Ornithologists

We have been visiting our Goodwood School forest as ornithologists.  We did a bird count.  We saw mostly sparrows and some piwakawaka.


         

We have noticed that there aren't many native birds in our school forest.  We noticed that our forest doesn't look like a healthy forest.  There are holes through the forest... we can see the paddock through it!

           


        

We wonder, how can we attract more native birds to our school forest? We have written to the Cambridge Tree Trust to ask if they can help us with finding plants for our forest.  They said yes!

Monday Week 6

• During problem solving on amazing Maths Monday we had to use the blocks to discover how many blocks we needed so that
• when we counted the blocks in 2's there was one block left over.
• when we counted the blocks in 3's there was one block left over 
• when we counted  the blocks into 5's there was none left over.

We had to think really carefully and chat to our buddy so we could help each other.

We discovered it was 25 blocks!!

We are wondering how we can attract more birds to our forest? We wonder what birds we would like to have in the forest?
Maybe Tuis or Piwakawaka or Bellbirds? Could we have Tuatara in our forest?

We crept out really quietly to the forest! Shhhh! What birds can we see and hear? Some were nesting in a tree that kept their nest safe.

We think we might have to plant more trees with flowers and berries and then maybe the birds might come back.

Book Week - Read, Read, Read!

We have been reading so many books!


We are reading lots of books and creating book caterpillars to earn house points for our house teams.  Every time we read a book we get to add a link to our team caterpillar chain.

 
We sure do LOVE reading!

Book Week - Toitoi

The Edior of Toitoi visited Goodwood School today.  Toitoi is a New Zealand publication of children's writing and art.  Charlotte read to us and shared the amazing work in the Toitoi books.  She told us that we can submit writing and/or art to Toitoi by the end of each term.  Work is selected to be in the Toitoi book each term.  We loved reading and hearing wonderful created by other children around New Zealand.  There were some really clever artworks in the books too!

Using our favourite toys for mass

This week we used blocks to weigh, and measure our toys tummy, height and weight. We could use our knowledge to count in 2's to make it quicker to count all the blocks.

We helped each other to measure and record our findings in our maths books

Some of our toys were so heavy we needed lots of blocks. We helped by grouping the blocks into 10's.

Counting in 10's is so much faster.

Nickle Nackle Birds

We have been finding out about bird beaks.  Birds have different shaped beaks to use for eating different things.

We read Lynley Dodd's The Nickle Nackle Tree.  Lynley Dodd used her imagination and curiosity about birds to create new birds who sit in the Nickle Nackle tree.

  

What a cool idea!  We thought it would be fun to create our own birds, thinking about all the things we know about birds.... beak shapes, feet shapes, body shapes, eye shapes, feathers....

         

    

    

It was so much fun creating our birds!  Thanks Lynley Dodd for inspiring us with your funny artwork.

   

Mass Maths

We have been the comparing mass (weight) of different objects.



What can we find that weighs the same as five teddy bears?



Can we build a see-saw?  What could we use?



Can a little toy have a ride on our see-saws?



I wonder which bag is heavier?  Who will test my tricky bags to find out?