Be the Change

This term our inquiry is called Be the Change and is all about taking action.

I wonder what actions we will take?

Here are some videos to get us thinking...

Creative Thinking - Spoon-ventions

In room 8 we have been learning how to make spoon-ventions. We had to come up with a new use for a spoon but it couldn't be a spoon!

We first drew a spoon then we added detail.

We had to have labels for the parts of our spoon-ventions so we know what they are.

Then we had to explain what our spoon-ventions do or how they work.

And last thing we did was pick a name for our spoon-ventions.

Here is some of our fabulous work!

BY TARA AND JAMINE

Class Camp-In!

We had such a fun day in our tent and sleeping bags (even though we still had to do some work)! Then after lunch we played some sleeping bag, balloon volley ball in the tent!

Here's some photos of the fun!

Calendar Art

Check out some of our calendar art that is available to purchase from the Home and School! A folder with all the art is available in the Library for you to view.

Jump Rope For Heart

Yesterday we had our skip-a-thon for as a part of Jump Rope for Heart. We skipped for the whole half hour with some people skipping more than 2000 times! Here are some pictures of the fun!

Production

Room 8 did an amazing job at production!  Take a look at some photos that were taken by Mrs Andis, the student teacher in Room 3.

Production Dance

Our school production is only a week away! We have finished creating our production dance and are now putting in lots of practice so we are ready for next week!

Here is our dance!

Random Acts of Kindness

Over the past few weeks we have been exploring what it means to be kind. As a part of that we now have a Random Acts of Kindness (RAK) box in our class.

If we see anyone from our class doing something kind we write their name and their act of kindness and put it in the box. Every Friday, during circle time, we draw out the names from the box and share all of the kinds acts that have been happening in our classroom. We talked about what acts we would put into the box and how it is really good to be specific about what the person has done.

They will also be posted on the blog to celebrate our kindness! Here are this week's kind acts.

Logan for being so kind.

Aidan for letting me play hero factory.

Holly for listening really well.

Amelia for being a good friend.

Flynn for letting me play hero factory.

Samantha for being a good friend.

Euan for being so kind.

Connor for being helpful and caring.

Stephanie for being kind and cleaning up amazingly, wow!

Jamine for helping Jio when he was hurt and for being a good friend.

Magenta for sharing her stuff, being a good friend and being nice.

Who's Decision Is It?

This week we have been exploring decisions. We have been thinking about questions such as:

• Who makes decisions that affect us?
• Do we have a part in making those decision?
• What decisions do we make on our own?
• What decision do we make together with other people?
• How do we make decisions?
• What is the best way to make decisions?

We made this venn diagram to compare and contrast the decisions we make at school.

We decided that everyone has a role in decision making and we need to make sure our voice is heard!

Intro to Main Idea

We know that good readers are always thinking!  Today we began to discuss a new topic that we can think about while we read, the main idea.  We can add this to our collection of things we do while we read including making connections, making predictions, visualising, making inferences, determining author's purpose, and determining characters' traits.

We were given a variety of pictures and had to group them together and come up with a main idea for the group we created. We then had to explain why they went together or what they had in common.

Probability

We have started learning about probability this week. We learnt that probability is the chance or likelihood of something happening.

We came up with this list of vocabulary that we might use when we are talking about probability.

We also conducted 2 experiments.

For one of them, we were given a pack of cards like the picture below. We drew one card from the pack and recorded it on a tally chart. We did this 20 times.

Before we started we made predictions about what we thought would happen using probability, such as, "I think 5 will be picked the most because there are more than any other card."

For the other experiment we had a bag of lollies and we recorded how many of each colour there were. We then made predictions about which colour we would pick out and made statements such as "it is more likely I will get a yellow one than a red one because there are more yellow lollies."

One thing we found interesting was that as we took more lollies out the probability changed as the left over colours changed.

Sadly, we forgot to take pictures during that experiment!