Room 3

Last week we continued with our inquiry about how we can help Papatuanuku keep warm. After much discussion we decided to make compost to keep Papatuanuku warm.

We learnt about green waste and brown waste. Green waste is wet waste and brown waste is dry waste. So we collected ingredients such as grass clippings, dead leaves and flowers, sticks, food scraps and soil. Then we put it all into a black rubbish bag and added a little water then tied it up. We will check it in a couple of weeks to see how the compost is developing.

As we continue our inquiry unit about “How to Keep Papatuanuku warm in Our School” we are learning about the children of Tane in our school and how they live together.

We have been investigating how and where we could make a compost cloak for Papatuanuku.

We looked at different places around our school and wrote about whether they are good or bad choices for putting our compost. After looking at and discussing the good and bad points we have decided that the area behind Rooms 2 and 3 would be the best place for our compost.

We are now going to write letters to Mr Bateman to ask if we can put our compost behind Rooms 2 and 3.

We have been learning about the children of Tane in our school and how they live together. On Thursday 23rd July we went out to explore what we could find living in, around and under our trees. We investigated three different areas in our grounds.
Because it is winter we didn’t find as many little creatures as we would have liked. But we did find grubs, worms, spiders, centipedes, seeds and roots.
And we liked getting our hands dirty!!!

In Room 3 and Room 2 we are learning about the children of Tane in our school and how they live together.
Last Thursday Room 9 came over and we learnt about parts of a tree and why they are important. We used our bodies to make our own tree.
We made the trunk, the bark, the branches and the roots. There were no leaves on our tree because it is deciduous.
The trunk of a tree is important to hold the tree up. The bark is to protect the tree from pests and disease. The roots provide the tree with water and food.

To celebrate our cultural diversity in our classrooms Room 2 and Room 3 made some Barfi.

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