Thank you!

It's been a busy term and we ended it with two fabulous nights of Sharing our Learning. We love having our mums and dads come and listen to us talk about our learning, as well as looking at all the work we've done. Here's a little thank you from Room 17.

Getting Active

We've had lots of opportunities to learn new sports skills this term. Earlier in the term Ben and Clare from the Junior Breakers came and taught us some basketball. We learnt about team work and respect, as well as how to bounce a ball, defend and get the ball off someone. We have also been learning the skills of gymnastics. We've learnt how to land correctly, fall safely, balance, rotate and roll. We're looking forward to swimming and athletics in term 4!

Jacqueline Harvey Visit

A few weeks ago the Biggles team got a visit from Jacqueline Harvey, an author from Australia. She told us all about how she became and author and even showed us pictures of when she was at school. She shared two of her book series with us - Clementine Rose and Alice-Miranda. It was funny when she got Caitlin from R18 and Daniel from R20 to act out a part of Clementine Rose. If you want to find out more about Jacqueline Harvey's books, visit her website.

Blindfolded Taste Testing

A couple of weeks ago for Hands-On Homework, Room 17 were asked to do a blindfolded taste test challenge.  A few students filmed their taste testing. Here's a few snippets from their videos.  Josh created a spreadsheet of the different foods he tried and whether he guessed them correctly. Apologies for the title missing from the video, I'm not sure where it went!

Hands-On Homework - Salt Crystals

Last week some Room 17 students took up the challenge of trying to grow salt crystals for home learning. Here are some photos of the process and final product. Yuna made a presentation explaining how to get the salt crystals to grow. Click here to view her presentation.

Biggles Museum Day

We had great fun last Friday setting our classrooms up like mini museums. Room 17 and 19 shared their learning of fossils and dinosaurs. Room's 18 and 20 shared their learning of ancient civilisations. 

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Mrs Burnett's Teach Me Tuesday

Room 17 asked Mrs B if she could do a Teach Me Tuesday so last week she taught the class string games. We learnt how to thread our fingers through the looped string, make the 'Opening A' and the Parachute. It was a bit tricky to start with but by the end most students could do the basics!

Josh's Scratch Animations

5SC - Neive's Entry

The blue sky looked like it was going to explode with rain. The birds were floating in the sky. The village clock tower went tick tock. The kids were so excited to jump on the red and white bus. It's so relaxing sitting on this seat reading the newspaper.

By Neive

5SC - Zander's Entry

The clock tower looked like a hat. All the houses had shiny windows. I would be the cat. The bike had a basket. There was a dog.

By Zander

5SC - Zack's Entry

The clouds were about to explode into rain. The bus was about to crash into a little dog. There was striking lightning in the dark, black sky. The birds were screeching in the air. The dog was staring at a man that was about to jump on his bike.

By Zack

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Reading about Dinosaurs

The Tui's reading group have been practicing reading information and highlighting facts. Today they split in to two smaller groups and read about a dinosaur. Neive, Grace and Helen (from Room 19) read about Ankylosaurus. They shared some of the facts they read using Puppet Pals.

100WC - Eric's Entry

The UFO!

Kablam! "Ahhh!" I shouted. "Awww come on, I was just having a sweet dream about candy!" I strolled to the window, I was shocked and I was extremely surprised! I saw a gleaming light from the sky but it was yellow. A UFO looked like it was going to crash in my backyard and guess what? It did! Followed by a nova blast. Luckily it didn't cause any damage. Wait, it blew up my tree. The UFO quickly recovered and blasted out of my backyard with a giant deafening voop sound. Well back to my sleep then. It was awesome but very, very unusual. 

100WC - Grace's Entry

Yellow Snow

I was about to eat some snow but it is yellow! Dun, dun, dun! I ate it even though I noticed there was something on it. I looked in the mirror and screamed. I was covered in yellow. I couldn't believe it. I've always wanted to be yellow. I was bouncing up and down, I was happy! I've wanted to be yellow in a million years so I can blend in with the sun. Then I licked my fingers because I just ate crisps but I remembered the yellow snow. I was looking for a shower but I couldn't find one. I was screaming.

100 Word Challenge - Levi's Entry

The Arguing Boys That Just Keep Arguing

Wow, my house is green but it is yellow. 
No, it is green. 
Dude, you're colour blind. 
No I am not, I am a perfect colour seer.  
No you're not, you're colour blind you lier. 
I am not a lier, perfectly not a lier. You're the lier. How rude of you. 
You are so rude and a lier. 
Oh you booger. 
I am not a booger. You're the booger! 
Now you're the bad boy, the very bad boy. 
How rude of you. You're a baby. 
Mama, brother is calling me a baby. 
How rude of you, you're a poo poo....such a poo poo!

So who won the Hands-On Homework to plan the perfect school day?

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Look what I just made

Look at this great Stop Motion movie Zander made on the weekend with his lego!

Geological Timeline

We have been looking at the different time periods and which fossil came from which time. We worked in pairs to colour in an animal or plant and then found out how many millions of years ago they used to live on Earth! We created a time line on our wall. We have also thought about our level of thinking in relation to fossils and placed ourselves on our SOLO rubric. Come and check out our inquiry wall!!

Learning to write reports

Today we're working in pairs to write a report about Stegosaurus. First we did a plan and now we're using the information to write a report. We need to remember an introduction, conclusion and each paragraph has our ideas grouped together under subheadings!

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