Showing posts with label Inquiry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Inquiry. Show all posts

Sunday, 16 October 2016

Our Thinking

So what do we know?
 
Photo from Plastinography.org

People are not looking after the ocean.  Stevie-Lee
They are throwing rubbish all around everywhere.  Remz
Animals are dying because they are eating rubbish.  Jaz
Turtles can die by plastic because they think it is jellyfish.  Vintcent
People are leaving bags behind and are not putting them in the rubbish.  Jack
If this carries on, people won’t be able to go fishing.  Dylan
They drop their rubbish when they go to the beach.  Jaziah
Rubbish flies around and then it goes down the drains and into the river.  The river goes to the beach and then the sea and out to the ocean.  Jade
Rubbish is floating into the sea.  Brayden
It’s safe to eat fish now.  But if we keep doing what we are doing, the fish will die.  Vintcent
There will be no healthy food to eat.  Hemi



What do we want to know?


Why do people not pick up the rubbish when they see it?  Dylan
What if the animals have no teeth, how do they eat the rubbish?  Sammy
What happens if the animals eat the rubbish, but they don’t die?  What happens to them?  Ali
Why do the turtles think plastic is jellyfish?  Dylan
Why are people leaving their rubbish on the beaches and everywhere else?  Jaz
If people know about it, why don’t people go to the ocean and get the turtles that are very sick and help them live?  Ali
How does the rubbish get past the waves?  Dechlan
Where does the rubbish go if it doesn’t go to the ocean?  Dylan
Why do people put rubbish on the ground if they know it is bad for animals and they can die?  Ali
Why are the turtles not smart enough so that they don’t eat plastic?  Vintcent

Some wonderful wonderful thinking happening in Team Toru... some very clever questions too!

Tuesday, 12 April 2016

Our Ideas for a New Playground

Team Toru have been thinking about the Junior Playground and how it could be given a bit of a 'face-lift'!  This afternoon with the help of our Tuakana Teina buddies, we designed some layouts for our new 'proposed' playground.  Mrs Gempton has shared them with Mr Pearse... I wonder what he thinks of them?  :-)









Thursday, 5 November 2015

How do seeds travel (Video Lesson)

Today we watched a video showing us how seeds travel. Team Toru would love to share their learning with you :-)



Saturday, 25 July 2015

Welcome Back to Term 3

Welcome back to all children and whanau of Team Toru.  We are having a Reading and Book focus this term. On Monday the children arrived back to school to see that Dr Seuss has visited our class :-)


  

Friday, 1 May 2015

I Wonder...

Today Team Toru learnt some new information about Dinosaurs.  This afternoon we wrote down things we wanted to find out about Dinosaurs.  We wrote a question which we called 'Our Wonderings" and put them on our wall.  Some of the things we want to find out are...

  • Why did they die?
  • How do they fly?
  • How do they eat?
We will keep you posted with our discoveries!


Wednesday, 29 April 2015

Dinosaurs

We are starting to find out more about Dinosaurs.  To begin with though, we did a Y Chart and wrote down all of the things we thought we knew about dinosaurs...



Today for Writing we watched an awesome You Tube clip about Pterodactyls.  We then labelled a Pterodactyl in our books.  Tomorrow we are going to write about what we have found out about these amazing creatures!!  Here is the clip we watched...


Wednesday, 11 March 2015

Super Learning with the Junior Team today!

All of the Junior team met in the hall after lunch today to talk about FRUIT!  We shared what we already knew and then after watching one, then two Suzy's World DVDs, we discussed our new learning... awesome stuff!
Check out the thinking and sharing we did... the blue writing is our thinking before the DVDs, followed by the green and red, which details our new learning.


Monday, 18 March 2013

Room 3 Inquiry

We have been learning all about ME, our class, our school and our community. Take a look at our video about all our super learning!

Wednesday, 13 March 2013


Look at our super class! We are very excited about this year and all the learning we are going to do!
We hope you enjoy our 'Room 3 Movie'