Using Scratch

For Hands-On Homework this week, we have been learning how to use Scratch. It's a bit tricky and there's lots to understand! Here's Yuna's, Layla's and Jordan's final creations. Press the green flag to start them. For Yuna's you need to use the keyboard arrows to make her dancer move. Use the space bar to get the butterfly to move. For Layla's 2nd one, use the space bar and 'a' key to make music!

Our final Teach Me Tuesdays

We have all LOVED doing Teach Me Tuesday. What a talented bunch Room 17 are. We've learnt everything from cooking and sport to paper folding and dancing.  Our last two TMT's saw Jake B teaching us a tag game. It was great getting outside and running around. Then Zack taught us about horse riding. There's a lot of gear you need to have when riding a horse! 

Pick of the Bunch Writing

Well it's been a while but we're back at it now - getting our Pick of the Bunch writing up on the blog! On Monday we went outside and blew bubbles. We used a Y chart to record what we saw, heard and felt when we were watching the bubbles, catching the bubbles and blowing the bubbles.  Our writing focus was to start our story from the moment Mrs B started blowing the bubbles (so we only included the important details) as well as using lots of describing words. Zachary was voted best writing this week.

The bubbles floated like balloons through the sky. I thought the bubbles felt soapy and watery. The beautiful bubbles were like floating see-through marbles. I popped watery, soapy bubbles. The bubbles popped high in the sky and near trees. I popped them with my pencil. I love bubbles.

By Zachary

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Fun with Fossils

Today we went back in time, in fact we went went back 440 million years in time! We looked at some of the different periods, such as Silurian and the Jurassic periods. We ventured back by playing this game, it was lots of fun! We're having heaps of fun finding out about fossils!

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Cockney Rhyming Slang

Finn is over in the UK at the moment and although he's not in class with us, he still does a lot of the same learning as us. He sent us this fabulous video that he made with his brother. Finn made this for his hands-on homework when we were learning lots of different ways to say hello. Finn let us share this on our blog. You should have a look at Finn's blog, he's doing so much amazing learning while he's away. You'll find his blog linked down the side of our blog, under Blogs We Follow. 

Writing with detail

Last Monday we watched a short video from the Literacy Shed. We talked about what had happened and then Mrs B took a screen shot of the opening scene. With a partner, we wrote one sentence about something we could see the picture. We had to remember what made a sentence - starting with a capital, ending with a full stop, finger spaces, one idea and that it made sense. We then shared our sentences. Some students wrote about the clouds, others wrote about the clock tower and the balloons. We talked about what made one sentences more interesting to read then another. We also had to remember to write a sentence about what we saw in the picture, not something that had happened later in the video. It was a good lesson in writing with detail and we learnt that pages and pages of writing doesn't necessarily make for amazing writing. Here's our finished description.

Hands-on Homework and Maths Week!

Last week was Maths week and we had great fun estimating how some of our teachers would get on with their lunchtime challenges. Two days in a row Josie guessed the exact time down to the second! That's pretty awesome estimating. We also had the Maths Wizard visit us on Friday and he asked us some tricky questions but they certainly weren't too tricky for the speedy students in Room 17. Our hands-on homework was to have fun with maths. Some students created games and we played Renee's game on Friday. Keep up the great math's work Room 17!

Teach Me Tuesday Week 4

Our second to last Teach Me Tuesday saw Jordan teaching us how to make pop-out mouth cards and Nikita teaching us how to draw a tiki. Jordan was very patient helping everyone to fold their paper correctly and Nikita did a great job drawing each part of the tiki step by step. Well done guys!

Hands on Homework - Egg Parachutes

Last weeks Hands on Homework was to make and test a parachute for an egg.  It was great fun watching the video evidence and seeing pictures. Some eggs survived and some did not! Here's a few snippets of the egg parachute challenge.

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A Day at the Museum!

We had a fabulous trip to the museum last week to kick off our learning about Patterns. Although we went to look at fossils and dinosaurs, it's fair to say everyone's favourite part was the volcano house! Watch the video below to see some snapshots from the day and click here to read our awesome recounts about the day. We were all very proud of our writing!

Teach Me Tuesday

I can't believe we are nearly at the end of our Teach Me Tuesday sessions. They have been fantastic and the students have really enjoyed experiencing a range of different activities. Most of them have realised it's pretty tricky teaching others and getting everyone to listen! Last week Layla demonstrated her paper folding skills and Zoe got everyone out on the netball court. This week Miho taught us how to make origami hearts.

What's a Pattern?

Our inquiry for Term 3 is Patterns. We started off by talking about what a pattern is and watching some videos. We realised there are patterns EVERYWHERE! We then had to create a pattern in the classroom. 

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Colouring Competition

Room 17 love Go Noodle! We try and noodle it every day. At the moment Go Noodle are running some champ challenges. The first was to use these colouring pictures. Last Friday we chose our favourite champ and coloured them in. Miss Bullen was our judge and she chose her favourites. Congratulations to Neive, Jordan, Zack, Olivia and Jake B for your fabulous colouring.