Dotterel Education Trip

Dotterel Education Trip

What we enjoyed the most was experiencing authentic learning outside of the classroom.  Some things you just have to experience, not read about it in a text.  The morning flew by really fast as we had so much fun learning about the dotterels, their nesting sites, swimming, playing games and getting prizes. 

The thing we found most challenging was swimming in the river as we couldn’t see how deep some areas were, that made our teacher nervous. Luckily we had awesome parents to show us where we could and couldn’t swim.

What we might do differently next time is film the important korero about the dotterels and the area because we can use that information for our learning at school.

Plastic Pollution

Room 7 have been researching about pollution around the world. We found lots of interesting facts about plastic pollution on a website called www.sas.org.uk. It taught us about how much waste we produce, how to be more careful about how we use plastics and what we can do to reduce waste everyday. 
We used the facts from the website and rewrote them in our own words ensuring we understood what we read. We created posters that had strong messages about waste using paper, pencils and felts and we will display them on our classroom walls. We are learning how to weave by cutting up old magazines and weaving them in to fish shaped card. The trickiest thing for us was weaving the magazine strips in and out of the card without it ripping. When they are finished they will be displayed 'swimming' on our walls.

In your opinion, what is better- Glass bottles or plastic bottles?

Some of our posters

Some of our woven fish