Inquiry 2

Bugs and Beasts

Room 7 are really excited about this terms Inquiry. Here we are talking about lots of the things we already know. Mrs Sauvarin says we have some wonderful vocabulary!

During week 1 we wrote about this picture. Here are some questions that we thought about to help us improve our writing!

What is a predator?What is the animal in the picture?What might the animal be doing?Where might you find an animal such as this?What is the animal looking at?How might a predator such as this one feel during a hunt?Why do you think some species of wild cats have become endangered?

Here is some of our writing...

The cat kept its body low to the ground and quietly he leapt to catch it's prey. (Madan) The cat kept its body low to the ground and stealthily crept up to its prey. (Travis) The cat kept its body low to the ground so that it could suddenly jump and catch it's prey. (Oliver) The deer suddenly looked up and ran as fast as it could. (Stevie) The deer suddenly looked up and got frightened. (Trinity) The deer suddenly looked up and the leopard pounced. (Jacob C) A loud noise startled the deer and it ran off. (Vincent) A loud noise startled the deer, the cat sprang from it's hiding place and chased the deer deep into the forest. (Fleur) The cat had intense, grey eyes because he was angry. (Mackenzie) The cat had intense, grey eyes so it scares it's prey away. (Caleb) It was very early in the morning so the deer was asleep so the snow leopard ate it! (Jed) It was very early in the morning and the snow leopard was still sleeping. (Mana)

Inquiry 1

Bugs and Beasts

For Term 3 we are studying all creatures great and small. We are going to learn about these creatures by conducting an inquiry. The inquiry process includes the following steps to increase our interest, knowledge and thinking:

Sparking     Wondering     Discovering     Creating

Communicating     Reflecting

Come with us on our exploration journey to find out all we can about Bugs and Beasts.

Here is our Inquiry Cycle

                               

Inventions Day

Today, we had an invention day. We made some inventions and wrote about inventions to share with our families and all of Matai.

We dressed up as scientists or inventors. Some of us were just a scientist, while others were a particular person. Arabella was Marie Curie, Jed was Thomas Edison and Lucas was Felix Wankel.

We shared our amazing work with other students, our parents and grandparents, Mr Milich and Mr Muthoo. We had great fun making our inventions and writing about inventions or our trip to MOTAT.

We hope you like our work too! We made kindness fortune tellers on the day. As well as that, we made Roto-copters and flew them and then we drew a racing car. 
We just had a really great day!

Mrs Sauvarin is really proud of us!!!