Something Fishy in Kea 1

On Tuesday, Kea1 (Mrs Whitehead's class) were having a special eel day with Paul the fish man, Wai Care Kate, and Fiona and Anna from the Auckland City Council Pollution Response team.

Kea1 put a special assembly on for the Intermediate Team, where all the visitors came and watched them present their awesome assembly. Velvet, the travelling tapestry eel, * was on display and went all the way around the hall.









Then, Huia2 and Huia1 went up to Kea1 to look at their presentation: eels, pictures of eels, things that can happen to the long fin eels and short fin eels and other sea creatures and a lot more things. My favorite thing in their class room was the eels and the game you went and played with Anna. She would show you two pictures of streams and you had to tell her what one was natural and what one was polluted. When she asked me what one was natural and what one was polluted we all said the one that looked the worst was polluted and the best looking one was natural - but it was actually the one that looked worst that was natural, so that was really interesting.


After school, Mrs Whitehead was in her classroom and you could go to her classroom or the hall after school. If you went to the hall, some boys would show you Velvet the eel, but if you went to Mrs Whitehead's class you could see the eel and all the other things.

Fiona showed us how to make our own fizzy drink and Paul let us hold and touch the eel.When everyone got there Mrs Whitehead said there is not really anything to do besides to feed us.

At the end of the day it was a fun and interesting day.

By Shayla

Here's a short video about the long fin eel.

Kea 1 have been involved in a study and clean-up of the Puhinui Stream.

Kea 1's eel puppet show.

Thanks Mrs Whitehead and Kea 1 for all the effort and work you have put into this. We learned a lot from visiting your room.
* 41 minute long video about Velvet the Eel