Whaea Tanya came up with a silly sentence too.

The brown cow frowned as his crown fell down while playing with the funny clown in the town crowd.

Sofia's Monday learning. Ka mau te wehi!

Indie-Rose has been working hard on her phonics mahi! Check out her clever sentence using -ow

Bug Hotels

We made bug hotels. They are going to be places where bugs around our school might like to stay over the winter. We had to think about ways of creating nooks and cranies for bugs to hide in. First we had to collect the materials that we needed. We brought in pine cones, boxes, bamboo, sticks, leaves, old drawers, pallets, bricks and pieces of wood. We used an old draw, or a box or pallets as the frame for our hotels. We stacked all sorts of layers inside our frames. We put labels on them. Then we put them in different places around the school. We can't wait to see who moves in.

Bee Experience

We have been finding out about bees. We are very curious and had lots of questions about bees that we wanted to find the answers to. We were lucky enough to have a beekeeper, Iri, come and share his knowledge with us and show us his bees. Some things we learnt: Bees have different jobs in the hive. Some are guards, who protect the hive. Some are heaters, who keep the eggs in the hive warm. Some are the foragers who find the food and bring it back to the hive. The queen bee is the only bee to lay eggs. We saw the queen. She was longer than the other bees. We also saw some bees hatching. The worker bees don't live as long as the Queen because they work so hard. The Queen can live for about 3 years. We found out why bees are important. They collect nectar from the flowers and they take pollen from one flower to another. Without bees we wouldn't have flowers or even food. We knew that bees sting and that hurts. We told lots of stories about the times we have got stung. Iri told us that we need to be kind to bees. He showed us the bee suit he wears when he checks the hives and how he puffs smoke to keep the bees calm. We got to see some bees wax too. We are looking forward to using bees wax to make our beeswax wraps on Tuesday.

Our Butterfly Writing.

We looked at the symmetry of butterfly wings. We looked at the patterns on the wings. We looked at the colours on the wings. We thought about how we might be able to attract butterflies to our garden. Here is a picture of some of our writing.

Animal Feet

Yesterday, in maths Nga Ringa Awhina counted animal legs. We needed to have 20 legs altogether. We had to use ducks, pigs and spider legs.