In room 4 we have been participating in the kindness project. This involves sharing compliments about our classmates with them. We are trying to compliment aspects of their personality and are learning to be specific when giving compliments.
At the start of the term Room 4 literacy crafted their own I am poems. We started by writing our poems down, trying to think beyond our selves in the literal classroom and instead thinking of our dreams, culture and wonderings...
Next we illustrated our poetry using a colour of our choice.
Check out our writing on the slides below.
Today Room 4 participated in measurement challenges to support both our maths focus on measurement and the development of our class treaty.
This week we once again participated in the compliments project, this time for Rylan. Rylan has been off sick so we thought it would be nice to send him some kind thoughts. We are also finding it easier to give genuine, specific compliments to people outside of the room, although this will change very soon!
We have had our fair share of goodbyes this year in Room 4. Our latest went to Rongo, who as a year eight was with our class for two years and will be missed.
However, his goodbye presented us with a great opportunity- to start the compliments project! This is a project where class members take turns to give positive, thoughtful compliments to a student by writing them on the whiteboard behind them.
Today Room 4 learnt about Mass and Capacity. To support us to build our understanding, we completed rotations to experience measuring the mass and capacity of a range of objects.
"For my group’s first rotation we were tasked to measure and weigh different items in grams and ml. For our items we could choose from a book, a whiteboard marker, a “no fishing” sign from our fish tank, a hand sanitizer bottle, a pack of paper clips and a pencil. We weighed them in grams.
...For our third and last rotation we got to measure with more measuring cups along with an actual cup/mug a bowl and syringes and more containers. I honestly think that this rotation was my favourite out of them all because I didn’t know that there were so many ways to measure out liquids and other stuff. "
This week we have been learning about figurative language in poetry. Today we learnt about personification and had to identify its use in a poem. Check out Kahzyilou's slides below to learn more.
Today our literacy class discussed the difference between learning and behaviour. We realised that our behaviour has an impact on our learning. However, we also considered the fact that sometimes staying silent and sitting up nicely (or appearing well behaved) isn't enough to support us in our learning.
We each created a word cloud of ideas of what makes a good learner and shared our ideas: we had heaps in common!
These were our common themes:
Today Room 4 continued to develop our class treaty. We participated in our first mini class debate, in which every learner had the opportunity to share their opinions. We did a fantastic job justifying our opinions and being willing to share our ideas with others.
This term we will be focussing on The Arts. Our overarching inquiry question is: how do we tell a story through the arts?
We kicked off the term with our immersion assembly, where each team presented an item to introduce the theme 'Art Works'. Check out some highlights below:
Today Mrs Stone returned to Room 4 to take over from Miss Hall who will be teaching in Dubai - she will be missed!
To restart our year we played some team building games and discussed our class values. We will start to co-construct a treaty that will support us for the rest of the year and to set the year sevens up for success in 2023.
Today we said see ya later to Jin who has been an amazing member of room 4 this year. He is heading to Queensland, Australia.We celebrated Jins time at school by having a shared lunch and sing along. Check out the photos and videos bellow.
We wish you all the best for your new school Jin and hope to see you soon!
This week we have been writing letters as if we are character in our story. We had to understand our character to be able to write this. Here is Miss Halls example about a made up character she created.
Check out our literacy class blogs on blogger to see the students work!
Our term 1 PENN video was aorund the Dungeon and Dragons group. Miss Hall put together our video and showcased out new cool club!
Today Mr Goodwin showed us how to create images that deceive the eye! We found a picture of a person, removed the background and placed the cut out in a cool location. Here is one Miss Hall made of her holding a snake in the middle of the road!
Welcome to term 1 of 2022!
What a start of the year we have had. We were so excited to get back into learning and welcoming in our new year 7s.
This year our class has taken on a lot of new responsibilities.
We have prefects, house captains and AL87 leaders! We are so excited to get back into learning this term and we hope that covid will stay away!!
