Jonesy, Jorja's horse

Eve, Kyla, Jorja's and Ajia have made Jonest to scale.

Globe Project - YouTube

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?feature=youtube_gdata_player&v=vV-_n_TeV4E&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DvV-_n_TeV4E%26feature%3Dyoutube_gdata_player


Jayne

Mount Cook Camp 2013

Using educreations to show our maths strategies

Wacky Hair and Odd Shoe Day

A massive thank you to everyone who supported our fundraiser. We reached our target and can now buy recycling bins for another classroom.

Look at Caitlin's hair! Thanks for making such a huge effort Caitlin

Maddy and Estelle count the money raised today and last Tuesday. We raised $163. Good counting girls.

Wacky hair!

Having fun and learning with sky view app

Look at our astronomers using sky view on the i pads to look at the stars, planets, and satellites.

Maths (Geometry) and Art

The work of Pablo Picasso
In 1909, Picasso broke away from traditional art form and developed a style of painting called Analytic Cubism. The aim of this style was to break down subject matter into a number of geometric shapes and then reorganize and overlap these shapes to show several angles at the same time. Shapes are reconstructed in a mathematical way, using straight lines and right angles.

Cubism Art on PhotoPeach

We used a Monochromatic colour scheme i.e. one colour only, mixed with black (shade) and white (tint)

Using our ipads to finds geometric shapes in our environment

Self directed learning, we are researching the journey of our rubbish

This is Room 1 on a Tuesday morning working on our inquiry. Action makes a difference. Children have choice in their learning. Along with choice comes responsibility.

Phoebe has chosen to write a letter requesting permission to fund-raise for our new recycling bins. Later she works with Molly to work out how much money we need to raise. Some children have chosen to work alone, other have decided to work with a buddy. Some children have chosen to complete their project on a computer and others want to create a poster. Lucy has decided to make a movie.

Inquiry - Maths-Writing-Science

Molly and Phoebe are busy calculating how much money we need to fund-raise to buy our new recycling bins, they are writing a letter to Mrs Brooks explaining why we want to fund raise.

A busy day at school today

We had athletics training with Sport Otago.

Harrison and Katana are busy working on their project, discussing the best way to dispose of a glass bottle.

Molly and Phoebe are busy writing a letter to Mrs Brooks asking permission to fundraise for new recycling bins for our class.

Lachie and Anthony are discussing the journey that our rubbish takes, what happens if we put rubbish in the recycling bin? what happens to it if it goes to the landfill?

Austin and Sophie are experimenting making movies about recycling on our ipads.

Science observations, recording changes to organic and inorganic matter

Using our new ipads

Today we used the popplet app on our new ipads to record everything we already know about recycling

Paired writing

Austin and Harrison co writing their picture book

Skiing at Cardrona

More Spring artwork

Spring inspired by Jackson pollock
Spring on PhotoPeach

A popular shoe in room 1!

Look at what we noticed whilst sitting in the kiva today

How we feel about the new layout of our classroom

The good, the bad and the interesting after two weeks of our new classroom. (ditching the desks and allowing more choice and responsibility about our learning)
We discussed our ideas in groups and took turns to record them into a PMI chart. We typed all our ideas onto one whole class PMI chart.

Writing arguments

Should we have nude food at school?

I strongly disagree that food should be nude. Just look at it. All this hard work and one piece of litter dropped we all get told off.

You can’t get a whole school of some naughty people and some bad people to come along and not drop litter. It would be unbelievable if that could happen.

How about you look at the children too? They get told off for litter that isn’t even theirs. All the teachers do is tell us children off for dropping litter. Then look at the parents of the children. Every day they have to unwrap the food. It still goes to waste. They just throw it away and it goes to the same place all the rubbish goes to. A big hole.

How about now you look at what the children are eating. It all gets mushed up together in their lunch box. They have to eat a new thing every day. Maybe for Monday a mushed banana with a cookie or orange with some chips. It tastes horrible.

There is that you can save the earth but I believe that we just can’t do it.
So are you convinced now? I bet you are.
Jacob