Toy Designs

We had a great time in Akeake this week designing our own toys.

We started off by looking at some prototypes of some toys and deciding on what we would make Bigger, something we would Add and 

something that we would Remove or Replace.

After that we got to design and make our own creations using clay.

We had heaps of fun doing this and we came up with some awesome new ideas for toys that could be made in the future!

Listening to Kylie talk about how toys are designed and then turned into prototypes.

Having a go at designing our own toys.

 Here are some of our creations ...