Lots of the Tuataras were at the Kapa Haka performance today so we had a very small class. Àt lunchtime we all sat and had our lunch on the seats and table at the front of the school.

We also sent our arguments about trawling to the Prime Minister and worked on our iPads doing Mathletics and Sunshine reading activities

Our assembly item

Today we did an item in assembly. Some people recited their mihi and some read their skipping rhymes while people skipped to them.  We did a really fantastic job!

Our instructions

We wrote instructions for how to get to different places in the school.  We all typed them ourselves and we are doing a last check to make sure they make sense.

Mark from NIWA

We were really lucky to have Mark who is a marine biologist from NIWA visit us today.  NIWA looks at sustainability in the ocean. He used to look after the Colossal Squid at Te Papa!

We learned that there were 1000 Maui's Dolphin in the 1970s but once New Zealand starting trawl fishing, that number dropped and dropped until there was only 55!  We also learned about all the deep sea creatures that are also hurt by the trawlers nets being dragged on the ocean floor.  Here are some amazing creatures that live on New Zealand's ocean floor:

We found out lots of ways to make sure we have a more sustainable ocean environment, which will help protect the Maui's Dolphin, like not using plastic bags, eating non-native sealife (like salmon), adopting a beach or a dolphin and using sustainable power like solar and wind.

As we were leaving, Mark showed us the beak of a Colossal Squid.  Wow!