Using our new activity

James and the Giant Peach were learning about word endings using our new activity today. Today they looked at the ending -an.

We need your help!

Room 27 are learning about the different communities that we belong to. We know that we belong to our church communities, our local communities, and our school community, but is there more? 

Miss Johnson told us that we belong to a global community, but what is this? We are looking at all the places that our blog travels around the world, to see how far the ideas and learning in Room 27, in Papatoetoe New Zealand, can reach. 

We would love to hear from you and add your location to our map. Please tell us if you read our blog where you are from. It helps us build connections with the world beyond our known. 

Worms continued...

Yesterday we looked at the different  parts of a worm and how these help the worm to do its very special job! We learnt how to label, as well as some very new words. 

Using our diagram and labels we wanted to share with you, (our audience), the different ways that each body part helps the worm to help us! 

Extra! Extra! Read all about it!

Room 27 put on their reporters hats and wrote news paper articles about a HUGE problem we have at our school! 

Check out 'The Classroom Press' and its breaking news!

 

Worms, worms, worms!

Room 27 had a lot of fun creating a working Worm Farm today! We were exploring ways that we can throw less rubbish away, because we know that rubbish is a problem for our school. 

The worms eat our scrap food, so we set up a compost bin to collect all of our food waste. This is what we feed to our worms. Then we can give our worm t to the edible garden children to help their vegetables grow!

Check out our instructional video!

Our new pets!

Room 27 are VERY excited to welcome 300 wiggly and slimy pets to our class. 

Today we got Tiger Worms for our worm farm that we are making on Friday. They are all living in this little box. But don't worry they are alright in there. 

We are making a worm farm to help us fix a big problem in our school... rubbish! We are using the worms to help us answer our question... "How can Room 27 throw away less rubbish?" 

Watch our blog to see how it goes! 

Comparative writing

After we used are speaking frames to write about the similarities and differences between different types of bugs, we wrote a comparison between Great White Sharks and Whale Sharks.

We brainstormed all of the features we could identify about these animals. 

Then we used  a Venn Diagram to sort out the different facts we knew about Whale Shark and Great White Sharks. These facts were sorted into those that were true about a Whale Shark, those that were true about a Great White Shark and those that were true about both. 

Summer did a great job sorting these facts into the Venn Diagram. 

Then we used our speaking frames,

They are similar because...

They are different because... 

To help use write a comparison between these two animals.