End of School Year Reflections

Our final Hands-On-Homework for 2014 was to fill out an end of year reflections. It was such a pleasure to read these and I'm amazed at how thoughtful the comments were. I have picked out all the key words and made some wordles. The first one is all the answers from the following questions:

• My favourite activity this year and why
• I had the most fun when
• What I liked most about my class and teacher
• What I'll miss the most and why
• Things I learned the most this year

The bigger the word, the more students that choose that as an answer. Thank you to all the students that completed their reflections!

Another question was for students to give a piece of advice to students for next year. 

Yuna's Hands-On Homework

Yuna made this fabulous exercise video for her hands-on homework this week. We all followed along today in class.

Josh's Scratch Animations

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!

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. 

Comic Genius!

What great fun we had on Friday reading the comics some Room 17 students did.  Some students drew their own and some used websites like Make Belief Comix. All in all we had a good giggle reading the different stories each comic told. 

Hands-On Homework - Obstacle Courses

Our HOH from Week 4 was to build an indoor obstacle course. You needed to include over and under, in and out and see if your whole family could complete it. It was great seeing all the different times everyone got and your times getting better over the week.  

Little Chefs

For homework this week we practiced our cooking skills. Check out Nikita's pizza.  It looks delicious! Olivia made herself some toast. Great cooking skills girls.  Jake takes his cooking one step further. He makes food for the men at his dad's work and they buy it from him. He uses this money to buy things he wants.  

Hands on homework

I made cheese on toast for afternoon tea.

  

  

Making my toast

Random Acts of Kindness

Lots of lovely little notes were floating around Room 17 last week. I found yummy wrapped up brownies on my desk, flowers on my laptop and cards on my chair. Everyone was trying to do a RAOK. To end the week we left a special treat for all the staff in the school. We enjoyed being sneaky ninjas leaving chocolates for others!

Scribble Drawings

For our Hands-On Homework last week, Room 17 used a template to draw pictures of fish. It was great seeing the different ways they interpreted the template. They could also try and do a scribble drawing. I thought Hugh's scribble drawing and Olivia's fish were pretty creative!

Sustainability at Home

Can you tell what action these students are taking to show sustainability?

So who located the most places on the NZ Map?

Last weeks Hands-on Homework was to locate the major cities and other places that were special on a map of NZ.  I challenged Room 17 by asking them who could add the most places to their NZ map.  Well done to our top boy and girl!  Jordan got 38 and Nikita got 37!

Room 17's Science Videos!