Survivor Challenge-Week 4

Today was another technology challenge but a bit different to the engineer pasta and marshmellow challenge. This week we had to become fashion designers creating some wearable art within the theme of swimming. But we could only use two pairs of scissors, a couple of strips of cellotape that Mrs Head handed out and one roll of toliet paper.

We had five minutes to plan our ideas thinking about what we wear when we go swimming and any accessories we might have eg: snorkles, flippers, goggles, towels etc. Then we had 30 minutes to create our wearable art thinking carefully about how to put it together so that it didn't rip and without running out of tape to hold it together.

Some groups worked better than others this week with some teams struggling to get everyone involved. It is a team challenge so congratulations this week go to the Lightening Strikes who had everyone involved the whole time to create their wetsuited boogie boarder.

What would you have done if you were asked to create a swimming themed outfit made from toliet paper?

Quadblogging Week 2

This week it is Keeping Up with Room 16's turn to be the focus group for quadblogging.

Can you find the answers to these questions and leave a comment with the answers?
What school are they from?
What Year level is their class?
What could we do with this class that we couldn't with the other two?

You will find the answers to the first two questions on their blog and once you know these answers you should be able to answer the third.

Check out their blog on
http://keepingupwithroom16.blogspot.co.nz/

Also I would like to know...
What have you enjoyed about quad blogging so far? How has it helped you with your learning? Why do you think it is important that we make quality comments? Add your thoughts to the wallwisher/padlet.

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Wrap Free Wednesday

We are an Enviro School and every Wednesday we have a whole school challenge to see which class can bring the least number of wraps to school. We look inside the lunchboxes and tally up how many wrappers we have as a class and how many are completely wrap free then we can work out the percentage of wrap free lunch boxes in our class.

Today was the first challenge back for 2014 so we have got some work to do to remember to reduce the number of wraps we bring. We looked at the lunch boxes that were wrap free and could see that they used snap lock bags to keep their sandwiches safe from any leakages and instead of using gladwrap because we can reuse the snap lock bags.
We hope that next week we can improve our score and have more wrap free lunch boxes and less wraps in total.

NOTE: Weiyi is missing from the photo but he was wrap free too.

What are some helpful tips you could share to help us become wrap free?

What do you think the benefits are of being wrap free?

Survivor Challenge- Art

This week our challenge was an art based challenge. We were each given an A5 piece of paper but we had to create a piece of art that linked us as a group. Our art had to have one colourful curved line running through the middle of everyone in the groups art. Then we had to become creative with black and white lines to decorate around the outside of the coloured line joining all of our art together.

The idea behind the artwork is the different black and white lines are to represent how everyone in class is different but the coloured line shows how we all have to link together and help each other to be the best we can be and make the most of all of our learning opportunities.

This week we were given marks on teamwork but also on how creative we were, how well our coloured line linked through the whole groups artwork and the overall presentation.

Well done to the Green Pythons who were very creative and thought about keeping their coloured line consistent. Also well done to the Golden Bell Tui's who scored the points for best team work as they were the group that listened to instructions, laid everyone's piece of paper out to make sure their curved line ran through everyone's and worked together to help each other when others in the group finished quickly.

What do you like about our artwork? What would you have done differently? How could we improve it for next time?

Quadblogging

Next week we start our quadblogging journey for 2014.
Quad means four. So can you guess how many classes will be blogging together?
During quadblogging classes take turns to be the focus school for a week. During that week it is our job to leave them comments and start a conversation with them to find out more about their learning. Then when it is our turn to be the focus class we can be surprised and excited by all the comments we get about our learning.

Our first class are Room 8 from Matarau School.

Can you find out where Matarau School is? (Clue: It is in New Zealand)
What part of New Zealand would we find their school? (Eg: Bottom of the South Island).
Can you find out what Year level their class is?

You might like to check out their blog to see if you can find the answer to these three questions and leave your answers as a comment.

http://room8adventures2014.blogspot.co.nz/

Then think about;
What questions have you got for Room 8?
Think about starting a conversation with them about their learning. What could we ask them? What would you like to learn more about after looking on their blog?

Add your thoughts to the Wallwisher/Padlet.

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Eating Raspberries

Over the holidays some delicious raspberries have been growing in our schools gardens. Yesterday Room 9 got to sneak over and eat them before Mr Peachy did and they were tasty!

Survivor Challenge-Building a Tower

This week the challenge wasn't quite as easy as we all first thought. The challenge was to build the tallest tower (to stand on its own) using only marshmellows and spaghetti pasta. It turns out the pasta wasn't that strong and could break easily so we really had to work as a team and be resilient when our ideas didn't work the first time. We all had a few different attempts at making our base strong enough to hold the rest of the height of the tower and here is what we came up with.


Survivor Challenge-Building a Tower on PhotoPeach
The scores are now pretty even as teams are learning how to work together when things get tough.
The Golden Bell Tui's and Green Pythons are in the lead on 40 points. Followed closely by the Mighty Eagles on 35 and the Lightening Strikes on 30.

How do you think you would have built a tower out of marshmellows and pasta?

Me Bags

We are sharing our me bags in Room 9. Ella and Eva made this Pic Collage to show the people who have shared their me bags so far.

Survivor Challenge

Today we started our Survivor Challenge to help teach us how to work as a team. Our first challenge was to come up with a team name and a jingle.
Check out the videos to hear our jingles.

Points are given out each week.
-5 points to every team who participates in the challenge
-10 points to the winning team
-20 points to the team that works together the best (has the best teamwork).

Well done to the Golden Bell Tui's who have taken the early lead with 35 points, they worked as a team really well and as a result had the most polished jingle.
Lightning Strikes aren't far behind on 25 points working together as a team to help everyone become involved.
Mighty Eagles had a few hiccups along the way so they got a bonus five points for being resilient which means they have 10 points.
And the Green Pythons gave it a go with two people from their group away today to gain 5 points.

What did you like about each of our jingles?

Statistics Vocabulary

To be successful with our statistics learning we need to understand what certain words mean when we use them to talk about our statistical investigations or when we read someone else's.
Today we are introduced the new language we will be using while we learn about statistics.

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How we feel about our new class

One of the tools we are learning to use is the Padlet (Wallwisher). It is a great way for us to make a post it note idea on the computer.
This is our first one as a class to show what we have enjoyed about our first week back at school.

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Swimming

Thanks Mr Peachy for having the pool ready for us! It is super hot being back at school but luckily we can cool off as we learn to swim. We are getting into groups and will all have our own swimming goals soon. Check out our individual blogs to see what these goals are.

Welcome Back

Welcome back and welcome to our three new Vardon students who make up Room 9 this year. We have kicked the term off already with some writing and maths in between getting to know each other.

Here we are starting to look at statistics and learning how to write the number five using tally marks. Mrs Head said a number and we had to make it using iceblock sticks for the tally marks. Then we created a class tally chart about how we were all feeling about the first day back at school. From that we made a pictograph.