Expert SOS!

We have spent this year doing lots of mini research projects as a class about different creatures and plants.  We are working on becoming more proficient using devices to do our own mini research project on a creature of our choice.  We identified what things were tricky about doing research online:

...then we called on some experts for support.  Kia ora, Kea!

Slug art

Jax bought us in a wonderful slug whare to use today, and we got some leopard slugs from Lochie and some enormous deroceras reticulatum slugs from Conal.  Thank you!

We did some mucus trail art today, too.  Come and check them out in person, they are very subtle but effective!

Slug hunting!

Do you know which creature has a mantle, one powerful foot, thousands of teeth, has two sets of tentacles, is both a boy and a girl, creates mucus just by absorbing moisture from its surroundings, and a pneumostome (opening into its one lung?)  Rereroa does! It's the mighty slug...

We know so much about their lifecycle, their amazing features, and why they are so slimy.  Please ask us about slugs!

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We had a slug in class today and did some observations and named it.  We were quite taken aback by its speed, and how much it moves its optical tentacles around.

(Those black stalks are its optical tentacles):

We decided to go on a slug hunt, as we know that a slug's habitat is damp, dark, and preferably near food.  Our kura garden was the perfect place to find slugs, but we were unlucky in our hunt this time.

Then we let our slug out to create a mucus trail.  We measured the time and distance travelled, and discovered our slug can travel a pretty impressive 0.1km/h.  We also worked out our speeds too, and most of travel at about 2.9km/h to 3.9km/h.  We are much quicker than a slug, but we do have two feet!

We can login to Chromebooks!

We are learning how to login to Google docs at the moment.  We are already getting pretty quick at logging in!  Amazing mahi and amazing teamwork.  We are publishing what we learnt from Hiwi the Kiwi about fishing for life and water safety, the show we went to on Monday morning.