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. 

Showing Movement

How can you show movement in a photo? We realised that if someone is actually moving in a photo it will be blurry! Last weeks #handsonhomework challenge was to take a photo showing movement. Can you guess what movement they are showing?

Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

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. 

El Presidentes Week 4

Myspace Generators & Toys

Teach Me Tuesday Week 3

Tuesday is fast becoming our favourite day of the week! We're learning so many cool things and the Room 17 students are proving to be great teachers.  This week Finn taught us all about ancient Rome and Scarlett had us perfecting our soccer skills.

Who got all their spelling right in Week 2?

Sustainability at Home

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

Sharing our Term 1 Te Reo Learning (and how to use Puppet Pals)

The Elements

Room 17 turned in to budding scientists this week by completing a science experiment for their hands on homework.  What happens when you put a dirty copper coin in to salt and vinegar? Finn drew this fabulous diagram to help explain what was happening.  It got me thinking about this cool song about the elements.  Videos of some students doing their experiments will be posted soon. 

My favourite part of Friday

I love looking at homework books on a Friday and seeing what everyone's done for their hands-on homework, it's my favourite part of Friday!! Check out all the different ways the Room 17 learners found out about the birds that live in their backyard.

Spelling Week 6

Spelling Week 5

El Presidentes Week 5

Myspace Fun Flash Comments

Spelling Week 4 Term 1