What happened?

This afternoon (Tuesday) we went back outside to check on our five caterpillars. We got to the first swan plant which had two caterpillars on it yesterday and we found that there was only one! We then went and looked at the other two plants to see if it had moved plants. There were four caterpillars on it but they were all too small to be the one we had lost.

We all looked and looked for our big caterpillar, we couldn't see him anywhere. We were surprised when one of our Room 4 scientists found it in another plant. We were very worried that he wouldn't like that plant so we had to  move him to another swan plant.

We noticed two things.
1. There was one more caterpillar than yesterday. How did we get another one?

Maybe a butterfly came along an laid one egg. 
An egg was on the leaf because the egg comes first. 
Maybe he was really tiny yesterday and we didn't see him. 


2. How did the caterpillar get all the way to the plant he didn't like?

Maybe he ate all of the leaf that he was on and fell off the plant. 
Maybe the two caterpillars were fighting because there isn't many leaves left on the plant and the caterpillar that lost had to go away. 

Tennis

Today we started learning about tennis. We are learning how to catch, throw and bounce a tennis ball. We also had turns balancing the tennis ball on the racket. We had so much fun!

What can we see?

Yesterday we did some observational drawing. We spent some time looking closely at the swan plants and drawing exactly what we saw. We drew in some huge caterpillars that look as though they have been eating for a long time. We will be checking our swan plants regularly to see what happens.We have three swan plants in our garden and five caterpillars.

Yesterday afternoon Room 4 went outside. We drew the caterpillars and we looked at the caterpillars eating a swan plant. By Fe'ao

The Transformation

We are so lucky! Over the past two days we have got to see the transformation of a caterpillar into a chrysalis! We were looking at the caterpillar and then we got back to the work we were doing. About 15 minutes later we heard an excited cheer from Room 3. That same caterpillar was in the process of turning into a chrysalis! AMAZING! We looked this morning and it has now fully developed. Now to wait for butterfly number 2! Here are some photos we took! Have a look and see if you can spot the changes!

 

Our special visitor.

Today something special is going on next door. A beautiful butterfly cracked the chrysalis it was living in.We watched it when it first came out. Now it is learning how to use its wings. We think he is feeling a little bit scared because before he was a caterpillar and now he has amazing wings that he has to learn how to use. When he has dried his wings he will be off on his next adventure. 

Thank you to Room 3 for sharing their butterfly with us! 

Bubbles, Bubbles, Bubbles!

It has been such beautiful weather lately so we have been making the most of it every morning. We have been running, walking, hopping and skipping about to help us stay fit and strong. Last week while we went for our walk we put on our discovering eyes and looked at some bubbles. We thought about the journey that they went on from when they formed to when they popped!

I saw a bubble it went up to the tree. Dania

I can see bubbles in the tree. Tangi

I saw a bubble float to the tree and pop. Fe'ao

Room 4 blew bubbles. We saw them fly. Siale

I saw a bubble in the sky. Deevah

I saw a bubble. Evana

Room 4 are blowing bubbles. Aahil

I saw bubbles. Michael

The bubble popped in the sky. Timote

I saw bubbles and I jumped to get them. Jeremiah

I saw bubbles. Nathan

I saw bubbles floating up to the sky. Oliver

Being successful learners

We have been talking about what it means to be a successful learner in Room 4.
As a class we talked about how we could make sure that we were ready to learn everyday.Here are the awesome ideas that we came up with.