Room 21's Class Blog

For science and maths, we have been learning about classification. We looked at what was similar and what was different. Can we find a pattern?  Ms. Corbett gave us different items to classify and we had to explain our classification. Some us put it into groups of colour and shapes.  Then we had to group the items into much harder categories. Can you guess how we classified them?

What a fantastic start to the term.  We were lucky to have beautiful weather for our 2016 Athletics Day.  Well done to all students who achieved their personal bests and other personal goals.  Thank you to all of the staff who worked in the background to make this day successful.  Thanks to the staff who managed stations and groups on the day.  Congratulations to our relay team Kiedus, Daniel, Sophie and Andrea.  You guys can be very proud of your efforts.  Thank you for representing your class and being the best you could be.  Ka Pai to the teacher's relay team - fantastic effort.  Thank you to the AUT students for all of their help today.  Your input is appreciated every year.  Also it was great to see the food choices of champions!

This week we have been preparing for Athletics Day. Check out our high jump photos: Last term, we chose an athletics event and created a learning map to reach our goals. Who can help us reach our goals? Where can we find information? Here are our plans:

For our calendar art, we studied what makes a great photo. We looked at different techniques: fill the frame, rule of thirds, lines frame the shot, high angle, low angle and horizon lines. After planning our shot we took photos. Can you see the different photo techniques? Last day to order calendars: Friday 23rd September.

Another fantastic session at Tri Star Gym.  Thank you to Mrs Dower and the PE Team for the effort you put into making this happen.  Everyone thoroughly enjoyed it.

Well done to the Room 12 & 13 speech finalists for 2016.  Congratulations to Pranay and Aggie who placed 1st equal and to Joshua who placed 2nd.  You should all be very proud of your efforts.

Another great Book Week 2016.  Thanks to Carol from the Library for all of her hard work to make Book Week a success.  Also great to see Donna back to help judge.

 Well done to our presenters Anika, Jahnae, Isra and Anna and thanks to their assistant Noah.  Thanks for your contributions to the successful student led toolkits held at Hay Park School.  Looking forward to seeing this year's year 5s in action next year.

Students created pixels art codes using multiplication and division.  Here are some of their creations on paper.  Later they used this as a reference for the digital question sheets they created.

We were learning to identify some of the barriers we have in our learning. Miss Laxa helped us create some Fractured Art.  First we wrote down all of the fears we have around learning.  Then we screwed up the paper. That was like saying "these barriers will not stop me from learning". After the paper was scrunched up, we used black vivid markers to outline the wrinkle lines.  Then we coloured the spaces in between.  In the we end we created something beautiful from something that started out scary.  This is one of the examples of our work.

Great to see the community involved in helping keep these caterpillars alive after all of the swan plants had been eaten.

Creating Pixel Art with our buddies

Room 12 &13 working collaboratively to create a structure that can hold the weight of a tennis ball using only newspaper and tape

Day One in Rooms 12 &13 2016

Teaching Staff working collaboratively to create a paper tower that can hold the weight of a tennis ball using only newspaper and tape.  Fantastic teamwork and innovative creations.