Takutai's Wonderful Westport Camp!

We did the Seal Colony walk at Tauranga Bay. We saw approximately 20 seals resting on the rocks. We met Pete the DOC ranger and he taught us all about the foot prints of the Blue Penguins. We tried to find different plants, birds and sea creatures. 

That afternoon we got a chance to swim in the Pulse Energy Swimming pool in Westport. It was really cool because it was super warm and we had floating devices we could play with. There was no one else in the entire building, so we had it all to ourselves.

We visited a massive cave in Charleston. Half way through the cave was this beautiful waterfall falling through the roof like a chandelier falling down.

This is a photo of some stunning stalactite and stalagmites we saw in the cave. We think they look like the teeth from a dinosaur. They are over 100,000 years old!

Shantytown Trip - Science day

On Tuesday Takutai class got to visit Shantytown to enjoy a science day. We were learning all about forces (push and pull) and simple machines that make our work and lives easier. This picture is of us in front of the steam train we got to ride on. It was Hahle's first time on a train and he got to do the return journey inside the engine with the train driver. It was very cool!

Analysing our Enviroschool data

This graph is showing me that neutral was selected more than the other responses.
This shows me that most people are not sure if we are doing a good job.
This tells me that we might need to make more of an effort to look after our environment.
About 38 people agree that we are doing a good job.

This pie chart shows me that 62.1% want to have a nude food day.
A quarter (25%) said maybe. Only 12.9% said no.
Therefore this shows me that we should introduce a nude food day.
We would need to check with Miss Hygate if this is ok and organise it.
We may need to put a message on Seesaw and the newsletter.

Keeping safe online

Poem of Nature

Poem of nature
The trees are flowing,
the grass is growing,
the wind is blowing,
the sea is going,
the tides are lowering. 

Ollie 

Fraser Island

Book week dress up day!

To celebrate the end of book week, we all dressed up as our favourite book characters. They included; Harry Potter, Doby the house elf, Pippi Longstocking, Matilda, BFG, Diary of a Wimpy kid and even Tane was brave enough to come to school as Captain Underpants (literally in his pants!). Well done to all, you looked fantastic!