Room 13's Assembly Presentation

Learning Exhibition Feedback From Our Community

Out Of This World Interest Projects

It was a rewarding final week of term in Room 14 as we shared our recent interest projects. The theme for these was 'Planet earth and beyond', linking with some of the other projects we have been engaged in this term. From our world, to the solar system, black holes and aliens, there were many fascinating discoveries made and interesting debates had about the reliability of research.

As has become the norm, everyone had a say in the sharing order and the class decided how the stage and audience will be organised. Again we put a lot of thought into showing we care by listening and giving thoughtful feedback to our peers on their projects. This was one of the areas we were assessed on relating to the key competencies in our IP evaluation. The other areas are also listed below.

Thinking: I showed curiosity and asked lots of questions to drive my learning

Managing Self: Making plans and finishing the tasks I say I will complete on time

Using Language, Symbols and Texts: I created a quality presentation

Participating and Contributing: I confidently shared my learning with others

Relating to Others: Cooperating with others when sharing resources and learning spaces during IP workshops

Relating to Others: I listened and gave thoughtful feedback to my peers on their projects

See our Twitter feed for more photos. We are looking forward to creating more of our own interest projects this year, with our most recent ones providing us with some great goals to work on!


Click here to see Korban's excellent presentation about our Moon.

Response to Our Exhibition

Thanks to all who came along to our exhibition last Tuesday night. Here are some photos of the evening...



This was a nice way of showcasing some of the projects our Te Harakeke team have been working on across curriculum areas, for our community to have some fun learning about our coding club and for our Te Rito team to share their Matariki art gallery. The survey responses and feedback we received were very positive, so will certainly look to have more events of this kind in the future.

Korban from Room 14 wrote a brief summary:

Our mini exhibition next Tuesday

Parents and children all welcome!

Star Wars Squared

This week for home learning Room 14 were given this task...

SITUATION:

One of your parents has fallen in love with the idea of having this Star Wars patterned carpet in a room of your house. It costs $20 per square metre. 

PROBLEM:

Decide which room you will measure and work out approximately how much it will cost for enough carpet for the whole room. 

On Monday during our library time we thought about the process we would need to go through to complete this task, as there are a couple of steps involved. 

We tried to work out the cost of this carpet for our school library. Kelli aptly named this project 'Star Wars Squared', with each stage titled Episode 1, Episode 2 and Episode 3. 

We first discussed the idea of 'one square metre', then planned how we could measure the size of the library. We then did the measuring and came to a consensus on the size, using string and rulers. The final stage was multiplying the number of square metres by the price of the carpet. 

This was a task that required not only some key mathematical understandings, but also for us to work well with our peers, communicating effectively and managing resources. Most children felt confident they could complete the home learning task independently, so it will be great to see them apply their knowledge in a different setting. 

If you want another fun challenge, we have just been discussing the problem below together. 

Can you work out where the extra square comes from? 

Water Bottle Tornado

Taila made this at home and brought it to school for news.

How does it work?

This is what we call a vortex. A vortex is a type of motion and is created when the water falls through an opening of both bottles.

Gravity is the force that pulls the water down into the hole and the vortex looks like a tornado in the bottle. Look carefully and you can see the hole in the middle of the vortex that allows the air to come up inside the bottle.

To create a vortex you need to swirl the water. If you don't swirl the water there will be a glug-glug sound. That is because the air and water is taking turns to pass through the gap between both bottles.

Taila