Celebrated Athletes of Room 19 & Disco Dancers

Well done place getters in Junior Athletics. Great moves are shown on the dance floor.

Marble Jar Fill = Hut Day

Hut Day was so much fun, yes we did do learning.

Bike Track Fun with Friends from Room 16.

Thanks so much Room 16 for a great time on our school bike track.

High jump finals, life education swimming

High jump finals in the hall. Life education in Harold's van and swimming at the Millenium pool. Sorry no"spotty" photos.

Term 4 starts with a rush...

Chinese lessons begin with Liu Liu. Albany Junior high school students visit to read stories and play games. Report writing framework is organised and understood. Lots to learn ...

Outdoor Education week

          What a great week, ask us about it.

Earth 2.0 (Variety Show)

Anxious, 
ready to go, 
after all the waiting
we finally got "the call"

Here we are on the Bruce Mason Stage.
Wow !

The lights went off to show off our glow sticks, white wigs, white Tee shirts and face paint.

Our Dads are SuperHeros: Construction

It was such a wonderful time having some of our Dads and Uncles in to help us build three Marble runs out of wood. We were learning how to co-operate with each other and make a marble track that worked! Our Dads help us tremendously with the plan, sawing, nailing, constructing, testing retesting, and reflecting. Such a great way to revise our understanding of the design process we learned about last term. Dads /Uncles, you really are our Superheros!

T3 Week 3 Measurement: Exploring Volume and Capacity

What the difference between volume and capacity? 
Ask Learners in Room 19, they will be able to tell you.

T3 Week 1 Soccer session and beginning measurement; length

Welcome back to Term 3. 
During week one we enjoyed a soccer session, playing a game and doing some skill exercises.
Maths this term will be filled with measurement. We started with understanding length. Five different stations asked us to complete some length activities. Could we be tall as possible, could we grow wiggly worms, how far away are our vehicles from different buildings build in our town.

Toys for Junior Junction Day Care

At last the toys we "designed" and made for the 4-year-olds at Junior Junction are ready and delivered. Photos of the children playing with them are coming soon. Well done room 19.

BUSY Week 8 in Room 19

Busy week with robotics and coding. The last SNAG lesson. Chess instruction in the hall for some of us. Our first efforts making fidgets with Tony directing and teaching us.

Design brief: construct a Sail Car using only the materials provided

We had a partner and a plastic bag of construction materials which we turned into a Sailcar.

Cross Country Run & SNAG Golf

SNAG GOLF sessions teach us skills needed to play golf successfully. It's fun.

 CROSS COUNTRY RUN. Here are Year 2 girls beginning

 Room 19 had a number of place getters including a first!

Song of the Sea Show. Introduction to the design process. Junior Disco

Show at Bruce Mason: Song of the Sea.
Learning about the design process; how to start if you want to design something, and what the steps are.
Some Learners "caught" doing their moves at the Junior Disco. Were you there?

Minions' Egg Protecter design and Egg drop challenge.

Minions got together in the hall to design

                                                 and create an egg protecter. 
The raw egg in its packaging (protection) was dropped from a height and checked to see if it was damaged. Three eggs survived and we discussed what was the same about the protection each had.
Ask a Minion and they will tell you the answer.

Wonder Women helped us identify 2D shapes outside

We celebrated the wonderful women in our lives by inviting them to our class to share our learning with us. With an i-pad and a buddy, our wonderful women took us outside to photo 2D shapes around the school. Then they returned to class and helped us describe the characteristics of the shapes we found with another group. We made a 2D picture out of five colourful shapes. We loved the time spent together. Let's do it again next year!

T.1. Week 11 Book Week Characters in Room 19

Book week was fun and busy. Can you guess who we are?

Building our failure "muscles"

Week 11, final week of term, we got the opportunity to return to our failed mindset challenges
 This group returned to the Brainy box and got the lamp
 to glow and the fan to spin.

 Others, who failed this challenge in the past, managed to power the digital clock using coke power and apple. Success.

This group having had success with the other challenges tried to power the lamp with salt dough,
(the sugar dough had gone off!) Failure. But take a look at their faces, they don't look unhappy.
We are beginning to openly talk about our failures, stand back and critically judge our skills.
In fact, all our challenges using the salt and sugar dough failed. We did see a youtube clip showing us how it was meant to work.

Mindset Mondays through Term 1

Brain Immersion 2017

Learning about our brain helps us to understand how we learn and how we can improve our learning.

First two weeks 2017

Holiday painting, Tio block meeting to talk about team name, classroom treaty signed to promote positive and safe behaviour in room 19. Computers named, set up and a session on "trouble shooting"

Building relationships using Personality bags to find out more about each other.

Welcome to Room 19 Blog 2017

We begin with planning where the classroom furniture should go. We place photographs of the large furniture on a floor plan and talk about how all furniture has to be away from all the doors for safety reasons.