Zentangle

Last term our art focus was Zentangle. Finally in the last 2 weeks we finished them and now they are proudly in display in our classroom. Here is a photo of mine:

Do you like it? I hope you do because I worked  really hard on it and if you can't tell, it is a Elephant.
We had to do our Zentangle as a endangered animal because that was our learning focus of the term.

The Music Book

Recently the senior half of our school have been rehearsing dances of our decade. Each lass has their own decade and a song that was created in the decade. Right now we are 2 weeks away from the show.

The story line of our show is 2 girls going and got a magic book for their friends birthday, when the girls open the book music comes out of the book, a different song every page. In the mean time the birthday girls 2 brothers have been sneaking up on the girls and annoying them. In the end the boys turn and some more music and listen to two songs. Finally the girls look at the last page in the book and the finale dance comes on. In the show there will be 10 dances including the finale.

My class dance is Party Rock Anthem.

Kiwi for Kiwi Morning Tea

Kiwi for Kiwi Morning Tea

Today room 1&2 held a Kiwi for Kiwi morning tea for our fundraiser for the Kiwis. We did this because last term our main focus was endangered animals so we used this as our social action. Yes, this was a competition and if we won room 1&2 would get a visit from the Bug Man.
Anyway back to the morning tea, room 1&2 students got split up into jobs. Some of the jobs were selling food, counting money and setting the tables. Once we were all prepared and hands washed we went and stood behind the tables waiting for costumer's.

The bell rang and students flooded out of their classrooms and lined up the food we so fast my table had to close down because their was barely any food left.

In total we raised $600 dollars!!! I bet the Kiwi for Kiwi conservation will be happy.

Auckland Zoo Trip

Yesterday room 1 and 2 went to Auckland Zoo for a school trip because lately out inquiry has been about Endangered Animals.

The first thing that we did we we got to the zoo was eat our morning tea because we were pretty hungry by then. After all our morning tea was all gobbled up we headed off for an explore around the Zoo. There were so many animals, we saw Red Panda, Otters, Tigers, Lions, Elephants, lots of different Monkeys,  Giraffe, Cheetahs and loads more animals. We lucked in by seeing the Red Panda and the Otter get fed. My favorite out of that was the Cheetah even though he was hiding behind a plant.

After all that wandering around we all got together and had a lunch break.
Once our lunch had filled our belly again and or energy was back all of us split in to 2 and went away with some Zoo Keepers to learn about some animals.
Firstly I went of to learn about the Orangutan and Palm oil. The main thing that I learned in that lesson was that 60% of the worlds palm oil comes from Malaysia and Indonesia.

The Next lesson was with tracking tunnels. The main thing that I learned there was that a porcupine is a pest.

After that we had 10 minutes to go around the Zoo and look at more animals before the bus came. This time we looked at the Crocodile, Tarantula and more Monkeys. My favorite animal that we saw here was the Spider Monkey, we even saw them get fed.

Overall this was a great trip and thank you for our Teachers and the Zoo Keepers for letting this happen.
Cheers:

Inquiry

Lately we have been learning about endangered animals. We had a few tasks to complete and know one has finished.

Task 1:
The First task was to buddy up, we were given a content and we had to find an animal that lives in that content and make a presentation about it. Here is mine:

NZ Native Birds

In the past few weeks in reading we have been learning about Native New Zealand Birds.

Name:	Conservation Status:	About Them:	Photo:
Kiwi	Critically Endangered	Kiwi’s are mostly Nocturnal.
Fantail	Least Concern	Fantails follow you when you walk because your feet move the dirt to reveal insects.
Kea	Threatened	Most Keas live on the South Island of NZ
Albatrosses	Least Concern	The Albatrosses is a large Seabird around the North Pacific
Bitterns	Endangered	Bitterns are part of the heron family.
Black Robin	Endangered	The Black Robin comes from the Chatham Islands which is located of the coast of New Zealand.
Grey Ducks	Least Concern	In the 1960’s they Grey Duck was 95% of the ducks found in New Zealand

New Classroom

Recently we moved into our new classroom.

From the start of the term room 1 & 2 moved into the library because our classroom was getting renovated. From the start of the year room 5 & 6, 3 & 4 all had their classroom renovated and now it was our turn.

The Journey 

It took us into term 3 to until we finally moved out of our classroom and into the library. On the first day of term 3 we were all set up in the library. Our classroom had the wall half knocked down in the two weeks of the holiday.

We spent 5 weeks crammed in the small library space until finally in week 6 we  moved out of the library and into our new classroom, Yay!

Now as it is still week 6 I am really enjoying our new classroom, I have hooked into it like it has been here all the time, but it still feels brand new. 

This classroom allow's us to have more space to work and learn, and we can work more collaboratively.

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