Monkey Report

Monkeys by Callum

At one stage monkeys were early human beings. Monkeys live in zoos and other notorious places.

Monkeys like to swing on wooden obstacles and branches. The zoo keepers make it for the monkeys to exercise.

The monkeys look like people but are naked. They have hairy backs and have feet as hands and hands as feet.

Monkeys eat heaps and heaps of fruit but the favorite is bananas. If you are at the zoo monkeys will peel their banana skins and put them on the ground.

When you go to the zoo please say hello.

Birds.

Birds live in zoos and nests. They live with people. 

They eat seeds and worms and bugs.

They have got two legs.  They are brown and black and white.

Family of facts

We have been learning about families of facts.  We think it is a good way to know addition, subtraction, multiplication and divison.  We are getting really good at it.  It is a good strategy to use.

Dinosaur Story

Once there was a half dinosaur and half bird.

He likes to eat popcorn and he also likes to drink hot chocolate.

This half dinosaur and half bird is my animal.

He likes to play with people.  He also likes to play with kids.

Turtle Report

Turtles.

Turtles live in the sea and tanks and zoo’s.

They eat meat and fish.

They lay eggs and they swim and walk.

They have a long neck.  There are rainbow and sharp back turtles that have a sharp beak.


                                                                    By Cody

Summarising

To help us with our Inquiry Learning, our Reading and our Writing, we are learning how to summarise the information that we have.  We know that we have to highlight or circle the key words from the text that we are reading for information, or to say a retell of a story, or to brainstorm or mindmap our writing. Learning this strategy helps our learning.

Different Families

For our Fuel Up for our Inquiry we have been looking at pictures of different families.  We answered these quesitons.

Where is the family?  What are some of the things that the pictures show? What do you like about this place?  What don't you like about this place?  What is the same as New Zealand?  What is different from New Zealand?  We also had to decide if they were fat or skinny quetions.  We discovered that there are a lot of things that are the same as New Zealand such as  people eating food, having a TV, wearing clothes even if they do look a bit different, having pets and animals, being children and being grown ups.

Cats

Cats

By Courtney

Did you know that cats like to play on streets? They also play with toys and mice. They also play outside and at parks. They also play in houses.

Some cats live at the vets. Some cats live in houses. Some cats live on their own.

Some cats like to eat cat biscuits, meat and fish. Cats eat many kinds of food.

Some cats could be black, white, grey, brown and orange. Cats are all kinds of colours.

Hennaed hands

As part of our Fuel up for We Are the World, how can I make a difference, we made hennaed hands. We looked at the different designs that people make on hands, usually in India.

Ryans Report on Cats

Cats


By Ryan






Cats live in beds. Most cats live in houses. Some cats live in baskets. Lots of cats live outside. Most cats are pets. A few cats live in zoos.

Some cats perform shows. A few cats are wild.


Most cats eat biscuits. Some cats eat meat. A few cats have milk. All cats have water.


All cats wash themselves. Some cats play with people. Lots of cats cuddle up. Most cats hide away from dogs.


Most cats look spotty. Some cats look white and black. A few cats look colorful. Some cats look orange.


That’s the end of all kinds of cats.

Looking for Countries.

As part of our Fuel up for our Inquiry, of How Can I Make a Difference, we have been looking at different countries in the world and finding where they are.

Elephants

ELEPHANTS



By Olivia






There are two types’ elephants. The African and the Asian. There a few differences between them. The African elephant is grey and the Asian elephant is brown. Another difference is that the African elephant has bigger ears than the Asian elephant






Elephants like some sorts of food. For a treat they may eat some nuts like peanuts and walnuts. Elephants also eat lots of different kinds of leafs.






Elephants go into a herd so they can run away from predators together. If a baby elephant gets left there on its own no one is allowed to go back and get it. Male elephants fight to get a female elephant too breed.

Car crash by Luke C

My step brothers car had his wheel twisted around after a car crash near my house, across the road.

Reports by Ryan

Reports are really awesome because you get to write about different kinds of animals.

Transformations

We are learning about different shapes in geometry. We like being able to transform our shapes into different patterns.  We know that we can do this by sliding, turning and putting the shapes in a clockwise and anti clockwise direction.

Maslows Hiercachy of Needs

As part of our fuel up for inquiry learning and How I Can Make a Difference, we have been thinking about the things that we need to survivie.  We looked at Maslow' Hierachy of Needs.  This includes needing food and drink and a home to live in and being kept warm; knowing what I should and should not be doing and being kept safe; being loved by our family and liked by people in the class, feeling good about myself,  being responsibible and people thinking about the good things I do.  We made up our pyramids to show what we thought was the most important.

Transformations

We are learning about transformations in geometry. If we turn shapes upside down, Caitlin says that they are still the same shapes, if they are a different colour they are still the same shape. You can also slide, turn or flip them.  We made dinasaurs from different shapes.

Inquiry We are the World.

These are our reflections on our Country, Culture and Civilsation Day, as part of our Inquiry, Fuel Up for learning about How I Can Make a Difference. (We have also being learning how to summarise as part of our Report Writing for Writing, and for Reading, and Inquiry, so we have used just key words.)

Nice trying new food and awesome costumes.   Olivia
Good food, yummy food.  Tinika
Delicious food, funny clothes, intersting activities.  Sophie
Good food, fantastic costumes, different day, learned that different countries have different foods.  Milly
It was cool because I liked it.  Luke H
Awesome. Ed
Different food.  Caitlin
Fantastic food. I was an Hawaiian girl.  Samara
Different clothes, different food, exciting day.  Dathan
Nice food, cool costumes, learnt about old schools, learning around the different day.  Liam
Good food yesterday and people like food I like. Jessica
Food was nice.  Courtney
I learned about different countries.  It was a different day.  Adam
I tasted new food and I saw new costomes. Jack
Excellent food.  Good clothes, I learnt that people are from different countries. Fun going to different classes, fun doing everything. Callum
Good food, awesome day, I liked the languages.  I learnt that we are not that different.  Leon.
I love the good food.  I love the day.  Amber Rose
I thought that all he food was all right.  The costumes were cool.  I learnt about countries.  Harlem
Good food, amazing costumes, amazing countries.  Jayden
Good food and costumes. Blair
Good food, cool costumes.  Cody
Good food, great Mums and Dads, fantastic costumes, new food, awesome day.  Sami

CCC Day

We had our Culture, Civilisation and Country Day today as part of our Fuel up for our Inquiry Learning . Some of us came dressed as people from different countries. We also shared lunch with the Learning Team and parents, that included a lot of food from different countries.  Some of it we had never tried before.  We learnt about writing Roman numerals, what it was like to be in school a long time ago, and what different languages sound and look like when they are written.  We wrote our name in hieroglyphics and saw how it was also written in Japanese.  We think that even though the language sounds different and looks different it all means the same things.  So we are not really all that different.  Just interesting.

How Do We Write Reports

We are learning how to write good reports.  We know that we need to write an introduction and a number of paragraphs that include only facts and are not about ourselves or a recount of what we have been doing.  We use impersonal languge, that is, not about "me" or "I".  Before we start writing we brain storm what we are going to write about.  We then summarise what we are going to say on the brain storm.  We are learning to write reports so that we can do research for inquiry learning about How Can I Make a Difference.  We are learning to summarize what we are reading so that this will help us write reports and also understand what we are reading  and writing about. We like writing reports.  We will publish some of our reports for you to read.

Startling Statements

As part of our Fuel Up for finding out more about How Can I Make a Difference, we thought about a number of Startling Statements.  These included responding to questions like, I need lots of money to make me happy and If you live in Africa you are poor. We had to write if we agreed or disagreed and then write one or two words about the statement.  There are lots of interesting results.  We have displayed these in the classroom.  You can come and have a look.

Reading by Tinika

I am learning to be a good reader by using 2 voices in my head.  One voice tells me what words to say and one voice tells me what the story means.  I think that I am getting good at this.

Report Writing by Courtney

I have been learning about writing good reports.  They need to have true things, facts, an introduction and at the end a summary.  We need to be writing in paragraphs.  We are not writing about ourselves or what happened to us. I am going to write a report on Dolphins.

Inquiry by Keely

I have enjoyed the inquiry learning because we have been learning about the world and how people communicate.  I have been busy working on France and Indonesia.  I have learnt that in France they have pretty good weather and that you can buy plants food and clothes. I have learnt that France has two high mountainsthe Pyrenees in the South and the Alps in the east.  Mont Blanc in the alps is the highest mountain in Europe.

We Are the World

We are starting a new inquiry unit. It is called We are the World and our big question is How Can I make a Difference.  We want to understand and learn to accept that there are differences between people and ask ourselves "does it matter?" We think that if we can do this then we will have a greater tolerance between ourselves, our community and the world.  We think that we might then be able to solve some big problems such as world hunger, crime, intolerance, racisim and playground disputs. 

We began our study Fuel Up, by thinking about what the things are that we need to survive.  What was important and what was not so important. There were some interesting answers. 

Here are some photos of what we came up with.