Creating an Ecosystem

Today in our Science lesson we were learning about ecosystems. Do you know what an ecosystem is?

We talked about animals living with other animals in an environment to survive. They need each other to live.

Today we built an ecosystem in our class. We are building one for a sea monkey. What is a sea monkey?

Firstly we had to draw a sea monkey in our books. Here are our drawings.

                                       

Next we created our Sea Monkey Ecosystem in a jar…

Firstly we put water into the jar. Next we poured some water purifier into the water. And we have to leave it for 24 hours. George says the water purifier will make it clean. We made the environment today. On Thursday we will carry on creating our ecosystem.

            

Earthquakes – Part 2

Today we were talking about the Earth’s crust and the tectonic plates on it. We looked at the globe jigsaws and talked about the 2 types of tectonic plates and the ways they move.

           

Then we did an experiment.

We had a container and put 750ml of water in it. We had to find out how many ways we could make waves but not spill a drop of water on the table.

We found lots of ways…

  • move the container
  • move the table
  • blow on the water
  • stamping our feet

Which way do you think made the biggest waves?

 

 

 

We got some jellybeans and a teddy bear and dropped them into the water and watched what happened to the water.

Planet and Earthquakes

Today we started our Science learning about earthquakes. Firstly we were learning about our planet and the layers it is made up of.

We looked at the layers of Earth with a model made of plasticine. The different colours show the layers. The Earth’s crust is sand on the outside because it is really thin.

We explored the layers using some special globe jigsaws. We are using resources from The House of Science. Schools can borrow the resources from The House of Science.

We did some shared writing together about what we learned this morning.

Did you know that there are 4 layers on Planet Earth? Do you know what they are called? Read our story below to find out.

 

Reading in Tiaki

We read to Kōkā Celia during reading time in our groups.

We use our iPads to read by ourselves. We love Sunshine Online.

We do our handwriting in our books. Today we were doing the letter “w”. We make sure to put a finger space between our words.

       

Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu

Nō hea koe? Where are you from?

We are in a Manaiakalani Network programme called Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu.

We have got 2 blogging buddies. They are West Class @ Hay Park and Puketi Rua @ Coastal Taranaki
We take turns at reading each other’s blogs and commenting on the posts.
Here are our 3 schools.
Have you been to the places where these schools are?

Cobham School is in Tūranganui-a-Kiwa /Gisborne.
Taranaki Coastal School is  in Taranaki
Hay Park School is in Tamaki Mākaurau /Auckland.

Let’s fly around Aotearoa/New Zealand and find our schools.

 

New Duffy Books

Today we got some new Duffy Books. Rebecca came to give them to us at Assembly.

Do you like reading?

Here we are with some of our books.

Kasanita says “I like my new books because there is lots of things to explore in it, there is a puppy called Plushy Pup.”

Tangikina’s book is called how to catch a mermaid, she was happy when someone tried to take the mermaid in the book. George has a hot wheels book, he says “the cars are fast and they had to race through slime”. Manaia loves her books.