Trip to Muriwai

We had a great day at Muriwai. We went as part of our inquiry around Environment. We wanted to see the gannets - takapu-  that go to Muriwai every October to nest and have their young. After the chicks are about four months old they leave and fly all the way to Australia. They come back to New Zealand again after a couple of years to have their own young.

We are looking at the sand dunes. We have been learning why it is important to protect our sand dunes by planting spinifex and pingao.

This sand is so soft and silky. It is black because of the iron ore.

Wow. Look at all the gannets nesting on the rocks. How do they know which one is their nest?

We had fun using the magnets to get the iron ore out of the sand.

We could get really close to the gannets.

Look how busy we are writing in our Muriwai booklets.

Visitors from Kristin School

We had some students from Kristin School come to the Year 3 classes. They read a story with us and shared an activity to do afterwards. We went down to the hall to play some games. They even brought lunch for us all!