Room 13's Poetry

                                    Poetry – Our Learning Journey

Room 13 has had an inquiry focus on Planet Earth and Beyond. Through our own individual areas of interest, we have been learning about the sun, space, volcanoes, storms, water cycle and more.  We have had a number of provocations including science experiments like: making rain, sundials, evaporation etc

Also we have looked at a variety poetry based around our chosen inquiries. To help provoke thought we have also used a variety of visual images to help extend our ideas and language.

After reading and exploring many types of poems we started to develop our own ideas on what makes good poetry, why we like poetry and what we find difficult about poetry. Here are some of our ideas-

Characteristics of good poetry as identified by Room 13

-Imaginative and creative

-Descriptive with language that appeals to the senses

-Provokes thought

-Makes you laugh, feel happy or sad

-Uses figurative language  (personification, similes, metaphors)

-Creates images in the reader’s mind

-Sometimes rhymes

Room 13 likes writing poetry because …

-we feel there are no limitations

-we can be creative

-we feel it is close to creating music and music is cool

-we can be original
-we don't need to use full sentences

What Room 13 finds difficult?

-We sometimes struggle with word choices

-It can be hard to make it rhyme

-Trying to be original

-Sometimes our spelling can be a barrier

-We don’t always have a repertoire of words


Brainstorming the 'language'.

Identifying the language features.




Here we are sharing and illustrating our poems with Room 3.
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HERE ARE A FEW OF OUR POEMS!!!

School Cross Country

What a great time we had yesterday during our cross country.

All classes had been out training over the past two weeks and it was fantastic to have this event to look forward to on our calendar.

In Room 14 we had been collecting our training data and have been thinking about ways we could graph it to present visually and notice what it tells us.




A special thanks to Ms Baker and Mr Bates for organising the event and to all of the parents who came along to watch!

A small number of our children will soon be representing our school at the South-East Zones. We can't wait to see how they go.

Check out some of the pics from yesterday...

Solar Ovens And Moon Landings

This term our 'My Place, Our World' theme is taking an Earth systems direction. In Room 14 we have been learning all about both the Sun and the Moon through some projects we have been engaged in.

Following on from Kelli's IP presentation last term about Neil Armstrong, there was some debate in the Room 14 audience about whether the Moon landings have really happened. There were a large number of children who wanted to investigate this further. So, both the Avengers and Flashes groups have been researching this issue, using many sources of information and looking to find proof for claims that have been made by people.

























Both groups have been moving their names along a 'Yes' or 'No' continuum as they find more information. This is the 'Tug of War' routine. Some names have moved back and forth several times!

Jade and Kelli surveyed our teachers. What did they think?























With so many conspiracy theories around about the Moon landings, it has been a big challenge for us to figure out whether these sources are reliable. For example, some videos online claim to be made by scientists, but are they really? It has been a great learning opportunity understanding how anyone can put information on the internet and claim that it is true. The groups are currently deciding which side they will take when writing a persuasive piece to share in an interesting way.

The Daredevils and Iron Men have been reading about solar ovens and trying to design and build their own. They have been through a process of finding out how they work, coming up with several of their own designs to choose from, locating materials, and building.