Screen Minions

For the last few weeks, Zoe and Precious from Room 15 have been joining a few other learners from Team 3 and doing some screen printing with Mr Vogt.

They have really enjoyed the experience and their creations are amazing!  Check out some photos from their experience.

Making Chocolate Cake

As part of our science inquiry topic this term, we are looking at the changes in matter.  After reading "The Chocolate Cake" the Crunchies reading group followed the recipe in the book to combine ingredients and create a chocolate cake.  Importantly, we discussed how the ingredients changed and that once they had changed, they could not be changed back again!

Once we'd created our cake, we ate it with ice cream and bananas - the same way they did in the book!

Exploring Yeast

As part of our inquiry focus this term, Room 15 have been exploring the ingredients that make bread.  Today we were looking at yeast and what reactions and changes occur when added to warm water and sugar.

Here are some photos and a few of the stories created by the learners in Room 15.  Check out their blogs for more!

YOLANDA:

Yesterday we did some experiment we had   Five Different  things we had sugar and warm water   and we  put  our experiment on the  heater and the  next day there was water in it and my  teacher told Leah to go and   take the Jar and tamped it all out and she told some people to came and did some things with her.

LEAH:

Yesterday room 15 was making yeast the ingredients was warm water and sugar and yeast and we use the measuring spoon. When we finish our yeast we had to put it beside the heater after school we looked at it. When it was morning we looked at it. After that we smell the yeast and when we smell the yeast we had to put our bags and lunchbox away. This morning when the second bell was gone we had to go on the mat and line up in the front of the door. When we lined up we went to the assembly. When we went to the assembly we had to sit down. After the assembly it look like there was foam on top and then the foam sunk down again.

Tasting the bread

Today we wrote about our experiences tasting the bread and talked about why they all look and taste different.  All our stories are on our blogs, but check out these couple of examples:

Precious

On Wednesday my class tasted lots of different types of bread. Before we were allowed to eat the breads we had to take some photos and then put the photos onto my Explain Everything. Then we get a plate and get all the different types of bread and tasted it and smell it and then you have to feel it. After I finished those three things I had to write the names of the breads and write in how it feels and what it tasted and what it feels like and then you are finished. My favourite bread will be ciabatta because that is the one that i really like eating at my house.

Jerry

On Tuesday we had 6 different breads made of different ingredients. Their was pita bread and it was so hard. It was cheesy but it was so good when room 15 ate the bread and we wrote  the different  ingredients. My favourite bread was the White bread because it has got different ingredients than the other bread. 

Sharing our learning on bread toasting

Today, as part of our science inquiry we were comparing different types of bread.  We each posted to our blogs, and Mrs Belt has selected some of our work to showcase on our class blog.

Leylani

WALT: Compare different types of bread by texture appearance and taste

Julia

WALT compare different types of bread by texture, appearance and taste

Casshius

WALT. Compare different types of bread by texture, taste and appearance

Tasting bread

As part of our science inquiry this term, Room 15 looking at bread, building to making our own in a few weeks.

Today we were looking at different types of bread and comparing:

appearance - what it looks like

texture - what it feels like

taste - what it tastes like

Mrs Belt set up the activity so that we could use photographs to help document our learning.  Check out these photos of us as we compared the different breads:

Immersion Assembly

Following our Immersion Assembly today, Room 15 wrote about the things they enjoyed most.  All our stories will publish on our individual blogs over the coming days, but Mrs Belt is sharing some on our Class Blog here:

At the Immersion assembly there were lots of people doing explosions with lot of different tools. When it was time for team 5 to come up there was a man called Mr Fuzzy Wuzzy Vottom and his slave. His slave  put water balloons on Mrs Tele’as  head twice and that was funny. Then after Mrs Tele'as turn it was Miss Berry's  turn and  Mr Fuzzy Wuzzy Vottom’s slave was shacking a can and opened it up and the drink went every where like an explosion but Miss Berry put on some goggles and it was so funny and cool too.  
- by Precious

At the Assembly  this morning we were watching some funny videos.

Team 1 is learning about old nicest witches.

Team 2 is learning about cooking.Team 3 is learning about science.

Team 4 is learning about pt England myth busters.

Team 5 is learning about liquid and gas or solids.

My favourite part was when I got to eat a sweet corn  pandcake.

Later on we sang Ch-ch - ch -ch-changes soing.

The assembly was good.
- by Deejay

At the assembly people ate pancakes. I love pancakes. Pancakes  are yummy and if I ate one it will be yummy. I like team threes movie. In team threes movie we were learning about cooking so they showed a movie how to make food. Team 5 had a lovely movie. Mr  Fuzzy  Wuzzy  told his slave to do stuff for him.  He told his slave  to put the water balloon  on top of Mrs Tele’as head.  Then he told her to put the two  drinks on Miss Berry's  face. At the end he told her to the ice inside Miss Clarke's shirt. Mr Fuzzy Wuzzy Vottom tricked her and put a water balloon  on her head.
- by Bradley

In the  immersion assembly the whole school of Pt England went to the assembly because there was something special. When the whole school got there Mr Burt and Mrs Nua said where is Mrs Garden and Mr J. When Mr Burt stopped talking we heard an explosion. Then Mr J was running and he fell down on the stage.  We all started laughing at him. Then Mr Fuzzy Wuzzy  Vottom said to us this is my science partner, Mrs slave. Mr Fuzzy Wuzzy and Mrs slave bought a fuzzy drink and water balloons. First up was Mrs Tele’a.  Mrs slave dropped two water balloons on Mrs Tele’as head. She got wet! Next up was Miss Berry and Mrs slave splashed two Pepsi cans in her face. When they were finished they had to wipe their faces and get off the stage. The audience were laughing and laughing.
- by Leah

Welcome to Term 4

Our Immersion Assembly went off with a bang this morning!  Room 15 was super excited to see that we would be learning about ch-ch-ch-ch-changes and we certainly were treated to some great experiments in the different team movies.

We have already begun planning for our Hyperstudio animations today and can't wait to get started tomorrow.  Check out some of the highlights from our Immersion Assembly and the planning we have already done.

Going for Gold .... on PENN

Today Room 15 were the stars on PENN.  Our movie this term highlights the importance of striving for our own gold medal and shows some of the things we have been learning during our Kiwisport Get Set Go session.

What are you doing to challenge yourself and reach gold?

Origami with Year 7/8

On Friday afternoon Room 15 welcomed some of the Year 7 and 8 learners to our classroom.  They bought their chromebooks and taught us how to make some fun origami creations.

Amazing artists

Our school wide topic "As i see it" is well underway in Room 15.  Last week we split into two groups to work on different art activities.  The first activity used pastels to create a piece of artwork inspired by iLuminate - the wonderful dance group that performed at Pt England earlier in the week.  The second activity was a collaborative castle creating activity, asking learners to work in pairs or small groups to design their own castle.  We will continue this art this week and then Mrs Belt will display it in our classroom for whanau to check out!  Here are some photos from our first session (note - some learners are wearing art shirts as pastels on school uniforms is very hard to remove!)

Exploring shape

To assist with our knowledge of shapes, we've been using shapes in our inquiry to draw some animals.  On Friday we were drawing giraffes using Explain Everything and the shape tool.  Check out some of our giraffes:

Aniqua

Anthony

Aye Myat

Jordan

Term 4 - SURVIVORS

Welcome back to Term 4, which will be an exciting term in Room 19.  All our learners are really looking forward to the Zoo Trip in week 3 - not long to go now!  Our immersion assembly item today focused on this zoo trip and is great viewing.

We are really looking forward to the last term of 2015 and the learning that will occur - we hope you enjoy this journey with us!

Team 1 Inquiry Rotation

As part of our Trade and Enterprise inquiry learning, Team 1 have been thinking about how we make things that we can sell.  In Room 19 we have been talking about making milkshakes which led to some great discussions about the ingredients that go into a milkshake and where these ingredients come from.

The entire team came together recently and rotated around various stations making different things, so the learners could experience this.  Over the three sessions, we make milkshakes, toast and butter and cream for pancakes.   All learners really enjoyed this creative side of the inquiry topic.

Beginning our Inquiry Journey

As part of our Trade & Enterprise inquiry unit this term, Team 1 are going to market!  In Room 19 we will be making items to sell and earning money to spend at the market.

Our movie for PENN this term plays today, and finds out what our learners think about where money comes from!  We have included a few answers to make you laugh - can you figure out which ones they are?

Where does milk come from?

As part of our inquiry, Team 1 is getting together next week to make some milk shakes and other dairy related treats!  This week in Room 19 we have started talking about this and thinking about what ingredients we will need and how we can get them.

On Wednesday Mrs Belt asked us:

  "Where does milk come from?"

We are really looking forward to next Friday and making some great things!

Unpacking our knowledge

As part of our inquiry topic, today we talked about how we get things.  Mrs Belt is trying a new technique to capture our responses as we like to all share.  Click on the dots in the photo below to see what we all think!

Our first question was "What do we do if we want/need something?"

Our first visit to Harold

Today Room 19 visited Harold in his mobile classroom!  We had a great session and learnt about what foods were healthy to eat and what happens to our food when we eat it.  We all enjoyed learning from Lynn and Harold and can't wait for our next lesson later this week.

When we were back in class we wrote a short story about some of the things we learnt.

"We went into Harold's classroom, and we learnt healthy food makes us strong."