Kia Ora whanau, this week the students learnt some Biology. More specifically about the features and behaviours of whales. Did you know, that whales cannot breath underwater? Well the students of Room 1 can certainly answer that for you. They then had an opportunity to make their own whales from recycled material at home. Check out Charles blog about his whale. We have been looking at whales as we started the whale rider novel before lockdown and were a bit sad that we couldn't continue just yet. Check out Mrs Ellen's whales below.
Our inquiry this term is to look at life on mars... Is there life? can we sustain life there? We have been adding to our knowledge by looking at what seeds need to germinate and grow and then we will investigate what that would look like if we wanted to take plants to Mars.
We have successfully germinated Broad bean seeds and have started our garden outside our class space. Where we water it and make sure it gets lots of sunlight to continue to grow
Room 8 has had an interesting time lately, we are in the process of putting together a classroom furniture proposal for Mrs Hamilton as it is time to upgrade the furniture for the intermediates and we get to have our say on the matter. I have been enjoying the conversations we are having about budgets and feasibility. This is very sensible when asking for things we want. We have also had a chance to do some work outdoors. With our old playground being torn down we have had some good and fertile soil unearthed which we have gathered to be repurposed. We love being out and getting our hands dirty.
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