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".

Gymnastics

We really enjoyed learning new skills at our first gymnastics lesson.  Our instructor, Kain taught us names of different skills and showed us the correct way to roll, jump, balance and land.

We wonder what he will teach us next!

Silverbeet Soup

We have been growing silverbeet in our garden and today we made silverbeet soup using onion, garlic, coconut cream and oil.  We chopped, fried, poured, stirred, smelt and tasted our yummy soup.

Thank you Mrs Finau for helping us today!

For our writing today, we had to write about how we made the silverbeet soup.

This was written by Kaulave.

How We Made Silverbeet Soup

First, we picked silverbeet from the garden.  Next, we put the oil in and then we chopped  the onion and garlic.  We got the cooking spoon and stirred the onion and garlic.  We chopped the silverbeet and put it and the salt in then we stirred it again.  Lastly, we  put the coconut cream in.

Trip to the Botanical Garden

The sun was shining, the birds were singing and we were on a trip to the Botanical Garden to study the different types of plants in different types of gardens.

What a great trip we have had to the Botanical Gardens.  We learned about different types of gardens such as rose garden, herb garden, rock garden, African garden, children's garden and edible gardens. All these gardens had different types of plants growing in them.  We enjoyed walking through the blossom valley.  Our favourite flowers were roses and bird of paradise and our favourite gardens were the rose garden and the children's garden.  We were fascinated to find a crocking frog in the bog garden.

 We can't wait to visit these garden with our families!!

Poetry Recital