What's Your Number?

Here you are Room 1 as promised i have added this website to our Blog page.

For those that can't remember or who are not sure, this neat website gives you a unique number based on the total world population.

Click on the picture and find your own unique number.

Oil

I set the students of Room 1 the task of explaining how Crude Oil and Natural Gas is made using their own terms.

I thought this would be a rather easy task for the class, however it has generated alot of interesting further questions that need to be answered.

Here's our Wallwisher with our questions:

If you have any answers for us please let us know : )

Questioning Skills

As part of our ongoing focus on developing our questioning skills we decided to look at the following article:

 http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/5870865/Meet-the-worlds-most-pierced-man

We were only shown the pictures and then had 3 questions to find out as much information as possible.

Here's what we came up with,

 Group 1

• What is the reason why you got your piercings?
• Why did you want to have so many piercings?
• Did you want the piercings and why?

 Group 2

• Why did you want to make yourself the most pierced man?
• When did you do it?
• How long did it take?

 Group 3

• Why did you get lots of percings and what made you do it ?
• Which part of your body did you first get pierced and why ?
• Did  you get them all done in one day?

 Group 4

• Why did you decide to have so many piercings?
• How did you get so many piercings?
• How did the world find out about you?

 Group 5

• What was your insperation to do all of those pearsing?
• How many types of pearsing do you have?
• What was your first pearsing and why?

 Group 6

• Why did you get all those piercings?
• How did you aford all those piercings?
• When did you plan to get all those piercings?

 Group 7

• Do the piercings represent anything?
• What encouraged you to do this?
• How did your family react to this?

 If you had 3 questions to ask him what would you ask? Share these with us by commenting below.

Term 4 Unit

For our class unit this term we ae looking at the oil and gas industry and how it impacts Taranaki.

To help us think about how things are done, Mr Baylis has found an experiment/demonstration that we can do in class.

For it to happen though, can you please bring along any shoe boxes or aquariaum pebbles that you might have at home.

Many Thanks

World Cup Success!!

It's taken 24 years and the All Blacks are finally Rugby World Cup Champions yet again!!

We will be discussing tomorrow what it means to be champions and what things the All Blacks did to become victorious. We'll then see if we can achieve some of these things during the term.

Out of curiosity for anyone reading our blog, what do you think the All Blacks did to become so successful??
Leave us a comment with your ideas : )

Black Out

Along with the rest of the country, I will be cheering on the mighty All Blacks this Sunday.

As a way of showing support i have decided to black out our blog.

GO THE ALL BLACKS!!!

Amazing Race

Was visiting Mrs Briesman and Room 5's blog at Hampton Hill School.

On their blog they has this game and it was soo much fun i thought i'd share it on ours. Just be careful it can get slightly addictive : )

Enjoy!!

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Black Out Day

For our last day of term, Room 1 thought we'd follow many others and have our own Black Out Day to support the mighty All Blacks.

We all came dressed in black, and had a fun time learning and practising different rugby skills - some of us did so well I think Graham Henry will be ringing them shortly as injury cover!!

It seemed to work as the All Blacks managed to defeat Argentina, so to give them even more encouragement for the semifinals here are the photos from our day.

GO THE ALL BLACKS AND BEST OF LUCK FOR YOUR GAME THIS SUNDAY!!!

Current Events

Today we discussed the Tsunami protector product that has been invented in Japan.

We discussed the good points and the problems with it. Mr Baylis then asked the class if they could create something better what would it be?

Here are our suggestions on improving this idea:

I think for the people that are concerned that a Tsunami could happen any time they should have a tent that is made out of the stuff tat the balls are made out of so they can float .by Mason

I think that in there safety balls they should have seats and seat belts so they can store food, water, batteries, first aid kits and anything else you need to survive with. I think the windows should be made out of strong glass or plastic so they don't break if any sharp or heavy objects come fling into the window and smashing it causing water to flood in drowning everyone inside they should also have a break away button or cord so they can have an easy escape if something does break. By Paige


I think the safety balls they should put oxygen masks inside it so they know that it is alright to breathe and put protection pads on the poll and seats.From Nicholas


I think they could have pull out draws under the seats the store food or drinks and anything that you might need. By Tessa


The safety balls are a great idea but they might have to add a few improvements like side padding to protect the people inside, a space to put clothes, food, etc,. A room to put the ball in because if there is another earthquake the debris will cover the safety ball so you will need a solid room to put it in. Also maybe make it a bit bigger so you can sleep in it because you don't now how long you'll be in it for and some room for chairs so you don't have to crouch all the time your in it. Also  belts maybe so you don't bang around.
But the only problem is how will you go toilet? Nathan=)


I think the safety balls are alright  they will keep you safe in all but they should be more safe they could have seat belts and first aid kits and food and water. I also think  it should be see through so they can see if they are in trouble.  also how will you go to the toilet? it should be a bit bigger and have a cord so it is easy storage and you can get to it quick in an emergency. they  should have  an emergency exit.  i think they should have instead of a ball have everyday things like a car that does exactly the same as the safety ball. They should also build a bedroom that is strong and is easy to get to that does exactly the same as the safety balls.                                                               Jacqui!!!  

Buddy Learning

The bearings maths group are learning to solve calculation problems involving time.

The students were then asked to share their thinking with one another. I started listening to Marshall explain to Jaxson how he solved the problem and thought he did such a good job that I should record it.

Here it is. (It may be a little hard to hear)

Our experiment continues with our noise chart. I am still finding it quite valuable in terms of being conscious of overall noise levels.

Here's what some of the Room 1 students think:

I think that the chart is working because we follow it most of the time but sometimes it doesn't because when we do our handwriting we talk instead of whispering or being silent.Our chat is working really well.Shawna.

I think we are going OK because we sometimes follow the noise chart and we sometimes don't . our chart is going really well . Caitlyn


I think that its sort of working because some people are following it and some aren't.

FROM NIC

I think the chart is kind of working because some people are following it but some people aren't and if one person is not following it other people wont follow it either so its not really helping.
Nathan=)

I think the chart is working really well but some people don't follow it and Mr Baylis has to keep telling us what our noise level is supposed to do and i don't think he should have to do that, we are supposed to use it independently. i also think it is really good that it has got group noise levels on there.
Jacqui!!!

I think it is working well but there are a few people not following it because mr baylis has to tell us to be silent but other ways its fine
 mason=0

Our Assembly

Today was our performance assembly. I would like to say how very proud I was to be the teacher of Room 1 today. Everyone spoke clearly, performed well and did a great job!!

Here's some photos of us working with our buddy class to make it happen followed by a video of our final sasa performance.

Photos

Michael brought in these photos to share with the class.

They are clever so I thought I'd share them with you as well :)

Noise Experiment

We've just completed day 2 of our noise experiment. We discussed how we thought Day 1 went with most of the class quite pleased that they were able to follow the guidelines with little reminding.

I pointed out to them that as the teacher I noticed how the overall level of noise was more appropriate as everyone was more conscious of it.

Today was a really mixed up day with testing, assembly practise and other jobs that needed completing. What a great day to test the system!!

My personal opinion is that it's working even with a few hiccups along the way. I'll get some Room 1 students to share their opinions tomorrow.