Science Alive - Space Odyssey

Today we had our visit from Science Alive.  Here is a clip showing the activities they brought along.  The children learned a lot and were so interested in all they found out.  They had lots of questions too!

Space

Space

Weka are so excited to be learning about space this term!  

This week have been working together to explain why we have night and day.  We used the app "Explain Everything" to show our understanding.

Here are some of the slides we have created.....

Launching into Space!

Space

This term, we will be learning all about space.  This week the children have shown how much they love this topic!  We are seeing lots of books and puzzles about space being brought in to the class. 

 Neivah and Lilley came up with an idea for making a flying saucer with an alien inside.

Yalecia showing what she knows about the Solar System

Anthony made an alien mask.

Amelia made a rocket ship.

James brought in his Space puzzle.

Aiden's Dog Halo

Halo Visits Weka Pod

Last week Halo, Aiden's dog, visited Weka Pod.  Thank you to Jenna for bringing her in. Everyone thought Halo was very cute - and excited!  Halo licked some of us on the face, there were lots of giggles .

Working together at Discovery Time

Our discovery time Fridays...

We have been thinking about how we can work together and solve problems at our discovery time sessions. 

There is a lot of great thinking going on, and when we come up against a problem we are working on thinking it through to find a solution.

Have a look at out latest slideshow.  What a lot of amazing ideas the children come up with!

Budgies!

Ringo and Yo-Yo visit the Weka Pod.

Today Josh asked his mum to bring his budgies in to show the class.

He has had them for 10 weeks.  We think Yo-Yo is a boy and Ringo is a girl, Yo-Yo is the yellow one and Ringo is blue, black and grey.

Josh told how they sharpen their beaks by scratching it against a special bell.  He also told us how to look after a pet budgie.

Thank you Josh and Nicola, we were all very interested in you lovely pet budgies.

Discovery Time on Friday 3 March

Discovery Time

We had yet another great Discovery Time on Friday.  

It is fantastic to see the number of children who bring in equipment from home to carry out their projects. This show shows what independent managers of their learning our children are becoming.
This week we had a number of children who chose to design and make "small worlds".  We had a few examples on display to help generate ideas.
We also had an idea for making fish - in fitting with our current topic on the shoreline.
Keep those ideas coming, try talking to your child on a Thursday to see what they have in mind for Discovery Time on Friday.  
If you are free to come down and help out, we would love to have you there.