Hello
During Term 3  middle school were very lucky to go on a school trip to the Waitakere Ranges and visit the Arataki Visitor Centre.
Our Learning focus at school was Save Our Forests. This was the perfect place to visit. Children were introduced to the life processes of a forest and the ecology. It was a great way to motivate and experience a real forest habitat. It was an amazing day and we learnt so much!!

We found a spaceship there and had to help the aliens find evidence of life in the forest. 

Markel is using a microscope to                                       investigate the bark.

    

                       Angie has found a beautiful fern                                                                        

What have these girls found?

 There is so much to see with a microscope.

                             Lani is feeling the texture                                                                                             while blindfolded.

Room 20 deserves a lunch break after all that investigating!

 What a magnificent day!!We have learnt so much and saved the alien.