Week Four
Week Four was an action packed week! On Wednesday we had Sally from Watercare come in to talk to us about stormwater drains. We had great fun building valleys and rivers with stones and plastic and seeing which group could make the fastest river and the deepest valley.
Sally then taught us about what happens when we let other things go into the drains like, soap, oil and food. We discovered that all of the stormwater drains around our school lead into local waterways such as the stream at Molley Green and Waikowhai Beach. The toxins that go into the drains have a direct effect on the living things in the water. Watercare treat Aucklands waste water, they are able to clean water that is tipped down the sink, or flushed down the toilet, but stormwater drains lead straight to the streams and oceans.
On Thursday we set off to Molley Green to look for bugs in the stream. The types of bugs we found would determine the healthiness of the water. What fun we had! We used scoops we had constructed ourselves to gather the water, we then looked through magnifying glasses to find the bugs and determine what level they were. A bug that rated 1-3 could handle a lot of pollution, 4-6 medium levels of pollution and 7-10 meant the water was clean, as these bugs only survive in clean waterways. Many bugs were found and the highest rated one was 5 which meant that the stream had medium levels of pollution. Not bad for a suburban stream but not great either. Our mission now is to find ways in which we can monitor what goes down our stormwater drains and help our community become more aware.
The amazing Mr Williamson finished building our worm farm from a bathtub kindly donated by a family. On Thursday we released the 1000 tiger worms into their new home. They had arrived in the post. We are looking forward to seeing the liquid gold (worm wee) produced by our little workers so we can use it in the garden and grow some mighty vegetables.
But the week wasn't over! We had our buddy class (Room 1) come in on Friday to learn how to use Scratch Junior...a coding app on the iPads.
This weeks citizen of the week was won by Amaya and Shiya, well done girls! (Last week it was Nikhil) Keep up the hard work.
R10 what a busy week you had! The whole time seems to have been action packed with learning. It was great to see you outside the library with Sally, I also heard what an interesting time you had down at the Green. You were being super buddies with R1 when I popped in on Friday, way to go - there are some future leaders developing their skills in R10. Congratulations Amaya and Shiya - you must have been impressing everyone with your citizenship skills to have been awarded the Citizen of The Week award. Congratulations also to Nikhil for the previous week! Keep up the wonderful work everyone. :-)
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