Wiki Work

WIKI WORK

Over the past 2 weeks the class has been hard at work on a collaborative wikispace about waste water. The class came up with a huge amount of reasons why and how we can save wastewater. Here's a link to the class' work. Just click the picture and go from there.

Thanks for looking!

Last Week...

...we had a fire alarm go off the class was great about getting up onto the courts but...

some of the class were busy inside practicing for a play at the time. They really loved having to go up onto the courts in their clothes for the play. I couldn't help but laugh at the situation.

Class Trip

The Trip

Yesterday the class and I all went to the Wastewater treatment plant out in Clive.

It was awesome to see the class so engaged in what was going on.

The children got to have a bit of a look around at some of the different parts of the wastewater station and they took a tonne of photos.

Here are some pictures of what we saw.

These were an example of the pipes that pumped the waste water out to sea after it had been treated.

Microscope

Bob, our guide around the facility showed us and example of the bacteria and other tiny creatures that they use to treat the waste. I think the children were most impressed with the bristle worms.

 The Waste

There were Plastic pipes at several places. This showed the Wastewater after it had been treated through various different means.

It actually ended up looking quite clean by the end of it as you can see on the left hand side of the second photo

 The end

After the wastewater had passed through the large tanks that dripped the water through bacteria and worm encrusted plastic flower-shaped objects, it was ready to go out to sea. According to custom it passes through the rock river so that the water can be returned to the earth before being pumped out to the outfall 2.75km out to sea (The fish love it).

Now as a class we have a lot of follow up work to start on. So we had better get to it!!

QUESTIONS!!!

Created with Padlet

As you can see our class has developed a huge amount of questions for our upcoming trip to the wastewater treatment plant.

Back to School!!

Term 2 has begun!

Room 8 eating their interval food in the class sewer
which you can see in the background

...and the class looks like a sewer. 

We've started looking in depth into what it is that makes up our Waste Water. Children have shown their own knowledge on the topic and soon the class will be investigating what it takes to keep our ocean's and rivers clean of our waste.

We will also be having a quick look at how attitudes and practices have changed over time and the needs for this change.

Room 8's Banner

Kotahitanga Week

Our Banner

On Monday Sami and Max presented our banner at the School Powhiri. They represented our class very well and showed our banner off to the rest of the school.

Kai Pai on an excellent job you guys and well done to the rest of the class that helped put this all together. It looks absolutely great.

Marae Making

Today Our class had the challenge of making some a Wharenui for a marae.

The class was given 2 Newspapers, 3 sheets of A3 paper, a length of sellotape and a length of string. They were given the task of creating the Wharenui out of these materials.

As you can see everyone is working really hard on these at the moment.

Tomorrow they will finish this off and the winner will be decided. The wharenui that looks closest to the original design will be the WINNER!!!

Good luck everyone.

Thank you

Thank you to all the parents that we had attend our powhiri today. Unfortunately I didn't get any footage of it so can't share it with those of you who couldn't attend. The class stepped up to the occasion and performed admirably.

Birthday

Yesterday was my birthday and the class made it an absolutely great day. I am so happy that I have such a wonderful class. So this is a BIG thank you from me to the class. Thanks guys for making it such a great day!

You guys are awesome.

Science

SCIENCE

Over the past few weeks our class has been looking Acids and Bases in Science.

We have used things like red cabbage, litmus paper and universal indicator to help us identify whether different substances are acid or basic.

Here are some photos of the class at work.

Students added small drops of the substance to
different  paper indicators to determine whether
they were an acid or a base.

The students hard at work using red cabbage as an indicator.

The acids turned the red cabbage red and the bases turned it  green.

Students mixing red cabbage juice with baking soda to see the reaction.