Pekapeka with Year 5 & 6

 Today Year Six started a new mystery topic.  We learnt that when scientists classify animals it is called taxonomy. We began by studying the similarities between a mystery skeleton and a human skeleton.

Did you know that all animals can be separated into two groups - vertebrates and invertebrates?

We could see a backbone so the mystery animals was a vertebrate.

We discovered the mystery skeleton was a bat.  We're going to study them because Peter and Zahara from Pestfree Howick said they live close by. We want to know how to protect this unique species.

"A species is a group of organisms that can reproduce and have off spring that can reproduce" 

What did we find out?

"Bats are the only mammals that can fly" 

"They use echo location to hunt" - we played a game to show how this works.

"Bats have similar bones to humans" 

 "All species have latin names."

Room 18 had time to do a crossword too.

What did we learn from the article and interview?

Cairo "A senior scientist's nick name is Bat Man"

"NZ bats are endangered" Payton

Max "There are bat flies that live on the back on the bats and eat their poop"

Zimon "Some bats live in Fjord land and Milford Sound" 

"The short tailed bat pollinates the wood rose" Andrew

We watched, read, played a fitness game and reviewed with a Kahoot. Next time we're looking forward to taking action to protect our unique bats.

Room 18 had time to do a crossword too.

Year 5 think about how to share their knowledge over 2 sessions

 We brainstormed ways to share what we learned in our Travelwise Ready, Steady Go learning.

We are going to create picture books to share what we have learnt about how active travel helps the environment and our bodies, and how to be safe when we're getting to school.

It was great fun folding up our mini books and using our creative skills.

Lastly, we shared our knowledge with classrooms 1 and 10. 

Year Five Travelwise Teachers

 

Year 5 took the opportunity to create picture books to share what they have learnt about how active travel helps the environment, our bodies and how to be safe when we're getting to school.

It was great fun folding up our mini books and using our creative skills while listening to calming music.

We shared our mini books with Year One and talked about trying to use active modes of travel to get to school, especially on Wednesdays.

Lastly we did our post test for this unit of work and created "Wednesday Challenge" posters.

Room 2 Learn what our bodies need to GROW

 Today we looked at what our body needs to grow.

https://5adayeducation.org.nz/assets/site/resources/eBook2/#/ebook

Fredge talks about fuelling up a car with the right things: 

the right kind of fuel, water in the radiator, and taking it for a service, 

Our bodies are just like cars. So went outside for some exercise, tasted Ms Everitt's carrots, and had a big drink of water.

Next, we drew ourselves and what we need to grow.