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.

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.

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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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

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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.