Our Little Gardens

In September, Habitat 17 were lucky enough to recieve Little Gardens from School Kit NZ. This is the promotion that New World has been running. We first were given some seeds in a pot with soil to plant. We were given the challenge of coming up with our top growing tips to help our plants grow. Here are some pictures and video of us planting our seeds and sharing our top growing tips!

Football for Children

On Tuesday Habitat 17 participated in the Football for Children taster programme. It was an opportunity for the students to have some playing playing football with a range of activities. Here are some pictures and videos of us participating in the taster session.

The full programme will begin Thursday week three at lunchtimes. If you would like to sign your child up you can visit this website http://www.footballfc.co.nz/register/lunchtime-programs/bayview-lunchtime-programme-term-4-2016/. The cost in $44 for 6 sessions.

Making Lemon Honey

On Thursday I brought a HUGE bag of lemons to school from my Mum and Dad's lemon tree that I didn't want to go to waste.  I wasn't sure what we could do with them all and then I saw all the eggs in the fridge in the staff room and had an idea...we could make lemon honey to sell at daffodil day to raise money for the Cancer Society.  We put a post on our school Facebook page to ask for jars to put our lemon honey in and we got heaps of baby food jars sent in.  Mr Matuku then got us some sugar from Chelsea Sugar and all that was left was to buy some butter (the only money we had to spend). The children got into groups and then we went in the staff room to start making lemon honey.  It took quite a long time because all the children in habitat 17 had a turn to help. 

Once it had cooled down I poured all the mixtures in to the jars.  The children made labels for the jars, posters for selling and decided on how much each jar would cost.  

The next morning on Daffodil day heaps of children had brought in money to buy a jar of our luscious lemon honey....we ended up selling ALL our jars to the children in habitat 17!

We ended up raising $20 just from our lemon honey towards the Cancer Society...we were all very proud. 

Matariki Matariki Matariki

In the past week habitat 17 have been focusing on Matariki. First we gathered information using a range of sources such as journal stories, library books, Youtube videos and other information on the internet. We worked independently or in groups to sort and record relevant information in our own words.

Next we had to present our information so it could be shared with others. We had the choice of what tools we wanted to present. Some of us chose to do a poster, use presentation tools like Prezi, Google, Slides and Popplet and also others like Kahoot. Below are some links to completed presentations.

Matariki by Layla and Matthew

Matariki by Sophia, Calanha and Mariska

Matariki by Joana, Kirsten, Travis and Carlos

Matariki by Vanisha, Maya and Evah

Matariki by Katie and Olivia A

Matariki by Sam, Noah, Parker and Campbell

Matariki by Marc

After we had shared our presentations we were introduced to the idea of creativity. First we watched a video called Caines arcade. It was about a boy who created an arcade out of cardboard. Caine showed us how we could take our imagination and turn it into reality. We then were told we could take the idea of creativity and link it with what we have learnt about Matariki. We were asked about what our passions were and how we could follow them when presenting creatively our learning about Matariki. We chose dancing, singing, performing, painting, cooking, writing poetry, building and more. You can see pictures and videos of our learning below.