Inquiry

Our inquiry Topic this term (Term 3) is 'Simply the Best'  the Olympic games.

Olympic closing ceremony


Olympic opening ceremony


Here are a couple of videos to inspire and help us to learn about the olympic games.






This week (week 8 term 2) as part of our inquiry we are going to look at shadows. Have a look activity. An adult may need to help you.


Our Inquiry Topic for Term 2 2012 is 'Twinkle, Twinkle little star'



This term our inquiry topic is 'Do we have to?'
Here is some of the work we did for our inquiry. We looked at rules we had a home and school and why we have rules. We also looked at what could happen if there were not rules.





















This Term (Term 4 2011) our inquiry topic is about celebrations.


These videos are of New Zealand celebrating the winning of the world cup Rugby.








These videos are of the celebrations of the rugby world cup opening.



This term (Term 3 2011) Our inquiry is 'we are rugby mad.'
We are going to learn all about rugby and the rugby world cup


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At the start of the "All Blacks' games they perform haka. Take a look at the video to see what the haka looks like.








This video is the gensis add.It gives a good example of how the pukeko walk.

One of our questions was to find out what pukeko's look like? )
we have found out that they.
A pukeko is a bird (coby)
It is blue (jay)
It has white on it's bottom (tenesha)
It is black (joshua)
Long nails (Arnakah)
It has a red beak (Eden)
Blue on its tummy (Samuel)
It had red eyes (kobie)
It has red legs (Arnakah / Eden)
It has wings (keighley)

We had a talk about what we already know about Pukekos. we then talked about what we want to find out these are the questions we have.
What kind of food do they eat?
How do they eat/ drink?
Do Pukeko’s fly?
How do they fly?
Where do they live?
What kind of house do they live in?
What do grown Pukekos look like?
What are they covered in? (nice & warm)
Where do they sleep?
We also watched this video clip to see of it would help us answer any of our questions.


This week we are learning about Pukeko's. Mrs Robertson made this voicethread so that we can find information to answer our questions we have about pukehos.
This Term our inquiry is "celebrte good times. This is our first thoughts.Follow what we are doing in our inquiry.