Week 8- Maths Challenge, BRING IT ON!!!

Okay Team, are you up for a challenge???

First to 12? How fast are you at knowing your timetables?

For the next 2 weeks we are practicing and learning our timetables and division facts to 12.

What you do..

Learn them! Practice at home, school and in your sleep!!!!

When you are ready to be challenged, ask Miss Crowther to test you. If you pass, you will move up to the next stage.

Good luck, may the maths be with you!

Inquiry prototypes!

Inquiry

Gosh, week 5 already! Somebody apply the brakes!!!!
Here we are revising, designing and making our protoypes.

We had to think about size and scale and fitness for purpose.

Looks fantastic team!

Room 7 this week

Hi Everyone.

We are well and truly busy! Our Inquiry is well underway and our proposals are being put together with a great amount of thought. Yesterday we visited James Hargest Junior to see their amphitheatre. It was fantastic for the chidlren to see the possibilities. We ran through a list of possible problems and solutions and health and safety issues.

I look forward to seeing the models and keynote presentations.

Keep up the hard work, reading and spelling everynight! Loving news team!

WELCOME BACK

Wow, Term 4 is already off to a busy start!!! The children have made an awesome start to the term and I know it will be fun filled learning term.
Here is what we are doing in each area.

Maths: Fractions, decimals and percentages. Strand: Angles, time and shape.

Writing: Persuasive arguments and instructions.

Reading: Group contracts, Commonwealth Games and Can You Make It.

Inquiry: Technology; How can we devlop Salford School using different technologies.

PE: Small ball skills, passing, throwing and striking

Art: Pablo Picasso, collage.

Market Days begin this Friday. Children need to all be involved in a product, promote and advertise it. The more they earn, the more they get to spend at the Room 7 Expo.

Remember: Reading every night, spelling and news presentations.
It is important to be practicing your learning goals on you learning plans.

So it's all go! Keep up your hard work team!

Market Day Term 3

Ben K: Bank Manager - $40 - manage the bank accounts and organise the tellers on a roster system.

Jack, Hailey: Bank Teller (4)- $25 - help the bank manager with the bank

Charlotte and Olivia: Tax Manager - $30 - collect and officiate the tax revenue.

Ashleigh/ Sarah Lene: Patent Officer- $15 - collect and distribute patents to Jibboo businesses that have applied.

Jordan: Business Manager - $15 - collect the business fees that must be payed before a business opens for the first time (10 Snoodles)

Maddie: Payroll Officer - $30 - work with the bank to pay the salary of each Jibboo employee.


Market Days will be once a fortnight.

It is expected that you are are all invloved in either a stall or a have a job. Advertisments must be ready by Friday and your promotions.

You need to get as much money as you can! The more you earn, the more you can spend at NissLands expo in Term 4.

Check out our Inquiry Tuning In Day

Here we are tuning into our Inquiry based on Science.

We had a terrific day!

Welcome back!

Market Day Reminder...
1) Everyone must be in a group with a product or idea.
2) Market day once every 2 weeks
3) Have to have an advertisement and a promotional jingle.

News begins week 2.

All portfolios back please!!!!!

Thursday's News Group

Paige, Hailey, Olivia, Ashleigh, Drew, Martin and Jack.

Wednesday's News Group

Bailey, Liam, Ben K, Bradan, Sheryn, Rebekah, Madison and Georgia.

Tuesday's News Group

Charlotte, Ben B, Jordan, Annaliese, Sarah-Lene, Larissa and Callum.

Monday's News Group

Emily, Josh, Tom, Maddie, Katie and Katya share their wonderful news

Week 6

We have published our Fractured Fairytales, and completed our Posters. They look great!
Our focus for Market Day week 7 is Advertisments.
Criteria:
Bold Letters, eye catching, colourful
Picture of the product
The Price.
Centered, balanced information and images.

All learning plans to be at school on Monday!

Week 5 in Room 7

Wow, what a busy week!

We have started our Van Gogh art. Today we explored techniques such as layering with pastles and using small dot strokes.

We all completed our fractured Fairy Tales and we are now in the process of publishing them into books using dowloaded images and borders.

In Inqury we have talked about what makes a great static image. We are designing posters that show mutli cultural Invercargill.

Yesterday we practiced for cross country, some people were sore today!

Today we enjoyed another Market Day. Our focus for next week is promoting our products using expression, body language, persuasive language, pace, volume, eye contact and jingles.

No wonder we are tired!!!!! Have a great weekend team as week 6 will be just as busy!

Class Mural

YAY!!!! our class mural is finally up! A big thank you to Mr Shaw fro putting it up for us and to Fiona Michels for laying the tiles out so perfectly!
It looks amazing so if you have yet to see it, check it out!

Next week we will be talking about where our ancestors came from. Have a chat to your family, can you find out?

Market Day

Market day today was a success. We are quickly learning that getting taxed causes you to loose alot of money! To avoid this, we need to make products that are within the laws of the Government. More children spent today than last week, and some childrns snoodles are quickly running out!
It was really fun and next week we are going to focus on promoting our products using expression, eye contact, body language, projection, paced and using persuasive language.

Have a great weekend everyone, keep practicing your time tables!

OUR BOMBAY DINING EXPERIENCE

We had fun! It was really interesting how many cultures are living in one town.

We found the curry very enjoyable and tasty, we were suprised by this!

It was different in a good way. Invercargill is a multicultural society. It is diverse due to globalisation.

MARKET DAY

What a huge amount of fun! It was great to see and hear children operating businesses! Everone got involved and as some learned, money is easier spent than made! Here are some pics of our first Market Day.

Post a Question.

Today we thought of some questions we would like to asnwer for our Inquiry. These included: Why do different cultures come to NZ?, Why do people leave their country? What effect does this have on NZ?

Here we are posting them...

Market Day Jobs

Here is a list of Market Day Employees.
Please be prepared by next Friday!

Tom
Bank Manager - $40 - manage the bank accounts and organise the tellers on a roster system.

Liam, Bailey, Hailey, Josh
Bank Teller (4)- $25 - help the bank manager with the bank

Annaliese/Callum
Tax Manager - $30 - collect and officiate the tax revenue.

Ashleigh/ Sarah Lene
Patent Officer- $15 - collect and distribute patents to Jibboo businesses that have applied.

Rebekah/Ben K
Technicians (4) - $10 Look after the technology in the class - Laptops, computers, iwb etc.

Katie/ Georgia
Business Manager - $15 - collect the business fees that must be payed before a business opens for the first time (20 Sneedles)

Drew
Payroll Officer - $30 - work with the bank to pay the salary of each Jibboo employee.

New Links

Hi Team!
Please use the room 8 blog for links ith Geometry, maths and grids.
There are new links added for our Inquiry. Happy surfing!

Market Day Jobs

Bank Manager - $40 - manage the bank accounts and organise the tellers on a roster system.
Bank Teller (3)- $25 - help the bank manager with the bank
Tax Manager - $30 - collect and officiate the tax revenue.
Patent Officer- $25 - collect and distribute patents to Jibboo businesses that have applied.
Technitians (4) - $20 Look after the technology in the class - Laptops, computers, iwb etc.
Business Manager - $30 - collect the business fees that must be payed before a business opens for the first time (20 Sneedles)
Payroll Officer - $30 - work with the bank to pay the salary of each Jibboo employee.

Market Day Criteria

Market Day Criteria:

1) Advertisement: Big and bold, colourful, picture/image of the product, deceptive language (static image), price, bargain!

2) Promote your product: radio/TV

3) Made by you! (not your parents!)

4) Price??

By Thursday you need to have applied for a job if you want one.

If you are making a product, you must have your advertisement up by Monday 3rd May

By next Thursday, 6th May, you will get your $50snoodles.

Friday the 7th, your products need to be at school, you will promote your products to the class and sell them.

Check out the Market Day Web Site

MARKET DAY

I was so inspired by ROOM 8's wonderful market day! Get together with some friends and start thinking about business oppertunities. Be creative. What will make the most snoodles??? How will you market your product? How will you advertise your product? I cant wait to hear your ideas on Monday. We will make a Market Day Criteria. Have an awesome weekend! Good luck if you are playing sports. ;-)

WELCOME BACK!!!!

We are already off to a fantastic start to the Term!

Swimming was a huge success, not one person forgot their togs!!!! WOOP! WOOP!

Our inquiry this term is based around New Zealand, diversity, difference, belonging and multi cultural societies.

Here we are busy at work Bus Stopping around different pictures that reprsent New Zealand through the years. We talked about how times and the people in the pictures have changed.

The Sharks Visit Salford School

Here we are having fun with the Sharks. We had such a great time. We did ball skills, shooting and drills.

We have completed our inquiry Mural. It looks FAB!! Thanks to Fiona Michels for all her help. This will be going up in the hall next term so be sure to check it out!

Have a great Easter break everyone. I hope you have time to relax with loads of sleep ins!!! Take care and i look forward to seeing you all in Term 2!

Big hugs, Miss C xxxx

Our Inquiry Mural

We have been busy painting. Our Dean Buchanan Art is coming along nicely!!!

Check us out!

Year 6 Camp

Check out this wonderful Key Note by Drew and Ashleigh!

New Links

Hey team.

Take the time to check out the new links. Log in over the weekend to the Smart Kiddies site under your details and we will talk about it on Monday. ;-)

Inquiry With Fiona Michels

WOW!!!! With the help of Fiona we have began our draft Dean Buchanan art. It looks amazing! Feel free to come and check it out!

There are now some new links on the Blog. Use them for your maths and literacy homework. Have fun!

Our Expert Visit

On Wednesday the 3rd of March, Room Seven had an expert artist come to visit. His name was Chris Flavell and he is a professional painter.

We learnt that he uses symbols, such as the Koru to represent his Identity in his paintings. All of his paintings tell a story. He told us about; the Koru coming from the fern, he uses friends and family as his inspiration, he has been a painter for 3 years, we all have a journey and we can express this in art, he cuts his art work into wood, he uses maori patterns as it is part of his culture and that he really enjoys being a artist.

We have taken this new knowledge and created some Koru patterns that represent our own identities.

Here are some pictures of Chirs and his art work.

Week 3 in Room 7

We have had a busy week filled with lots of wonderful learning.

We have written some Summer Sensory Poems, name slates, athletics, learning plans and learning more about "What's my Story" and Identity.

Miss Crowther loved meeting everyone at the three way interviews!

We hope the Year 6 children have a great week at camp and the year 5's have an awesome week with Miss Crowther!

Have a nice weekend!

Inquiry 2010

Today in Inquiry we re-wrote the Understandings. We now have a better understanding of them and what they mean.

We are learning to:
1) know that the understanding of art will be different for everyone. It depends on what you know about the art and the artist.
2) Art can show emotions, events, ideas and stories.
3) Art can show that we are all different. Art can express our emotions, tell us about the world and the people in it.

We are going to express our Identity through art.

So "What's Your Story?"

Welcome to The Room 7 Blog!

Hi everyone!
Thanks for taking the time to read our blog.
We are a Year 5/6 class in Invercargill New Zealand.
We are getting to know each other and getting stuck into our inquiry "What's my Story?"

Here's to a great year ahead!