Feeding time with our Marine Biologists - Good Sorts in our class!

The fish are fed every second day. Just a pinch for the littlest fish and a couple of wafer biscuits for the shark fish. You are all keeping to our Fish Treaty and the fish are enjoying their time in R14.

Survey: who can cross their eyes? lick their elbows? waggle their ears? roll their tongues?

Survey: who can cross their eyes? lick their elbows? waggle their ears? roll their tongues

GET NEW ZEALAND WRITING HAS SOME DATA COLLECTION REQUIRED TO SHARE WITH OUR SWAP SCHOOL IN KARORI.

HERE KAYA IS RECORDING OUR TOTALS. WHAT DO YOU THINK THEY WERE?

THE NEXT TASK WAS TO ADD THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN IN OUR FAMILIES SO THIS GROUP HAD TO SURVEY THE CLASS AND ADD THE BROTHERS, SISTERS AND OURSELVES TOGETHER. WHICH GROUP DO YOU THINK WAS THE BIGGEST? OUR TOTAL WAS.....?

Chapter Chat - tweeting experts!

Here we are tweeting in pairs this time. One person is the scribe and they are on the keyboard. The other person is discussing with the scribe how to tweet and what to tweet. 

The questions start at 10am Friday and keep feeding into Chapter Chat NZ 3/4. We have 9 questions to answer but there is so much information feeding in we also end up tweeting feedback to other classes and their work! If you want to follow us go to:

https://twitter.com/r14sunnyhills

Mrs T asks us to show her the tweet before we tweet them. They are supposed to be in full sentences, correct punctuation and have our first names only.

It is so busy - we don't want to go to morning tea! 

THIS IS A GREAT WAY TO ENGAGE WITH OTHER CLASSES AND LEARN ABOUT OTHER NEW ZEALAND SCHOOLS. We look forward to reading the next set of chapters before next Friday so that we are ready to tweet again about THE TERRIBLE TWO.

Here are some of our character studies about the main character Miles - he's not too happy about moving to a new school and making new friends.

We are becoming fish - swimming in our school pool!

Here we are swimming in the pool! The wonderful PTA are fundraising for a heat pump so that next year we will be able to swim in the pool for a longer period of time.

And here are our very own fish - a sucker fish to clean the tank, 1 neon, 2 mollies and a large rainbow shark (who is nocturnal)! We are learning to respect animals including our fish. We have 3 children who are the Marine Biologists at the moment who are in charge of feeding the fish, making sure the tank is clean and making sure people in our class treat the fish with respect. We have a Fish Tank Treaty for this reason.

This is the Rainbow shark fish - it is a large fish and super sensitive. It is 3 years old. Mrs T was clearing the tank before she brought it to school and put it in a bucket for the time. It does not like coming out of the helmet very often. It is super shy. It is very special to the Trembath Family.