Our question for our Curiosity unit was How was the Earth Made. We watched a video about this and learnt that space dust and ice banged together with the help of a meteorite. We also learnt about the layers of the earth and had fun using Playdough to make our earths and cut them open to see the layers.
Today, Room 7 was lucky enough to see the performance Treasure Hunt based around 3 books for book week. The books were “The Big Boil Up,”The Only Dinosaur at School,” and “A Guide to Rocks.” Room 7 enjoyed this performance very much. We like how:
The messages in the story were:
Room 7 students learnt about some native skinks and geckos that were moved from Transmission Gully in Wellington and then returned after the motorway was built. The students then created their own poster with facts about geckos and skinks. Room 7 enjoyed learning about these little creatures.
This week has been Samoan Language Week. We had an amazing assembly today for it.
Room 7 looked at what is contained in an information report by looking at a report about tuataras. We found the information about tutaras interesting. We learnt that an information report needs to have facts about something. With animals, we had to find the species, why the species is special and where it lives. Next, we found information about what it looks like, and then information about what it likes to eat. We then had to have a conclusion. We then worked together to find facts about penguins in note form and then made the notes into complete sentences for each paragaraph. Room 7 was very interested in how penguins are camouflaged in the water by their black and white feathers. We then copied and pasted our paragraphs into a google draw with a picture of a penguin.
Today we had Kelly Sports with Coach Aarshin. We played games to help us practise passing, catching and running. We then had a game of touch.We had so much fun.
Another great comic strip on how to make oxygen by Ruwaidah.
This week we have been learning about probability. We made spinners to work out how many chances to get red or green. We had lots of fun.
This term we are learning to be Curious. Our for Inquiry is Curiosity. Last term the students came up with things that they were curious about. Our first topic to inspire Curiosity was borrowed from the Summer Learning Journey and thinking about making a prosthetic leg for an elephant. Here are two examples from Abigail and Jeanro.
Our Inquiry Topic is curiosty.
We have created a false leg
called a prothsetic for Mosha
I decided to add images
Our inquiry topic is Curiosity.We have created a false leg called a prothsetic for Mosha.I decided to coloured it with my favorite colors.And thats all!
