Kai Recipes - Plant Based/Vegetarian Based

 Sir David Attenborough taught us some valuable lessons in his movie, A Life on our Planet. We wanted to learn how to eat less meat so we researched and created our own recipes. This was an opportunity to learn some key ideas when using our Chromebooks. Here are their recipes sporting background images, text boxes, photos inserted, and using Google Slides (adding a new slide, etc).

Kai Day

Our schoolwide focus on Kai leads to our class having a kai day. Students watched the movie by David Attenborough warning us about the effects of climate change. One of the changes that we can make for the future is to eat less meat in our diets. This will have a beneficial effect on our environment as we return the land to nature (lowering our carbon emissions and reinstating natural habitats for wildlife). 

Here is our cooking day...

Kai Moana

We had a wonderful immersion day investigating Kaimoana. We went to Kaiti Beach to look at the rock pools and cook mussels on the beach and did a beach clean-up. Our work with the House of Science Sea and Me kit helped us to understand what we were looking at. After that, we went to Gisborne Fisheries to see my good friend Salve Zame. He showed us through their factory. We got to see all sorts of fish that they catch, including crayfish pools, and got a first-hand experience with the sea ice. A great day indeed!

 

Week 1 Immersion

Our focus this year is Kai. Kai can be seen and interpreted in so many ways. This week we visited Cedenco to understand processed kai. Jennifer's mum, Carla helped us to plan this day. She is the General Manager of Cedenco.

Jack and the Beanstalk with Mote

The wonderful Megan has been busy making pieces to support our focus on Fairy Tales. These stories follow a fiction storyline sequence that helps teach students how a story flows.

A few weeks ago, Amie from Manaiakalaani showed me how to use Mote. It records short snippets of thinking. I have used Mote to record students thinking about what they thought might happen next in the story of Jack and the Beanstalk.

Here is what we did...

Heggarty Structured Literacy

 I thought it would be timely to show you what we have been doing in class with Structured Literacy. This procedure is done every day. It is designed to develop phonological awareness. That is, to be able to discern the sounds in words. Here is an example...

Snippets of the Term

So many wonderful things have happened this term. Our STEAM play-based time has been absolutely pumping with creativity, imagination, and interaction. Math has been full of sharing, discussion, and puzzling...and so much more!

 

Swimming with Confidence at the Olympic Pools

Not the best weather, but such a great day of bonding!

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2021 - Back to School

The year is well and truly underway but with Covid19 on my mind, I decided to take time out from Blogging. I guess I feared that if I started up again that I would somehow provoke another Lockdown. 

Now I'm feeling good about the year...here we go!!!