Exploring

Our big area of learning for this term is called "Me in My Environment" so today we explored our school environment. We realised that our school is very big and has a lot of buildings but also a lot of trees, bush and grass. We walked all the way up to the very top field, up "heart attack hill" to look at some areas of our school some of us had never seen before because we don't use them very much. Next we came back to room 2 and wrote down all the things we had seen on post it notes to help us with our next task. Next we used our ideas to work with a buddy to draw big maps of our school environment. They are starting to look amazing and have so many interesting features. When they are finished we will hang them up in our classroom to help us with the next part of our learning. Hopefully we will put some of them on the blog too.

Keep Dunedin Beautiful

On Monday we had a special treat for the first day of term, the lovely actors from Keep Dunedin Beautiful performed at our school. They performed a play for us where they travelled back in time to fix up the pollution mess they had made as children that had ruined their favourite spot. It had great messages about reducing, reusing and recycling but was funny too. We loved how they travelled back in time by sniffing Danny's stinky shoe.

Bethunes Gully and the Gardens

Yesterday the senior school went to Bethunes Gully and the Gardens to look at other parts of Lindsay Creek. These parts of Lindsay Creek are not as dirty as the part at Chingford Park. We think it could be dirtier because people put more rubbish in there at Chingford Park, there are more people around. We think we could help by cleaning it up and making signs to tell people to put their rubbish in the bin.