Spiders, Puppets & more!

On Friday, Room 3 visited the museum.  

There were 2 main reasons for our visit.  The first, was to see the puppets that we had created out of recycled materials last term.  Secondly, there was an exhibition on called 'Spiders Up Close', which coincided nicely with our current Provocation.

We were extremely lucky to have Dr Cor Vink, (the man who wrote the book that inspired the exhibition) share his knowledge of spiders with us.

We learned lots of interesting facts, which we recapped on once we had returned to school.

Here's what we could remember:

"Some spiders have no eyes and they live in caves." Lakiesha

"Some spiders can't see very well." Rylee

"Male spiders are smaller than females." Yossi

"There's 2000 species of spiders in New Zealand." Zach

"Some spiders don't have webs." Dahlisha

"White-tails don't have webs, they steal other spider's webs." Kaelyn

"Spiders can eat webs." Kiani

"Some spiders use ballooning to get from Australia to New Zealand." Jonty

"Spiders have clear blood." Violet

"A wolf spider can camouflage." Wereta

"800 spiders don't have names." Kiani

"Jumping spiders don't have webs, they catch their food." Wereta

"Some spiders wait for their food to come to them." Candice

"Wasps can eat spiders." Phoenix

"Spiders the same size can eat each other." Coby

  

As well as checking out our puppets in the Whole House Reuse exhibition, we had time to have a wander around other parts of the museum.

Thank you to all of our wonderful parent helpers who came along.  We hope you had as much fun as we did!

Interesting Instruments

During Week 7 of the term, Room 3 were given the opportunity to watch the Symphony Orchestra perform at St. Margret's College.

We were amazed at the many different instruments that were there, how they were played and the different sounds that they made.

Back at school, we drew and wrote about our favourite instruments and some of us even began collecting data about which were the most popular.

It was a fantastic introduction to instruments for us, and we were very excited when Mrs Head's husband (Murray) offered to come into school last week and share his expertise.

Murray captivated us with his knowledge of different percussion instruments, how they could be played and where they might have originated from.  He brought in 2 drum kits and a Congo drum, (which he was very skilled in playing), and even showed us how to make different sounds just using a bucket!  

We got to try our hands at playing all of the instruments on offer, dancing and moving around to the music that others were making.  

A big Thank You to Murray for taking the time to come and share his passion with us...we loved it!