Bugingham Palace Officially Open!

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The first steps of construction

Have you ever had to do such a fun thing at school like building a bug hotel. Will at Elm Park School we're on our way to completing one of the biggest projects or maybe even the biggest projects all over our school  and it is a bug hotel. Just for your information we will like to thank and those who acknowledge our hard and supported us on our journey to build the mini bug hotel and the hammering the pallets because it is a pleasure to see the bug hotel one it´s way to becoming completed. We as room 25 is happy to be the founders of this project. In the next paragraph we will be telling about what a this morning.

The time was currently about 9.10 in the morning. Our class room 25 was in for a surprise. It was just after handwriting. When we were sitting in the mat space Mis Fisher said that instead of doing maths inside today we will do math next to mister walkers sheed and also since we are going to outside might as well do something like our bug habitat stuff. So eventually after we were there after we packed up the class and lined up in single file in the classroom. When we were there it seemed like we were supposed to hammer some nails into palets. After that mis Fisher gave two of the math the dodecahedrons and the tangens two different  worksheet to complete and the third maths group the vinculum went on mathletics. Just after that miss fisher told use to come one by one to nail the pallets. It was the end the beginning blog so we went back to room 25 and we put out stuff away and went to eat morning tea. Therefore it was worth the time we spent and overall it was awesome. By Anand

Green/Gold Enviro Reflection Day

Enviro schools are a regeneration of resilience, connected communities in which people care for each other and the environment. The level we are at is a green gold school because we make sure that there is no rubbish on the ground and making sure our stream is clean. We had an enviro reflection day where we had to show that we are still at the green gold level. We shared lots of things like what our process has been and how we came up with the bug habitat and to help the bug hotel and our designing in the progress.

Bug Hotel Proposal

Hello I am Aibel. Today I will be telling you (yes you!) about our bug hotel proposal. We want to make a bug hotel (I know right epic idea). Before we can start though we need to ask the Board of Trustees for permission since its quite a big project. Below is the proposal that we sent them to review.

Saving Skinks and Mr Walker's Shed

Some boys from another class found a baby skink before cross country one day.
They gave it to Room 25 to put in our bug habitat. We put it in but then realised it might get eaten! (or eat some of our bugs)
Connor, Cameron and Brooklyn captured the skink and then released it into the lizard garden on the field. They have decided to call themselves the Skink Savers!

On a Friday afternoon we decided to do a school rubbish clean up to work on our positive reputation and make sure we are pulling our weight around the school.
We collected a whole bucket of rubbish in 12 minutes!

On our way back from collecting rubbish, we saw Mr Walker. He took us around the back of his shed - there are so many things there we can use for the bug hotel revamp! We had found pallets,wood and circle pallets. A couple of years ago a class had made a bug habitat on our school field and we have decided to make new one. We are going to make this in term 3.

Air plants have arrived!

Mrs Plowright bought us some beautiful airplants to put in our bug habitat. We were so excited when they arrived. The person Mrs Plowright bought them from said he would like to talk to us about the airplants. How cool is that!

Our bug habitat is now looking pretty flashy with all the new airplants. Students have been bringing bugs in every day. We have lots of snails, slugs, centipedes, earwigs, cockroaches and more! We definitely want to revamp the insect hotel on our school field. All of these bugs will need a permanant home to live in eventually.

Thinking about our reputation

Room 25 wants people to know how our class is awesome but we are still remembering that we want to be recognised in a positive way and for the right reasons.

We have to be careful because in some of our assembly’s when a few of the teachers talk about our bug habitat, some of the classes were staring at us so we need to be careful about our behaviour. Whenever a class comes to look at our habitat, two people from our class will share and help the kids look at our habitat.

Room 14 Comes to Visit

Room 14 is a year 4 class at Elm Park School. They had heard about our bug habitat and wanted to come and visit. We thought this was a great idea - we were going to get to show off our awesome habitat to other kids!

We presented our habitat to Room 14. They thought it was pretty cool and had lots of good questions for us. Once they had looked for some bugs and watched the waterfall in action we listened to some of their haiku poems. They had written their poems about insects. Here are a few of them to look at.