Snails by Anthony

Anthony knows a lot about minibeasts. He wrote this report about snails. Listen to him sharing some interesting facts.

The playground by Eunji

Eunji enjoys going to the playground. Listen to her read her story about what she played on at the playground.

Our boat

Every Friday morning when we publish our work orally the rest of the class work very quietly in our classroom. Usually we are involved in one or two of the following things - finishing art work, making insects, drawing images on KidPix, using the mimio board, playing with our class toy cars and constructing the most interesting things with the blocks. Our latest block creation has been a class boat - one that many of us could sit inside.

Watch the video below of us in our boat as we proudly announced that we had made the boat.

When asked where this boat could take them ....... they replied to......
* butterfly land where you could see the most amazing butterflies
* candy land where you could eat everything you saw
* Disneyland
* to a land of interesting minibeasts.

The plane by Mihai

Mihai enjoys being videoed. Listen to him telling us he is in the plane. Well done Mihai

I like...... By Pia

At the beginning of this term Pia wrote this story about what she likes.

The differences between a moth and a butterfly

Here are some more of our drawings on KidPix that show the differences between moths and butterflies.
Jayden


Isabel


Gabriel


Eunji

A beautiful butterfly

On the last Monday of the school term an exciting thing happened in Room2. We arrived at school to find that a butterfly had emerged from its chrysalis over the weekend and was busy drying its wings. Once everyone had arrived at school we took some time to observe our beautiful butterfly. We then took it outside to watch it fly away. We know that our beautiful butterfly is a female (girl) beacause she didn't have the black spots on her back wings.

The differences between a moth and a butterfly

As promised here our some of our KidPix images we drew to show the similarities and differences between a moth and a butterfly.
Deborah


Anthony


Adriel


Aesop

A praying mantis

As the term has progressed we have all become quite fond of minibeasts. Isabel enjoyed having this praying mantis crawl on her

The praying mantis

Mrs David our student teacher taught us a lot about the praying mantis. She showed us this utube video.



As a class we made a describe map about the praying mantis and from this we wrote about it. To consolidate our learning we put labels on a diagram of a praying mantis using an activity on the mimio board. This diagram will be placed at the end of our published piece of writing about the praying mantis. Next term we hope to record some of us reading our information reports.

A caterpillar by Aesop

Aesop wrote about a caterpillar. He is gaining confidence in sharing his ideas - well done Aesop

Weekly update

Week 11 marked the end of our first term of the 2011 school year. It has been a very action packed term. As we headed off for a two week break we took a little break from our study on minibeasts and looked at how we could be firewise.
We looked at .......
* the importance of smoke detectors in our homes
* what to do if we woke and heard the beep, beep of a smoke detector
* the importance of keeping down low and getting out FAST
* the importance of having a safe meeting place outside where the family would meet if there was ever a fire in the house
* the importance of not stopping to collect favourite toys or clothes
* only ringing 111 in an emergency


We read a shared book about how a family was firewise and we used a mimio activity to retell the story.




We also had a visit from the firemen from the Takapuna fire station. They showed us a smoke detector and we spotted one in our classroom. They also showed us a video of how quickly a small fire can grow into a much bigger fire.




As they talked to us all of sudden they had to dash away to a call out. When they returned we looked at their fire engine. Do you know what the firemen keep in their pockets? We do - their gloves - can you see them in the photo below.



As we headed off on our holiday we took a book about being Firewise home to share with our families as it is important for all of us to be FIrewise - adults and children alike.

A caterpillar by Pia

Listen to Pia reading her information report about a caterpillar.

A caterpillar by Isabel

Listen to Isabel reading her latest piece of writing.

An information report about a caterpillar by Adriel

Adriel wrote an information report about a caterpillar. What interesting facts did he share?