Our+Learning

**Our Learning**

This year we have been learning about:

All About Me! We have been finding out similiar and different things about us, including... -T-shirts advertising what we did in the holidays -Multiple Intelligence test -our genes -where our family was originaly from, e.g, Scotland, France, etc -that we are unique and no one else in the whole world is exactly like us.

Zero Waste We have been talking to a lady from Zero Waste and she has been telling us how we can help keep the environment clean. Our Natural Resources are: -Silica sand to make glass -Iron sand to make steel -Oil to make plastic -Trees to make paper - Bauxite to make aliminium In Auckland there is a factory called OI Glass. 60% of the glass they make is recycled glass. On your plastic items there will be a triangle with a number on it. If the number has either a 1 or a 2 please recycle it. You can not recycle plastic with any other number. For every one glass bottle you recycle, you save enough power to run a 100 volt lightbulb for four hours.

Healthy Me This term we are having Life Education. We are learning how our bodies work. -For our Homework contract we are doing activities based on our Thinking Keys and Food. -We were visited by the Life Education caravan and learnt about the Liver, Body systems and how to read food packets

Limestone Island This year for Environmental Education we are studying Limestone Island. -We did Limestone Island activities for our Homework Contract in Term1 -We did Presentations on a topic on Limestone Island, e.g. Predator Control, How you can help...