Safe places to cross the road

Road Safety

Snr Constable Cam has visited us and is testing us on what we remember about staying safe around roads.

Ruby remembered that we need to Stop Look and Listen before we cross the road.

Greedy Cat

Yesterday the Terrific Toucan reading group read about Greedy Cat. They painted a picture of him.

Today we talked about words to describe him and wrote these words around our picture.

Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori

This week is Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori - Maori Language week!

Below are links to great games to help you learn new words in this beautiful language.

Learn about Fruits and Vegetables

Learn about animals

Asking for things in the classroom

Saying hello and goodbye

Parts of a wharenui

Matariki

Creating a hangi

Homestudy Term 3 week 2

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Inquiry: Farming

Our school planning says that we are going to learn about farming in New Zealand for Social Studies this term.

How could we learn this? The teacher could tell us, or we could become farmers, learning what we needed to along the way! Much more interesting!

Where could we start?
We discussed what a farm was, and decided a farm doesn't always need to have animals. Jigar thought that wheat might grow on a farm.

We went for a walk around the school, trying to identify possible locations for a farm.
Here are our first ideas. We needed to be able to justify our opinions.

We could make a farm by tearing down this eating place. It's quite a big space - Millie

We could make a farm on the roof. Plants could grow easier and they would be protected from people trying to take them out - Zak

The place where the Garden Club usually go (I forgot the name) could be for the big animals - Raynah
It has a gate so the animals couldn't get out - Ziggy

The bunny home is not realistic for the big animals but we could put little animals in here - Raynah

Could we make one of these places into a farm?

Let's start with the 'bunny home'. Mrs Leung asked Mrs Rogers to tell us more about the school rabbits.
We met Mrs Rogers at a secret location in the school (it wasn't so secret - it was at the rabbit run). She introduced us to Moonlight, the older rabbit. The other rabbit wouldn't come out to meet us.

We asked Mrs Rogers questions about the rabbits which we had written with a partner during writing time.

We found out that Mrs Rogers and the rabbit monitors have a problem.
Sometimes there is not enough long, fresh grass for the rabbits to eat.

I wonder...could we help to solve the problem? If so, how?

Homestudy Term 3 Week 1

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