Collaborating with Room 20

Our projects and presentations have been completed and we checked for understanding using Kahoot. The Room 20 students got to use Kahoot to answer 9 questions all about Matariki and their work with their Room 15 teacher.
Collaborating with Room 20 gave us a chance to be teachers.  It takes some different skills to be an effective teacher and knowing the ways in which we learn is an important step in this process.  

Collaborating with Room 20

Exciting learning going on between the Room 15 teachers and the Room 20 learners !!! The room 15 teachers are buddied up with the room 20 learners in order to learn, create and share all their findings regarding Matariki.  They are now doing presentations about their own constellations to share with us all.  Ka pai!!!

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Baking Cupcakes

One hard working maths group worked with Marleen this week to create the most delicious cupcakes. Thank you to Isaac, Pooja, Sara, Mary and Max. YUM!

Collaborative Drawing

Have you ever copied a picture without seeing the original? What instructions would be most helpful for you to recreate something sight unseen ?

In pairs, our class took turns,  first one person described the flower while the other drew it and then we swapped around.  Our first sketches were really awesome.  They show good communication skills, attentive listening skills and some developing sketching skills.  Keep watching . . . there's more to come. This was just the first step in our 'Georgia O'Keefe' inspired art cycle.

Maths in Action

Everyday we are using a variety of different ways to access maths learning. Collaborative, independent, paired and group work going on. Maths is fun.

Guess Who?

The Challenge
Produce a short video about ourselves to share with a mystery class somewhere in the world

Requirements
Show them our school
Include :
1 fact about our school
1 fact about our city
1 fact about our country
Write a script
Film your video
Together decide who will do what
          
Getting into it
Room 15 quickly divided themselves up to cover the requirements of their new challenge. Today prep. Tomorrow filming.

Robots at The Mind Lab

The second learning opportunity was presented by Damon.  Damon taught us how to programme a robot which looked like a remote controlled car.  The programme included 'events' to move forward, backward, left and right.

Did you know that all technology is stupid and can only work because we are smart enough to programme it?  We had to use our abilities to tell the robot what to do. We downloaded our program onto the robot and then used the remote control to direct it.   What things do you think that you could get your robot to do with your programming knowledge?


Our visit to the The Mind Lab was engaging, fun and challenging.  I hope we get another opportunity to attend a session there!  What would you most like to learn next?

Why would you recommend The Mind Lab to others?

Makey Makey at the Mind Lab

Rooms 11, 12 and 15 had the opportunity to attend two different learning sessions at the The Mind Lab today. Each year level worked together and were split into two groups and there were two different workshops.

One session was facilitated by Coco.  Coco taught her groups a little about coding and using Scratch. Coco demonstrated how to make a circuit using a 'Makey Makey' and how to hook up the wires to control the actions needed to play a game effectively making game controllers.




What did you find most interesting today? How would you explain Makey Makey to someone in Year 4?