Knowledge Web About Bees

Things we know about Bees

Here are some of the things we learnt about bees.

• Bees pollinate flowers
• They use their wings to mix the nectar into honey.
• Bees go to lots of flowers to collect nectar before they go back to the hive.
• Bees know how to find their hive.
• We take the honey to put it on our toast or our sandwiches.
• Worker give food to the baby bees.
• Queen bee lives in the hives.
• Bees can fly
• Bees are black and yellow.
• Bees have six legs.

This is the knowledge we made today.  Can you see how many more things we know now.

 

 

Year 0 - 3 Farm Trip

What a fantastic day we had!  We saw lambs, calves, rabbits, guinea pigs, sheep, pigs, horses and more.  The students had a great experience, and enjoyed their fun filled day.

Thank you to the parents who volunteered their time, without you these trips are not possible.

Web of Knowledge

 Today we made a web of knowledge.  Where a child is holding the thread is a place where we could knew something about bees.  We are going to do this again after we have done our learning about bees and flowers and see if our web is much bigger.

Ferrymead Visit

 We were so lucky to have Ferrymead come all the way to visit us at school.

They came with so many fun things to help us learn more about our inquiry study at the moment.

We got to play with so many toys from the past and even got to create our own toy of the past to take home. 

Thank you so much Mrs Gatehouse for organising this fun day for us.

Check out the smiles on our faces. We are so lucky to get to share fun learning days like this together in Te Ope Ruaraki.

Book Character day

                            Friday was so much fun. We all looked AMAZING.

                                            Check out some of our photos.

Even the teachers got dressed up too. 

                                                               

                                                               

                                                               

                                                                

                                                              

                         Can you spot what some of the Book Characters were, that we came to school as?

                          It was such a fun day and we celebrated at the end of the day with a big parade so we                                                          could see everyone. 

We love Writing

 

 

Check out the writing from these awesome children. They are so good at writing. We are so flash we have even put some of our writing on the wall in the classroom for everyone to see how great we are.

Work on the Bike Track

We were lucky to be at school when the digger was here to dig up the ground for the bike park!

We watched the men use the digger to scoop the earth and put it in the truck. 

Jackson wrote: I can see the digger.  It is scooping up the dirt.  It looks fun to drive.

Tevita wrote:  I can see the digger.

Enzo wrote: I can see the digger digging in the ground.  

William wrote: I look at the digger.

Lucas wrote: I can see the digger digging.

Matthew wrote: I can see the digger digging the soil outside the school with the bars.

Paige wrote: I can see the digger and it looked fun.

Ashleigh wrote: I can see the digger.

Hataysia wrote: The digger is digging.

Rory wrote: I can see the digger.

Pyper wrote: I can see the digger putting the dirt in the truck.

Alaynah wrote: The digger is digging.

Sophie wrote:  I can see the digger digging the earth.

Violet wrote:  I saw the digger digging the dirt.

Another special visit to Te Ope Ruaraki.

We are loving having visitors coming to our space to share their learning with us.

Today we had Whakarua visiting.  They read and did some actions to Greedy Cat.

We loved it.  We are really enjoying the stories we are having read to us.  Our listening 

skills are developing everyday.  We are very proud of ourselves.

Some of Te Ope Ruaraki had Mrs Huriwai pay a visit and read the big book to them.

It was a great surprise.

Some of us were reading along in the parts we could.

Handwriting in the Sun

Yesterday Miss Clothier's handwriting class headed outside to enjoy the warm sun while practising their handwriting using chalk on the concrete.

"I liked handwriting outside."

"I wrote a tall stick."

"I love doing handwriting"

"I like it so much."

"My handwriting is beautiful."

"I've got the chalk." - Cedrick

"I'm drawing lines." - William

"I like doing it."

"I did it with chalk."

"I'm doing my best to do handwriting."

Our first week back at school!!

 We have played shops. Aleigha is being a shop keeper and other children are lining up to buy food.
We have played alphabet games with buddies.

We have been learning about shapes in Maths

 We have used fancy scissors to practise our scissor skills.