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El Presidentes Week 9

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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. 

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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?

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Finding out about NZ coins and notes

It's NZ Money week this week and we've been finding out lots about our coins and notes. We worked in groups to research who was on each bank note and why they were there! We also learnt about what the images are on our coins and learnt a bit more about them.  Here are some facts we learnt.

Jordan - On the front of the 20c coin there is a carving of a Maori chief

Zachary - Sir Apriana Ngata played a significant role in the revival of maori people and culture. He's on the front of the $50 note

Hugh - I was wondering what was on the back of the $20 note and when I found it was the NZ falcon, I learnt it's one of NZ's biggest bird.

Yuna - Ernest, Lord Rutherford of Nelson is on the front of the $100 note and he was known as the father of atoms.

Layla - At first I thought it was a tiki on the front of the 10c coin but then I learnt it was a carved head called koruru

Jake B - A $1 coin has a kiwi and a silver fern. I didn't know there was a silver fern too

Eric - I've found out all the animals on the notes and coins

Joshua - A $2 coin has a big bird on it

Levi - Sir Edmund Hillary in 1953 became the first man to climb Mt Everest and to drive overland to the South Pole. He is on the $5 note

Olivia - A long, long time ago only men could vote and not ladies but Kate Shepard said it was not fair and she helped NZ become the first country to let everyone join the vote. She's on the front of the $10 note

Zoe - I learnt that Queen Elizabeth was on the back of every coin

Josie - I learnt that the Yellow-Eyed is the one of the rarest penguins in the world

Renee - On the 50c coin there is a big boat, Captain Cook was on it

Grace - The portrait of the Queen on the $20 note was taken at Government House

Jake S - I learnt the name of the bird on the $50 note. It's a Kokako

Dinosaur Home Learning

For our last week of Term 3, Room 17 had a special home learning challenge to complete. They were given a sheet with different types of activities to do, all about dinosaurs. Some students chose to make dinosaur cages, others made dinosaur food and designed new types of dinosaurs. It was great to see all the different creations!

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.

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Teach Me Tuesday Catch-Up!

At the end of Term 2, Mrs Smith was lucky enough to get to see some Teach Me Tuesday lessons.  I heard they were fabulous and a real range of skills were taught.  Jayden was teaching the class how to make windmills and Grace was developing some Silver Ferns for the future. I can't believe I missed out on donut making with Sienna and it sounded like Josh taught the class lots about his trips abroad. We also had Josie's TMT in Week 7. She was getting her scientist hat on and showing Room 17 what happened when you added dishwashing liquid and food colouring to milk.  Here's some snaps from all the lessons.

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Who got all their spelling right in Week 2?

5 Sentence Challenge #13 - Joshua

Vrrooom, the London Underground train whizzed from station to station.  The tunnel was a blackout and misty.  I could only see the train.  I took a look at my small paper map.  Where were we?

By Joshua

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Safe Walking

Today Room 17 had a walk around the neighbourhood with Constable Bluemel.  These are the things we learnt about how to cross the road and driveways safely.
- Look out for sneaky driveways (Yuna)
- Stop, look and listen (Layla)
- Listen for cars (Renee)
- Listen for garage doors opening (Zachary)
- Always look to see if there are cars or not (Grace)
- Don't dilly dally across the road (Josh)
- Look left and right and then cross (Josie)
- Listen out for engines starting (Hugh)
- Keep looking left and right as you cross (Zander)
- Walk on the side of the footpath that's closest to the houses (Olivia)
- Watching out for signs a car is about to move e.g. lights on (Scarlett)
- Don't walk on the grass closest to the road (Sienna)
- Stop, look, listen and think, then cross (Jordan)
- If you live on Kyle Rd you leave through the stairs by the junior playground and cross with the flags (Levi)
- If you live in Greenhithe or Fernbank you need to walk through the court gates (Eric)
- If you're walking up to Schnapper Rock you leave through the nature trail (Yuna)