Life Cycles

This term Room 2 are learning lots about Science!  We are learning about living things, life cycles, classification and adaptation.  Lots of exciting things going on.  We have kicked off this term learning about life cycles.  Here is a video that Room 2 watched on YouTube about the life cycle of the Monarch Butterfly.  We were absolutely fascinated and asked lots of questions.  Here is the video so you can watch it with us.  Please talk to your child about their learning.  We learn heaps but as they say, if you don't use it.....

Pacific Power House

Tonight Mrs C went to the Pacific Power House meeting to present the new school website in it's development stage.  Some of the gorgeous kids from our class were performing as part of their Samoan Language Nest and Poly Club learning.  Check out these videos of our superheroes being super stars:

Louis And Iose Love Eels!

We had to write a question about eels then go to chrome. We had find information to answer our question. 

By Iose and Louis

Angela And Journey's Eel Inquiry

We went on chrome books for our inquiry ,we were learning about eels so we were thinking about questions about eels ,and we were trying to agree which we're going to and we chose Where do electric eels live? Then we searched the question and we found the answer. 

 By Journey and Angela

Harley And Keilani's Inquiry

We had to find out about our question. We did this on the chrome books. We used google to find out information about our question.

By Harley and Keilani

Getting Creative in Our Stories Through Animation.

We are learning about Nuturing Nature this term which covers eels, conservation and preservation.  We will learn about life cycles, adaptation, survival, the 7 basic life processes and loads more.

Mrs C had a challenge for us.  

To make connections for us Mrs C found the story The Watercress Tuna and the Children of Champion Street.  You can watch the story here:

 


We decided that we wanted to write a similar story but make it about us and connect to our learning about Porirua.  So we went through a process to plan our story:
AWARUA THE TANIWHA OF PORIRUA AND THE CHILDREN OF CONCLUSION STREET.

We planned our story and used our friends as the characters but also objects out of the cultures within our class as the gifts that Awarua would give the children.  After writing our story Mrs C showed us how to use an app called Explain Everything on the iPads to create a movie from our story.  

Here is what we created together in that session:

This had lots of learning attached but we felt we did a pretty good job considering it was our first go.  We discovered the importance of locking our backgrounds (so they didn't move mid-recording) and learned how to group objects together so that they moved together.

Our Creations:
This was our first time using this app in this way so our attempts aren't perfect but we really enjoyed adding this creative layer to our writing.  Here are some of the animations that we produced.  None of them are finished but the process was the main learning we undertook.  Enjoy these tidbits of our animated works:

Fractional Fun - that's the one!

Here are some more of our awesome superheroes learning about how to create fractions.  They know these things about fractions:

• The parts MUST be equal.
• The denominator is the bottom number - we call him Mr Bossy because he tells us how many parts there need to be altogether.
• The numerator is the top number - he runs around collecting how many we need.
• We know what the different fractional parts are called.
• We know that there is a strategic way to cut something into quarters, by starting with half

Here are some photos of us working with fractions.  Please ask us about our learning at home, we are so loving maths and busting to share it with you!

Our task:

 

We needed to make our eels like this:

Here we are making our 5 eels before cutting them into fractional parts as explained in our task:

 

 We solved it, here we are looking pretty pleased with ourselves.  We are fractional experts now!

Journey and Naomi working well together to solve the problem!

Louis and Chorus made a great team!

Blessing and Niah worked well to make equal parts.

Koko and Waitohi knew what to do, they were pretty happy with their Eel solving.

Harley and Keilani worked together, learning as they went.