Does your school have a local stream?
In Room 6 we have been learning about how to take care of our stream. We were learning about the rubbish near our stream and how this can get out into our ocean.
Some of the things we have learned are:
It is important to NOT put rubbish in or near our rivers.
Maori people used to use the stream for lots of things like bathing and fishing for eels and getting some stones for their hangi. They also used the river as a road, for padding place to place in their waka.
Maori also used a big different rock in our river as a meeting place. Captain Cook and the Maori Chief used to meet there. When the settlers came to Tairāwhiti, they didn't know this rock was special and they blew it up so that they could make the port bigger for their big ships.
We can help our environment by keeping the rubbish out of our streams.
We created these paintings because we wanted to show how special our river is to all the birds and animals.
Some of the things we enjoyed when we were creating our paintings were painting the trees and sun in the background because they are so special to us . The golden paint was really sticky, like slime. We also liked cutting out the birds and animals and sticking them on.
Some of the things that were challenging were keeping the paint inside the lines of the paper and also, painting the trees so that they looked just like the trees we really like.
Next we would like to make our trees look more sophisticated.
