Swimming 2017

Every day this week we have been swimming. What did you learn? How have you improved? What could you be better at? What was the most memorable moment? Why do you think swimming lessons are important?

Fraction Strategies

The Square group has made some teaching videos on fractions. Do you think they are helpful? You can also see them on our website if you need help with fractions.

The Science Roadshow

On the 30 August our class room 12 and room 16 went to a Science Roadshow. When we got there, there was a show. They asked for a volunteer and Hamish got picked. He had to put some safety gear on, then the presenter brought out some slime, but it wasn't actually slime, it was oobleck. When he shook it over Hamish's head it didn’t come out, and when the presenter punched it, it was hard but when he picked it up it ran through his hand. Is it a liquid or solid?

The presenter asked for another volunteer and Olivia got picked. She had to to put on safety gear. Then she had to pour some type of powder into another type of blue liquid it look like dishwashing liquid. When Olivia poured the powder into the blue liquid it foamed up a lot, they called this elephant toothpaste but it's not actually elephant toothpaste it’s just called that.     

After the show finished we got to do our own thing. First I went to the hovercraft, the way it worked was there was a type of a small air mattress and a blow dryer filled it up and they span you around. What do you think the science was here?

There were lots of different science experiments that you could check out out and look at. Our favourite one was the bowling ball one were a ping pong ball sat at the bottom of a massive funnel, and then you pushed a bowling with a stick in it and pushed it down then the ping pong ball flew in the air. What do you think the science was here?

Photography

We have been developing our photography skills. What do you think?

Tough Guy and Gal Challenge

The Tough Guy and Gal Challenge is a challenge that girls and boys have fun and run through puddles and go through freezing cold rivers.

This Friday students will go to the Tough Guy and Gal Challenge to have fun and compete. There are 7 People in our class going to the Tough Guy and Gal Challenge on Friday and all those people are very excited to spend a day off school to run through mud puddles and other fun stuff.

https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=tough+guy+and+gal+challenge+kids+2016&safe=strict&rlz=1CAACAJ_enNZ745NZ745&source=lnms&tbm

Coding Sphero

The Ned Show

The Ned Show is a pep talk on doing the right thing and being a champion. The show was after lunch at 2:00 in the afternoon. It was in our school hall at Otonga Primary School. The pep talk man named Ryan was invited by Mrs Neilson our school new deputy principal.

Ryan was the pep talk guy who taught us to be a champion and what Ned stood for. The N stood for “Never give up” and the E stood for “Encourage others”. Last but not least the D stood for “do your best.”

Ryan did cool tricks and had a funny personality that made everyone laugh even the teachers.

This link takes you to the Ned Show site when you can find out how to do tricks like the motorbike in the picture. It also shows you how much the yoyos are. The Glow in the Dark or normal one is $8 and the boomerang is $14 and the accelerator is $20.    

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Writing Challenge

Room 12 hard at work on their 40 day writing challenge. They are 4 days down. 36 to go!

Class Dojo vs Class Blog

Actually let me start with saying it's not really "Class Dojo vs Class Blog", although it makes a great heading! Although we have not used the class blog to date as we have been using ClassDojo for sharing, the class blog plays an important role in sharing our learning to a wider audience. We will continue using both this year, so let's clarify the differences.

ClassDojo

• Is a closed network of all the parents of Room 12, only you can see the class posts.
• Is regular short snippets of learning from the classroom.
• Is teacher driven.
• Has Student Story; private between student, whānau and teacher.

Class Blog

• Is a public platform with a global audience.
• Is written mostly by students to publish and share learning.
• Is a good platform to practise good digital citizenship through publishing and commenting.

Class Rules and Expectations