Middle School Zoofari Trip

 Talofa lava bloggers,

On Monday the 24th of Monday, the middle syndicate was lucky enough to visit the Auckland Zoo to participate in the Zoofari experience.  The first exciting highlight of the day was a trip to the Zoo on a double decker bus!

When we arrived, we were greeted by Lizzy who gave us lots of information during our briefing and set us up for our class guided tours along the African Safari track.  Our Zoo educators were amazing, they had lots of interesting things to share with us and things that we could feel while we were learning.  

Then, under the guidance of our awesome parent helpers, we explored the zoo, ticking off the different animals that we visited on our map.  It was really interesting to have the chance to find the animals that we like and have a look at their habitats and how they can be adapted to them.

The final main event for the day was a second educator session. During this time we watched a feeding session for the spider monkeys. We also found out that we can do our bit for conservation by making sure that we buy paper with this special logo so that spider monkey habitats are kept safe.

Have you been to the Zoo before? Do you do something to protect animals?  We would love to hear what you do in our comment section below.

Cameron Pools Swimming

 Kia Ora, 

Welcome back to Term Two. It has been a busy first week back for us.  We are very lucky to have started our 10 swimming sessions at Cameron Pools.  We will be learning about water safety, survival and other swimming techniques.  These lessons are part of the GAAP programme. It is great to have our swimming teachers in the pool with us to help our learning.

Lessons started on Tuesday and they will be on every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon for the first 5 weeks of this term. We need to make sure that our togs, towel and other swimming gear is ready for each important session. 

Do you have swimming lessons? Are they through your school or personal ones after school?  We'd love your feedback with a positive, thoughtful and helpful blog post.

Out of the box day

 Kia Ora bloggers,

We are very excited to share our learning journey with you.  Today was the first day that we got to use our Chromebooks this year. For many of us, this was a chance to open our Chromebooks for the first time during our 'Out of the Box' event.  The Chromebooks are very exciting tools for our learning.  We had a big discussion about how to look after them and we will be working more on the Kawa of Care at school. Here are some of the ideas from our discussion:

Below are a few photos that show how excited we were as we opened up our Chromebooks:

Finally, we spent some time exploring our new class sites. This is where our learning is posted.  You can check them out too.  Here is a link to Kaiwhare and Mokoroa's shared site and Haumia's class site. 

We are looking forward to sharing more of the Learning, Creating and Sharing that we do with you.  Please check back regularly to see what we have been doing.