Click on the images above to go directly to the website & take a look for yourself. You can zoom in and turn the globe around should you wish to explore. Be warned though, several hours can pass quickly once you get started. I'd love to hear what you think!
This animated weather map is not only fascinating, but it is also breathtakingly beautiful. It provides you with a visual view of global weather conditions forecast by supercomputers & is updated every three hours. Ocean surface current estimates are updated every 5 days. You can even choose to view weather patterns by humidity, temperature, air density or by wind power density. The NZ image below shows the upcoming storm due to strike the top on the North Island this weekend. It really is quite mesmerizing!
Click on the images above to go directly to the website & take a look for yourself. You can zoom in and turn the globe around should you wish to explore. Be warned though, several hours can pass quickly once you get started. I'd love to hear what you think!
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A huge thank you to one of our lovely parents Sharyn Seabourne who came into the Learning Hub to talk to Penny & Rachel's classes (R7 & M10) about human anatomy and for explaining how our bodies work! Sharyn is a Doctor at the Wellington Hospital Emergency Department & we were thrilled to welcome her to the Learning Hub to share her expertise.
Sharyn introduced us to Eddie the skeleton who could be pieced together like a jigsaw puzzle, and the children really enjoyed working together in teams to make him whole again. Sharyn also showed the children how to listen to their heartbeat using a stethoscope! We zoomed in on some hair strands using our new microscopes, and worked in teams to deconstruct/reconstruct felt & 50cm human anatomy torsos. The children had a great time being scientists for the afternoon! Here at Island Bay School we are incredibly lucky to have the multi-talented Avie looking after us as our school caretaker. Not only is Avie an excellent caretaker, but he is also a talented musician and poet - just to mention a few! Avie very kindly took some time out of his busy schedule to share some of his poetry with Adele & Amy's classes (M12 & M13) in the library yesterday afternoon.
Avie read out three special poems;
The children asked Avie which poem was his favorite, and where he gets inspiration for his work. Thank you for sharing your poetry with us Arvie, we enjoyed it very much! Here is one of Avie's poems that is the children's favourite : ) The Caretaker - By Avie Pitch black winter's morn. Turning over the silver click, unlocking the silence of a brand new learning day. I turn on the lights on - instantly! Lighting the warmth of crayon smells, that awake the goldfish, splash! It is at this time, The school bell is silent, though I am with the hands of the clock. The teachers roll into the morning, they say "Good Morning Avie". I raise my hand. I sometimes forget that I am a grown up like them. At this early time of the day I can hear the voices of a generation, a community that will remember my face while their youth grows older, my face will grow old from their school days. Though for now, I walk through their playgrounds, pick up the forgotten clothes of forgetful children, the plastic lunches blown away with the leaves into untidy corners. Climb ladders for footballs, cricket bats, tennis balls, and reach out of trees for shoes and scissors When the school is into the full pendulum swing of knowledge, discovering planets, dinosaurs, words And numbers, flags of the world I walk past the hall to hear the choir singing in harmony. It is then within the bells of time, I tend to my gardens, turning back to green for the birdsong to return. For the restless winds Of Island Bay will blow for this evergreen time, for my children's chimes and for the children forever changing colours of season When the last bell resounds at the end of the day I'll do it all again, except, I turn the silver click the other way, for tomorrows brand new learning day It was an absolute pleasure to host the Garden Club into the Learning Hub, to see the wonderful produce that they had grown, and to watch them cook up a storm! Home made tomato sauce & baked potato wedges - YUM!!
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AuthorHi! My name is Karin Grice & I am the Learning Hub Coordinator. I will be making regular posts showcasing the amazing things that we are getting up to in the Learning Hub! Archives
March 2016
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