Shiloh's Pigs

Weeeeeeee!  Shiloh likes to ride on his 2 Kunekune pigs.  Kunekune means big and fat in Maori.  The pigs like our food scraps.

Written by Fynn

The pigs look like greedy pigs.  The pig's names are Spotty and Ginger.  They have short tails.  They are called Kunekune pigs.  Shiloh sometimes gets to ride on their backs.  Ginger makes the most sounds like squealing and grunting.

Written by Sydney

Wow.  Shiloh I love your pigs.  I bring mandarins every day and I put my mandarin skins in the pig bucket.  They are getting humongous so Shiloh can eat them.  Shiloh even gets to ride on them.  They try to eat the chickens.  The pigs sleep in a wood bin.  Pigs make a lot of noise.  The pigs are called Kunekune pigs.

Written by Bree

Wow!  Big pigs!  Shiloh has two big fat pigs at home.  Sometimes he rides on their backs.  At school we are putting our food scraps in a red bucket so they don't go to the landfill and make a giant rubbish hill.  

Written by Jenna

Shiloh has 2 pigs.  They are hairy and noisy.  Their names are Ginger and Spotty.  They have dry hair.  Shiloh said they are hard.  One has black on it and it has white spots.  Ginger has black spots and ginger hair.

Written by Alicia

Manuka Hub's Litter Free Wednesday

We noticed that our lunch boxes have a lot of gladwrap, chippie and muesli bar packets etc that cannot be recycled. Manuka Hub children decided to reduce the amount of rubbish we are sending to the landfill by collecting food scraps for Shiloh's pigs, recycling our yoghurt containers and any other packaging that can be recycled and trying to make our lunchboxes litter free.

On Wednesday we had our very first 'litter free Wednesday'  

What an amazing effort!

We were so proud of the effort everyone made to make changes in how their lunch is packaged.

We know that even if we change just one thing in our lunchbox to litter free packaging we are reducing the size of our landfill.

Look at these lunchboxes. Not one thing needs to go in the rubbish! Keep it up Room 1!

Kapa Haka

Bree, Ahniqua, Riley, Ayden and Fynn performed in their first ever Kapa Haka festival on Tuesday. They did an amazing job and made us very proud!

Kahurangi Dance Company

It was a great way to kick off Matariki celebrations - Kahurangi Dance Company performed some local myths and legends. It was a very entertaining show!

We're Going on a Walnut Hunt!

We're learning to add detail to our stories to help paint a picture in the reader's mind.  Can you spot the 'wow' words we used to describe the walnuts?

We went on a walnut hunt.  We walked through the forest hunting for a walnut tree.  Then we swished through the leaves looking for the walnuts.  I found some bumpy brown walnuts on the ground.  I love walnuts.

Ahniqua

I filled my basket up.  We found the little, bumpy walnuts under the leaves.  They are hard, bumpy, little and very wrinkly. 

Bree

We went on a walnut hunt today.  We found walnuts by the walnut tree.  They are little and bumpy.  I have not ever had a walnut.

Alexia

Today we went for a big walnut hunt.  I found heaps of hard, bumpy walnuts.  They were on the ground and we had to search through the leaves. 

Jenna

We went on a walnut hunt.  Max got 1 and I got heaps.  They felt bumpy and dirty.  We had a basket to carry them back to Room 1.

Fynn

PRIDE Award

Great job Alexia! You have been doing great writing, listening to all the sounds and adding great detail. Fantastic! Keep it  up!

Our Visit to the Transfer Station and Landfill

Out first stop was at the Transfer Station.  This is where we can take our rubbish and recycling or things we no longer need.  It is called a transfer station because our recycling and rubbish is sorted and transferred to its new home.  

Did you know that a school polar fleece is made out of 6 recycled bottles?

Chris showed us what we can recycle.  In Hawke's Bay we can recycle things that have the recycling numbers 1-7.  We can't recycle gladwrap, chippie and muesli bar packets, shopping bags and the new milk bottles that keep out the light.   

We got to put some of Chris' recycling into the big recycling containers.  Look at all the things that we can't recycle!

Did you know that 2.5 kg of rubbish per person, per day is created in NZ!

When cars and trucks come in to dump rubbish they are weighed.  We hopped on the scales and altogether room 1 weighed 940 kg!  It would cost $140 to dump us.

Look at all the rubbish!  The grader pushes the rubbish down a chute and into a truck.

Here is the  big truck, heading down to the rubbish chute. 

We hopped back on the bus and headed to the landfill.  This is where all the rubbish from the transfer station is taken.

We drove up a big hill and looked down on the landfill.  The working area is never bigger than a rugby field. 

The big truck took all the rubbish to the landfill.  Here it is unloading.  We saw lots of rubbish trucks too.

There were lots of machines moving the rubbish.

There were lots of seagulls because seagulls like to eat all the food scraps we throw away.

We wore high visibility vests to keep us safe.

On the fences all around the landfill are perfume bottles that spray the air.  

Look at the wheels of the crusher truck.   The crusher truck pushes down rubbish to make it as small as possible.

We found out that the big hill we were on is actually a big hill of rubbish.  There are pipes coming out of the hill.  They take out the methane gas.

This is a leachate pond.  All the yucky water from the landfill is cleaned so it can be used to water the grass and trees.  

The methane gas is turned into electricity.  

How can we make our big rubbish piles smaller so Hawke's Bay doesn't turn into hills of rubbish?

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!

Let's do it!!!!!!!!!