Maui and Hector dolphins

Rio Olympics 2016

Nature mandala art

Last week Friday we made mandalas out of nature things like sticks, leaves, flowers and other things around the nature trail.

← Here was our finished mandala.

We found lots silver fern leaves and used some of the old black seed pods from the papatuanuku table.

Us with our nature mandala art.

How do sea turtles grow?

How do sea turtles grow?

What is a sea turtles life cycle and how do they grow with out there mother?

The mother lays her eggs in the sand and then abandons her eggs. If she stays on the sand for to long she will die because she doesn't have enough water to keep her body temperature cool. She abandons her eggs because they need to learn how to look after them selves.

Once they have hatched they crawl to the ocean and then they float on there back. Some of them don’t make it to the ocean because of predators. Once they get used to the water the slowly swim down into the bottom of the ocean.

Sea turtles grow by eating but there shells do not grow so they find other shells in the ocean. They shift between different shells to find one that can fit them. Sea turtles eat Algae,sea weed and sea grass to make them grow.

This is a sea turtles life cycle. Some baby sea turtles don’t make it to the ocean because of predators

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How an umbrella works

An umbrella is a handy tool thats normaly found around the house. Do you know what we use it for?

We use it to keep ourselves dry. It has a long skinny handle and grey supports at the top of the handle to hold the covering of the umbrella. When it rains people use it to keep themselves dry.

St Johns visit

Today St John came to visit our class. Daniel was our teacher. He taught us how to do CPR and first steps to help someone when there unconscious.

D- Dangerous 

Look around the room to see if there is any thing that might have caused the accident

R- Respond 

Talking to them and shaking there shoulder to see if there conscious or unconscious 

S- Send for help 

Send someone to call 111 and tell them to come back as soon as possible (if no ones there tell the nearest person)

A- Air-way

Put your hand on there forehead and the other on the mouth and then look inside the throat to see if anything is clogged up

B- Breathing

Putting your check against there mouth and your hand on there stomach to know if there still breathing

C- CPR

Placing your hand on the opposite side of there body dragging it up underneath there armpit then dragging it across again to the middle of the chest

Pepeha

Pepeha

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