A Little Secret

There is a special surprise to be found on our blog page.

Here are some clues:

- You need to move the mouse over it for it to work.

- It's a form of peek-a-boo.

- The opposite of goodbye.
- I'm on top of the world.

A big thankyou to Miss White who was the inspiration for this surprise and who provided alot of the expertise.

Happy Hunting!!

Hazards and Safety

Our unit this term is about Hazards and Safety.

Following Professor Krasnic's advice, we decided to define the terms 'hazard' and 'safety' and write examples of hazards and safety into our books.

We then collected our ideas and created a class mind map.

Enjoy

Managing Self - Thinking deeper about things

Today we revisited our discussions on the Key Competency Managing Self. The different thing is, we did as Toni Krasnic suggested and looked at it a different way. We took one aspect, thinking deeply about things and used this as our focus. We discussed what thinking deeply means and looks like, then tested our thinking skills with some problems. We have put them below for you to test your thinking. 

Give them a try and Good Luck!!

1.     Jake was standing on one side of the river, and his dog Scruffy was standing on the other side. "Come on Scruffy, come, boy!" shouted Jake. Scruffy crossed the river, ran to Jake, and got a treat for being a good dog. The amazing thing was that Scruffy didn't even get wet! How did Scruffy do that?

2.      Each letter below stands for the name of something. What should the last three letters be?

M V E M J S ? ? ?

3.      The three little pigs, as you know, built houses — one of straw, one of sticks, and one of bricks. By reading the six clues, figure out which pig built each house, the size of each house, and the town in which each house was located. Use a chart to keep track of your information and your logic.
 

	TOWN	SIZE	MATERIAL
Patricia Pig
Penny Pig
Peter Pig

1. Penny Pig did not build a brick house.
2. The straw house was not medium sized.
3. Peter's house was made of sticks, and it was neither medium nor small.
4. Patricia Pig built her house in Pleasantville.
5. The house in Hillsdale was large.
6. One house was in a town called Riverview.

4.      An apartment building has two floors, with three apartments on each floor. The Grays live in the top middle apartment. The Blues live directly above the Browns. If the Greens live on the top floor, then they live next door to the Blues. The Whites live to the left of the Greens, either on the top or bottom floor. The Blacks live on the top floor. Which family lives in which apartment?

5.       You are in a cabin and it is pitch black. You have one match on you. Which do you light first, the newspaper, the lamp, the candle or the fire?

6.      Which word, if pronounced right, is wrong, but if pronounced wrong is right?

7.       We live in a large tower block, 10 floors high. My 5 year old son goes to school each day using the lift from the 10th floor to the ground floor. However, when he returns in the evening, he uses the lift to get to the 5th floor and then uses the stairs for the remaining 5 floors. Why?

It's going to be a full on Term with plenty of challenges and fun to be had!!

Look forward to seeing you all!!

Mr Baylis

Electronics Morning - Our Fun Friday Activity

Our fun Friday activity for doing our homework this week is an electronics morning. We were able to bring and share an electronic device that we had. Lots of fun check it out!!!

Finally I would like to say a big thankyou to Room 1 for all of the effort and learning you have done this term. Enjoy your break and I will see you bright eyed and ready to go after the break.

Mr Baylis

Our Skype Call With Professor Krasnic

Here is a piece of the skype call we had. We hope you enjoy!!!

Our Very Special Skype Call

Exciting times!!! Yesterday (Tuesday 12th April) we were fortunate to have a webinar via Skype with Professor Toni Krasnic.

He shared with us some wonderful tips and ideas on how to become better learners, tying in with our Key Competency Managing Self.

The information was so valuable we decided to kind of use Toni's CLM + SOS method to best gain meaning.

First we split into 5 groups, compared our individual notes and wrote our ideas down on paper.

 

We then split into 2 groups and recorded the group ideas onto 1 piece of paper. Removing any ideas that were repeated.

And finally we transferred the ideas onto the computer through the smartboard.

Here is our final mind map highlighting the Key Ideas Room 1 obtained from our Skype call with Professor Toni Krasnic. We would like to say once again a big thank you to Toni, and we hope you enjoy our final mind map.

 

Thank You Professor Krasnic!!

At 12:30 today we had a Skype session with Professor Toni Krasnic. We talked about key concepts and ways to help us improve our learning. We would like to say thank you to Toni for taking the time to talk to us. 


From Emily and Todd on behalf of Room 1.

Into The Book - A wonderful reading website

I have found this really cool website called Into The Book. It helps teach some of the important strategies to help us understand what we have read. It is an american site so the questions are about the USA but the skills involved are still important.

Click on the picture below and try it out for yourself.



Reducing our paper waste

Our goal last week was to try to reduce our paper impact. We intended to do this via 3 ways:

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.

Overall we made some slight progress but nothing to be really proud about. I guess it's really hard to break some habits!!!

We attempted to make some recycled paper using the scraps from our recycling bin. Here is Shicaela modelling the results.

Shicaela and Jacqui have written a review about our recycled paper:

The paper that we made is really rough and bumpy! When you use the paper the pen or pencil sinks into the paper. Also the paper is really thick and soft. One side of the paper is smoother than the other because that side was at the bottom. The paper breaks really easy. The difference between normal paper and made paper is normal paper is smooth and it is stronger. Is this worth making? No because it is really hard to use and us children will break it and it is bumpy and your pen sinks in when you write.

So it has been an experience!! I guess time will tell to see if we learnt anything from this exercise