Parents' Walkthrough for Term 3's Inquiry - MINIBEASTS

Kia Ora Whanau, 


Our Busy Bees team had a wonderful parents' walkthrough in week 10 on Tuesday. Dedicated Dragons were really excited to welcome our Whanau with enthusiasm as they wanted to showcase their hard work not just in Inquiry also in other learning areas too. 


Finally, the day had arrived with beautiful smiles on our parents' faces.  On that day, Parents' came to look at our Inquiry findings for term 3. We had chosen our own minibeast to know what they can do; what do they have, and who are they? We found this topic quite interesting as we completed our research using computers & iPads within our Inquiry groups.

Please have a look at our Inquiry display... 

      On Minibeasts cards we jotted down the fun and cool facts along with pictures of our own minibeasts - what they can do, what do they have and who they are... by ourselves and some of us with the buddies help. 

It was so much fun as all of us participated in decorating our Inquiry Wall first. We had to color in the grass, flowers, and lots of minibeasts too. We were thrilled to see and hear the positive response from our parents. They were so proud of our work we have done so far in our classroom. We had also made our own topic related Bookmarks to use them for our Duffy Books to read in the holidays. 

Another Inquiry activity we did was to create and paint our own cute little spiders using the Toilet Rolls. Here are some photos for our Whanau to see what & how did we do this. 

Our Writing Wall - We have written a description about our favourite insects using lots of topic words and by drawing pictures too. Please check out our stories below in photos: 

Here are some more pictures of our amazing work we completed in Maori Language Week - tiki & taniwhas' check out the pictures, please...

We looked at these exemplars first before we colored in on our own to see different coloring techniques and patterns as well.

Look at our Tiki & Taniwhas Aren't they amazing 

Shared Book Response

Maori Pendants 

Great Job DEDICATED DRAGONS... 

Poerty Recitation Competition

On Thursday, 21st of September, we had the poetry recital competition for the Fledglings, Busy Bees (us) and Rocketeers. We had practiced really hard every day to make sure we are using the variation in our voice, expressions and delivering it really well. 

It was quite hard for our teacher to select only 4 to represent themselves by reciting their poem in front of their own team first. It was Tufala, Annamaria, Celine & VJ. And after the judgment, Tufala was the winner and Annamaria the First Runner-up.

Tufala represented our Room 8 from the Busy Bees Team on the Poetry Recital day. She did a wonderful job and I'm so proud of you, Tufala because you had beautifully used the voice, the expressions & what a great delivery it was. 

Mr. Vasau & Mr. Naidoo were the judges and Tufala was announced as the first runner-up with the participation certificate too. 

Here are some snapshots from the day: 

Lovely cute kids from Fledglings Team - All of them did a great job!!! 

Tufala from Room 8 did a tremendous job, Ka Pai !!! 

Mr. Vasau and Mr. Naidoo thank you for being wonderful judges

Kids receiving certificates for participation 

Participants of Rocketeers... 

Tufala was awarded the Silver certificate for being the first runner-up