Sebbie's Spider Research

Spiders

The biggest spiders in the world are bigger than your hand.The wolf spider does not make a web like most other spiders. All spiders have a poisonous kill bite to kill prey or stop it struggling. The crab spider is shaped and coloured to look like part of a flower. House spiders don't go in the bath to get clean. Most spiders are very shy. All spiders can make silk threads but not all spiders make webs from them.

Sebbie's Construction

Sebbie worked hard this week to build a swing. He showed amazing persistence and perseverance to complete his project and solve his challenges. We are so proud of you Sebbie. We are also very pleased you recorded your reflection on the ipad for us to learn from. You are a shining star!

Daphne Flowers

Louie kindly brought in some stunning daphne flowers. The whole pod smells amazing. We used the flowers to help us with our writing. Here are a few examples I thought you should see.

The white creamy flowers have thin light pink outlines. They smell like perfume. Green branches tangle out the brown stripes winding around them like snakes. Lola

The silky leaves are very delicate. They are beautiful if you look at them. Kiana

The white edge petals are small. The petals are falling on the table. They have four petals. They have hot pink edges. Ella

The buds are hot pink. The edges are dark pink. There is four little stamens in the middle. Kaya

The flower has light green leaves. It has uncomfortable stamens in the middle of the petals. Sebbie

The flower smells like perfume. There are dark pink around the petal. There are four petals. The petals are delicate. Midori

Reflections of Sir Edmund Hillary

This person is special – can you guess? He is Sir Edmund Hilary. He didn’t die climbing Mt Everest. He had a person from Nepal with him. Other people have died climbing Mt Everest. 

Abby

www.achievement.org 

Sir Edmund Hillary was the first person to climb Mt Everest. He is named Sir Edmund Hillary because he is special. You can’t climb Mt Everest without anything. You have to eat food, breathe and survive. Every breath is like burning fire. You must go with someone. At the top it is dangerous and cold. You have to be brave and sensible. Mt Everest is in Nepal. People live in the mountains but they do not live on Mt Everest. Sir Edmund Hillary put a flag on the top of Mt Everest to show that he was the first person to climb Mt Everest. You have to be a good climber to do that.

Lola

schofieldwatchcompany.com - 

Mount Everest is the biggest Mountain in the world. Sir Edmund Hillary was so proud of himself when he got to the top of the mountain and they celebrated. Sir Edmund Hillary was very brave. It took a long time and the mountain was very cold.

Taja.

www.opc.org.nz -

Sir Edmund Hillary is a climbing master. The Queen calls him Sir Edmund Hillary. He climbed Mount Everest. He’s dead now. He was the first one to climb Mount Everest. It is very cold up there. Sir Edmund Hillary climbed Mt Everest before I was born. 

Sebbie.

Mount Everest is the biggest mountain in the whole wide world. Sir Edmund Hilary had the right gear on to climb the mountain. But he died when he got old.

Kaya

Sir Edmund Hillary climbed Mt Everest because he wanted to be proud of himself. He was the first person to climb Mt Everest. Sir Edmund Hillary put a flag on top of the mountain. Nepal is a beautiful place. 

Louie

Our Inclined Planes

We have been learning about simple machines that help us to invent new kinds of technology. Sebbie's Dad came in to help us make our own inclined planes. These are made out of wood. They are for us to lie on the floor to do our research and investigating. It helps to keep the book up so we can work more easily.

Silly Story by Sebbie

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The talking pen is bouncing on my page. It is scribbling on my page.

By Sebbie

Shape

Pod 2 are learning all about 2D and 3D shapes.  We are learning to sort shapes, describe them and find out how many sides and corners they have.  One way to help us to do this is to make shapes, this can be with clay, rods, straws, geoboards and rubber bands, drawing them etc.  Here are some examples of some of our independent work last week.

 Monty and Myles comparing their triangles on the geoboards.

 Olive and Caitlin drawing shapes in their investigation books.

 Hunter and Jorja making shapes on the geoboards.

 Here is Sebbie's cylinder he created using 2d shapes - great thinking!

Kahlarni and Fletcher with some of the shapes they made using rods, they made a number of hexagons using 6 rods.

Waiata with Sebbie

Sebbie's Research

After two weeks of research and note taking Sebbie completed his presentation for sharing to help other learn about birds. Sebbie has worked very hard to try new things and record his information for his learning. 

Super Duper Duathlon Stories

I didn't want to cry but I didn't but Kiana won and I wanted to win but I didn't.

Chantel

(Chantel came a very close second)

I was very hot when I finished my race. I had a drink of my water.

Kaya

I saw all the people running in the race. I was running really fast. I was really hot and I went across the finish line.

George

I was a fast biking person. I was a thirsty boy. I was a hot boy. 

Sebbie

I ran fast in the goathlon and I biked fast too at the end. I felt tired. 

Taja

I was in the race. It was hot but I kept on going. I know I won't win the race. Midori

When I runned up a hill I go slow and I found my bike and I got off my bike and I runned again. 

Abby

It was hot but I enjoyed it very much. It wasn't hard to find my bike because it is blue and big. Thank you for everyone who came to meet us at the end.

Lola

Today the best part was winning and I was proud of myself. 

Kiana

Haka Performance

Meet our amazing Haka crew performing for the pod. Thank you Whaea Mary-Ann for teaching us our own pod 2 Haka.

Learning a new word

Kahlarni - writing on the mini whiteboard

Talking into the phone to hear the word.

During our Knowledge Building Community discussions we have been investigating how we learn. We found out that we all learn in different ways doing different things. These are a few photos to demonstrate how we found the best way to learn a new word.

Taja - Making the word 'thank' with playdough

Sebbie - making 'there' using lego

Ryan - making 'A' using blocks

Finley - making 'she' on mini whiteboard

Abby - making 'too' with playdough

Kiana - Making a poster of 'saw' using different colours

Sam - making 'see' with playdough

Story telling

Story telling is a great way to organise ideas, sequence events and develop language. If you are working with someone else you are also learning how to integrate ideas, negotiate, extend and challenge new thinking. A table full of dinosaurs inspired these clever learners to develop a story back in time. Of course there was a mum and a dad, both who had very busy days flying everywhere and looking after the babies. Sebbie's story was much more about dinosaur types and the cycle of life. Fantastic learning guys!