Te Akonga o Te Wiki - Student of the Week

This week our super star student award goes to Aston ...

Aston is a super star.  He always has a big smile on his dile! He loves to have fun and he is good at making us laugh!

Aston loves to learn new things.  He knows how to concentrate and give his very best.

Aston listens carefully to instructions and if you need help, Aston loves to be a learning buddy and help others.

Tino Pai Aston - we are super lucky to have you in our class!

Aston gets to take Bobby Bear home for the weekend.  Click on Bobby Bear's page at the top of our blog to see what adventures Aston and Bobby Bear had together!

Bounce, Catch, Throw

We have been learning to control a ball when we bounce, catch and throw.

 Eyes on the ball...

 Fingers spread wide...

Hands are ready...

We are giving it our best try!

Catching is a challenge but with lots

of practise we are improving!

All about Ants

We have been learning about Ants.  We know that Ants are insects because we have identified their special features.  We made paper ants and gave their body parts labels.  We wrote some facts about Ants.

Look at our Amazing Ants!

Listen to us share our learning

We are starting to understand what an insect is.  We used our new learning about the special features of an insect to help us do a special sorting activity.  

We worked as a team to identify each living creature and work out if it was an insect or not!  Listen below to us sharing our learning.

listen to ‘Joshua knows that a bumble bee is an insect’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Anesh and Aston’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Hope, Lohita and Pepper Jo’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Jacob and Yusra’ on Audioboo

Come and Read our Word-a-pillar!

Our word-a-pillar is growing.  He is nearly all the way along one wall of our classroom.  






We read and write our word-a-pillar lots and lots in E6! Can you?

What is an insect?

We have been learning about insects.  We read a book that told us all about the special features of an insect.  We now know that insects have 6 legs and 3 body parts.  We know that insects have antennae (sometimes we call them feelers).  We know that insects have compound eyes.  Sometimes insects have wings. 

Our 'Spotty 5' Ladybugs

Come and see our beautiful ladybugs hanging on our classroom wall...  

We had to put 5 spots on our ladybug.  First we cut out 5 black paper spots all by ourself.  Then we had a lucky dip and pulled a fact to 5 out of a bucket.  We had to make the spots on our ladybugs wings match our addition fact to 5.  We glued them down carefully in the right place.

We have been learning to say and write equations (number sentences) using the words and symbols for 'plus' and 'equals'.  

Come and see our lovely ladybugs!

We know lots of ways to make 5.

by Jacob

 by Aston

 by Hope

 by Dhruv

 by Lohita

 by Joshua

 by Pepper Jo

 by Josh

 by Yusra

 by Anesh

 by Ganesh

by Afreen

We are math-magicians! 

We are going to learn to instantly recall some of these addition facts - that means we have 4 seconds to say the answer!

I am a Bug Detective !

Hi E6!   I am at home today with a sore throat and a sore head! I bet you are taking great care of Mrs Chamberlain for me,  and showing her your superstar learning power!

Guess What?  I  bumped into some little bugs at my house!  Some of them creep and crawl.  Some of them fly.   I had to be very brave when I saw them - and remember that even though some bugs look yucky, they can be good bugs!   

I took some photos for you to look at.  Have a look at them  I wonder if you know anything about these bugs? We will have to do some investigating and finding out when I get back to school...

This is a weta.  
This weta crawled out of the bush.  
I found it on my driveway. 

Look at those super long feelers on the weta!
  I wonder where wetas like to live? 

 Look at this stick insect.  

It is crawling up the wall of my house.

This stick insect has a long skinny body.

It is brown just like the wood that is stacked in a pile just below it.

Have you ever seen a stick insect? 

Eeeek!  I can see a spider!
The spider is living on my washing line peg.  

The spider has made a nursery web 
for all the baby spiders.

How many legs does a spider have?

Is a spider an insect ... or not? 
How do you know?

Here is a very noisy cicada!

I took this photo in March this year when 
it landed on my washing line.

Look at the wings.  Look at the cicada's eye.

Look at the butterfly. 
It has landed on a flower in my garden.
I can see some wings and some legs.  

I wonder why butterflies like flowers? 

Do you know what sort of butterfly this is? 

Maybe you could leave a comment if you know something about these bugs. 

I wonder if you can be a bug detective and see any bugs around your house? You might like to take a photograph of your bug and email it to me - or bring it along to school to show us!