Tuesday, 12 August 2014

Commonwealth Games Stadium Constructions

Room 11 have just had their turn to research and create a Commonwealth Games stadium.  The first step was to research images of their chosen sport and mark them up with labels.  (See below.)

Scott, Ava-Richelle and Brooke working on their structures.
See more photos of us all working below.


Next the children were asked to work together with other team members to construct a stadium venue that contained the features they found in their photographs.  As well as the stadium there had to be some kind of connection to other structures - a road, railway, bridge or tunnel.



Each child chose their sport and group members. The "world" was created in advance and a "host"   (i.e. a responsible child familiar with minecraft)  appointed by the teacher. Their job was to manage the team members' construction projects within the "world".

See more constructions below.


There were just a few rules. No sporting events were to be duplicated within a world; no Minecraft weapons were to be drawn (unless an indigenous animal indigenous to the world strayed onto the building site and endangered competitors, officials or media commentators).

This project involved (among other key skills) measurement, design, incorporating the research data into the final construction.

The class was given a set of Success Criteria. And they were away.  Each child was asked to record their progress throughout the day in a document (see the bottom of this post).




Sunday, 10 August 2014

MOTAT


MOTAT recount 
By Anthony Reupena 

On Thursday Room 11, 12, 8 and 9 went on a trip to MOTAT.  We got to explore MOTAT and it was fun!  We got to go on the tram and we got to go in the mirror maze.  Then my group went in the cars.  They didn’t move they were stuck to the wall and there were horns near the cars.  They were loud.  Very loud and it hurt my ears!  After we went to the classroom in MOTAT.  The lady Emma took us into the classroom.  It was full of old stuff, old clothes and an old washing machine.  Then we went back to Western Heights.












Room 11 host assembly

In week one, Room 11 hosted the whole school assembly with our buddy class Room 20.  We showed our bucket filling videos that we had worked very hard on and we sung a song called Take it Easy, By Stan Walker.  

Well done Room 11 - you were singing superstars!  


100 days at school!

In week one we celebrated being at school for 100 days! 
We did lots of counting and fun activities for our 100 day celebrations. 

 Caleb and Cynthia are counting the loops on our paper chain to make sure there are 100!  

We got to wander around the junior classrooms and check out the displays. 


 We played on the playground for 100 seconds!

 Adam and Jaxin are enjoying our yummy shared lunch!  Thank you to everyone who brought a plate! 

 Having a boogie at the disco in the afternoon. 
 The middle school coming around to check out our 100 day collections!  
Zac with his collection of 100 sprinkles!