MATAPU SCHOOL – Room 1 Talkback

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Who can get the largest population in the most eco-friendly city????   Is it YOU??
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Here it is!!!  After a week or so of studying all sorts of things about space, these are a few things that we already know!  Amazing!!!  See how well you do in the test, let me know your scores.  Click on the link below to be sent to the game.

GOOD LUCK!!!

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Welcome back everybody to 2009’s term 3!! We are having a great time already with our Astronomy unit and I will post a few pictures of what we are doing during theme time. The students are doing some interesting statistics investigations at the moment that are producing some interesting results. Look for those on their own blogs. I have also been busy warming up for the cricket season. See if you can get more runs than me!!!!!

http://www.miniclip.com/games/cricket-defend-the-wicket/en/

Here they are, what you have all been waiting for!!!  The House Results!!!!!

 Today our entire school went to visit Hollard’s Gardens in Kaponga. We had a great time and learnt more stuff about plants.

This is the Chatam Island Christmas Tree, only found in the Chatham Islands and Pitt Island.  There are not many of these trees left because most have been cut down to clear land for farms. 

This tree is native to Chilli.  They make good firewood and the Hollard Gardens have six of these growing here.  There are two ways to preserve trees.  Exsitu is when trees are moved to another better area to grow and insitu is when trees remain where they are and are protected by fences etc. 

These trees are rhododendrons and were part of a hedge of plants.  The trees in between these two have been removed to give these two some space to grow in.  The trees in between were also mulched and the mulch was sprinkled on the ground to help feed the plants…like weet bix.  We also talked about photosynthesis which is when the leaves turn the sunlight into food/sugars that are transported around the plant and stored.

 
These trees are used for wind breakers to protect the other plants from the wind.  It is important to collect the seeds from these trees to plant new ones rather than taking cuttings because the cuttings will produce identical copies of the trees.  This helps protect the plants from disease and extinction so that each one is different .

Around the district of Kaponga all the land around Hollard’s Garden was cleared for farming except for this area because it was too swampy to farm. 

 
It is important to plant plants in the right areas so that they can grow.  In this area it was really swampy so they have to plant plants that can grow in swampy places.

A big thanks to Mr Rine who took time out of his day to walk us through the great garden!

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