Tag: Seaweek

Celebrating our Oceans with Sea Month

This term we have been learning all about our oceans as part of ‘Sea Week’ which stretched out to ‘Sea Month’. This is the link to the learning on our class site and the wonderful website Young Ocean Explorers.

We enjoyed a trip out to Coopers Beach as part of our Sea Month learning. We worked together to create a Sea Week sculpture, we picked up lots of rubbish and had a lovely time swimming and playing at the beach. It was wonderful to spend time together outside the classroom.

As part of our learning, the students learnt how to create a google slide deck to share some of their learning. We had experts who had used google slides before and they were able to teach others. Thank you Te Reinga, Sophia, Toby and Nathanael. The students learnt how to:

  • change the font size, type and colour
  • change the background colour and customise the design
  • insert a picture into the slide and change the size

There are a few more to add as we had some of our students away today. Overall there was lots of enthusiasm in this learning, and although some of the google slides are not quite finished, the students did a great job!

Well done to Te Reinga, Mia and Nova who worked on their slides in their own time at home. Now that is really self directed learning.

Seaweek – Te Oneroa-a-Tōhē Beach Clean

Last Friday our classes went to Te Oneroa-a-Tōhē to do a beach clean as part of our Seaweek learning. We split into 2 groups and walked approx 2km either side of the ramp, picking up any rubbish that we could see. We picked up a variety of plastic rubbish including clothing, lighters, cigarette butts, lots of pieces of foam along with some alkathene pipe and a car part.

We were pleasantly surprised to only gather 1 bag of rubbish over that 4km distance however when this is put into perspective, NZ has 15,000 kms of coastline. If we were to pick up a bag of rubbish every 4kms, that would be 3,750 bags of rubbish. Something to think about!

A huge thank you to our whanau who supported us on the day with supervision and transportation and to the students who were fabulous ‘Sea Cleaners’. The students certainly enjoyed their time outside the classroom and as an added bonus, they saw Miss Kolland too!

Seaweek – Waiari Beach Trip

Last week Te Manga and Te Puawai had a fantastic day out at Waiari as part of our Seaweek activities. It was a little rough but the students made the most of the beautiful surroundings and fun beach activities including kayaking, snorkelling, visiting the rock pools and swimming!

Thank you to Sir and Mrs Windleborn and our lovely whanau for supporting us on the day.

Click on the link to view more of our photos – https://photos.app.goo.gl/mwpfyHeoeMtQDrx8A

Writing Drafts

Xavier – On Friday we went to Waiari on the  bus. When we got  there we had 3 grods and . My group had Maz and me.we were the only ones from our class we did snorkeling.We  saw a.BIG rocks and there was lots of seaweed and then we went to the rockpools .And we raced off to the  rocks we found some seaweed we went a around we jumes in the water . 

Then I saw two massive coconuts and a sea urchin. There were so many shells and there were rocks. Toby had the biggest seahorse that I saw in my life then I had  my luach and I had my popcorn and my chocolate . We went kayaking. I was the 2nd one to go kayaking. I went very deep and there was lots of seaweed and there were massive waves and there was water flooding .My chake and then I kept my life jacket on and I jumped into the water. Then out of nowhere a massive wave swallowed seaweed grabbed my leg  and I saw a chuued wave I felt like I was knocked out. 

Tia – Last friday our class and Te puawai went to waiari.my favorite activity was rock exploring because I was the first in the water the rocks were jagged and slimy.we found a coconut, a dead crab and a seahorse we went to waiari for sea week Isla me and her nan found prite white rocks.I found 3 big swole rocks. Ava Isla and Carter were in my group.At the rock pool the wave Swung us around and dumped on as like it was like a roller Coaster .The crab was up side down.And the sea horse Was spindly. lslas nan opened  the kina and coconut it reeked.After I felt amazing our group couldn’t go snorkeling Because the waves were too big.