Visualiser

Jayden in the NE class was out with his petrie dish looking for bugs. He got down low and searched under the fallen autumn leaves until he found an ant. We returned to the class and viewed his ant under the visualiser on our science trolley. It sure looked big.

The class also observed worms wriggling, spiders crawling and ladybirds scurrying.

Te Whaiti

This boy (Te Whaiti ) is my learning boy today. I always have a soft spot for him because my Dad used to live at Te Whaiti. He is pracitising his ball skills so he can be a good team player. He is actually in the school's rugby team but Te Whaiti has great ball skills overall.

To be honest he is one of the reasons I love teaching at Owhata. I loved it that one of Te Whaiti's big sisters was working in town last week and she came out of her way to come up and give me a big hug.

We did some science experiments today - it was so cool to see the kids awesome responses.

Day 3 Photo of Learning

Sonny is using the IWB to help him learn his blends and this will help him with his reading too.

Room 4 (Y5/6) and I had a explore of the science trolley yesterday. You would have thought it was a chest full of treasure ,the excitement it caused. (I suppose in a way it was that?). The kids knew some of the names for some of the equipment and it was great to hear and watch Sonny explaining what a funnel was used for. For me another oral language/science link. For phase 3 of my release classes next week we are going to DO some science. I can't wait. Kids are saying that when you go to Whaea Tricia's class you do science.

Year 5 and 6

The activity about taking photos of 'science' around the school withR7 had a higher level of thinking today. I need to work out how to get the photos from school (teacher write) to home-saving them into my documents, jetflash?? so I can put them in my blog.
Their ideas were R6 window mural because its Papatuanuku and Te Whaiti says "science is art." and the rings on the tree trunk, the big tree because trees give us oxygen and that helps keep us alive, the bell - because it makes a sound and the swimming pool area because it has lots of different materials being used in the rebuilding were todays ideas.

It was great to hear D. saying 'our work today is like doing research."