Room 18's Class Blog 2019: February 2019

Monday, 18 February 2019

Home Learning

We started home learning in week 3. The first thing we had to do was our cover page. We practised ruling lines, making borders, writing in bubble writing and drawing appropriate pictures to complete our title page.

Sunday, 17 February 2019

Summer holiday stories

In week 1, we shared our holiday news, and then we wrote a story about something exciting we did in the Summer holidays. After that we drew pictures with wax crayons and dye to match our stories. When they were finished, it was interesting to share our illustrated stories with other people in the class. We gave each other compliments, by telling people what we liked about their writing.

Here is Green's story about his holiday in Japan, but you can read them all on the Writing page.

Valentines Day

We talked about symbols, and how sometimes you can use a symbols instead of writing the word, like using a heart shape to represent love. You can also use a dove to represent peace or a butterfly to represent change.

We made Valentine cards with a heart to give to someone we love. We also wrote a Valentine's poem inside. To keep up with the Valentine's Day tradition, we kept the writer a secret. We made sure that we did not write our name in our card so that the person we gave it to would have to guess who it was from.

Here is Lincoln's card, but you can see them all on the Visual Arts page.

Here is Hannah's card, showing her Valentine poem inside.

Science Table

We have a science table in Room 18 where we can look at, and investigate, scientific things.

Jeremy is looking at butterfly wings on the microscope.

We have three Monarch caterpillars on our swan plants.

We have sand, shells, driftwood and seaweed in our beach tray, as well as lots of books and brochures about shells to look at.

Summer is putting the body organs back in the human body. There are also books and pictures to help her fit them in the correct places, and tell her some facts about how the human body works.

Taylor is investigating how a ramp works using a little weighted car.

It is interesting to see how a plant can move, even though it has not legs. Can you see how this kumera plant is moving to the sunlight?

Birthday Graph

In Maths, we are learning about statistics. First we made a pictograph of the birthday months in Room 18.

This is called a pictograph because you use pictures (in this case, birthday cupcakes) to display the information.

Then we transferred this data into our Maths books to make a bar graph, and wrote some statements about it. We used statistical language, such as 'more than', 'less than' and 'same as'.

Next we used the same information to make a pie graph. Can you tell why it is called a pie graph?

Birthday Months 2019

Which one do you think is the easiest the read?

Working together

We talked about working together collaboratively in Room 18. To model what this would look like, we slowly unrolled a ball of string and everyone held on to it somewhere. We found that, if only one person moved it, the whole string web moved, but if no one moved it it stayed still. This model showed us that when we do something, it affects the whole class in some way.

Room 18's class treaty

We read the book, The Tree House Treaty, and we talked about the Waitangi Treaty. Then we brainstormed things that were important for Room 18 to be a cool place to work and learn in 2019. We wrote our treaty, and then every body signed it (except the teddies) to say that they promised to abide by the rules we collectively decided upon.