When the Year 8's are away...

The Year 7's got up to a little bit of mischief while the Year 8's were away!

Paper wars, Pizza, Arm Wrestles and Capture the Keys!!

100 Ideas in 10 Minutes!

The Challenge was laid out. How might we get silence in an instant? Mr Price was after 100 ideas in 10 minutes. The Purpose? To force ourselves to become creative with our thinking in order to come up with new ideas! The results? Boom! Over 200!

Cross Country

Well done to all of Room 1 who participated in the School Cross Country last Friday! You all were amazing and did yourself proud! Well done to those who have qualified for the Inter-Intermediate Cross Country race. Here a few snaps taken about 300m from the finish line!

Socio-Cultural Theory

With our last Immersion lesson completed for Inquiry, the students went to Room 4 and looked at socio-cultural theory (Pavlov and his dog! etc) The photos below are of the students teaching each other skills and strengths that they have.

Mind Lab Trip - Fun Theory

On Friday 6th Room 1 we raced out to Petone to have a look at The Mindlab!

Students were introduced to Fun Theory and got to play around with a coding programme called Scratch.

Fun Theory is the topic of our Inquiry this term where students will look into ways of changing behaviours using fun activities.

At Mindlab students got to code a rubbish bin that made a sound when rubbish was thrown in and a virtual game of pong.

Inquiry Immersion - Newton's Third Law and the Doppler Effect

This term for Inquiry we are looking into changing behaviours using Fun Theory. To start us off we looked in things such as Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory, Chemistry changes, and Physical changes such as Newton's Third Law and The Doppler Effect. 

Newton's Third Law

Newton's Third Law is: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

We tested this by making balloon Rocket and Balloon Cars:

The Doppler Effect

The Doppler Effect is the apparent change in sound when the source of sound moves from a still observer. As the sound maker comes closer the sound will sound higher to the observer than when he is moving further away. As shown by Aaron below.

Term 2

Term 2 is going to be an exciting, fun filled, full-on term, for us all.

The following topics will be covered in the first few weeks of school:

Mathematics - measurement

Literacy - explanation writing and comprehension strategies

Inquiry - Behavioural and scientific change

PE - large ball skills

Cross country is in week 2 followed by a beep test assessment shortly afterward. We will continue to develop fitness throughout this term.

Enrichment commences on Wednesday (Tomorrow) of week 1 and every Wednesday thereafter.  

Winter sport also commences on Thursday afternoons of this term, weeks 3, 5, 7 and 9, for your child.  Students will need to remember PE gear on these days, which I know won't be a problem as Room 1 students bring PE gear every day to school anyway. 

Homework Week 1 Term2

The New Zealand Comedy Awards are called the Billy T awards and the winner receives a Yellow Towel that Billy T made famous. But what do you know about Billy T James? Watch the following videos and read his wikipedia page and tell me: 1. the impact he had on NZ, 2. why he so funny! At the end of last term the standard of our homework was very high and I expect that to not remain the same but increase as we progress through this term.
Billy T James - The Maori News
Billy T James Guide to Surviving the Bush
The Best of Billy

Wikipedia

Remember also that your Reading Log, Mathletics and the Writing Challenge needs completing too! Get those Green squares clocked up!