Cicadas, cicadas, cicadas.

On the way back from our swimming pool, Drew and Hamish discovered a cicada that had just shed its skin.  The skin was brown but the cicada was green. Someone snuck up later and took the cicada skin (exoskeleton) and added it to their collection!

Here are 450 cicada exoskeletons that have been collected by some expert cicada hunters in our class. There is a bit of a competition in our class to see who can collect the most!  

Swimming

Swimming is important to learn - especially if you live on an island like we do in New Zealand.
We need to remember to bring our togs every day so we can participate in lessons, and practise while it is still warm enough to swim.  
Here we are getting warm in the pool by making a whirlpool. It's very difficult to turn and go against the current!

 

Maths for Turangawaewae

This term our inquiry unit is Turangawaewae so we are learning about each other and where we belong.

In maths we have been gathering data about the students in Room 9 and displaying this data using different graphs.

We found out how many letters in people's first names.

Room 9 2014

Room 9 Class of 2014