Photo of the day

This picture is of the Dolphins group reading. I chose this photo because they were reading beautifully.  Photo is taken by Pasindu

Photo of the day

This photo is about Poppy doing Tinker Time. I chose it because she was working hard.
Photo taken by Zoey.

Our Tread Lightly Experience

Yesterday we visited the Tread Lightly Caravan and participated in a activities in the hall.  There were so many great things that we discovered here are just a few of them... 

• Bees, especially honey bees are extremely important to our plants if we don't have bees our plants will die out because bees pollinate our plants 
• Generating power for iridescent lightbulbs takes a lot of work.  It is much easier to generate power for an LED bulb because it requires a lot less power.  
• Our storm water drains lead directly to the sea, that means we have to be very careful about what ends up in them.  Sea creatures mistake much of the rubbish that ends up in our oceans as food and it can make them very sick
• Rubbish that goes to the landfill can stay around for a long time, we discovered the a cell phone we throw out today will look almost the same 100 years later - just a bit dirtier if it is thrown into a landfill 

Mrs Lee took a few photos while we were participating in each activity, take a look at all the awesome things we discovered... 

During our Tread Lightly experience we chose a pledge for the environment.  We're going to work on fulfilling our pledges over the next four weeks.  Here are the pledges we chose.. 

Tinkering at Tinker Time

On Tuesday we had a bit of Tinker Time.  We chose something we'd like to Tinker with from six different stations Mrs Lee had set up around our classroom. 

We were able to chose from...  
- Mystery Bag
- Building Challenge
- Makey Makey 
- Hour of Code - Minecraft Edition 
- Magazine Creations 
- Citizenship Badge

Tinker time is all about giving things a go, and you guessed it Tinkering.  Mrs Lee gave us a starting point, where we chose to take a challenge, badge or provocation was up to us.  Our only rule was we needed to keep calm and try things out.

Room 18 are pretty amazing at tinkering.. here are a few photos of us hard at work ... 

As part of our Tinkering Mrs Lee challenged us to take screenshots and photos of the process we were going through while Tinkering.  We're going to use these screenshots and photos to create a screen cast tomorrow.  We'll be using a great tool called Screencastify.  This is another way we can Share and Shine.  When we've had a few goes at using Screencastify we'll share some of our screencasts with you so watch this space... 

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... 

Photo of the day

Jessie showing us the right way to use bins. We did an activity on sorting the right rubbish into the right bins including are new soft plastic one!

Photo taken by Jessica

Catching up on Photo of the Day

We've been a bit behind with our Photo of the day this week so we have two photos this morning... 

Photo Taken by Jiaqi

Tinker Time  creating snowflakes

Photo Taken by Carolyn

Working on our problem diamonds to find out what problem we're going to solve.