Honey Combs Art

Our students made honey combs (the background) using bubble wrap, yellow paint and rollers. They then did finger painting and used black vivid to create a colony of bees.

Discovery Time / STEAM - Engineering/Mathematics: LEGO challenges #2

Students used LEGO to make:

1. A tree that stands on its own

2. An animal

3. A pattern

4. A dinosaur

Free time... (playing wit hour creations)

Inquiry #2 - Global World: Do we need Bees? (Finding out)

We are up to the 'Finding Out' stage of our inquiry.  We can FIND OUT information by asking experts, reading books/articles, looking on the internet....

But we were lucky to have an expert from Arataki Honey come into our class and share his knowledge, photos and answer our wonderings (questions we had). He even gave us a pot of honey!

Publishing our wonderings...

Our wonderings on display...

These three boys had finished publishing their wondering so they had a few minutes of free choosing while the others finished their work.

They got the building blocks and began making something. They then told me they were making a ‘Honey Store’. How cool is that!!

Statistics (muffins)

Students discussed what month their birthday is in. They coloured a muffin and wrote their birthday month on it. 

Graphed birthday month muffins. 

Maths & Music activities

Our students enjoyed their time with Matua Mel during the following activities:

1. Mathematics: they measured with blocks 

2. Music: where they looked at 'Dynamics' (loud and soft) and conducting