Whale Waikanae Beach

Whale on Waikanae Beach

Yesterday Room 2 and 21 were lucky enough to be able to go and see the dead hump back whale. The whale had washed up onto the beach just down from the boating club. The Doc man at the beach told us that the whale was about 10-15 years old, a female hump back, and that she weighed about 30 tonne!! It was an interesting sight to see but also very sad!

Goodman's Trip

Goodmans Trip

Yesterday Room 2 and 21 went to Te Roto Drive Goodman's site to see the big machinery in action. This site is part of the working area where the new express highway is being built. It was really interesting to see all the machines in action! We really enjoyed climbing into the stationary machines at the end of the tour. We really got to see and feel what it would be like to work in a place like that. A huge thank you to all our tour guides and parent helpers! We loved it!!

Phoenix Visit

Phoenix Soccer Team at Waikanae School

Yesterday Waikane School were once again very lucky to some more professional sportsmen visit. The Phoenix Football Team came in to meet and greet and to hold a skills session with some lucky children. Check out the photos below. It was a great experience!

Guinea Pigs

Justyn and Max's Guinea Pigs Come to School

Today Max and Justyn's mum brought their pet guinea pigs in for a visit. They were very cute and cuddly. Thanks for bringing them into show us... we loved having a pat and a hold!

The All Blacks

The All Blacks Visit to Waikanae School

On Thursday the 8th of August 4 of the All Black's visited Waikanae School. They were Cory Jane, TJ Perenara, Julian Savea and Dane Coles. We were so lucky to have them visit! While they were here they did a quick skills session with a selected few on our top field, and then some signature signing in the hall. Everyone loved having them visit and we felt very privileged to have them visit our school. Check out some of the photos below... 

Milk for School's

Milk for School's

Today on the 31st of July Waikanae School are officially starting 'Milk for School's'. Everyday Room 2 Milk Monitors will go and collect the milk cartons from the fridge in the office and hand them out to everyone in Room 2. We watched a youtube clip about 'Milk for School's'  and why we are starting this programme. Click on the link and check it out below...

Fonterra Milk in Schools Video

Red Socks Day

Red Socks Day

Wacky Hair Day

Wacky Hair Day

Welcome back!

Te Waharua Talent Show

Room 2's Talented Contestant's 

Congratulations to Mia, Luciele, Kingston, Lucas and Phoenix for their fantastic performance's at Te Waharua's Talent Show. Mia and Luciele came first for performing their wonderful dance to 'Roar'. Also Kingston, Lucas and Phoenix did a great dance to 'Gangnam Style' and came second. Well done guys!!!

Strike Show

Strike Percussion Show

On Friday the whole of Waikanae School went down to the Memorial Hall to watch the Strike Percussion Show. It was an amazing but very loud show to watch. We learnt that a percussion instrument is anything that can be struck. Some examples of percussion instruments are drums, piano, and Xylophone. During the show some of the teachers and the children we asked to go up onto the stage to have a go. It was a great way to end our week at school! Check out some of the pictures below...

Food of the Week

Cabbage/Kapeti

Week 6's food of the week was Cabbage/Kapeti. Check out some of the things we learnt about our new vegetable.

• There are 3 types of Cabbage we eat in NZ red cabbage, savoy cabbage and green cabbage.
• Cabbage is good for our digestive system.
• Cabbage take around 70 days to grow from seed.
• We tried Okonomiyaki a Japanese cabbage fritter. It was delicious.
• Cabbage was used a long time ago as bandages to help with swelling. We tried cabbage bandages and we thought they felt cold, sticky and slimy. 
• We wrote imaginative stories about why we had to use a cabbage bandage to help with an injury.

Food of the Week...

Capsicum/Rapikama

Week 4's food of the week was Capsicum/Rapikama. We really enjoyed trying the this delicious vegetable and learning a few things about it.

• Capsicum comes in many different colours. The main colours are red,yellow,orange and green
• The green capsicum is the most bitter tasting, and the red is the sweetest
• Capsicum doesn't need to be pollinated by a bee to grow
• If you look at the bottom of the capsicum and it has 3 bumps it is a boy, and if it has 4 bumps it is a girl.
• Capsicum is part of the chilies family
• Capsicum can be used in many different dishes such as on pizza, in salads, by itself.
• We found out that Capsicum floats
• We tried some sliced capsicum and made our own little pizzas. It was delicious!

Next week's food of the week is... Cabbage!!!

Food of the Week

Egg/Heki

Week 3's food of the week was Egg. Check out some of the things we learnt below...

• Eggs are a good source of protein.
• Some hens can lay up to 300 eggs a year
• We did a science experiment- you put an egg in a glass filled with white vinegar... after a few days the egg shell disappears. When we took the egg out of the glass we dropped it from a small height and it bounced!! We dropped it a second time for a high height and it broke!
• When the hens eat meal/food like corn that is yellow, it turns their yolks a lovely rich yellowish colour.
• Chickens love to eat silverbeet and worms.
• If you feed chickens shells that have been ground up it makes their shells nice and strong so they don't break as easily
• It takes 21 days for a baby chick to grow inside an egg

Food of the Week...

Celery/Herewi

Week 2's food of the week was Celery/Herewi. We found out Celery is a delicious and interesting vegetable! Check out some of the things we learnt below!

• Did you know you can eat every part of the celery- stalks, leaves and seeds.
• Celery is made up of 95% of water.
• It takes around 110-130 days to grow.
• Celery needs lots and lots of water!
• We did a science experiment where we put the celery stalks into glass of water with food colouring. Over the course of the week we watched the stalks and leaves change to the colour of the water! It was amazing!!!
• We stuffed celery with cream cheese, chives and lemons juice! We also tried it with some crunchy peanut butter. Yum yum!
• Celery is a natural toothbrush. Because you have to chew it so much when you eat it.

Next week's food of the week is.... EGGS!!

Food of the Week...

Pumpkin/Paukena

Week 1's food of the week was Pumpkin/Paukena. We really enjoyed learning about this vegetable check out some of the things we learnt and did below.

• Did you know the biggest pumpkin in the world weighed 911kg!! 
• We learnt that in New Zealand we grow Crown, Butternut, Buttercup and Halloween pumpkins. 
• We made delicious pumpkin dip made out of a Butternut pumpkin (Everyone tried it). 
• We also did a science experiment to see whether pumpkin would sink of float. 
• We found out that our cut up pieces of butternut pumpkin sunk but cut up pieces of crown pumpkin float, and that a whole pumpkin floats too not matter what kind! 
• We tried pumpkin seeds and really liked them
• We learnt that it takes around 110 days to grow a pumpkin and that they the seeds should be planted in November/December

We are all really looking forward to the new food of the week next week which is ....CELERY!

Check out this pumpkin paddling video!!!