Thursday, March 19, 2009

Animals, big and small

Last week we found out how worms can help us turn our food scraps and garden waste into fertile compost to use to grow more food! Sarah Langi, Enviroschools facilitator, brought her worm farm in to share the process with us and explain how it all works. Here we having a hands on experience with the worms.

Some other wiggly friends have taken up residence in Room 11 in the form of some very hungry Monarch caterpillars. Come and see them feeding happily on the swan plant branches, safe inside from any damage caused by the Chinese Paper wasp. We learnt alot about the wasp, the swan plant, the caterpillar and the butterfly by searching Google Images in our computer lesson on Friday afternoon.

On Thursday we were looking at much larger animals when we went to the Suter Art Gallery to see at Sally Burton's exhibition 'White Gold". Here we are with our own cow pictures that say something special about each of us. We will be finishing them off this week in class so keep an eye out for them. The Suter gallery is free on a Saturday so if you have not yet seen the exhibition why not go with your child who can tell you all about it!

Check out our Kidz Stuff blog to see the chalk writing we did on Friday, focusing on writing short and tall letters correctly.

This week our letter sounds are 'u' and 'l' and the tricky words are 'her' and 'no'. In maths we will be starting to work in the 10-20 range exploring the teen numbers and numbers that come before and after in this range. On Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon we will be having special lessons in the Life Education Classroom, situated on the back field. This will help us to learn how our bodies work and what we can do to keep ourselves healthy. In our inquiry topic we will be building on last week's brainstorming session about people who help us at school and thinking what responsibilities these people have. In P.E. we will be continuing to develop some of the throwing and catching skills our buddies from Room 5 taught us last week.

Reminders

Monday: Library books due back, School Family Picnic 5.30-7.00

Tuesday and Wednesday: Life Education lessons

Friday: Tracy will be in Napier at an Interactive White Board Conference, Jane will be our teacher.

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  1. AnonymousMarch 24, 2009 at 5:09 PM

    Those worms look so cool Room 11. They have such an important job to do too!
    Super that you are learning about worm farms, you'll be able to tell your friends in Room 9 all about it one day :)

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