and more Inventions

 Erin's Speaker...to solve the problem of letting people know when it is their turn to pick up the bark in the playground.

 Harley's Swimming Machine

 Amy's Mini Telescope.

 Eric's Homework Torturer 2000...to solve the problem of too much extra homework.

 Jessie and Chantelle's Animal Saver set....to solve animals from becoming extinct.

Nathan's Homework Torturer 4000...to solve the problem of too much homework.

Norman's Homework Torturer 3000...to solve the problem of too much homework.

More Inventions

 Elliot's Light Deactivator...to solve the problem the lights shining too brightly.

 Our Inspiring Inventions Workbooks where we wrote our problems and our solutions.

 Rebecca's Device Stand...to solve the problem of our devices falling.

Sonia's Hoover Mjoover...a hoover attachment to solve the problem of rubbish lying around.

Our Inventions

Room 18 have enjoyed working on their inventions this term. 

                       Jessica's umbrella...to solve the problem of umbrellas turning inside out.

 Ruby's Save the Turtles Poster and video of sick turtles...to solve the problem of turtles getting sick and dying.

 Carolyn's air freshener ...to solve the problem of smelly toilets.

               Poppy's stand...to solve the problem of Thunder(a horse) messing up when hs girth is put on. 
 Pasindu's ocean cleaner ...to solve the problem  of too much rubbish in our oceans.                                  

Wind Storms by Danielle

Wind Storms

Last week Hurricane Florence struck in the United States of America causing flooding and destruction. Typhoon Mangkut caused havoc in the Philippines. We decided to research wind storms. Here is Danielle's Report which she wrote using her research notes.

Wind storms can be very dangerous. Wind storms can rip houses roofs off and take people off the ground.

Types of wind storms:

There are different wind storms like… Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Cyclones, Twisters, Typhoons, often accompanied by Thunderstorms and Lightning.

Hurricanes:

Hurricanes can be up to 600 miles across and have strong winds spiralling inward and upward at speeds of 70 to 200 mph. Hurricanes can usually lasts for over a week.

Tornadoes:

Tornadoes can appear as a traditional funnel shape, or in a slender rope-like form. The most violent tornadoes are capable of tremendous destruction with wind speeds of up to 300 mph. Most tornadoes form from Thunderstorms.

Cyclones:

Cyclones are a powerful spinning storm that contains strong winds and storms. Cyclones are the same storms as Hurricanes and Typhoons. The different names have to do with where the storms form. Cyclones form in the South Pacific and Indian ocean,which is the ocean that borders Northeast Australia.

In the United States people were asked to leave their homes because Hurricane Florence was coming there way.

By Danielle

Carolyn's Turtle Report

Turtles

Turtles are reptiles. There are seven species of sea turtles. Turtles are like tortoise expect that tortoise lives on land.

Appearances:

Turtles have  hard shells that protects them like  shields. These upper shells are called  carapaces. Turtles also have lower shells called plastrons. They have four flippers and they don’t have ears.

Habitat:

Most of the turtles live in the sea water but some live in freshwater.

Diet:

Sea turtles are omnivorous. Sea turtles eat seagrass, algae, sponges, sea squirts, squid, shrimp, crabs, jellyfish, cuttlefish and sea cucumbers.

Turtles have existed for around 215 million years. Some sea turtles are in danger of dying out because people collect their eggs. People use too much plastic and they go down the drain then into the sea. The turtles think it’s a jellyfish and eat it but then they get sick and die!

By Carolyn

Danya's Turtle Report

Turtles

Turtles are amazing reptiles. Turtles come in all shapes and sizes. They have been around for millions of years and some turtles live longer than people! Like other reptiles, turtles are cold blooded.

Habitats:

Green Sea Turtle-the Atlantic ocean, Gulf of Mexico, Puerto Rico and the Pacific Ocean.

Loggerhead Sea Turtle-coastal bay and streams of all continents, except Antarctica.

Olive Ridley SeaTurtle-Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica and India.

The adults stay in shallow water and near the coasts, but sometimes they go to the open sea.

Diet:

Depending on their species, sea turtles may be carnivores, herbivores or omnivorous which means they eat both meat and plants. Sea Turtles might even eat other sea animals.

Appearance:

Turtles can be olive-green, greenish-brown, reddish brown or even a blackish colour. Turtles have a shell for protection and flippers. for swimming.

Turtles are phenomenall but they are also endangered. HELP SAVE TURTLES BY NOT USING PLASTIC BAGS!

By Danya

Ruby's Turtle Report

                   Turtles by Ruby

Turtles are reptiles. The difference between a Turtle and a Tortoise is Turtles live in the water and Tortoises live on land.

Habitat:

Sea Turtles live in almost every ocean and also rivers and lakes. Most Turtle species  are found in North America and South Asia.

Appearance:

Turtles have a dark greeny brown patterned shell and have green legs, arms and head. Turtles have tails, Shorter tails are more common than longer tails.

Types of Turtles…

There are lots of different types of Turtles such as Sea Turtles, Soft Shell Turtles, Box Turtles, Pond Turtles, Snapping Turtles, Kinosternidaes, Carbonemys, Pelomedusas, Cryptodiras, Mud Turtles, Asian Box Turtles, Chelidaes and Pleurodires.

Food:

Turtles eat meat and plants. In the water they eat seagrasses, algae, sponges, sea squirts, jelly fish, squid, shrimp, crabs and more.

Turtles have existed for around 215 million years.

Turtle Reports

Recently we read about a hurt Turtle called Toby who had been rehabilitated at Kelly Tarltons.  We became interested in learning more about Turtles so we wrote Turtle Reports. We talked about having an introduction and then organising our research into paragraphs with sub headings before ending with a conclusion.

Turtles by Amy

Turtles are marvellous ocean swimmers and they are also reptiles who spend most of their time in the water.

Habitat:

Turtles live in almost every ocean basin throughout the world, nesting  on tropical and subtropical beaches. They migrate long distances to feed, often swimming over an entire ocean. Adults of most species are found in shallow, coastal waters, bays, lagoons and estuaries.

Food:

Depending on the species, sea turtles may be carnivores  (meat eating), herbivores (plant eating) or omnivores (eating both meat and plants). The jaw structure of many species is adapted for their diet.

Turtles are awesome swimmers. Toby is a sick turtle who has been cared for at Kelly Tarltons. He will soon be released back to his own habitat, the sea, because he is better.

More Problems

Whoops Mrs Lee forgot to publish this post earlier... 

Last week we went on a problem walk around our classroom and around the school.  We were looking for problems.   While we were walking around we paused to write down any problems we could see, big, small, easy, hard - anything we thought might be a problem was added to our list.  Before we thought about problems we had worked on what inventions were and how we might change them to make them better.  

We have started looking closely at the problems we found today and the problems we have already added to our Problem Padlet.  We are still looking for even more problems so feel free to add a few problems you have to our problem Padlet below.  Remember our Padlet is moderated to your problems won't show up straight away.

We have also started to narrow down our problems by adding them to a problem diamond.  This is one of the ideas presented as part of the Google Science Fair projects.  It helps to bring out the problem we're most interested in solving.  We are choosing problems that we don't already have a solution for.   Here are some photos of the work we've completed around our problems... 

Problems and Inventions

Inventions

We've been looking at inventions and technology that helps us.  We use digital and physical resources to find out about inventions and noted down things we discovered that were interesting.  Here are a few of the inventions we've discovered that we thought were interesting.  We've just started to add inventions to this Slide Deck.  Do you have any great inventions you've come across?  We would love to hear about them.

Problems

We have been learning all about inventions and how they solved problems.  Over the next few days we're going to move into looking closely at what problems we might solve.  We used a tool called Padlet to collect our problems all in one place.  Here is our first go at thinking about problems we have around us.... 

What problems do you have that might need solving?  We would really like to hear about problems our community has.

Please add your problem by clicking the plus button right at the bottom of the Padlet below.  Our Padlet is moderated so problems don't appear straight away, Mrs Lee will check they're appropriate first before they are added.

Term 3 Starts off with Inspiring Learning...

Room 18 have enjoyed an action packed first day of term 3 and we're looking forward to more awesome learning over the next few weeks.

Our Class Site
Mrs Lee introduced us to our new classroom site that we're going to use to support our learning.  Parents/caregivers please ask your children to show you the site and what they're using it for - you have to have a Sunnyhills account to access our site so they'll need to sign in to their accounts to show you.

We started the day sharing what we have been doing for the last two weeks while we've been away on holiday.  We added our thoughts to a Google form and turned it into a WordItOut.  Each of us had to use 3 words to describe our holiday.  Here is the WordITOut we created...

Technology Inquiry 
We took part in the first stage of our inquiry into inventions and how technology helps us.  We had to Get Thinking about what inventions we already know about and find out about more inventions, there are so many great things that people have created that help us.  Watch this space for more about our inquiry soon.


Measuring 
We also got into some Maths learning today - we investigated measuring with our hands.  We drew around our hand print and then cut it out.  We used this to measure many things in our classroom.  Here are so photos of us measuring.

We reflected on what we noticed while we were using our hands to measure things  - Non-standard measurement and why it's important to use standard measurements.