Recently Rima Ruma have been learning about Jean Batten and her amazing life journey. Jean Batten was New Zealand's greatest aviator, celebrated around the world for her heroic solo flights during the 1930s. She was an inspiration! Rima Ruma participated in a Jean Batten Schoolkit and here are some photos of the activities we did and a slide deck created by some Rima Ruma students. We hope you enjoy:). Click on this link for Tabby and Madie's Jean Batten slide deck.
Last wiki Rima Ruma participated in a range of different activities to celebrate and learn Te reo Māori. We did things such as: saying karakia, listening to waiata, writing our Pepeha, writing books in te reo, map work - matching te reo place names on a map of Aotearoa, to playing Kahoot and Ko wai (Guess who). Our class even participated in the Māori language moment. We hope you enjoy!
Click on this link to see our Māori language moment
This week Room 5 students have been working hard and doing all sorts of different learning and sharing during lockdown. Here is some of their mahi and sharing, we hope you enjoy.
Room 5 ākonga (students) have been working hard during lockdown. Here is some of their mahi and activities they've done. We hope you enjoy!
Alice's mahi
Today we had a really interesting visitor - Stella from Northland Regional Council who came to speak to Room 3. 4 & 5 about Kauri Dieback. She spoke to us about some really interesting topics.
Did you know...
Endemic means - Only can be found in this country e.g kiwi, kukupa, moa
Native - Made it's way here on it's own
Introduced - brought to NZ & had help from humans
Fan worms are eating our native and endemic creature's food
Pollution (poo) is infecting our Moana and awa e.g ecoli in the water
Kairaru - Largest Kauri on record was found in Okaihau. It's trunk was 10 metres wide and it's height from base to top was 65 metres in length.
There are only 7% Kauri trees left
Uses of Kauri - houses, furniture, floorboards, gum ,varnish, tattoos with fish oil, toothpaste
Kauri are 250 million years
Humans have inhabited the earth for 150 000 years
The main message Whaea Stella promoted was - How important we all are. Why? Because we can be the ones to protect our Kauri from Dieback.
Who can be Kaitiaki? We all can be protectors of our Kauri trees and nature in general.
Stages of Kauri
Sapling, Ricker, Mature
Kauri dieback is a...
- phytophthora: plant destroyer
Agathidiciada - Kauri killer
There are Feeder roots, osspores, zoosspores.
Zoospore can smell the nitrogen and stops the nutrients
Key messages:
To help keep Kauri Dieback away from our Kauri you need to...
Scrub, check, spray trigene
Protect our taonga, be a kaitiaki, do what you love, keep Kauri standing - clean your boots
