Close Encounters with crickets

             

At Wesley, we have a school vegetable garden. We went for a walk to

find out the types of creatures can we find in gardens. We saw ants, caterpillars, butterflies, bees, flies, snails, slugs, weta, spiders and an

interesting hopping creature. We all thought it was a cockroach but then we found out that it was a cricket. We were so fascinated by it as it started to hop, jump and turn around. We all wanted to know more about this insect. So we put a jar close to the cricket. It hopped and jumped into the jar and we closed the jar with a lid with holes so we could watch it carefully and observe what it looks like and learn more about it. We then got our magnifying glasses and observed it carefully what it looks like and it does. We started to feed it with dry leaves and dead spiders. We watched it carefully to see how it eats and moves. Then we put it on the mat and watched it JUMP and HOP. Guess what! it could jump like a frog, very high. We all got a fright and screamed,AW!!
Our teacher said " The cricket is smaller than us. We look like giants to a cricket. I think it is jumping to escape from us." So we all decided to let it go back to the garden.  

Room 9 Multicultural Mosaic

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In Room 9, we coloured cultural patterns to show the country we come from and some Maori patterns of New Zealand- patterns of the place where we stand - Our Turangawaewae  We put our patterns together and made a mosaic to represent the culture backgrounds we have in our class. 

Our Multicultural Mosaic

Our Pepeha

In Room 9, we have been learning about Turangawaewae this term. Turangawaewae is the place for our feet to stand. As a part of our Inquiry, we have been sharing about the place we come from and plotted the countries we come from. We have been learning to say our Pepeha's. We used a pepeha to introduce ourselves to others, show the people in our family, the place we come from and about the place -where we stand now.

Our Shopping day

On Tuesday Takahe team went for a walk to the Market. Walking to the market was fun. We all collected the money we brought and  did some shopping. We saw lots of people there. The smell of donuts made us feel hungry. We could hear sizzling sausages and roast beef being sold there. but we decided we will buy healthy fruits to make fruit kebabs.There were lots of fruits and vegetables for us to choose from. We went in little groups to do our shopping. It was exciting paying money for the fruits we bought. We all had a turn playing on the playground. After buying different fruits we walked back to school. At school, we made fruit kebabs. It was fun helping with peeling the fruits and putting fruit pieces on skewers. YUM! YUM! we all got to eat our kebabs. 

Thanks to all parent helpers who came along.

Can you see the pattern I made using fruits?