Our Most Amazing Machine

Welcome to Term 3, and our new Inquiry focus "Our Most Amazing Machine".

We will be exploring how our amazing bodies fit together, and ways we can keep them healthy and running well.

Already we have wondered some interesting questions, such as:

How do we grow hair? How do we talk? How do we grow skin when we get cut?

Do we have a thorax? (We know insects have them!)

It was exciting to have this last question answered for us when we were watching Stanley the Skeleton on YouTube - We DO have a thorax!)

We are learning about our skeleton and bones first, and practising a skeleton dance for the School Assembly soon.

Your comments, ideas and questions about our learning journey are welcome!

Answering some questions

We found the bugs in the dirt, and on leaves around the school.

Aaron found the cicada shell and brought it to school.

We do lots of things with Q Bear. He goes home with the Star of the Day every night and has lots of adventures. We write about him and he has lots of books - Come and see them in Room 9!

Dragonflies

Room 9 has thought of some interesting questions qbout dragonflies.

Today we sorted them to help us in our finding out.

We wonder...

How do dragonflies fly?

How do dragonflies eat?

What do dragonflies eat?

How do dragonflies drink?

How do dragonflies get babies?

What do dragonfly babies look like?

Where do they live?

We will find out by thinking, remembering, using the internet (there are great things on Youtube),

books, and going outside and looking (investigating, exploring).

Butterflies

We have been finding out lots about butterflies, exploring books and the internet to find answers to our questions.

We have been busy writing fact sentences about butterflies, and creating art about them. Look at our colourful reports!

Today we watched Youtube movies of caterpillars hatching from eggs, shedding their too-small skins, becoming cocoons, and then hatching as beautiful butterflies. We also saw a butterfly lay eggs on leaves.

We managed to answer all our questions about butterflies.

Next we want to find out about dragonflies. Where do they come from?

Does anyone have ideas about interesting questions about dragonflies that we might want to investigate?

Do you know any interesting facts about dragonflies you might want to share?

What Lives Here?

Room 9 have been wondering about little creatures, and have thought of lots of interesting questions to explore. The first one we tackled yesterday was:

What is an insect?

We thought... a fly, an ant, a ladybug, a slater, a beetle, a spider might be insects.

We knew a tiger wasn’t an insect. We thought that might be because tigers growl and insects don’t growl.

We looked at books and we found out...

Insects have 6 legs (so, a spider, a tiger and a worm aren’t insects)

Insects have 3 body parts

They have a skeleton on the outside (like a shell, not like bones)

Some insects have wings. They have antennae.

They lay eggs. Insects change - for example, from an egg, to a caterpillar, to a chrysalis, to a butterfly.

Patrick Visits Room 9

Today James’s dad brought Patrick the dog into Room 9 for a visit, and James shared him for News.

Afterwards, we wrote some stories about Patrick, or about our own dogs.

One of the stories is made up. Can you tell which one isn’t true?

Patrick is a funny dog.

By Josh

My dog jumps on me.

By Casey

I love Patrick. He jumped into my hands.

By Mia

Patrick jumped up.

By Kayla

I like my dog sitting on my bed.

By Madison

Patrick is licking Ryan’s face.

By Angela

The guy was chasing Patrick. Patrick turned around and ate his head off.

By James

I am patting Patrick.

By Atlanta