Welcome Michael Jackson and Sasha Banks

What an excitement we have had this week with Michael Jackson and Sasha Banks coming out of their chrysalis. We waited for them to be strong enough to fly then we let them out.  Sasha Banks got tangled in the spider web and it took us a long time to get it out from the sticky web.

We found out that both the butterflies were males!!!

Visit from the Nurses

Sore throats or skin infection- the nurses came to talk to us about skin infections and what to look out for.  They also talked to us about cleanliness and they told us to tell them if we had sore throats.

We were also lucky to get some free gifts from them to help us keep clean.

Garden to Table

We have been growing some vegetables in our garden so we decided to make a salad using the red lettuce that we had grown.  We also used carrots, capsicum and cucumber.  First, we chopped the carrot, capsicum, cucumber and shredded the lettuce.  Then we mixed them all together.  Lastly we added some salt.

We then ate our salad.  Some of the vegetables we tried were interesting!!!

Graphs

We made graphs to show our favourite pizzas.  While most of us like cheese pizza, 3 people in our class don't like pizzas at all!!

We also made a graph to show our favourite fruit.  The most favourite fruit in our class is watermelon.

Making Butter

We have been learning how to write instructions so we decided to make some butter and then write our instructions.  It was hard work shaking the jar full of cream but the butter was delicious with crackers!

Joseph's instructions on how to make butter.

Blowing Bubbles

Bubbles, bubbles, bubbles!!!!

As part of the science experiment, we made bubbles using washing detergent and water.  We then tried different ways of blowing it.  It was a lot of fun.

How to make and blow bubbles- By Tulialo

Flower Art

Georgia O'Keeffe is an American artist and we have been looking at her art.  We enjoyed her paintings of enlarged flowers so we decided to create some of our own.

Meet Michael Jackson and Sasha Banks

There are 2 monarch caterpillars in our classroom and our job is to look after them.  First, we had to name them so each of us had to think of two names and why those names were suitable for our caterpillars.

Some of the names were Jamy, Jack, Lumpy, Bumpy, Jackson Bowie, T J Purkins, Rain, Maria Tutaia, Michael Jackson and Sasha Banks.  We wanted to give them names so they won't be teased by other butterflies and names they could be proud of. It was a hard decision so we had a vote and the winning names were Michael Jackson and Sasha Adams.

Learning Together with Room 1 and 3

All the students at our school are learning about plants so we decided to have a shared lesson with Room 1 and 3.  Our job was to predict if a food came from the plant or not.  We were not sure about some of the foods so we had to move them a few times.  We found out that lots of our food came from the plants.  

Do you know that noodles are made from rice and weetbix are made from wheat?  We are going to look out for all the foods that are made from plants!!!

Will it Sink or Float?

As part of our science experiment, we decided to test if the things we had selected would sink or float in the water.  First, we made predictions and then we tested them.

This table shows what we predicted and what actually happened. The most tricky ones to predict were the limestone and the stick.

	Float- our prediction	Sink- our prediction	Result
Yogurt pot	12	3	float
Plastic spoon	13	1	Float
Dry leaf	15	-	Float
Stick	5	10	Float
Marble	3	12	Float
Rock	1	14	Sink
Limestone	2	13	Float
Bottle	13	2	float

All About Plants

Why do we need plants?  How do they grow?  Where can we find them?  What are different parts of the plants called and why are they important?

These were some of the questions we had to investigate about plants so we went out to study them.  We looked at different types of plants, the parts of plants and noted where we found them.  We found out what roles different parts of plants play and how important plants were for our survival.

We found out that "WE NEED PLANTS TO LIVE".