Mrs Plowright comes to visit

Our class room 25 was making our bug habitat, a few minutes later our principal Mrs Plowright came in to visit and see how we were doing. She saw everyone participating at what we were doing, I just kept on doing what I was already doing when she didn’t arrive here. I was measuring and thinking what should go in the inside of our bug habitat, I measured the fish tank first, next I told Nemith. I told Nemith how long, wide and the sides are, then I started to help Nemith and the others about what should go in the inside. Then she left and smiled back at us, we all just continued doing what we were doing before she came over.

When we packed up our teacher told us that Mrs Plowright is going to buy us some air plants - all of us were really excited about this.

Also our teacher told us that Mrs Plowright was really proud of us for what we were doing and how sensible we were doing it and working as a team.

Exciting news! We posted a video of our waterfall in action to the Elm Park School Facebook Page.
Here is the video if you would like to watch it.

Creating the Bug Habitat

Room 25 wrote some letters to Miss Donnell, we asked if we asked if we could use some  resources for our bug habitat. A few days later we received a letter, our teacher read the letter out loud to us, she said “thank you for asking before you took it” and she told us some more about the bug habitat. She said that we could go to the back of the field to get some dirt, soil, leaves and some more bugs because she thought that was the best place to get some resources. We went to the field and got some dirt, soil, leaves and a couple more bugs. When we got back to our class we put everything in and we just kept on doing it.       

We started putting some of the resources into the fish tank to create our habitat. Once we had a few things in there (like dirt and stones) we decided to make some fancy features. 

Nemith’s dad bought a water pump to make a waterfall. Brooklyn got an idea to hot glue a few shells to the water pump so it can be fancy. We also made a bug cave at the same time we made the waterfall. We hot glued popsicle sticks to a muesli box. Then we buried the box under some dirt.                                

Making a Prototype

We decided to follow a design process to create our habitat. First we had to identify the problem: we need to observe bugs up close for our art show accessory. The next steps were to brainstorm and create a prototype bug habitat.

Sofia donated her container. So… resources... we went to look for nice cool resources out on the field and that's when Connor came up with the idea to eat his apple and lend us the core for the prototype so the bugs can eat it. After that brilliant idea of Connor’s we had to get resources. Brooklyn and Dylan took a spade and went to the back of the field in the corner and started collecting dirt meanwhile the rest of the class was bug hunting and looking for resources like short sticks twigs and more twigs the following few weeks we had to plan and put together our prototype. Finally with some tweaking, planning, working and thinking we had our prototype!

Bug Hunting

One day Room 25 went on a adventure to hunt for slaters because in Term 4 Elm Park School is going to have an art show.

For our inquiry we were really into bugs so we decided that we would make a bug habitat so we could observe them and get ideas of what our artwork will look like for the art show. We were really excited for this and we decided that this will be a really good looking bug habitat with lots of cool things and hard work.