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Saturday, July 26, 2008
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Week 9 Term 2 2008
This week was our last week together as Mrs Rennie-Younger is going to teach at Sunnybrae Normal School next term so we had a lot to finish off this week.
Our main focus was to finish off the movie we started at the beginning of the term – a reflection of our inquiry in term 1. It was so rewarding to see the whole project come together by the end of the week. We viewed it on the last day and parents who came in early viewed it with us as we watched it for the second time. As we said goodbye to each other every student went away with their own copy of the video to cherish and share with their families and friends.
Having worked so hard for the first half of the year we decided to go and have some ‘fun’ with bubbles on our last day together. The pictures below say it all.
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As I sign off for the last time on Northcote3 I would like to say thank you to all the people who have supported the teaching and learning programme in room3. Room 3 is a very special group of students who have worked so hard and achieved so much. They truly show that – ‘The desire to learn is a powerful thing.’
Friday, June 27, 2008
Week 8 Term 2 2008
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This week was so exciting as Wednesday we present the school assembly. We each had a speaking part. We shared some of the things we have done this year, 4 children recited their favourite poem we’d learnt this year and we showed the school in a power point all the wonderful things we have done with kidpix. Some of our parents came to watch. At the end they came and took photos of us on the stage and told us how great we were.
Below are the latest fire engines pictures we have created with kidpix. We will add more pictures as they are finished.
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This week we have also worked on the video we are making of last terms learning. We hope to have this finished by the end of week 9. Below is the lovely praying mantis Tara made on kidpix, The finished video will be made available to parents who would like a copy.
This week was so exciting as Wednesday we present the school assembly. We each had a speaking part. We shared some of the things we have done this year, 4 children recited their favourite poem we’d learnt this year and we showed the school in a power point all the wonderful things we have done with kidpix. Some of our parents came to watch. At the end they came and took photos of us on the stage and told us how great we were.
Below are the latest fire engines pictures we have created with kidpix. We will add more pictures as they are finished.
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This week we have also worked on the video we are making of last terms learning. We hope to have this finished by the end of week 9. Below is the lovely praying mantis Tara made on kidpix, The finished video will be made available to parents who would like a copy.
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Week 7 Term 2 2008
We have had another very busy week at school. On Monday the community constable came to talk to us, she came with some funny hats and we had to help her find her correct hat.
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On Wednesday we had an entertaining visit from Harrison’s mother Alison who is a hairdresser. She cut Harrison’s Nana’s hair for us and showed us how you can do highlights in hair using a special cap. She then sprayed some of our hair with interesting colours and sparkles – Mr Tim’s even had his hair sprayed ! Mrs Rennie-Younger had her hair straightened. Charlotte wanted to know how many colours you can put in your hair? She was delighted to hear the answer – which was as many as you like! Alison showed us all very tools and explained how she had to train to be a hairdresser.
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We talked about how even as an adult you have to ‘keep trying’ when learning new skills which is just like the shared book we have had this week called ‘Keep Trying’
On Thursday we had a visit from Mike – the weatherman on T.V 3. He got people to pretend to be weather presenters. He showed us video clips of him and on Friday night he mentioned our school on the T.V – we are stars.
Our understanding of what a community is, is developing as we understand that within our community people do different jobs because no one person can be an expert at everything.
We have finally finished our labelling of the fireman using kidpix. – we are becoming increasing skilled at using the kidpix programme.
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We are now drawing fire engines using kidpix. Here is Georgia’s fire engine. We will post all the fire engines when they are finished.
Below are the life cycle kidpix pictures we finished at the beginning of the term – we thought you might like to see them.
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On Wednesday we had an entertaining visit from Harrison’s mother Alison who is a hairdresser. She cut Harrison’s Nana’s hair for us and showed us how you can do highlights in hair using a special cap. She then sprayed some of our hair with interesting colours and sparkles – Mr Tim’s even had his hair sprayed ! Mrs Rennie-Younger had her hair straightened. Charlotte wanted to know how many colours you can put in your hair? She was delighted to hear the answer – which was as many as you like! Alison showed us all very tools and explained how she had to train to be a hairdresser.
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We talked about how even as an adult you have to ‘keep trying’ when learning new skills which is just like the shared book we have had this week called ‘Keep Trying’
On Thursday we had a visit from Mike – the weatherman on T.V 3. He got people to pretend to be weather presenters. He showed us video clips of him and on Friday night he mentioned our school on the T.V – we are stars.
Our understanding of what a community is, is developing as we understand that within our community people do different jobs because no one person can be an expert at everything.
We have finally finished our labelling of the fireman using kidpix. – we are becoming increasing skilled at using the kidpix programme.
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We are now drawing fire engines using kidpix. Here is Georgia’s fire engine. We will post all the fire engines when they are finished.
Below are the life cycle kidpix pictures we finished at the beginning of the term – we thought you might like to see them.
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Sunday, June 15, 2008
Week 6 Term 2 2008
This week we had a magical visit from Conor’s dad and members of the police service. We saw a dog handler, team policing van, motorbikes, police car and the police helicopter flew overhead. We got to listen to the police officers, sit on the motorbikes and in the team policing van as well as finding out answers to some of our questions.
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We have also each written a narrative about a chef who has problems icing a wedding cake and read a shared book about a gardener.
Late one night a lazy chef was making a cake when the icing dripped down the cake. “Oh bother” said the chef. I will make the icing again. He made it looked stunning. He put the bride on the cake and ribbons and bows. He took the cake to the wedding and the people looked at the cake and thought it was beautiful.
By Madeleine
Late one night the lazy chef made a cake for a wedding. The icing melted on the cake. The icing raced down the cake like a waterfall. The chef rang up another chef “make some new icing” said the chef. So the chef made some more icing. He put the bride and groom on the top of the cake. He took the cake to the wedding. The people thought it was fabulous.
By Josie
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We have also each written a narrative about a chef who has problems icing a wedding cake and read a shared book about a gardener.
Late one night a lazy chef was making a cake when the icing dripped down the cake. “Oh bother” said the chef. I will make the icing again. He made it looked stunning. He put the bride on the cake and ribbons and bows. He took the cake to the wedding and the people looked at the cake and thought it was beautiful.
By Madeleine
Late one night the lazy chef made a cake for a wedding. The icing melted on the cake. The icing raced down the cake like a waterfall. The chef rang up another chef “make some new icing” said the chef. So the chef made some more icing. He put the bride and groom on the top of the cake. He took the cake to the wedding. The people thought it was fabulous.
By Josie
Week5 Term 2 2008
This week we had a visit from the St John service. We learnt a lot about how they help people and how if we ever have to ring for an ambulance we need to be able to tell the person we talk to our name , address and phone number as well as tell them who needs to be helped. We got to use old telephones to practise ringing 111 by saying go1 go1 go1.
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The fire engines we painted last week are on display in our room along with the personal recounts we wrote about their visit.
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On Friday we got to watch the dress rehearsal of J rock- it was so exciting to see some of the children we knew in it.
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The fire engines we painted last week are on display in our room along with the personal recounts we wrote about their visit.
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On Friday we got to watch the dress rehearsal of J rock- it was so exciting to see some of the children we knew in it.
Friday, May 30, 2008
Week 4 Term 2 2008
We have had a very busy week at school this week with a lot of exciting events. On Tuesday we were invited into Room 6 to listen to Jamie’s grandad. Jamie’s grandad is a doctor. He showed us a lot of interesting equipment and a skeleton. We were fascinated.
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On Wednesday we were expecting the firemen from Birkenhead fire station to visit when we heard a fire engine race down the road – off to a quick emergency in Devonport. They returned a short time later entered our drop off zone when they were off again – this time to a transformer fire in Northcote. There were a lot of disappointed five year olds, which resulted in a great discussion about priorities for the fire fighters. Thursday’s visit was kept a bit of a surprise and when we spotted the fire engine from our classroom there were great jumps for joy and screams of delight as the photo below shows.
The visit from the fire fighters was so informative and we were able to find out answers to our questions. The fire fighters put on their boots before getting into the fire engine where they put on their jackets and helmets. The fire engine does hold water in a water tank holding 1300 litres. When they get to a fire they can use it if they need to. It lasts about 6 minutes. Before they leave after the fire they fill up the tank again as they are not allowed to travel the streets with an empty tank.
We also asked about the position of the ladder on the fire engines because we’d seen ladders on the side of fire engines in books. They told us that in New Zealand the ladders are always on the top of the fire engine although the ladders on the new fire engines will be on the back. Ladders are on the side of fire engines in America and England.
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We got to look through the fire engine and sit in front of the fan they use to clear smoke. The fan was put on to great squeals of delight as our hair went everywhere. Sitting back in front of the fire engine the fire fighters instructed us to move they had been called to go to a fire. We moved immediately and watched as they raced out of our school grounds.
We are busy painting fire engines and will write about their visit next week. Look out for them on next weeks blog entry.
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On Wednesday we were expecting the firemen from Birkenhead fire station to visit when we heard a fire engine race down the road – off to a quick emergency in Devonport. They returned a short time later entered our drop off zone when they were off again – this time to a transformer fire in Northcote. There were a lot of disappointed five year olds, which resulted in a great discussion about priorities for the fire fighters. Thursday’s visit was kept a bit of a surprise and when we spotted the fire engine from our classroom there were great jumps for joy and screams of delight as the photo below shows.
The visit from the fire fighters was so informative and we were able to find out answers to our questions. The fire fighters put on their boots before getting into the fire engine where they put on their jackets and helmets. The fire engine does hold water in a water tank holding 1300 litres. When they get to a fire they can use it if they need to. It lasts about 6 minutes. Before they leave after the fire they fill up the tank again as they are not allowed to travel the streets with an empty tank.
We also asked about the position of the ladder on the fire engines because we’d seen ladders on the side of fire engines in books. They told us that in New Zealand the ladders are always on the top of the fire engine although the ladders on the new fire engines will be on the back. Ladders are on the side of fire engines in America and England.
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We got to look through the fire engine and sit in front of the fan they use to clear smoke. The fan was put on to great squeals of delight as our hair went everywhere. Sitting back in front of the fire engine the fire fighters instructed us to move they had been called to go to a fire. We moved immediately and watched as they raced out of our school grounds.
We are busy painting fire engines and will write about their visit next week. Look out for them on next weeks blog entry.
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Week 3 Term 2 2008
This week we have written captions for the photos we each took last week. These are on display in our room.
Below are a few examples of our work.
Mrs Woodcock helps us in the library. She collects the books. She puts the books on the shelf. She scans the books. She helps us. She gets the books that we need. Every week she has a new book for us. We like going to the library.
By Josie
Anne makes the lunches. We take our box to Anne on Thursday’s and Friday’s. She smiles at us.
By Georgia
Miss Cousins helps us. Miss Cousins is the room 2. She helps us. She is kind.
By Ben
We have talked about our school community and discussed why people do different jobs within it. Here are some of our thoughts –
Charlotte said “we all do different jobs to make our school a great school” Grace said “ if we all help the big jobs get done quicker” Several of us thought that it helped to make our school run smoothly.
We were sitting in class this week when a fire engine raced down the road with its siren blazing. We were drawn to the window and watched it. This led us to start investigating how firemen help us. We have read a number of books and have shared our knowledge of firemen and what to do in a fire. Also on Wednesday the ambulance drove into our school grounds as two children had fallen off the playground equipment and needed to be taken to the hospital to check their arms. Our investigation on how people in our wider community help us has begun!
On Friday we planted the hibiscus plants we bought to attract butterflies into our school grounds. Jinx's the friendly neighbourhood cat joined in as Mr Parkinson our caretaker planted the hibiscus.
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Below are a few examples of our work.
Mrs Woodcock helps us in the library. She collects the books. She puts the books on the shelf. She scans the books. She helps us. She gets the books that we need. Every week she has a new book for us. We like going to the library.
By Josie
Anne makes the lunches. We take our box to Anne on Thursday’s and Friday’s. She smiles at us.
By Georgia
Miss Cousins helps us. Miss Cousins is the room 2. She helps us. She is kind.
By Ben
We have talked about our school community and discussed why people do different jobs within it. Here are some of our thoughts –
Charlotte said “we all do different jobs to make our school a great school” Grace said “ if we all help the big jobs get done quicker” Several of us thought that it helped to make our school run smoothly.
We were sitting in class this week when a fire engine raced down the road with its siren blazing. We were drawn to the window and watched it. This led us to start investigating how firemen help us. We have read a number of books and have shared our knowledge of firemen and what to do in a fire. Also on Wednesday the ambulance drove into our school grounds as two children had fallen off the playground equipment and needed to be taken to the hospital to check their arms. Our investigation on how people in our wider community help us has begun!
On Friday we planted the hibiscus plants we bought to attract butterflies into our school grounds. Jinx's the friendly neighbourhood cat joined in as Mr Parkinson our caretaker planted the hibiscus.
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
Week 2 Term 2 2008
We have finished off our inquiry on ‘discovering our backyard’ by writing a personal recount about planting our planter box. Three of our personal recounts were shared in this week’s newsletter.
We planted some plants. I looked at the flowers. The flowers looked pretty. We put the box with the flowers in by the post. Then we watered the plants. Then I showed the flowers to Mum.
By Grace
I went to plant the flowers. I put the soil in. I put the flower in the box in the middle. We watered the flowers. The box looks stunning. We hope the butterflies land on the flowers.
By Georgia
I went outside to plant the flowers. I put the dirt in the box. I put it by the post.
By Ben
This week we have started this terms topic of ‘discovering people who help us in our community’. Through this topic we are going to explore the following questions – What is a community? Why do people belong to a community?
We started by looking at our school community. We listed all the people who help us within our school. Next we took our class camera and went in search of the people we listed. Each of us in turn took a photo of the people we found – it was great fun. Next week we will write captions to go with our photos and will display them in our classroom.
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Week 1 Term 2 2008
This week we were delighted to look at an email sent by ‘the butterfly lady’ with photos attached of a butterfly being tagged. We have also looked at comments left on our blog – it’s so exciting to be left messages.
We recapped our learning from last term and made a shopping list of all the things we needed to buy at the garden centre. Every class sent a representative to the garden centre. We were all keen to go so after a discussion it was decided to pull a name out of a box of all the names in our class. Using this approach Kaiyu became our representative.
On Wednesday afternoon with our shopping list in hand Kaiyu went to the garden centre. At the garden centre the group spoke with Astrid – an expert on gardening. She provided the children with a pamphlet which explained which plants to plant to attract butterflies. Interestingly the pamphlet referred to the monarch butterfly site we had already looked at as a class. Astrid showed the children which flowers from the list that were available for planting and the children helped to load up the trolley with kale, verbena, and dianthus.
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Back at school – On Thursday Kaiyu and the other representatives talked about their experiences before we planted up our planter boxes. We all helped to fill the box with soil and to water the plants. It was a great afternoon. Mrs Heasman came out to see us and was very pleased. It was a great afternoon and at the end when we looked at our planter box and we felt very proud of our efforts. One of the children in the Totara Team walked by and said we’d made our school look beautiful. It was a fantastic way to conclude a wonderful inquiry on discovering our backyard.
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We have also displayed the butterfly art we finished at the end of last term. We have also begun working on kidpix again, this time to show the life cycle of a butterfly. We will post these when they are finished.
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We recapped our learning from last term and made a shopping list of all the things we needed to buy at the garden centre. Every class sent a representative to the garden centre. We were all keen to go so after a discussion it was decided to pull a name out of a box of all the names in our class. Using this approach Kaiyu became our representative.
On Wednesday afternoon with our shopping list in hand Kaiyu went to the garden centre. At the garden centre the group spoke with Astrid – an expert on gardening. She provided the children with a pamphlet which explained which plants to plant to attract butterflies. Interestingly the pamphlet referred to the monarch butterfly site we had already looked at as a class. Astrid showed the children which flowers from the list that were available for planting and the children helped to load up the trolley with kale, verbena, and dianthus.
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Back at school – On Thursday Kaiyu and the other representatives talked about their experiences before we planted up our planter boxes. We all helped to fill the box with soil and to water the plants. It was a great afternoon. Mrs Heasman came out to see us and was very pleased. It was a great afternoon and at the end when we looked at our planter box and we felt very proud of our efforts. One of the children in the Totara Team walked by and said we’d made our school look beautiful. It was a fantastic way to conclude a wonderful inquiry on discovering our backyard.
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We have also displayed the butterfly art we finished at the end of last term. We have also begun working on kidpix again, this time to show the life cycle of a butterfly. We will post these when they are finished.
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Saturday, May 3, 2008
Week 11 Term 1 2008
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This week we have been busy investigating the cost of planting some flowers in a planter box. We emailed our Principal Mrs Heasman to seek permission. She sent us back an email to let us know we could plant some flowers and had some questions she wanted us to answer. We sent another email answering all her questions and to let her know that we are very excited about planting flowers in our school grounds. It will be a great way to start the term after the holidays.
We were very excited to get a message on our blog from ‘the butterfly lady’ and have sent her an email attaching photos of some of our work and have asked her if she has ever tagged a monarch butterfly.
We have also written some facts about butterflies and moths and the differences between them as well as something we knew that was the same about them. These facts are to go with the wonderful moths and butterflies we drew on the computer using kidpix. This work is on display in our classroom.
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This week we have been busy investigating the cost of planting some flowers in a planter box. We emailed our Principal Mrs Heasman to seek permission. She sent us back an email to let us know we could plant some flowers and had some questions she wanted us to answer. We sent another email answering all her questions and to let her know that we are very excited about planting flowers in our school grounds. It will be a great way to start the term after the holidays.
We were very excited to get a message on our blog from ‘the butterfly lady’ and have sent her an email attaching photos of some of our work and have asked her if she has ever tagged a monarch butterfly.
We have also written some facts about butterflies and moths and the differences between them as well as something we knew that was the same about them. These facts are to go with the wonderful moths and butterflies we drew on the computer using kidpix. This work is on display in our classroom.
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Saturday, April 12, 2008
Week 10 Term1 2008
This week we wandered around our school grounds to see if we had any plants or flowers that would attract butterflies into our school grounds. While we were very happy to find a hibiscus plant, we found that our school grounds had the most beautiful trees BUT very few flowers
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Later we discussed what we think we should do about it. Grace thought we should plant some seeds and grow some flowers. Charlotte thought we should buy some plants from the garden centre and plant them in a pot. Tony thought we should plant some more hibiscus plants. Harrison shared that to grow flowers or plants we need sun, and rain Grace added and soil. Next week we are going to take this investigation further and find out what and who we have to contact to undertake planting in our school grounds.
Also this week class members brought in some interesting things to share – Kaiyu brought in wetas he'd found in his parden, another class member brought in a leaf eaten by something. She was sure a caterpillar had been munching the leaf but wasn’t able to find it anywhere.
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Later we discussed what we think we should do about it. Grace thought we should plant some seeds and grow some flowers. Charlotte thought we should buy some plants from the garden centre and plant them in a pot. Tony thought we should plant some more hibiscus plants. Harrison shared that to grow flowers or plants we need sun, and rain Grace added and soil. Next week we are going to take this investigation further and find out what and who we have to contact to undertake planting in our school grounds.
Also this week class members brought in some interesting things to share – Kaiyu brought in wetas he'd found in his parden, another class member brought in a leaf eaten by something. She was sure a caterpillar had been munching the leaf but wasn’t able to find it anywhere.
Friday, April 4, 2008
Week 9 Term 1 2008
This week we have explored the life cycle of the butterfly. We have watched a video clip of a caterpillar emerging from its egg case from the monarch butterfly site. It was so amazing we watched it over and over again – inviting rooms 2 and 3 to join us.
From the same website we looked at a power point put together by the ‘butterfly lady’. We learnt how to tell a difference between a female and male monarch butterfly as well as what plants monarch butterflies liked to get nectar from. One of these flowers is the hibiscus. The next day one of the class members brought in a hibiscus flower to show us.
We have also used the kidpix computer programme to draw ladybugs
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At the end of the week we used props and costumes to retell the lifecycle of the butterfly. Oh the fun we had. We videoed each section and hope to put it together as a little video.
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Sunday, March 30, 2008
Week 8 Term 1
Our ladybug information reports are up. Below are the ladybugs that the children drew to go with their information reports
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We have read the book ‘the praying mantis’ and have enjoyed learning all about them. When we started this inquiry we found a praying mantis on our swan plant and it stayed on that swan plant for weeks. Tara wondered if the praying mantis and butterflies were friends.
We found this website and found an answer to Tara’s question - unfortunately the praying mantis and butterflies are not friends as the praying mantis eats butterflies.
We each drew a praying mantis and next week we will write an information report on them.
This week we have also looked at the differences and similarities between moths and butterflies. We have read books and looked at a website. We presented our findings using a Venn diagram.
Monday, March 24, 2008
Week 7 Term 1 2008
We started the week by making potato hedgehogs. We had to be very careful but it was a lot of fun. Afterwards we pretended to be reporters and were videoed as we each recorded a fact about a hedgehog.
Grace had been on a ladybug hunt in the weekend and had collected ladybugs for us to look at. We decided that they were looking a bit hungry so placed them on our old swan plant covered in aphids. We watched as they began to eat them!.
We also went on to this website
where we tried to save the rose plant by getting the ladybugs to eat the aphids.
We also finished making our pet ladybugs. Just look at our faces we were so very proud of our work.
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We have written information reports about ladybugs and drawn ladybugs flying. These will be on display in our room.
On Thursday room two shared some exciting news with us – they had found a weta on the carpet in their room. They brought it through to us and we let it out on a piece of cardboard and watched it scurry across the cardboard, and hang upside down inside the container. – wow.
Grace had been on a ladybug hunt in the weekend and had collected ladybugs for us to look at. We decided that they were looking a bit hungry so placed them on our old swan plant covered in aphids. We watched as they began to eat them!.
We also went on to this website
where we tried to save the rose plant by getting the ladybugs to eat the aphids.
We also finished making our pet ladybugs. Just look at our faces we were so very proud of our work.
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We have written information reports about ladybugs and drawn ladybugs flying. These will be on display in our room.
On Thursday room two shared some exciting news with us – they had found a weta on the carpet in their room. They brought it through to us and we let it out on a piece of cardboard and watched it scurry across the cardboard, and hang upside down inside the container. – wow.
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Week 6 Term 1 2008
This week we wriggled into the classroom pretending to be worms making tunnels in the soil. It was great fun. We wrote from a worm’s perspective some of the things we did and liked. Grace shared with us that she’d made worms when she was at kindergarten – she showed us what to do and we all made one and painted it.
These are on display in our room.
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At the end of last week Jordan walked into the classroom and found a ladybug on her hand. This got us thinking – Josie wanted to know how many spots a ladybug had – Charlotte wanted to know how long they lived for. This week we have found information about ladybugs and have presented the information on a class y chart. We have also begun to make pet rock ladybugs.
Our lovely snail art work is finished and on display in our room. We did two one colourful to which we let our creative talents go wild and the other we used the good old teabag in water in attempt to get them to look like the snail we had sketched.
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Every Friday morning from 9:30- 11:00 we get together with the rest of the Kowhai team to take part in a range of activities. The children are able to move to any of the classrooms to take part in an activity that interests them. Below are some photos of the range of things the children in our class made.
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Saturday, March 8, 2008
Week 5 Term1 2008
This week we read a book called my worm house and looked at this website where we met vermi the worm. We then set about making our very own worm farm – it was a lot of fun with even some of us brave enough to pick up a wriggly squiggly worm. we put the worms on the top of the worm farm and watched them disappear down into the soil.
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Having read bubbles last week we have become fascinated with hedgehogs and have found out a lot of facts about them. We used these facts to write an information report.
We shared what we’d learnt about the worm farm with room 2 and showed them how to make one.
We changed the story of my worm house to ‘Our worm house’ by room 3 Here is the story for you to enjoy
Week 4 Term 1 2008
This week we started our inquiry on discovering our backyard. We listed all of the things we could think of that we’d find in our garden – we could think of lots.
Later in the week we headed out to butterfly creek – an opportunity to up close to not only butterflies but a range of animals. We had a lot of fun and some butterflies even landed on us.
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It was a great way to start our inquiry.
Later in the week we headed out to butterfly creek – an opportunity to up close to not only butterflies but a range of animals. We had a lot of fun and some butterflies even landed on us.
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It was a great way to start our inquiry.
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