Newsam created a dog profile about the Gold Retriever. She used Google drawing to present her work.

Luisa's created a profile about the Chow Chow dog and she created this Google drawing to present her work.

Animals and pets

We are starting this term with learning about animals and being responsible pet owners. Yesterday at our ignition assembly the staff members shared resources, stories and videos about their pets. Miss Elia also shared her special friend with us who is Lily her dog. Lily is like our school dog. She is very friendly and the students love being around her. The students often ask to take Lily for a walk even after school when they are waiting for their parents to pick them up. 

Our class activity yesterday for Inquiry was to create a profile about a dog which is of interest to us. Some students created profiles about similar breeds to their own dogs and other students created profiles about dogs they wished they owned. 

Being a sensible pet owner is very important because pets are very special and they too have needs and wants. For example we learnt yesterday that Miss Elia takes Lily for walks everyday and that Lily is getting old now and is not as active as she used to be. 

Cruelty to animals is a crime in New Zealand and it should never happen. We are excited to start this short unit study about this very important topic. 

What would life be like without trees? Shannon and Whitney explaining how terrible life will be without trees.

Sustainability

AAliyanah, Cherise and Lindakiki have been working on the concept of Sustainability. They wanted to cover a lot of topics on sustainability and therefore called their work Sustainability on a variety of topics. Here is the presentation they prepared to share their learning.

 

Glenbrae Reserve

Alfred and Loto have been working on an inquiry about the Glenbrae Reserve next to our school. The reserve is used by some of our students as a shorter path to their homes. However, the boys have identified that the reserve has a lot of rubbish around it and also in the creek. Their research involved taking photos, finding information about the history of the Tamaki area and also planning our class clean up of the reserve.

Here is their presentation to show what they have been working on.

Reading is cool

Reading is such an essential skill for us to learn. We are always being reminded about the value of being able to read. In our class Mrs Tofa is working with a group of students to accelerate their reading. It is a very fun group where they discuss extra reading materials they take home as well as keep reading logs to record the stories they read. 

On our class site there is a drawing under reading and when you click on the photo of each student you will be taken to their reading log and you will be able to see all the exciting stories they have been reading.

This is a reading journey and along this journey there will be a lot of discussions, questioning, researching and  travelling. From the Duffy presentation our school viewed this week we were taught that reading is like watching a movie and you make the movie in your mind. Isn't it great to create your own movie?