Spiders

This week for our Mini-beasts topic we have been learning about spiders.

• We read spider books
• Read a poem about spiders
• Watched spider videos
• Wrote stories about spiders
• Created our own spiders
• Sang a song about spiders
• Made spider webs

This is our big book of the week and it had great spider pictures!

This is one of the spider pictures we made for Art.  We drew the web and then dyed it, then we cut out the spider body and legs and glued them onto the web.  We know that spiders make webs with their spinnerets.

                                         

This is a close-up video of a spider spinning his web that we watched from You tube.  It shows how the spider makes a web. 

                                            

We had fun making our hanging spiders. We coloured in the spider body with crayons and then we stuck the pipe cleaner legs into the body.  We know that spiders have eight legs!

We have been learning to label a picture of a spider. 

We know that Spiders are Arachnids. Spiders belong to a group of animals called “arachnids”. 

We learnt why spiders don't stick to their own webs. They don't stick to their webs  because they have a special oil on their feet. 

This is the activity that we did "The Sticky Web"

We imagined that we were an insect and felt what that was like to get stuck in a web and moved our fingers along the sticky tape. After that, we dipped our fingers into some oil and imagined we were spiders and we didn't stick to the sticky web.  

We all came up with I wonder questions about spiders.  

PMP

Today at PMP we had an amazing time!  There were lots of different activities.

Balance boards

Tunnels and ladders

Moon hoppers

Catching bean bags

Aiming and throwing

The balance boards were very tricky and we had to listen carefully to the instructions so we knew which way to balance on the board.

Matariki

We read stories about Matariki and watched some videos too.

We had a special assembly because it is Matariki and we got to watch the kapahaka group perform on the stage.

We also made Matariki hats with seven stars.

We decorated stilts to celebrate Matariki.

We were lucky to have some yummy steamed pudding from the hangi.

Matariki

Today we had a special assembly on Matariki.

Matariki is very special  Maori celebration.

It is a time to get together to celebrate the Maori New Year with family and friends. it is a time to plant crops like kumera.  People weave or make kites or tell stories. It is a special time to see a group of 7 stars in the sky. You have to wake up early to see the stars.

PMP

We had PMP today! We got to balance on a see saw and it was super fun!

Green Week

This week Room 5 have been learning about Green Week. 

We know how to sort rubbish and put it in the correct bins. We care about the environment at our school. Room 5 take action, we pick up rubbish, water the gardens, care for others and sort our rubbish. 

We drew pictures of our bins and the rubbish that goes into them.

The red bin is for mandarin and orange skins.

The blue bin is for empty milk cartons.

The yellow bin is for plastic and dirty paper.

The green bin is for apple cores and banana skins.

The black bin is for clean paper.

We had a special Green Day Assembly.

Well done to the children from Room 5 who got a certificate or a prize.