Room 4 Explore Trees and being Unique

 Today, we focused on the Story book "Woowee!  Look at that Tree" by Ben Knight

A fabulous story about a tree that grows differently from every other tree.

Bella: "The tree grows crooked."

Ronni: "The other trees think it is weird!"

Olivia: "The other trees think he is not a very good tree because he is growing to the side."

Zayne: "The tree didn't get cut off because it was growing sideways."

Olivia A: "The tree feels happy because the children are playing on the tree."

Eden: "I imagined the children got the paints and painted the tree house really bright colours because they are happy."

Reza: "I think the children love the tree."

Afterwards, we went out into nature and noticed the trees. We picked our favourite one and sketched it.

Lastly, we gathered resources from nature and made our own creations.

I made a one-stick aeroplane.

I made two trees.

I made a butterfly.

I am making a tree.

I made a butterfly.

I made a flower.

 I made a stick insect and a fan.

I made a butterfly.

I made a lizard with all its food.

I made a tree house.

I am making a tree.

I am making a tree.

 I am making a tree house in a tree.

I made a flower out of petals and sticks.

I made a tree.

Thank you, nature, we had fun!

Room 3 & 4 Look at the life cycle of a plant

Did you know a seed has a sleeping stage?

We held a little bean seed

Olivia A: "I noticed a crack in my seed."

Ronni: "I saw there is a little brown thing and a crack."

Amber: "I think it could be a strawberry seed."

Miles: "It feels like a rock."

Yuvika: "It feels a bit hard."

Alex: "It is oval-shaped."

Sophie: "It is smooth."

Blane: "The line looks like a smile."

Ada: "I think it is a bean seed."

Olivia D: "It feels a bit bumpy."

What does this bean seed need to grow?

Honor: "It needs some water."

Gus: "It needs soil."

Misuzu: "It needs sun."

Ada: "It needs compost." 

Zaine: "It needs to be warm."

Reza: "It needs air."

We looked at the life cycle of a plant.... In groups, we organised the pictures.

Then we cut and pasted a life cycle of a sunflower.

Room 4 spent the afternoon with their buddy class working our cutting skills.

We just love EfS!

Room 2 & 6 Investigates a plant life cycle

 

We love our waiata One Seed "one seed, two hands, dig a hole, start to plant......."

We held a little seed in our hands.

What did we notice?

Casey: "It's got two lines on it."

Daniel: "There is a scratch on it."

Nakoa: "It feels a bit rough."

Geovanna: "My seed feels soft."

Brody: "I have a dent on mine."

Darian: "" it is brown."

Adrian:"The seed is not growing now, beacuse it has no water on it."

Shainie: "It feels hard."

What is this seed going to need to grow?

Stevie: "Water"

Brooklyn: "sun"

Layton: "soil"

Nakoa: "warmth"

Stevie: "Compost"

We looked at the life cycle of a plant. In groups, we organised our pictures.

     Then we completed our own life cycle.

EfS is so much fun!