Bees, Bugs & Butterflies

Our central idea for our sixth and final unit is:
"Insects, like all living things in our world, have a purpose."

With Mr Jon we unpacked the central idea by taking out the keywords and figuring out what they meant. We had six words - Insects, world, purpose, characteristics, behave and depends.

We worked in pairs:

We shared our ideas altogether at the end and I think we all have a pretty good understanding of what our central idea is and means now.

We then had a discussion about 'What is an insect and is NOT an insect'. I got the students to do a sort of what they thought.

We explored our environment and had a little help from Mr Ben who gave us some little (or not so little) friends to keep in the classroom!

We showed our buddies and told them all the things we know about insect and our new friends.

Guest Speaker

We were very lucky to have Mr Simon Underhill who is the secondary Biology teacher (and Emma's dad) to share his expertise with us. He talked about what is an insect and how do we know it is an insect. What are the characteristics and behave of some insects and the purpose of those insects in our world. This got very interesting when we learnt their was a cockroach farm!! We were all very excited and had so many question for Mr Simon. Thank you so much for coming and sharing with us :-)

We also went on a trip to see the bees, bugs and butterflies in our very own school yard. We are so lucky to have these fantastic resources right here on our door step. We had the experts share with us what they do to keep these insects in our garden and the different stages of their lifecycle. It was so great to se first hand each stage that these insects go through.

Emma, Kuong Shen and Ivy were great helpers and read to small groups a book about lifecycles. They answered a number of questions from their classmates and helped to explain each stage that the insects, seeds and humans went through. 

We also had a very fun activity to complete afterwards by creating our own lifecycle of anything we wanted from clay. We posted them to Seesaw for you all to see.