Looking Great Fabulous Amazing Fantastic Everyone!

Dear Families for those of you who are busy and find it tricky to visit our room in person, this is what Room 20 is looking like right now!
Soon we have to take everything down for the end of the year so we thought we would show you all now!

Our Class Dojos. We are all different and we appreciate that fact when we are learning and working together. We each designed our own character and wrote the speech bubble to describe what our character is like.

These are our camouflaged Skinks and Stick Insects - can you find them? What are their Adaptations to their Environment or Habitat?

Look at this herd of Zebras! The idea was to learn how to paint a sunset background and show silhouettes with the trees. And then the Zebra is in the front or the foreground. The black and white patterning links well into maths and was a challenge to those that are used to patterning only from left to right! Black tissue paper was added to enhance the 3-D illusion.

Look at these glorious giraffes! Hands on construction is always fun and it's a great way to recycle found objects. We have used giraffes as a subject for Maths Inquiry learning  about estimation and measuring height.

Making and trialling parachutes

After reading one of our reading group's texts 'How to make a parachute' some children have made their own and tried it out today.

Reading non fiction books gives us all new learning experiences and teaches us about topics we would like to explore. This book helped us to find something to do with the pile of soft plastic bags, and unwanted little toys that others have outgrown.

Hockey Small Sticks Wednesday

Cam from Auckland Hockey has been teaching and coaching us through hockey this term and we love it! It's a great team sport for girls and boys to play. Cam has supplied all our specially sized hockey sticks and balls so we can learn at our own level. 

As you can see we are enjoying the game so much it's hard for Mrs Trembath to take a still photo!

Using Lego to compare 1/2 fractions for Maths Week!!

What can you see on the Lego? 8 dots what will half of that be - 4/8. What will half of that be 2/8. What will half of that be 1/8. 

We repeated the thinking with 1/6 and 1/4. We are thinking and learning about the whole fraction and the denominator and the numerator. 

ASB Get Wise Programme Visits Room 20 today!

Serena from GetWise came to school to teach us about how to save our money and keep our money safe. Where does money sit? What is an eftpos card? Whose money is it? What is a credit card and where does the money come from? What is 'borrowing' ?
Each team earned $100 for doing jobs. They put the money in the Bank. Haden, Nathan and Ali went shopping with $100. How will they spend their money? How to look for a best price?

The Olympics starts in Room 20 with a popular Chinese sport - table tennis!

The Chinese team won all of the Gold Medals at the London 2012 Olympics. You can play this game too - there are tables to play on at school.

Ian Scott a New Zealand artist

What is a family? How do we see the people in this painting?

Rollercoaster rides on Google Cardboard

A Moment in Time (Writing)

How can you imagine something if you haven't been there yourself?
Using the Google Cardboard app each child has had the opportunity to experience a ride on a roller coaster through virtual reality on a Smart Phone!

Tinker time with Osmo today!

Tangrams Numbers and Words! What will we discover this week?

Shop Open! Using our place value skills to use money.

This term R20 has opened a shop. Some children are the shop keepers and some are the customers. They have decided how much our items are and labelled them with the price in dollars and cents. When you pay you must work out the money by yourself and if there will be change.

Here Ali is the shopkeeper and Hamish is buying some toy cars! Ali is working the cash register and giving Hamish some change.

This is Jacob stocking up on his groceries. I wonder how much he is going to spend!?

Water water everywhere...

Did you know that a person who studies water is called a Hydrologist!

Thank you Mrs Long for being our recorder today as we brainstormed our ideas about water! 

The Water Molecule Cheer: 

Give me an H! 

Give me a 2! 

Give me an O! 

What does that spell?

H2O!

When atoms join together they form molecules. A water molecule is made up of 2 Hydrogen atoms and 1 Oxygen atom. Atoms are teeny tiny building blocks that you can't see. Water molecules lock into position when they freeze...brrr!

Swimming Carnival! Wonderful efforts today from you all!