Dairy Farm visit - What have we been learning?

What have we learnt?
The students each choose a picture to help them talk about what they have learned.

Today we learnt...

The glass on the left indicates how much milk we drink in New Zealand and the glass on the right shows how much milk is drank in other countries. People like our New Zealand milk, because the cows eat the green grass, which makes our milk tasty.

Fonterra's milk tankers now have the truck equivalent of a 'high-vis' vest (like the ones we wear when we cross the road)! Each tanker and trailer is covered with a moon and star picture. During the day, the moon changes to a sun and the scene changes to a blue sky and green field.

Sequencing (order) the stages of dairy milk production...

Statistics: tally charts and pictographs

For our strand on measurement, the students have been learning about statistics with Mrs N.

Students took a survey of the class birthdays and created a tally chart. They were able to count and interpret the amount of data displayed.

Then they took a survey of their favourite colours to display on a pictograph. Students interpreted the displayed data and were able to make a statement about it.

Grandparents' & Friends' Day

Although the weather did not play along, we still spent a fabulous day with our special guests at our Grandparents' & Friends' Day. This is one of the days on our yearly school calendar that the staff and students are always looking forward to!

Thank you all for coming along!

Print Making #2

After their second session on Print Making with Whaea Jude, the learners were able to:

• recall print making words: transfer, image, ink, ink plate, roll
• create flower designs, on paper first: stem, centre, petals, leaves
• draw a strong flower design into the plate with a stick or pencil
• roll brayer into ink and over image
• take multiple prints of it

(Blog post about their Print Making #1)

Thank you, Whaea Jude for the enthusiasm you displayed when teaching our learners new art skills! We enjoy having you in our class and at our school!

Making pancakes

Whaea Kate taught Room 4 how to make pancakes! They even used milk that they know comes from the cows...

A visit from Unison

Room 4 and 5 watched a unison movie and then we went outside to look at all the safety gear used by the people working with the power lines. We learned how to stay safe around electricity and what to do in an emergency. We learned to call 0800 2 UNISON and how important it is to look after each other.

Dairy Farm visit - Student Voice

This is what Room 4 had to say, after spending a fantastic day on Peter and Vicki's dairy farm. 

Dairy Farm visit

A BIG thank you to Vicky and Peter Wynyard for hosting our students [as part of our Dairy study] on your farm and for a fabulous, well planned day.  Thank you for organising a BBQ lunch, bottled water and spot prizes provided by RD1 Taupo, flavoured milk and the mechanical cow milking system from Fonterra and ice cream provided by Mark Wynyard.

Also, thank you to Abi Cane from CTL for donating their bus.

Thank you to all the parent helpers for your wonderful support.

Arriving on the farm:



In the Dairy shed:



Watching the cows being milked:



The Fonterra tanker arrives:



Activities in the paddock:



Lunch time:



A clean water stream:

High jump practice

We are practicing for our school athletics and had some of our buddies from Room 3 to show us about high jump.
This is Room 4's first attempts...

Print Making #1

Our art teacher, Whaea Jude is teaching the learners in Room 4 to:

describe, simply, how to make prints

use these print making words: ink, ink plate, brayer, roll, ink up, transfer and image

make prints using the new equipment

We can't wait for our next session!