New Food Scrap Bin Rules...

We just wanted to remind everyone that now we have no outside bins we are allowed to put ALL food scraps into the food bins. This includes bread, meat, citrus and other foods that used to be banned.

These bins get sorted by The Green Team. The food gets used for compost and our worm farm. The excess gets taken to the Salvation Army Community Garden for compost. 

Great Enviro Clips!

An Australian school with some great messages

A simple yet complex visual message for recycling...

Some very thought provoking images in this visual montage

Replanting

Some Green Teamers have been replanting feijoa trees to a better position. The ones they moved last term are looking very happy. 

What have they found?

The boys discovered about 10 little blue ladybugs curled up inside a dead leaf when they were gardening. They looked like they were asleep. Perhaps they were hibernating during the colder weather? 

Team Work

The Green Team students work together - juniors, middles and seniors. We have been learning to propagate succulent plants from leaf cuttings. 

Lilly, Monty and Alex say 'Cowabunga Dude'

On Enviro Day we put together a turtle made out of a plastic hat, a piece of cardboard shaped like a turtle and little shells to decorate the shell.
Sea turtles have flippers and tortoises have feet.

Holly and Jonty want to share their jelly...?

Our classroom Rm L decided to make a jelly fish. We used a hoop, crepe paper and recycled plastic bags. Some people say weeing on a sting helps heal the sting.

Hamish and Cate would like to introduce Tina!

Room R decided to make a sea turtle with blue painted card and green fizzy bottles cut in half to make the shell. We also used can tabs to make the face and flippers.
A fact about turtles is they live a long time! 

Kalani and Caitlin's Lions Mane Jelly!

This is our Lions Mane Jelly Fish. It is made with lots of plastic bags, spray paint, ice cream container and a huge plastic sheet. 
Did you know the Lions Mane Jelly Fish can grow up to 120 ft? Like other jelly fish it has no brain and it eats and expels waste through the same orifice. They eat small fish, shrimps and other jelly fish!

Kade and Ella's massive manta ray!

Rm N made an amazing effort for the sea creature art. They made a huge manta ray, mini individual manta rays, jelly fish, more jelly fish and a window display!
We made the manta rays shape from paper mache and cardboard. Than we put an extra layer of paper mache. At the end we painted the top black and the bottom grey. Some manta rays can grow up to 8.8m long! Wow! The one displayed in Rm N is the size of a baby manta ray. The wings of a fully grown manta ray can grow to the width of the hall!

Charlotte and Gracie's Fish Out Of Water!

On Enviro Action Day Rm M and S made a magnificent fish out of mini fish. We had discs that we decorated with bits and bobs. Then Ms Ellis got all of our fish and cable tied them into a shape of a huge fish. We then attached it to a net outside Rm M and S, check it out!
And that is the story of a fish out of water!

Ben and Jack's Tuna Waiora

Rm K made a massive Tunawaiora. In English this mean eel protecting our waters. Firstly we collected egg cartons, ice cream lids, milk lids and  yogurt lids. Then using sellotape and glue we put them altogether to create him. Lastly we painted him the school rainbow colours.
Eels can live in fresh or salt water depending on the type. Our eel eats meat, fish and small children playing in streams!

Ella and Alyssa's Inspiring Individual...

Rm I created a massive blue whale for the enviro art. We also made some other amazing sea creatures for homework. Our whale was painted cardboard with glued on milk bottle tops. Swimming around Willy the Whale are some of our mini hm wk animals. Blue whales can grow up to 30 metres and weigh up to 150 tonnes. (25 full grown elephants!) Whales millions of years ago used to walk on land, they still have two tiny hip bones where their legs used to be. 

Team Building Water Challenge!

The Yr 2-3 Enviro Kids were involved in a team building challenge this morning. They had to transport water from one bucket to another at the other end of the court as quickly as possible. They had to use only 2 small cups and be attached at all times to their team. 

They took 4.15 mins to complete their challenge. Well done, will the others beat you?

Rm D's Jumping Jiggling Jelly Fish!

Rm D made amazing jumping, jiggling jellyfish. They also made some beautiful rainbow fish using the MSS rainbow colours! Great job Rm D!

Diesel and Millie's Really Great, Great White Shark!

In Rm B for our sea creature we made a shark and all of us made a tinfoil rainbow fish. We made them out of tinfoil stuck to thick paper. We cut out fins and painted them beautiful rainbow colours. Sharks are very big fish. Sharks eat fish, small and big. Great White Sharks even eat seals and sometimes have a taste of humans!

Kaea, Sienna and Rm O's Great Octopus!

In Rm O for Enviro Action Day we made an amazing octopus. He is made of wool. We wound the wool 100x round our Inquiry books. Then we got a tennis ball for his head, covered it in all our wool and lastly the girls plaited his tentacles. Octpus like to go down in dark caves. They have 8 legs to grab their prey.

Annika and Thornton's 10/10 puffy puffy pufferfish!

Rm A's sea creature we designed and made for Enviro Action Day was a puffer-fish. It is made out of a lantern. We used bottle tops to decorate it. Puffer-fish blow up their bodies to protect themselves and scare predators. The only predator a blown up puffer-fish needs to be afraid of is a shark. They can eat a puffed up puffer-fish!
By Thornton and Annika Rm A