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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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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.

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.

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!

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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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. 

Teach Me Tuesday Week 6

This week Zander and Yuna were our fabulous teachers! Zander taught us step by step how to draw Big Red from Angry Birds. We all got to give it a go, which was heaps of fun! Then we went off to the hall and Yuna taught us some tap dancing steps. We learnt steps called the shuffle, heel flop and front flop. Yuna even bought spare tap shoes so we could try them out. Another very successful Teach Me Tuesday!

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.  

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The Cool Circus by Yuna

I saw an orange and yellow striped tent.  I marched into the tent. The juggling jesters were tossing balls up in the air. I got a pink, fluffy cotton candy and it was enormous! The great jugglers were cool.

By Yuna

Cookie Time!

Our Delicious Cookies

Today we decorated yummy cookies.  We had small MnM's and big MnM's.  We also had strawberry icing and vanilla icing.  We had rainbow balls too.  There were different shapes of cookies and sprinkles.  We started painting our delicious cookies.  Everyone in our awesome classroom decorated a cookie.

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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.

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