They're here!

How exciting! The fertilised eggs have arrived.

A lady called Jo, who is from Living Eggs, came in just after morning tea and introduced us to the 9 unhatched chicks. They are currently living in an incubator which provides the eggs with the necessary warmth and moisture that they require. As responsible guardians for the chicks, we have to ensure that the eggs are safe, have a temperature of 37.7 degrees and have enough water topped up in the water trays. The water trays aren't there to drink from. They actually react with the heat from the heating element at the top of the incubator and create some humidity which forms moisture. The moisture keeps the egg from drying up so that the chick can hatch easily.

One of our eggs is pipping already! This means the chick is beginning to use its egg tooth to break free. Miss Berry even heard the chick inside chirping away and the little egg was rocking backwards and forwards at 3.15pm today. We think this might be the first one to hatch! Yay!

Once they have begun to hatch, we will transfer them into the brooder. We must make sure that they are completely dry and ready before they move to their next home though. They also can't go alone and must go with a buddy. After all, wouldn't you be lonely if you had to move into a strange house with your friends or family?
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Miss Berry has organised us into groups so we can complete the daily

 jobs that will ensure we look after the chicks responsibly. We'll update later on in the week to share how it's going!

Hatching Chicks!

G'day/Kia ora/hello,

In Henderson class, we have been very busy since the start of term 3 - which is now 3 weeks ago!! We started with a new teacher - Miss Berry - and have been working hard on our fresh start and positive attitude.

So far we been looking deeply into oral hygiene - which basically means how we can care for our teeth and mouth. We heard a little rumour that some of our favourite drinks, which were full of sugar, are actually pretty bad for out teeth so we set up a little investigation to see just how bad they were.

Boiled eggs make a great substitute for teeth as they have the soft interior like the pulp and dentine but also a hard shell exterior like our teeth enamel. We chose to investigate the effect of Gatorade, Coca Cola, Lift, coffee, milk and water. To our surprise, within a couple of days Gatorade began to erode away the top brown surface of the egg shell and it wasn't long before some ants invaded on all the cups with the sugary drinks in.

So we can conclude that water and milk are the best drinks for our teeth as they made little change (and the ants weren't interested). Coffee seemed to make our egg turn dark which is why some people who drink tea and coffee have discoloured teeth. The other drinks really should be avoided or only drunk on very special occasions and through a straw to protect our poor teeth.

Crazy huh?!

This week is going to be very exciting! We will be having an incubator installed into our classroom and more eggs! Only this time they are living eggs which will eventually hatch into chicks. We really will have to be responsible and respectful learners taking care for these delicate eggs. Hopefully we'll have better results then the eggs we submerged into liquids!

Stay tuned for more updates throughout the next few weeks. We can't wait!!!

Tapa Cloth

This week Henderson Class looked at different Tapa cloth and how they were made. We learned about the meaning of the designs and what they were used for. We then used tradition patterns mixed with our own designs to create our own tapa cloth. We went over our designs with Indian ink and then scrunched our papers up and covered them in brown dye. This made them look like real tapa cloth! Check out some our art below and let us know what you think!

Cultural Day

Today Henderson Class had an awesome time learning all about India! We got to make Mango Lassi and put on Henna (also known as Mendhi) on our hands. We also hosted the Cultural Day Assembly. Check out our video below!

Ports of Auckland

This week the senior students at Hay Park got the opportunity to go to the Ports of Auckland. We were dropped near the wharf and made our way to Silo Park. Unfortunately it began to rain, so we had to turn around and walk to The cloud. This is where we stopped to relax and have our lunch. After that we walked to the Maritime Museum to meet our tour guides. This was followed by an awesome cruise around the Auckland Harbour and learned lots of interesting facts. Check out our photos below!

Have you ever explored the Auckland Harbour? 

Skateboarding

This term the students in Henderson Class have learnt to Skateboard! It has been so much fun and we have made such awesome progress. Check out our photos below.

Samoan Week

This week in Henderson Class we learned some interesting information about Samoa. This included looking at Miss Tau's Samoan artefacts and learning about them. One of the artefacts we really liked was the war weapon. It was made out of wood and had carved Samoan patterns on it. These patterns were similar to the tatoo patterns Samoan men and women get. We also learned some Samoan words to use when talking to our friends. One of these was "o a mai oe?". This means "how are you?". Do you know any other samoan phrases we can learn?