World Environment Day

The 5th of June is Word Environment Day.

Today is World Environment Day, set aside by the United Nations Environment Programme with a special focus on global food waste. The UN Food and Agriculture Programme estimates that globally, one third of all food is wasted every year. In developing countries, more than 40% of food waste happens on farms, during storage, and in processing. But in first world countries, about the same amount of food waste occurs in homes and in stores due to greed, over purchase, dislike of food which is close to expiry date, blemished or bruised. We need to make wise choices about what we buy and use to prevent food wastage. 
The UN estimates that 70% of the world’s freshwater resources go in to global food production, which also accounts for 80% of the world’s deforestation.

For more information on World Environment Day click here

Reading

Read the information above and as a comment to this post suggest two or more ways that we could reduce food wastage in our homes or at school.

Extra for experts

Create a graph or diagram that represents the amount of food wasted in developed countries.

Week 4 update

This week it was a busy week. We had our assembly and the quiz.Lucy, Alex and Sivan did their science homework.   Next Monday it is the queens birthday at London happy birthday to the queen on Tuesday the Argentinian people are coming to our school  we might be on t.v three.on Wednesday it is national Tongan week that means  we celebrate tonga we have a very very busy week.by (Teisha and agostina. )  :)

pourquoi stories

Pourquoi stories are tales that tell how or why something is the way it is. We are writing these tales in class. Here are some pourquoi stories

Week 3 update (Science Week!!!)

This week was science week and Grant(Mitchell's Dad) came in at lunch and did a really cool presentation on his work. Agostina and Teisha presented their science homework and they were both about eggs!

On Friday in Week 4 we have the Quiz-a-thon! 

By Blake And Bethany 

( Photographer: Harrison)

 

Reading Week 3

Reading Comprehension Tasks

Giraffes

Read Justin Bieber to go into space and answer the questions below as a comment to this post.
1. what does the article mean by "literally mingling with the stars"?
2. Who is organising the trip?
3. What does sensation mean here?

Monkeys and Zebras

Read NASA to grow a lettuce in space and answer the questions below as a comment to this post.
1. Why are they trying to grow lettuces in space?
2. What is a 'plant pillow'?
3. What does obstacle mean?

Lions

Read Thousands Apply For A One-Way (All Expenses Paid) Voyage To Mars and answer the questions below as a comment to this post.
1. Why do you think people want to live on Mars?
2. What is the criteria for applying for a position on the project?
3. What does habitable mean?

Spelling Task

Play Spelling games on Spelling City for apostrophe words! Click here!

Week 2 update



On Thursday we went to the Stardome and learnt heaps. We also Climbed One Tree Hill and could see the whole city from the top.

In MART (math/art named by Nathan) we have been making transformation gardens. These will be going up in the hall soon.

In writing we are learning to write explanations and we did our writing assessment too.

 

 

 

Week one update

What a busy week for the first week back!
In Maths we have been looking at transformations and made flags that contain several kinds of transformation.
In Reading we started looking at explanations as we will be writing these next week.
In Writing we made superheroes and wrote cool descriptions of them focusing on using paragraphs to organise our ideas.
We started our homework science presentations with some fantastic presentations that set the bar high. These three really new their stuff!

Izzy won the citizenship cup! What a star. We all think that she is fantastic and really shows the qualities of a great citizen! Well done Izzy! Here is the video that Naomi took of Izzy getting the award.




Writing By Mrs Carryer
Photography by Zara and Naomi