More Graphs

We have been continuing our statistics unit over the past week.  We have become very good at understanding the cycle.
1. Ask a question
2. Collect the data (tally charts, counting, sorting information)
3. Display the data (picture chart, bar graph)
4. Interpret the data (discuss what we found out)

Today Mrs Robertson gave us our own bag of m&ms.  We each had to make our own bar graph displaying the colour of m&ms in our packets.  Then....we got to eat them!
We had to remember titles and labels in our graphs and make statements explaining what we found out.

Inflatable Soccer Pitch

Ricardo from Christchurch Football Academy (CFA) came to school on Friday.  We had so much fun playing mini games of soccer.  Thank you Ricardo and CFA!

Soccer Fun on PhotoPeach

Meet the Stars of Room 11

Meet Room 11 on PhotoPeach

Statistics

We have been learning about how to sort data (information).

First of all we needed a question.  Our question was:
'What pets do the children in Room 11 own?" 

Then we had to work out the best way to collect the data (information/answers).
We tried all yelling out our pets but Mrs Robertson couldn't hear everyone at once. 
We went around in the circle saying the pets one at a time but Mrs Robertson lost count.
Mrs Robertson ruled up a quick tally chart to help collect the data and then recorded everyone's answers. We could easily see the totals.  We learned that when you do tally marks you put every fifth tally through the middle - it makes it easier to count!

Next we made a picture graph to display the data. 
We each coloured in the pictures of the types of pets we own and put them on the piece of paper.  We could tell straight away that there were more cats than any other pet because the line was much higher.  Mrs Robertson said we had to put some labels and titles on the graph because otherwise people wouldn't know what they were looking at.

The last thing we did was understand and interpret the data (discussed the results).  You can read these on the graph.

All About Me Writing

We have been learning about each other this week.
Mrs Robertson was proud of our great publishing skills. 

Holiday Writing

We have been busy writing and illustrating a story about what we did in the holidays.  Here are some examples.  Come and check out the rest of our stories hanging in the classroom.

Writing Challenge #1

Write three facts you want Mrs Robertson and Room 11 to know about you!  

Some ideas include your pet's name, something you are good at, your favourite hobby, a place you went to in the holidays, something you are allergic to, or your favourite sport to play. 

(Click on the word 'comment' below to make your entry.  Record your comment/post and then in the drop box select 'Name/URL' and record your first name only.  Ignore the URL section and click 'Continue'.  Then click 'Publish'.  Your post will not display straight away as I will have to authorise the post before others can view it.  To view others entries click on 'comment' and scroll up.)

Welcome to Room 11, 2016!

Swimming

We have been attending swimming lessons at Canterbury Swim School.  We are learning lots of new skills and getting in a lot of practice!

We are looking forward to Friday's survival skills session!

 

Making Masks

This term for Art we made masks. 
First we looked at why people wear masks.  We came up with the following ideas:
* For performing (dances, acting, plays, dress ups)
* Breathing (snorkeling, scuba diving, firemen, astronauts)
* Protect you (nurses, dentists, doctors, fireman)
* Disguises (superheroes, masquerade balls)

We looked at photos of different masks on the internet.

We had to plan our own masks first.  We each chose a theme and designed a mask to suit our theme.

Lastly, we got to make our masks!

We think they look fantastic!

 

Samantha's lamb comes for a visit....

Samantha from Room 13 brought one of her lambs to school yesterday. It is a female lamb and is called Elliot. She is 7 weeks old. Elliot drinks milk, and eats grass and sheep pellets. We all had a turn to pat her and some of use were lucky enough to get to feed her the milk from a bottle. We thought it was funny when Elliot went to the toilet right in front of us! Thanks for bringing her in Samantha! We really enjoyed meeting her. :)

Father's Day Cards

Happy Father's Day

Art Attack: Next Thursday 3-6.30pm

We have been busy creating two lots of amazing weaving art creatures. 

Come along to the Art Attack to see our fantastic efforts!

Reading Activities

We have been learning the spelling rules to turn a singular just one) word into a plural (more than one).

 

We had to think of synonyms for the word angry and/or ways to 'show not tell' that someone could be angry....

Writing in paragraphs

We used our prior knowledge, and the internet and books to research an animal of our choice. We then wrote a report about that animal. We had to group our ideas together into paragraphs. 

 

Gymnastics

Pairs to 10 Song

UMIGO pairs to 10 from Andrea Robertson on Vimeo.

A busy start to Term 3

It has been a very busy term so far with Student Led Conferences, Te Reo Maori Week, Fire Drills and much more! Here is some of our work over the past three weeks.

Art Unit
We have been learning how to weave, why people weave and what everyday items are made by weaving.  So far we have created the above weaving sheets and some Weaving Creatures which will be displayed in our Art Attack Exhibition in Week 8.  Later this week we are starting some weaving involving wool and straws!

Geography Quiz
We have been busy learning the location of 28 different countries, all ready for the Geography Quiz this Friday!

Writing
We each wrote a space story over three days!  Mrs Robertson wanted us to include lots of details so she broke it into three sections.

Day 1:Getting to the rocket
Day 2: Flying around space
Day 3: Finding an alien on a planet

Science: Light and Shadows

We have been learning how shadows are made. We know that light comes from a source. If you block that source with something it will cause a shadow. If the light is close to the object the shadow will be big. If the light is far away from the object that shadow will be small.

Click on the interactive activity to investigate how shadows are made!

Hard Work

Today we had some spare time before assembly.  We looked at the word hospital and tried
to find as many other words hidden inside it using the same letters. 
We came up with this list.  Splat was our only five letter word that we came up with. 
Can you think of any others? 

This week we started learning about light. 
We know that light is a form of energy and that it must come from a source. 
The sun is a natural source but light bulbs are man-made. 
We learned a fancy new word called LUMINOUS.  A luminous object is one which gives out light.