Winners!!!!

Room 3 took a fun photo of themselves celebrating our use of Banqer this year, which is an online financial literacy resource. As well as having our own online bank accounts, we've used the resource to design and build our own malls on Minecraft. We entered the photo in to a competition and today we found out we won one of the prizes. Go Room 3. We can't wait to see what we will get in our Banqer Auction prize pack. Here's our winning photos.

Edisons

For inquiry this term we have been discovering how robots work. We have been programming the Edison robots to do all sorts of cool things like driving forwards and backwards, turning, and avoiding obstacles. Yesterday we built mazes and then programmed Edison to avoid obstacles. We had to see if he could get to the end of our maze without getting stuck. There were some very imaginative mazes built out of everything from glue sticks to books and it was great to see each group testing their maze and making changes where needed.

Drama Time

Room 3 and 4 have been doing drama together every second week. We play lots of fun warm-up games that help us practice movement, facial expressions and body language. Last week we worked in groups to create an advert for a piece of classroom equipment. It was hilarious watching everyone's 'adverts'. The most persuasive group were Aidan, Oliver, Cohen and Finn who's pencil case could be all sorts of amazing things!

STEAM Activities

This term Room 3 are going to be completing STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and maths) challenges. Our first challenge was to create a catapult that would propel a marshmallow across the room. It was great to see groups making changes to their catapults in between rounds to make their catapult work better! Our second challenge was to make a waterslide out of cardboard and a range of other materials. The rules were it couldn't leak, had to had a tower of 25cm high, a ladder and the slide couldn't drop straight down. Two teams were successful!! 

Growing Patterns

Today we looked at all the different ways this pattern grows. We came up with lots of different ways. Troy built figure 10 for us out of blocks and we found out it had 55 squares! Isabelle noticed that each figured added on an amount of squares that matched the figure e.g. figure 4 added on 4 more squares. How could we work out a bigger figure, like figure 55? Mrs Heyns taught us the algebraic equation which was (n + 1) x n / 2 e.g. (4 +1) x 4 / 2 = 10 squares! Can you work out another figure using this equation?

MADE Awards

Room 3 and 4 spent some time this term creating entries for the MADE Awards. We broke in to Year 4 and Year 3 and decided as a group what category to enter in to. We had music videos, storytelling and adverts. It was so much fun. We have entered them into the competition and hopefully we'll know in the next few weeks whether we've made it in to the finals!

Genius Hour Term 3

We LOVED doing Genius Hour this term. Everyone chose great projects, managed their time well and had something to share in week 9.  Here's a summary of our projects.

Using SOLO to explore circuits

Last week we started looking at current electricity and circuits. We learnt all the circuit symbols and the importance of not having a break in the circuit. Today we used our SOLO thinking to learn more about circuits. We listed (multistructural) the parts of a circuit we learnt about last week. Then in pairs we researched and explained (relational) what each thing was and it's role in a circuit. Then we created (extended abstract) circuits using different combinations. 

El Presidentes Week 4&5

Myspace Bubbles Note Generator

What do you know about Static or Current Electricity?

Room 3 are learning all about electricity! What do you know about static electricity or current electricity?

Fun with Static Electricity

We continued our exploration of static electricity. We explored what objects we could manipulate just with the static electricity we created by rubbing a balloon on our hair! We discovered we could make pencils and rulers spin, plastic float and pick up small pieces of paper. We could also rub plastic bags and make it stick to our hands. It was a fabulous opportunity to discover!

What is Electricity?

Today we starting learning about electricity! We started by thinking about all the things we couldn't do if we had no electricity. Then we watched a video and learnt lots of new words like voltage, electrons, atoms and more. We talked about the difference between static electricity and current electricity. Then we had fun making static electricity by rubbing balloons on our hair!