Thursday, 18 August 2016
Friday, 12 August 2016
Ukulele Jam Artworks
Part of the event is a ukulele designing competition. Two entries from each class/school are chosen to enter the final competition. There are some great prizes up for grabs!
We have been working hard on our individual designs this week and they are looking amazing! Lots of different ideas coming through - lots of glitter too!
Mrs Bayne now has the tricky job today of choosing just 2 ukuleles from our class! The other ukuleles are going to be displayed in our classroom.
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| What a colourful classroom we are going to have! |
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| Liam Brady's ukulele |
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| Hannah's creative design |
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| Anita's musical creation |
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| Michael's colourful ukulele |
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| We're 'green' with envy - William's looks great! |
Maths - Transformations
This week we have exploring shape transformations. We have been looking at reflection (flip), rotation (turn) and translation (slide). To do this we used cut outs of our first initial. First we looked at all of the three transformation as a class then we had create a pattern showing all three transformations on our own. Next we had to explain to a partner what we had shown. Our final patterns have become 'transformation artworks'!
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| Angus, Liam Ba, Ava, Laura, Jack, Sophia and Hannah holding their transformation artworks. |
Monday, 8 August 2016
Cross Country
Just a reminder that our school cross country is on Thursday afternoon! The grounds will be quite muddy so it is recommended that you bring along a spare of shoes and some spare clothing. Bring a warm jacket and a hat to keep you warm while you're cheering on the other runners. Remember to bring plenty of food and water to keep you full of energy and hydrated.
Water - A Sustainable Resource?
Our inquiry topic this term is all about good old H2O! We will be looking at what water is, how it is used, how it is tested and how we can help to ensure it is a sustainable resource. It's an interesting topic. Today we thought about what water is and brainstormed some questions about water. To help us record our thoughts Mrs Jackson introduced us to a new web tool called Popplet.
We will be adding onto this over the next few weeks.
Friday, 8 July 2016
BFG Fun
Today is the last day of the term and Mrs Jackson decided to do something a little different. We spent the morning in the world of Roald Dahl's 'The BFG'. We completed lots of different activities based around the book that included reading or listening to extracts from the book. We explored the different language that Roald Dahl used to describe characters in the story. We also found new made up words that he had created and decided whether they were positive words or not. Next we had a go at coming up with some new words of our own...
'smag' - smurf tag
'chiburger' - chicken burger
'cumato' - cucumber tomato
Who knows? They might catch on!!
One of the themes from the BFG is 'dreams'. As a class we talked about the two different types of dreams you can have - the sleeping kind and the goals for our future kind. We came up with our own goals for the future and wrote them down. Mrs Jackson created a Dream Jar to keep all of our dreams safe. Hopefully they don't mix themselves up like the BFG's dreams or we could have some pretty interesting futures!!
Everyone worked really hard all morning - well done Room 7! What a fun way to end the term!
'smag' - smurf tag
'chiburger' - chicken burger
'cumato' - cucumber tomato
Who knows? They might catch on!!
One of the themes from the BFG is 'dreams'. As a class we talked about the two different types of dreams you can have - the sleeping kind and the goals for our future kind. We came up with our own goals for the future and wrote them down. Mrs Jackson created a Dream Jar to keep all of our dreams safe. Hopefully they don't mix themselves up like the BFG's dreams or we could have some pretty interesting futures!!
Everyone worked really hard all morning - well done Room 7! What a fun way to end the term!
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| Our class Dream Jar |
Maths, Paper Planes and Giants!
Over the last two weeks we have been exploring measurement for maths, focusing on length. We used two different contexts to practice our measuring skills. We made paper planes and measured how far they flew. We made one modification to our planes and tested them to see if it helped our planes fly further. We measured and compared wingspan and flight distances.
This week on Monday Mrs Jackson bought out a photocopy of an enormous hand print! Our challenge was to see if we could create a formula that we could use to determine how tall the giant was using the measurements from the hand print. To do this we measured our own hand spans, length and width and our height. We learnt how to convert metres to centimetres so that we could convert our height measurements. Then we used calculators to divide our height by our hand span. We tabled our data and we found that most of us had similar answers. Most of the answers were around 8 - 9 cm. We concluded that if we multiplied the giants hand span by 8.5 we would be able to tell how tall he would be. He ended up being 2.47 m tall! That is taller than Steven Adams the NBA player! We were glad he wasn't a real giant!
This week on Monday Mrs Jackson bought out a photocopy of an enormous hand print! Our challenge was to see if we could create a formula that we could use to determine how tall the giant was using the measurements from the hand print. To do this we measured our own hand spans, length and width and our height. We learnt how to convert metres to centimetres so that we could convert our height measurements. Then we used calculators to divide our height by our hand span. We tabled our data and we found that most of us had similar answers. Most of the answers were around 8 - 9 cm. We concluded that if we multiplied the giants hand span by 8.5 we would be able to tell how tall he would be. He ended up being 2.47 m tall! That is taller than Steven Adams the NBA player! We were glad he wasn't a real giant!
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| Folding our paper planes |
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| Hannah lying beside 'our giant'. |
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