Ravishing Research!

This week Room VH have done some amazing Biome research.  We learnt more about contents and index pages, keywords for searches and skimming and scanning information when finding out about subjects. The class used the school laptops, classroom computers, books and posters to find out more about biomes and birds.  On Friday we worked cooperatively in groups to create a lapbook for each of the seven biomes about biome.  It was a full on day for everyone but the end result was some great learning.

Here are the Biome Regions we researched.

We learnt that New Zealand is classified as Temperate Rainforest which means that the weather is cooler and we have lots of thin leafed trees.  But we also learnt that we have most of the other biomes or habitats within New Zealand too (apart from the Polar Regions). We learnt that many of our animals have adapted to be able to live in the different habitats to get food and raise their young.  Come in and visit to see our cool lapbooks and research.  

We ended our week with our buddies cleaning up and gardening in our own biome or habitat.