Weekly Rag - Thoughts From Our Classroom

Hello it's James and Serena and this is what we have been learning about this week.

 In maths we are collecting data and making stem and leaf graphs and pie graphs. In reading we have been reading stories and answering questions about the story. In writing we have been writing a descriptive writing about a character.We have been doing a diary about how we are going with our paper impact. Today we have been making squishy gloop.We have been doing lots of games and sports\exercise.We think that this week has been a... 'FUN FILLED WEEK'!!! by making things and playing loads of fun games as well as learning new things. 

This story  was writen by James and Serena

Gloop - Our Fun Friday Activity

Mr Baylis has been thinking about what to do with the people that refuse to do their homework. He tried giving them lines to write during their time, but found he was using up most of his time as well.

So we've changed what happens in Room 1. Every day the people who have done/ haven't done their homework are recorded. On Friday the ones that have completed their homework all week participate in a fun Friday activity. The ones who have lines to do can participate once their lines are completed.

Our activity today was gloop. We followed a recipe from a school journal and tried to make gloop people. There were a few challenges that involved us Relating to Others and Managing Ourselves in a range of different ways. Even though they didn't quite turn out as expected we still had a lot of fun, as you can see below. 

Bring on next Friday!!!

Key Competencies - Relating to Others

This morning we discussed as a class what the Key Competency Relating to Others means to us. This is the second Key Competency we will be focussing on in Room 1 alongside Managing Self.

We initially wrote our ideas on the smartboard, then using the software programme XMind, we turned them into a mind map that is below.

A big thankyou to Caitlyn and James who designed the look of our Relating to Others mindmap.

 

Our attempt to reduce our paper waste - Day 2

Well we've all made a much better effort today in Room 1. We have still had to odd piece of paper needlessly thrown away but it is improving!!

Our recycled paper is developing nicely and we may be up to making our first batch very shortly!!

Mr Baylis is making a big effort to pass any messages on through either email or voice, and only had a couple of set backs today.

Let's see what tomorrow brings!!!

Our attempt to reduce our paper waste

Today was day one in our class challenge to reduce our paper impact. After a quick check (and a quick desk inspection) this was the result:



Not such a good start!! Although it did create a good discussion about why we resorted to old ways so soon after creating and setting ourselves our paper goal.

Well thanks to the recycled paper above we are now attempting to make our own recycled paper, as part of one of our goals. We'll update every day to report on how we are achieving against our goals.

Reducing Our Impact

We have been learning about habitats and environments. We then discussed why these change and what causes them to change. We have started looking at ourselves and how we impact our school environment. We discovered that we waste alot of paper, just check out the photos below. Our current task is to find ways to reduce our paper impact. 

These are the 3 we are trialling:
1. When you have finished with paper rip it into pieces or shred it and put it into a bucket of water to make new paper.
2. Sending any messages through email, instead of writing notes.
3. Use a whiteboard or blackboard to write your lines.


If you have any ideas or suggestions on how to do this please share with us!!

This is the amount of paper (and other treasures) we found in the recycling bin after only 2 days!!!

Exciting stuff!!!!

When Mr Baylis logged onto our blog page this morning we received a comment about our Mind Map.

It was from a man called Toni Krasnic a professor who specialises in exactly what we discussed about. He offered some extra suggestions for our 'Managing Self' mind map and these have been included below and are in yellow.

Room 1 would like to thank Toni very much for taking the time to read our blog and offer suggestions. We warmly invite him and anyone else to freely add any further ideas/suggestions to the learning we do. 

Today we focussed on the Key Competency 'Managing Self'.

We brainstormed what we think this means as a class, these are listed in blue on our mind map below. 

We then looked at the curriculum book Mr Baylis has to help him teach and added anything we forgot, these are listed in green on our mind map below.

We have set weekly goals around 'Managing Self' and Mr Baylis will try to snap us doing this whenever possible.

Weekly Rag - Thoughts from the classroom

We have been writing about our teachers Mr Baylis or Mrs Crawshaw for Draft writing. Blair thought that it was awesome and he thought it was funny by saying that Mr Baylis smells like a skunk. We thought we were lucky that we didn't get told of! We have been having a couple of astle tests for our Maths and Reading. The whole school is doing a sports fun afternoon on Thursdays and we would thank you to the people that help us with it and to Mr Baylis for orginising it for us. We are learning about possessive nouns for spelling. On Tuesday Room 1 and Room 10 Performed into front of the whole school for Assembly . We did a Irish dance and it was called a Reel. It was alot of fun and we really enjoyed it.

From Blair and Aaria

This week our writing focus has been describing a character. The twist is that we are not allowed to directly describe the looks about this character. Instead we need to describe what sort of person this character is, e.g. His voice booms so loud it smashes glass.

Our topic is: My teacher is the sort of person who'd....

Here are some completed ones, click on the name to check them out. Makes for some interesting reading!! How have we done??

Paige

Kurtis

Aaria


If you could describe one of your teachers how would you do it? Feel free to comment below!!