Bird Feeders

As the final part of our Bird study we got into small groups and designed and created bird feeders. We had to think carefully about which areas would be safest for our feeders (were they predator free)and then we had to design a feeder that would be suit. After we had designed our feeders we spent the morning creating them and them we paced them around the school, mostly in the fitness track. Some have been very successful attracting a variety of birds and standing up to the strong winds we had.

Skype 2 with Japan

In the last week of term we had our final skype with Japan. Although we had a lot of technical hitches this time the children at Kojo Elementary really enjoyed our presentation of Maori culture. Again we were fortunate that Keita's mum Mrs Rudd was able to come and translate for us. The girls did their poi dance & the boys did a fantastic haka. Unfortunately we don't have a video of the boys doing their haka, but here are the girls again.

Poi dancing for Skype

The girls in room

10 have learnt a poi dance for our skype.

Heres a video of the girls dancing.

Poi is the Maori name for a ball on a cord.

The girls are going to wear Maori kaitaka(tops)

The patterns on the top are called

Taniko.

By Abby

Making Lemon Tea

We had our lemon tea on the 30th of June. Some people found it was nice on the first sip but then it was disgusting. Mrs Milton made the lemon tea. We found the leaves on the fitness, dried them in the hot water cupboard for 2 weeks,destalked them, crushed them and then used them to make a cup of tea.It was great to be able to use leaves from the fitness track to make a drink. Of course Tahu showed us which ones were safe.

Orakanui Sanctuary trip

On Friday the 26th of June Room 9 and 10 went to the Eco Sanctuary in Orakanui. It took us 40 minutes to get there. We all enjoyed it. We saw Kakas and some of us saw the Riflemen. There were also Tui's and Bellbirds. Tahu, our guide took us to a pond where we fished out little bugs, Jenna gave us cups and polystyrene to charm the birds, Ben took us on a walk and talked about traps and Joanne helped us track the Kaka. Tahu dressed one of our teachers up as a bird(Mrs Garforth) . We all laughed our heads off. There were feathers and wings involved but the one thing that made us all giggle was these GIANT Googly Eyes taped onto GIANT glasses. We left at 2:15 and arrived back at school at 10 to 3.It was a great learning experience and we all enjoyed it.

By Abby, Molly and Jordyn

Look what we have been up to.

Room 10s topic this term is birds birds birds, as you can see in the picture below. We also had to make story cubes for homework,write blurbs about camp and poems about respect. We also have our Nga Mihi that also added colour to our room.

We think our room looks great!

Malaysian students visit room 10

We had some Malaysian students come to room 10.

On the 4th of May 2 men Malaysian students came their names were Ang & Hafiz .They sadly left on the 7th of May.

The next week we had 2 new women Malaysian students. Their names were Sheken & Semin

They taught us about their celebation foods and their normal foods!!