Our Animal Provocation

This week we investigated further the big idea in science that 'scientist classify animals into groups according to certain characteristics' We learnt about subcategories and found that there are 6 subcategories that we can group animals into. We used the countdown animal cards to sort animals into these subcategories. This created lots of debate about which group some animals should go into! Many of us were very surprised to find that bats were mammals! 

For reading some of us read books about certain animals and others had readings to do on the virtual classroom. Once we had finished reading about our animal we came back together as a group and put what we were reading into the subcategories that we had learnt about. We then talked to each other about what characteristics the animal that we were reading about had to make them fit into that category.

We then used what we had been readng to help us create a report about our animal. In our reports we described the physical features our animal had, described where they lived and then wrote about any interesting features that the animal had. 

In maths we continued our understanding of the purpose of statistics by using the animal subcategories and countdown animal cards to sort the information. We then grouped the cards into fives and then used a tally chart to record the information we had gathered. Next week we will look at how we can present that information.