Workshop Session #3

Today was our last day of student run maths workshops. Kaelyn and Yuna taught their group how to work out your 12x tables, Rebecca did 5x and 10x tables, Eva taught division, Helen and Amy both taught a range of times tables, Jayanna and Ava worked together to teach the 2x table and Luke and Kylie were a team teaching addition facts.

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!

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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) 

Teach Me Tuesday - Week 1-3

We've had some fabulous Teach Me Tuesdays since the start of Term 3. Angelina and Helen taught us how to say some basic words in Mandarin. Allen and Leo used their resilience to overcome some initial problems and taught us how to change our character skins on Minecraft. We perfected our tap dancing skills under Yuna's tuition and then found out some interesting facts about how bees make honey, thanks to Eva. We even got to taste some of her Opa's honey!

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?

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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!

More Kronkiwongi

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.

Adverb Poems

Over the last week we have been learning about adverbs. We were given a mission through the Night Zookeeper to write an adverb poem about the animals in our night zoo. A few students read them out to the class and Yuna and Cohen's were voted the class favourites. Here are their poems.

A beautiful pony galloped

peacefully

Yellow Banana the Minion ate

messily

The blue penguin skittered

loudly

Beautiful Twilight the Butterfly flew

gracefully

A tough monster attacked

roughly

The pink ice block melted

slowly

The annoying dog barked

naughtily

The pretty unicorn partied

royally

Mrs Burnett taught

happily

Wonderful Tauriel sang

quietly

An awesome leopard raced

quickly

By Yuna

Spotty Narwhal swam

loudly

Spiky Sonic ran

speedily

Big monkey climbed

angrily

Black crusher bowled

furiously

Tough dragon fired

powerfully

Spotty horse ran

away

Stripy rhinoceros ran

loudly

Spiky croc snapped

noisily

Little mouse skittered

quietly

Lazy cheetah purred

softly

Orange fox crept

speedily

By Cohen

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. 

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