Maths Workshops Day 2

Room 17 are loving being taught by one another! Jayden and Cohen are working together to teach 5x tables, Bella is teaching rounding, Hannah is teaching her group about addition, Angelina is teaching divided by 10 and Allen and Leo are working as a team to teach the 9x table.

Fireworks Fun

Our hands on homework for week 5 was to have some fun with fireworks! Not real ones, but to draw pictures, write poems, play with some online firework games and to share photos from family Guy Fawkes celebrations. We even had some fireworks made in Minecraft! Here are some of our creations.

Yuna's and Bella's not perfect hat club answers.

  Do you think flyball is a good way for Newton to get enough exercise?  What lessons do you think Newton will learn from his flyball team?

Yes because dogs have to run around a lot. 

Working in a team is much better than working by your self and you learn to be part of a team. 

Mindfulness Colouring!

Doodle for Google

Room 17 have been working hard on their Doodle for Google entries. This is a competition to design a new Google logo. The theme this year was ...'if I could go back in time.' Everyone did an amazing job but we could only send away a few for the competition. Here are our R17 winners! Can you tell where in time they'd go back to?

Game Design

Today we started exploring how to design a game. Last week we completed an 'Hour of Code' through code.org to understand how games are coded. Today we have been looking at how games are designed and we modified an existing game to see if we could improve it.

Modification Feedback (Our playtest)
- It worked for me and Eva (Grace)
- We played more than one game on the bigger grid (Sasha)
- Didn't work very well for us (Leo)
- It's kind of a waste of time drawing such a big grid (Zachary)
- Do you have to fill up the whole grid or should the amount we get in a row have to be bigger? (Bella)
- You can't go diagonally if you had to get ten in a row (Shyam)
- We changed it to ten in a row (Cohen)
- 10x10 is too many (Yuna) 

Room 17's Design Maps

Room 17's Design Maps by Slidely Slideshow

Homelearning Challenge

Home learning for the last week of term 2 was to pick and choose activities from a Hot Units grid. It was based around traditional tales. Students could do as many of the different activities as they wanted, and included different levels of Blooms Taxonomy. Here's some photos of the different activities.

Hands-On Homework - Taking Photos

As we were taking photos this week in class, we thought it would be fun to take a great photo at home. What do you think of our photos?

Teach Me Tuesday Week 8 and 9!

We had awesome fun in Week 8 learning how to make silly putty with Luke. Then Isabel taught us how to draw dogs and draw accessories for them. Last week Alex had us perfecting our soccer skills, which we put in to action with a soccer game. Then Bella played us a video, showing how to make sushi. Afterwards we got to try a piece of her delicious homemade sushi!!

Ropere's Decimal Lesson

The Ropere maths group have been learning how to add decimals. They made this video to explain how to do it!

100WC-Yuna and Bella's Entry

The tale of Apple White

One dark night in an enchanted castle lived a graceful girl called Apple White. She was getting ready for a mysterious night walk through the Evermore Forest. She opened the silver fancy gates. Then she started to sing while she was skipping along the emerald bridge. Her legs started to ache so she stopped and stared at a cottage that had a moony light shining on it, so she decided to have a tiny peek inside. Apple saw a beautiful, soft bed so she flung the door open and ran to the bed and flopped on it. She loved it.

100WC - Bella's Entry

I danced down the snowy path in the snowflakes. Suddenly a fierce lion pounced out of a bush. My face froze with amazement. "Nice to meet you," roared the cornflake coloured lion. "Nice to meet you too, I guess," I said with a lump in my throat. Then I couldn't believe my eyes...a talking drum! Next something exciting appeared. It was a graceful angel. What will happen next I thought? An apple dropped out of a tree. I let out a scream. Thank goodness it wasn't a singing monkey. At least I've got some nice, fun friends to play with.

By Bella

Tree Climbing

This week's Hands-On Homework was to climb a tree! Look at all these fabulous smiling faces up lots of different sized trees. 

El Presidentes Week 4

Winter Snow Card Comments

100 Word Challenge - Samuel and Bella

We started the 100 word challenge this week. Every week we get a new prompt and have to write a story with 100 words. As this was our first go at it, we wrote in pairs. The prompt was ...the silence was deafening... We talked about what this meant and then went away to write our stories. Those pairs who managed to write 100 words read their writing to class. We then voted on the two best stories. Congratulations to Bella and Samuel, and Ava and Sasha. Zander and Leo's story was voted the Teacher's Choice. We'd love you to leave a comment on our 100 word challenge writing!

I was bouncing on the moon high and quietly. Then I heard a stomp. It was a green monster. I started to run as fast as I could. Then I dropped in to a deep, dark hole. The silence was deafening. One hour later I was looking for a rocket. Then I saw some metal pieces. I thought I could make a spaceship but there wasn't the right material to make a spaceship. So instead I made a jet pack. The jet pack was red and orange. Then I flew to Earth. I arrived at my home safely and quietly.

By Samuel and Bella