Happy Holidays!

Kia ora whanau. Jane and I hope you all have a safe and happy holiday over the next two weeks. Room 5 has had a great term and done so much learning! Rest up and we will see you on the 2nd of May. Victoria.

Practising our statistics

We are continuing our statistical investigations by practising sorting things out. We have lots of things in our maths trays that can be sorted into all sorts of groups. We sorted colours, shapes, and sizes. After we sorted the objects we shared our findings with the rest of the class.

Our Statistical Investigations

In maths lately, we have been looking at sorting things out (or Statistics). We asked some questions like "What is the most popular ice cream flavour in Room 5?" and "What is the most popular colour in Room 5?" and had to gather all the answers together. This was our information. Then we asked, "What could we do with this information?" We had to sort all the answers out to find the answer to our question. We put all the answers on a graph so we could see the result clearly and quickly in a display.

We found out that the most popular colour was red, followed closely by orange and purple.

Welcome to our blog!

Here we are up on our blog! This is one of the places you can see what we have been up to in Ruma Rima. We will post some photos of our work, ourselves and other cool stuff. Keep a look out for weekly posts next term.

Lately we have been doing a lot of investigating into how monarch butterflies come about. We have some special plants in the classroom called swan plants which is what they like to lay their eggs on. Our plants were left outside and soon had some pretty butterflies lay eggs on them. The eggs hatched into caterpillars. They love to eat the swan plant leaves and grew and grew. They got so big! We were a bit worried there wouldn't be enough food for them as the plants weren't that big. Just when we thought they couldn't eat any more, the caterpillars each turned into a chrysalis. We all guessed how long it would take for the butterfly to come out.

We have loved watching the life cycle at each stage and have done lots of pictures and other artworks about our 'class pets'.  Here are some caterpillars we coloured then put up on leaves.

Check out our poem books each Friday for lots of butterfly and caterpillar poems, too.