Applying Understanding- The Final Result

Room 5 and 6 worked collaboratively throughout the entire learning process during their Antarctica learning. They learnt a lot- some of the things shocking- like the amount of fish being taken from the penguins and the amount of rubbish in the water. 

They wanted to do something about it!

The children came up with all of these different ideas of how they could show their learning and help raise awareness. They brought the concept back to South Hornby School- where they could truly begin to make a difference. Then it was all made into a video. 

The children wanted to put this video onto our blogs so that it could be viewed worldwide and hopefully gain the attention they are looking for. 

Miss Quick and myself are so super proud of them and all the ideas that the children came up with to show their understanding and their enthusiasm towards helping the penguins.

Check out our video below, 

which shows all the children's dedication and hard work to their learning and raising awareness!

Please remember to put your rubbish in the bin and only take the fish you NEED!

Thank you,

Room 5 and 6 Students of South Hornby School.

Paper Mache Penguins- Final Product!

We finally finished our paper mache penguins! Check out the great results. 

The children worked really hard on them- it was a very long process.

We learned to be patient when the balloons deflated.

We learned to be careful when we were painting them.

We enjoyed helping each other when we needed help.

Building our "Wild Selves" for writing!

We are learning how to use adjectives in our writing, so in Room 6 this week, we tried something different for writing. 

A good way to remember the ones we want to use to describe something is by using a brainstorm. It is tricky for us to use a brainstorm, because it is new to us.

We built "Wild Self Monsters/Creatures" on the internet and then printed them off. 

Then, in our writing we had to describe our "Wild Self Monsters". We used brainstorms to help us.

Here is the link for the Build your wild self website:

http://www.buildyourwildself.com/

Army Breakfast Visit

The children really enjoyed exploring all the gigantic Army vehicles that the Army brought with them to our Army breakfast morning. 

We even all got a ride in them, they go really fast! We had a blast.

Jump Jam fun!

WE LOVE JUMP JAM!!!

We do our B.E.S.T

Squares Maths Group

The squares maths group have been learning how to count on and backwards from a number to solve some tricky problems.

To help them, so far the children have been using hundreds boards

and laying out number line jellybeans.

Applying Understanding- Our Antarctica Learning

We are now up to the Apply Understanding part of our new Inquiry process.

This means that we have taken all the things we have learned about, formed heaps of "how might we..." questions and decided what we want to do about the issues we have found. 

The two main issues we have found are:

- people are over-fishing and the animals in Antarctica don't have enough food

and

- animals in Antarctica are dying because people are littering and the rubbish is getting into the ocean.

For the Apply Understanding stage, Room 6 and Room 5 are working together to build awareness about these issues. The children have decided what they want to do and are in the process of planning how they are going to raise awareness.

We are excellent at working together and communicating our ideas!

Stay tuned to see what we do with our learning next!

Check out our awesome ukelele playing!

We have been working so hard with Paul in ukelele. We have learned some new chords and have become great at singing along while we are playing. It is still tricky for us to change really fast between chords, but we are getting better!

Here are some songs that we have been learning!

The Kiwi Alphabet

That's Aotearoa

Story of My Life- One Direction

Circles Maths Group- Making Ten

The Circle's group have been learning about different ways to make 10.

Miss McLeod told us to draw two circles and count out 10 jellybeans.

Then she said "see how many ways you can make 10."

Look at all the ways we came up with.

Lucas also trialled some different numbers to see what he could come up with.

He found that 5 jellybeans + 4 more jellybeans makes 9 jellybeans.

Learning About Shapes!

At the end of Term 3 we had fun learning about shapes. We learned that there are lots of different shapes and they all have sides and corners except for a circle because it is round.

To show Miss McLeod our learning we...

Drew shapes and labeled them.

 We told Miss McLeod about what we were drawing and had to describe our shapes to her. We talked about the sides and corners of the different shapes we knew about.

We got given a different shape and then had to find someone with a similar shape to us. Miss McLeod got us to describe how the shapes were similar (they might not have been the same). Then we had to find someone with a different shape and talk about why they were different.

Then we got into pairs and described a shape we had hiding behind our back to our partner. Our partner had to make the shape that we described to them.

Using our knowledge of shapes we drew and made robots using some different shapes.

Calendar Art

Calendar Art