Our+stories

We visited the school vegetable garden, after taking photos we then wrote stories about what we discovered.
 *  Term 1 **

Once the stories had been written we used our stories as a script for our movie. You can view the movie below. media type="file" key="The School Vegetable Garden2.mov" width="300" height="300"

Our unit for Term 2 was called "Ocean's Alive where we discovered **Systems and Structures** of an Ocean. A system is what something/someone might belong to i.e. a family, a school, or a community. A **structure** is what something is made up of i.e a human has a body, within that body; lungs, a heart. In Room 3 we chose to look at a **rock pool for the System** and to discover the **structure of a Hermit Crab.**
 *  Term 2 **

A highlight of the unit was our class trip to the Southern Encounter Aquarium where we saw first hand **systems** and **structures**. The **system** - the aquarium tanks and the touch pool. A **structure** - the various fish species and creatures that live within the touch rock pool.

Here we discovered the **system ** of a rock pool. A rock pool needs; seawater, rocks and seaweed.

//**Fish have fins for swimming and support. Can you spot the fish that use camoflague to protect themselves?**// ||
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 * //Here we are checking the system of a rock pool.//** ||
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 * //Here, Jamie discovers that sharks have amazing jaws!//** ||

We sang our hearts out for the school concert! We painted out pictures as a story plan before we wrote our stories. When we put the voiceover onto the movie we had to make sure that we spoke clearly so that our audience can hear us.
 * Term 3 **

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