Showing posts with label inquiry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inquiry. Show all posts

Tuesday, 12 November 2013

It's Show TIme!

It's nearly time!  Tomorrow we are off to the Show!

We are feeling
excited
happy
organised
a little bit scared
nervous
scared i might be late!

 We need to remember
  • a big lunch
  • a full drink bottle
  • our bag - but it only needs the things we need 
  • hat
  • a good breakfast
  • to be at school EARLY - no later than 8.45am
  • sunblock
  • a SMILE 
  • warm clothes in case it gets cold
  • to wear our school uniifrom


We thought about how we can stay safe and have the BEST time at the Show
  • remember to smile
  • stay with your adult
  • keep hydrated
  • eat lots of lunch

What Might go wrong?
  • YOu might leave your bag in the bus .... BUT we will check the buses before they go away
  • YOu might trip over ..... BUT we will have adults to take care of us and we have first aid kits just in case!
  • You might get lost .... BUT we will all have you have your teacher's cell phone number on your arm - ask an adult to ring the number
  • You can't see or touch the animals because there are too many people in front of  you .... WAIT your turn, there WILL be lots and lots of people at the show - be fair and only have  a short turn so others can also have fun
   
What we might see at the Show
  • Cows
  • lambs
  • horses
  • baby chicks
  • cattle
  • deer
  • llama
  • farmers
  • bunnies
  • ponies
  • bulls
  • farm dogs
  • goats
  • pigs
  • coloured ponies
  • elephants
  • sheep
  • donkeys
  • giraffe
  • diggers
  • ferris wheels
  • humans
  • tractors
  • magicans
  • tree chopping
  • parades
  • horse jumping
  • electric fences
  • quad bikes
  • dingoes
  • rides
  • milk
  • tractor rides
  • lions
  • monkeys
  • flamingo
  • mud 
  • poo
  •  
  • hay

 What we might smell at the Show
  • poo
  • milk
  • hot chips
  • mud
  • fish and chips
  • candy floss
  • donuts
  • sausages
  • other people's lunch
  • ice cream
  • hot dogs
  • hay
  • animal smells
  • flowers
  • marshmellows

What we might hear at the Show
  • birds
  • clippity clop of horses hoooves
  • music
  • anmal sounds like moo, baa, oink, neigh, quack
  • quad bikes
  • engines
  • shearing machines   
  • electric motor bikes
  • announcements
  • wood chopping
  • laughing

Monday, 16 September 2013

I see, I think, I wonder .... I write!

Today we began a new writing adventure with our writing.
 We looked closely at a picture (which I will post in a day or two).
 We spent lots of time talking about what we could see. Then we had a go at writing what we could see - but there was one key word we were not allowed to use! (I'll tell you that word later!).

 Our goal is to have people read our writing and form a picture in their head of what we could see ... then we will show them the photo to see how close they were.

 We have sent home a copy to our parents for them to have a go at ... next we will do some thinking about these creatures and then some wondering - we will end the term with a great wee inquiry.

 Have a read of our ideas here


I see a cub on its soft, furry, mother in a light, sunny clearing of the jungle.  The mother is carrying its soft cub.  They both have soft whiskers.

By Tiaan


One day the baby cub was biting the Mother’s ear.  They have black and white and orange stripes.  There are flowers around them.

By Riley S


In this picture I can se a cub pouncing on his mother and chewing his mother’s ear.  I see a jungle with bushes and flowers. 
I see some sparkling stripes and two black noses.
I see trees surrounding the big jungle clearing.  I see in the clearing green leaves and grass. 
That’s what I can see!

By Lily



I see a cub on its Mother’s back.  It is also chewing its Mothers head!  They are in the forest.  There are also yellow and white flowers and trees.

By Hayden

I can see a baby cub and a mummy.  The baby cub was chewing the mother’s ear.  They were about to go in a jungle.  The baby cub was frightened.  I see white and yellow flowers.

By Emma

I see a cub on her mother’s back, some trees surrounding them, lots of flowers too.  I see black and white an orange stripes, two big ears in a jungle clearing too. I see some long whiskers, some big round eyes, four eyes too.

By Ava

I see orange fur and black stripes.  The cub was biting her mum’s ear.  I see a black nose.

By Ashley

I see an enormous hill with yellow flowers!  It is in a light jungle.  There are some animals.

By Bryn

I saw a cub in deep, dark jungle.  Some whiskers, a bright black nose, two orange ears.  I see a cub chewing on its mother’s ear and trying to climb on her back. 
I see lots of flowers in an emerald bush.

By Israa

I see a cub lying on its mother. I see its black nose.  I think a bit like I’m in so I stop to have a look.  It’s chewing its fur.  It’s orange and black.
I wonder what to do, I see white whiskers, I see a sad face, some yellow flowers behind the cub.

By Bina

I can see a baby cub chewing his mother’s ear.  The baby cub is wrestling his mother.  The mother has long whiskers.  Baby cub has orange eyes. 

By Briannah

I see the cub’s whiskers and a baby cub on the mother’s back.  The cub has a stripy back  and the colours are black and orange.  I see yellow and white flowers.  I think there are yummy, green leaves and  I think they eat green leaves.

By Fatai

I see the cub biting the ear of its Mum.  I can see a wide open mouth.  There are orange stripes.  I can see claws.  It’s got flowers too.

By Finn

I see bushes in the clearing.  I see trees around the clearning.  I see a cub biting her Mum or Dad’s ear.  The little cub had a mum or dad to keep him warm in the dark jungle. 

By Elenoa



One day there was a striped cub with long whiskers and a pink nose cuddling a bigger version of himself.  The small one was chewing on his mother’s ear with sharp teeth and slobbering all over his mother’s head.  The mother was grumpy.
The were inside a jungle clearing with flowers around it.

By Riley B

I can see a mother with her cub.  There are flowers surrounding them.

By Harper

My Challenge to the children is to write a description at home and see if I can work out what the picture is of :)

Tuesday, 21 May 2013

Our Big Idea

We are Outstanding Wise Learners and we have GREAT ideas.

Today we have been talking about all the fantastic science learning we have been doing.  We have come up with a super plan!

Our BIG IDEA is that at the end of the term when we have done LOTS of science learning and experimenting and predicting and observing and recording we will have our very own SCIENCE FAIR.  This means we will each have our very own science information or experiment to share with other people.

We will need to use the hall to set up all our great learning and then we will invite our families and other classes from our school to come and see what we have done....and we will be able to talk about our learning.  What a cool celebration!

Great thinking Room 16

We have booked the hall so we know we can use it on the right day.


Monday, 13 May 2013

What is a Scientist?

This is a BIG QUESTION we have been thinking about.


This is a powerpoint I have made to help you think about what Scientist might do.

 

Wednesday, 8 May 2013

I like to Move it

This is a movie of the fun from today


BIG Question of the Day

Today my BIG QUESTION is
  What makes things move?

if the wind blows or you touch something and make it move - Bina


your brain makes your body move - Ashley

wiring and potions make robots work - Bryn

pendulums in clocks moves to make lots of clockwork inside go round and round which makes the clock hands move _ Riley B

on Barbie dolls and some other things you can make them move with your arms _ Harper

we pulled Heather's truck - Elenoa

we use technology to make stuff move and you use your brain - Cillian

batteries or gas - Ava

When there is an earthquake things move - Briannah

when an egg starts to hatch it kind of moves and out comes a wee bird - Grace

cars need petrol to move on the road - Emma

Nest we watched a Power Point that Mrs Pelham made.

We discovered that things move because of FORCES.

PUSH and PULL are the two forces that make things move.

MY CHALLENGE to you all tonight is
........ look around your house to see FORCES in action!


The Great Tug of War

When we went outside Mr McKenzie was talking to us about the tug of war.
We had to pull a huge rope against each other.

Our class had a tug of war against Room 15....it was

Fantastic - Ashley
Amazing - Harper
Sensational - Lily
Great - Bina
A miracle - Riley B
Awesome- Fatai
Brilliant- Tiaan
Exciting - Elenoa
Stupendous - Emma
Super Sonic - Riley B
Wow - Nethasa
Cool - Finn

Ignition Day - Forces

Today our whole school had an Ignition Day to launch our Forces topic.

First the whole school went outside and the teachers pulled Heather's truck for ten metres.  Mr McKenzie timed us...it was so much fun.

Later in the day we all had a turn too.

We discovered that PULL is a force.