Rabbit thinking

Keeping Rabbits warm and dry

These are our ideas for keeping the rabbits warm and dry.

• We need to make sure they can get into the hutch. (Mac)
• We need to give the rabbits some hay or straw.(Nia/Lola)
• We could give the rabbits a blanket.(Alex)
• We could add a piece of soft carpet.(Aimee)
• We could block a piece of the hutch off and we could make a door.(Trey)
• We need to look and see if the hutch has a door. (Banx)
• We could check if the rabbits have room to snuggle up together.(Mac)
•  There needs to be an opening for us to clean the hutch.

Pumpkin

The other day we gave the rabbits some pumpkin but they didn't eat it straight away. We will need to check and see if they have eaten it.

Water for the Rabbits

We saw Charlotte and Phoebe were using a watering can to water their plants. We thought this is a good idea and we could borrow the it. They got it from Mr Shane so we knew it was a school watering can. Jaidden and Airfaan filled it up from the sink tap and Jaidden poured  the water into the rabbit water containers.

Water for the Rabbits

These are our ideas about how we can provide water for the rabbits.

• we need clean water
• we could get water from the water fountain
• we could get water from the cooking room
• we will need to tip the dirty water out
• we could use the closest tap and get the water from the Room 3 sink
• we will need a container for the water like a cup, bowl, drink bottle, jug, jar, or a water gun
• we need to check it every day

Inquiry Question

We have a new inquiry question because yesterday Mr Shane came along when we were feeding the rabbits and he asked about the rabbit's water.  Room 3 thought it was Mr Shane's job to look after the water. Our teacher was wondering why is it Mr Shane's job.  We are TEAM players and this term we are doing T Trust. Our trust is  taking responsibility for the Rabbits so should Mr Shane be looking after the water?   We will need to think of ways we could help.

Cabbage

We are going to give the rabbits some savoy cabbage. 

Cauliflower

Today we are going to give the rabbits some cauliflower and we are going to check that they ate all of the celery from yesterday.

What is It?

We have a new machine in our room and we are wondering what it is. Here are our ideas.....

• an apple juicer
• paper cutter
• holds wood
• cuts skin off apples
• shiny machine

When we find out we are going to make a photo essay for the Digi awards.

Celery

Today we are going to give the rabbits some celery.  We know they like carrots, silver beet,  brussel sprouts and broccoli and we are going to find out if they like celery.

Silverbeet

Today we are going to give the rabbits some silver beet. We have a bunch of silver

beet to give them.

More Rabbit Food

Yesterday the rabbits ate all of the broccoli. Today we are going to give them brussel sprouts to see if they like them.

Rabbit food

Today we are going to give the rabbits some broccoli to see if they eat it.

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Food for the Rabbits

Melinda asked what kind of vegetables do the rabbits like.  We could try some different vegetables. We have tried carrots and dried food. We could try

• broccoli
• potatoes
• peas

I wonder what other vegetables we could give the rabbits. We will need to find out some more information about vegetables.

Digi Awards

We had two new photographers today taking photos of the lamb and the rabbits. We are trying to get a good photo for the competition. Lola and Fiona were our photographers and Mac fed the lamb some milk from a bottle.

Sharing time about Rabbits

 Rabbit ears can stand up tall. (Aimee)
I learnt that Rabbits have eyes at the side. (Trey)
Our Rabbits have a round tail. (Airfaan)
I know how to feed rabbits. I know they like carrots and the 'striped food'(pellets)  Jaidden
The rabbits sometimes run away when we walk towards them. (Mac)
Rabbits have teeth to eat the carrots.(Fiona)
Our Rabbits hop a lot. (Lola)
Our Rabbits like to hide in holes in the ground. (Ayres)
Our Rabbits are fluffy and soft to pat.(Banx)
Our Rabbits and our Lamb like playing together. (Alex)

Rabbit pictures

We have been using a paint programme  on 'Room 3 Writers' to paint rabbit pictures.

Rabbit Visit

Today we went out to visit the rabbits. We fed them pellets and carrots.   Nia and Trey took photos for us.

Information

We have been talking about how to found out information about our inquiry questions.

• Google... Alex
• Watch our rabbits...Aimee
• Rabbit books....TEAM
• Animal doctor..vet...TEAM
• Expert...TEAM
• TV

Inquiry questions

We have some questions ready for our inquiry.....

Inquiry Questions About Rabbits

What should we feed them? (Trey)

 How light are they? (Jaidden)

 How often do we need to change the water? (TEAM)

 Why do they dig holes?(Moses and Shikira )

How often do rabbits eat?

How do they grow babies?

What do you call a rabbit cage?

How do you get the rabbit back in the cage?

Title page

We did our title page for our inquiry unit about rabbits. We are learning to do block letters.

Rabbit visit

We have been out to visit the school rabbits.

Stories

We have been sharing lots of rabbit stories to help us learn about rabbits.

 

 

We have also been putting our rabbit stories all together in our new '1, 2, 3, storage containers'.

This helps us sort them from all our other books in our library corner.

Bundling

We did an activity called 'Bundling'.  We worked with a buddy to record our ideas about Rabbits.  We have started sharing our ideas with the class and putting similar ideas together in 'bundles'.

Cover puzzle

We completed a 'cover puzzle'  to find out what our new inquiry topic is going to be. We took turns to choose a 'piece of puzzle' and when that piece of puzzle is taken away we talk to our 'talking buddy' about what clues we can see.

We had lots of good ideas.

Matariki stars by Trey and Israel

Grandparent pictures

We are going to use our grandparent pictures for the 'Digi' awards.

A Grandparent picture to enjoy

Letters to our Grandparents

We are going to send a letter to our grandparents so they can share a memory about us for our memory kete.

Grandparent Descriptions.....Do you recognize these Grandparents?

Koro is cool. He looks old because he looks different. He looks like a dinosaur one. His eyes look like mine. His hair is short like mine. He has a happy mouth that's because he likes me.

Granddad is tall and happy. He has white hair and has stripes on his shirt and on his pants. Granddad wears glasses when he reads and gives me lots of cuddles.

Granddad has black hair like a sideways 'c' and white legs.  He has a big nose and a big smile because he hasn't seen us for a long time. He likes seeing us because he misses us.

My Nana has  a red jacket.  She likes to wear blue pants with a white stripe.  She has two brown eyes and she has red cheeks.  She is too old because she looks like she is a bit old.  She got lots of wrinkles.

Nana has blond hair with a fringe and black eyes and dark, white skin and I love Nana.  Nana's face has lines when she smiles.  She wears different earrings. She wears giraffe earrings and zebra earrings and she has silver earrings. She wears colourful polka dot clothes.

Nana is white and skinny and has a big, huge smile. It goes up to the top of her hair.

Nana has black hair and a big smile. She has black clothes.  My Mum was born from her.  She  has got some wrinkles because she is a little bit old. She has earrings. They are gold.

Papa has curly hair. He has cool clothes like singing clothes. They are like rock star clothes. His eyes are wide open. He has big smiles. He can't change it.

Nana has a squashed face because she wants it like that. She plays like that.  Nana has short black hair. She has grown bigger for her birthday.

My Nanny smiles a lot. My Nanny has short hair and sounds nice on the phone. I miss my Nanny.

I remember .......Grandparent stories for our Memory Basket

I remember..
.by Nia
I remember when I went to her house and had  a sleepover.   I love her and she loves me because she's funny and kind and I'm her little granddaughter.

by Boyd
I remember Nanny coming to my house. She came from America. I'm feeling happy because I have a happy family.  She loves me and I love her.

by Kyiah
I remember when my Nana took me to a picnic. I feel special when she is here with me and my Mum because she is part of my family and she is the most important part.  I know that I love her in my heart.

by Harmony
I remember Nana went to the park with me.  She lives in a house across the road. She loves me and I love her too because she is so nice to me and so kind.  She hugs me, she takes me to the park and she snuggles me and she so loves me and I love her.

by Alex
I remember going to Granddads house for chocolate.  I love him because he gives me lots of fizzy lollies.  He loves me because I'm kind.

by Trey
I remember my Koro guarding the apples. I love him because he made the apples.  He loves me too because I'm kind.

by Airfaan
I remember talking to Nanny after school.  She lives in Burma. I talk about starting school and playing cool maths games and playing the car game on the  computer.

by Ayres
I remember posting an envelope to Nan. It was a picture of pancakes because she likes pancakes and I like pancakes.

Poetry by Kyiah

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Matariki

Today we celebrated Matariki.  We presented our song Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in English/Maori at our school celebration.  Our teacher thought we were great.  We got into the right place quickly and Harmony counted us in and led the singing with the microphone.  Kia Ora Harmony.  We also celebrated by making Matariki posters and weaving a kite based on our Nanny poem.  We are going to use our kete as our Memory basket for our Grandparent memories.

Kiri's Quilt

Today we read a story called 'A Quilt for Kiri' by Don Long and illustrated by Judith Kunzle. We talked with our talking buddies about the story.  We used our thinking tool box.  We used our 'red hat thinking' which helped us talk about  how Kiri was feeling in the story(feelings) and our 'white hat thinking' to talk about the quilt.(information)

We are writing our own stories about our grandparents.  We are writing 'I remember stories..........'.

Grandpa's Slippers

Today we read Grandpa's Slippers by Joy Cowley and illustrated by Wendy Hodder.  We noticed some new vocab in the story like 'nonsense' and 'tatty'.  Moses's favourite part of the story was when Grandpa had to wear his new slippers.  Aimee's favourtite part was when Grandpa's slippers got holes in them.

A Special Visit to Nanny and Koro

Today we read another grandparent story called 'A Special Visit to Koro and Nanny'  by Herehere Titoko and illustrated by Jennifer Cooper.  We did ' think, pair, share' to discuss our ideas.  This helps us with our comprehension of the story.  We learnt a new word; 'kaitiaki' which are the stars. They help keep the little girl safe in the story.

More Poetry by Israel

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Photography for the Digi Awards

We are learning to take photos for the Digi Award competition later this year.  We read a book called 'Winston'. The book was about Winston visiting the beach for the first time. It had real photos of Winston at the beach. We talked about what we liked about the photos.

• We liked the close up photos.
• We liked the photo of Winston's ear sticking up.
• We liked it when there were other things in the photos like Winston's stick or a piece of driftwood.
• We liked  it when Winston was facing different ways. He had his head on the side and there was a  photo from the back when he was looking at the water.
• We liked the sunlight shining into the forest.

Kuia and the Spider by Liani

Vocab List for our Writing from 'Talking to Nanny"

• Skype
• Nanny
• aeroplane
• where?
• Aroha
• 'Listening to Good Reading'
• computer
• bus
• Napier, Christchurch, Auckland,
• taxi

Talking to Nanny

We read a story called 'Talking to Nanny' by Jo Carson-Barr and illustrated by Martin Simpson. It is about Aroha and her Nanny. Her Nanny lives a long way away and Aroha misses her Nanny. Her Mum helps by letting her Skype her Nanny on the computer.  We know how to Skype. We Skype our Principal and the teachers and  the kindy.  

I wonder if we can Skype our grandparents.

Matariki

Whaea Golda read us a story about Matariki by Waitangi  Teepa and illustrated by Thaw Naing.   Matariki is the name of a group of seven stars and it is also the name of the Maori New Year. You can see the stars for most of the year but they disappear from the night sky in late April and appear again in winter in late May or early June. 

We can celebrate Matariki in different ways.

We celebrated Liani's stories about Maori bread/Rawena.  She told us about  how her Mum's friend taught her Mum (Amelia)  to make it.  She talked about having it on the Marae. She also talked about how her Mum made it.  Amelia made some Rawena for Room 3. Liani said a Karakia and served the bread.  Kia Ora Liani.

 

Memories

Yesterday we read a story about Grandma's Memories. We are thinking about some of our own memories.  Here are our ideas that we might write about.

• kindy/kohanga  memories
• baby memories
• different age memories like at 4years instead of 5 years.
• animal stories like pet memories
• visitor memories
• whanau memories
• 'going places' memories
• school memories

How do you get to have Grandparents?

"They grow up."

"You can ask for a grandparent."

"They come from a Dad to a Granddad."

"You find one."

"My Mum is my Nanny's Mum."

"Granddad belongs to Mum's family."

"You find a Nanny with your Mum."

Poetry by Israel

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Poetry by Liani

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Moses poetry reading

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Inquiry Question- What do we call our grandparents?

Inquiry  question 5-6-2013

What do we call our Grandparents?

• Nana (Nos and Moses and Alex)
• Grandmother (Israel)
• Granddad (Lucas  and Boyd)
• Granna (Aimee)
• Grandpa/Koro  (Trey)
• Granny (Liani)
• Kuia (Shikira)
• Nanny (Airfaan and Harmony)

Visitors

Ayres and Nia have been visiting Room 3 today. They are nearly ready to start school. Welcome to Room 3.  Airfaan has started school today. Thank you to all the children in the class for sharing their manaakitanga manners.

The Kuia and the Spider

We have been reading a story called 'Kuia and the Spider' by Patricia Grace.

This is helping us with our inquiry about 'Grandparents'.  It is helping us think of some new questions for our inquiry.  We want to know how do the kete's get to be two different colours and how do they get the writing on them like in the story.

We also want to know where is the story set. We think the story is at a kohanga or a Marae.

Visitors

We went out to learn some 'movement' skills from Lana and we saw the Police and Fire people visting the senior children. We worked hard at 'PE' and were team players so our teacher asked if we could have a look at the police car and the fire engine.  We had a great time.

A New I-PAD for Room 3

'Mr K' is presenting a new I-pad to Israel. Israel is receiving it on behalf of Room 3.  I wonder what apps it will have on it to help us with our learning.

Writing by Nos

The boy and his sister were sleeping on the couch because the monster was snoring!

Writing by Trey

I can see Lucy and Granddad.  Lucy asked Granddad about his wrinkles. She said his wrinkles were scrunchy like paper.

Writing by Kyiah

 My Mum is helping me to get ready to go to my Grandma’s to give her the present. It came in a box, somebody delivered it, the postman.

Writing by Lucas

I can see a museum of trains.  I went there to have a ride but it was closed and you needed ten bucks.  We went back on another day. The trains were very old, they were little steam trains.

Writing by Israel

I can see a jumping chameleon annoying the bird.  The bird is eating bird seeds and the chameleon is trying to jump and eat the bird.

Writing by Moses

I can see Chameleon's Mum.  Chameleon was looking for his Mum. He was scared because he was worried he wasn't going to find her.

Writing by Liani

I can see a ginger cat. He is looking for another cat to live with.  He found a big black cat and they became "together'.

Writing by Harmony

I can see a fluffy dog with fluffy legs and a fluffy face.  You can't see anything on his face.

Writing by Boyd

I can see a dog, like a dinosaur.  It's got scales like a Tyrannosaurus   Rex. It's a dinosaur dog. It is green and pink. It likes playing with a soccer ball.  It puts it in its mouth and carries it back to me.

Writing by Aimee

Dad and the boy were making a sandcastle taller than Dad. It nearly got crashed over on to Dad.  The boy didn't like it because he was afraid.

Writing by Alex

I can see a boy shark.  He is scary. His teeth are very, very sharp.  His eyes are scary because of the colours.  His tail is flippy and strong.

Writing by Shirkira

I can see the little boy . He was riding  on his skateboard. He lived next door to Miss Nancy. He liked to visit and she was 96 but she had lost her memory. He made a memory basket..

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