Mapping

This week we built a giant map in the sand pit and used this to help us understand the shapes of different landforms. 
We then tried to draw our own made up maps.

So Much Depends Upon ...

Image Ideas

Take a look at the pictures in the slide show.

What do you notice in these images?

What's happening?

So much depends upon ... WHAT?

What is important?
What job does this thing do to help?
What could happen if something was missing or wrong?

Who is this important for and why?

Wearable Art - Padlet Links

Here are some links to Padlet documents for you to use to collaborate and collect ideas and inspiration for your wearable art.

ROBOTS      Animals     Mother Nature

Music in Nature   War and Peace?  Molecules

Presidents and Democracy

Alchemists to Aliens   

Friday 26th June

Dear Room 4

Today I am working with the other Middle School Teachers on some ideas for next term.

Mrs. Gallagher will be teaching in Room 4 today.

You all have different things to work on and finish off.  I will list these below so that you can organise your time with Mrs. Gallagher and take turns using the computers for your research and Google Classroom Tasks.

I will be at school, so I will probably see you sometime.  
Have a great - kind - friendly day.
Mr. H

Roll - Jerry
News - Frank (if he's not still sick)

Morning mini research - adaptations - see links below

Middle School Choir - 11 am

Life Education - 1.30 pm (remember your great manners)

Things to finish and work on:

Last chance to work on your Tessellation task - Google Classroom - closes on Sunday!
(will not work on ipads)

Group Research Task - Living World / Google Classroom 
(ipads should work for this now)
I've been having a look at your work
Well done so far on this - most of you have started this
I have added comments to some of your documents - please read them
Some people need to make their topic a bit easier and write a set of questions that all fit the topic

Art Calendars - you know what you are doing - remember:
plan what you are doing
add detail
don't over do it
know when you have done enough

Contract Items
Blends  – ck – ee – ap – gg
Word Illustrations Nocturnal, Extinct, Endangered 

Extra
Make a living world word find in your learning journal (draw a 15 x 15 grid) use words from this weeks homework sheet
Own free writing time
Own reading time
Does anyone have a Kahoot quiz ready? (maybe at 12 pm or 2.30 after Life Eductaion)


Morning Mini Research (20 - 30 minutes)
Find out facts and contribute your notes to make a mini book - A6 paper size - you know what to do.

Living World
What does adaptation mean?
What are animal adaptations for?
How do these features help the animal?
Find out about an interesting animal adaptation and the benefit that the animal gets from this?

Make a mini book page to share with the class

Try one of these web searches and look at web pages and Google images.

1. animal adaptations
2. amazing adaptations
3. strange animal adaptations
4. animal claws
5. animal eyes
6. animal ears
7. animal fangs

NB. (note well) some of the images you find might not be TRUE / REAL!

Here is a video to get you thinking!

Thursday 25th June

Roll Livinya

Mini Research - Endangered Animals
20 minutes researching and note taking - make a mini book

Questions?????
What does endangered mean?
Why are animals endangered?
How many are there of this animal in the wild?

Do a Google images search for "endangered animals"
Follow the image link and visit the web page to find out more...

Here is a quick video that introduces some endangered animals.  
You might be surprised that some of these are endangered.
One of them could end up on your dinner plate!

Try this link to find out more

News Reader - Finn - Daily Details

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Maths

Google Classroom - Help each other to complete a fantastic tessellation for assignment 4.

Example:

Zilch - Dice in the top draw of the whiteboard

Investigate VISNOS on the ipads - number spinners and much more to discover.

(there are short videos that show you how to use each of the tools on this site - investigate and discover)

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Reading - Writing 

Time Lords and Multicolour Flowers 

Catch up on class contracts

1. Blends – ck – ee – ap – gg 
2. Word Illustrations Nocturnal, Extinct, Endangered 
3. In your journal start planning ideas about how you might present your research work
4. Help the Starfish and Five Sparkles to get started on task 5 in the Google Classroom

Starfish and Five Sparkles

Organise yourselves into small groups of two and three to do a small independent research inquiry.  Go to Task 5 in the Google Classroom - fill in the questions in the document.

Ask for help from Elena, Indy, Bailey, Finn, Thanoshika - someone who has already started this task.  They can show you how to start collecting images and linking video clips to the document.

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Art Calendars to complete

Take your time 

Make them amazing

Add detail

Assembly at 2pm

Have a Great DAY:-)

Food Chain

What IS a FOOD CHAIN?

Take a look at these diagrams and see if you can figure out what a FOOD CHAIN is?

Questions

What do the arrows tell you?

Is the direction of the arrow important - what does it mean?

What are the keywords you think of to 

explain what a FOOD CHAIN is?

Play the Food Chain Game

You have 15 minutes to explore and write your thinking down for a class mini book.

Welcome to Room 4

This is an interactive introduction to Room 4.

We hope that you get some ideas from these activities - and - remember

as Mr. Harrison always tells us - you don't have to remember how these things are done.

You just need to remember that they are possible!

Then start imagining your own possibilities.


First we are going to show you Kahoot.  Click the link to get started.


Now for Some Writing
As part of our inquiry we have been learning about animals.
Can you help us?

Can you please help us to write a creative report about the Kiwi?  click on the link.

Now take a look at what we wrote - View the contributions.

How could this collaborative approach be useful to you?


Finally we'd like to show you a Wordle of all the new words that we have discovered while reading our shared class book "Holes".

While Mr. Harrison reads we take it in turns to flip the pages on a eBook.  Some of the words are quite tricky - so we highlight them to keep a list of the new vocabulary as we go.

By having the eBook on the projector everyone can follow along and notice when Mr. Harrison makes a mistake!!!

Symbiotic

In biology, symbiotic is the idea that different organisms (plants and animals) that live together can get some benefit (help) from each other.

However, this relationship is not always beneficial to both creatures. Parasites, for example, have a symbiotic relationship with their hosts, but only the parasite benefits.

Example: Head lice are symbiotic with humans but only the head lice get a benefit!!!!!

Watch the video - then try this web search - write a page for a class mini book with an example of a symbiotic relationship in nature.

Web Search

symbiotic animals  - just follow the link from google images to find some good examples.

Two creatures that are symbiotic in the living world are....
They... (explain how they are symbiotic)

Thursday 18th June

Working Independently

Use this blog post to help you keep on track for the day.  

Use the links on this post to find the web pages and documents you need.

Roll - Mustdabshera and ...

Jump Jam

Make a Mini book - double "OO" words - 

Mustdabshera and ...

(paper in the whiteboard draws)

Morning News - Conner and ...

Random Spinners! - Thanoshika and ...

Set the spinner to find a rule.  

Stand on your chair as soon as you have an answer.

Change the spinners to make it harder.

Take turns to try out the new google classroom task

Remember to logout when you have had your turn

Use the ipads	Google Classroom (laptops netbooks)	Dice
Mathletics	Tessellations Task - work with a buddy - teach each-other	Zilch

Things to finish

Complete your paper tessellation of an L shape - look in the maths book on the shelf under the new whiteboard

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Complete your Hibernation Poster

Criteria:

1. A3 page
2. Clear Title - stands out
3. Written in your own words (not copied from the reading)
4. Explain your understanding - say what hibernation IS
5. Why do animals hibernate?
6. How do they hibernate - what happens to their body?
7. When do most animals hibernate?
8. Give some examples of animals that hibernate.
9. Provide some details about - when - how long for - and what happens to these creatures when they hibernate?
10. thoughtful use of colours (why did you use this colour?)
11. Written for year 3 children to understand
12. Include some tricky words
13. Illustrations and pictures connected to the topic

Poster EXAMPLE  - Reading link - Images - Game - Video - 

PS. You should only be using the internet for more information if you have completed everything else above first.

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Prepare your calendar paper by using pastels to completely fill the page.

Choose your colours carefully to add to the idea behind your artwork.

Carefully paint a layer of black paint (Arjuna might use grey?)

Do a great clean up
Go for a game.

Challenge Room 18 to join us in the animal survival game tomorrow.

Hibernation

Watch this video with a buddy and make some quick notes on an A5 page - help to make a class book about what 
Hibernation IS?
HOW some animals prepare for it?
WHY animals hibernate?

Friday 12th June

Working Independently

Dear Room 4
Remember I am not in class today.  This is your chance to show your independence and great cooperative learning skills.  Read through the list of tasks below and work cooperatively to finish off tasks and start new ones.

Remember:

• You will need to take turns with the computers and help each other out
• You will need to choose things that you need to finish
• You will need to work on tasks that don't need a computer - waiting for your turn

Things to Finish - (do something from this list first)

Complete an illustration for each of these topic words in your journal.

Your word illustration should clearly say what the word means or what it is

Include some details or examples with words and pictures.

WORDS:

carnivore, herbivore, omnivore, predator, prey, hibernate, metamorphosis, habitat, photosynthesis, camouflage  +++ nocturnal, venom, prehistoric, microscopic

Finish your A3 tessellation

Work on your pastel and black paint art etching

Finish your Google Classroom task - show it to a buddy and use the Criteria Sheet to decide how well you have done.  (Don't worry if you can't turn it in I can still look at them)

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Independent Writing

Use any or as many of the new words form "HOLES" to write an amazing creative story.

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Own Reading

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Play Zilch with a group

Dice can be found in the top draw of the new white board

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New Topic Research

Investigate some of the ideas listed below by watching some short youtube videos.  Make some notes (words and pictures) of the main ideas, new discoveries or questions that pop into your head. 

Search Starters and keywords to try:

life cycle of... bee, spider, fly, frog, butterfly, dragonfly, cicada

camouflage... insects, reptiles, predators, octopus, carnivores, chameleon

 Olympic animals... jumping, fastest, strongest,

Animal Records...

Animal Super senses... hearing, sight, poison, electric, phosphorescent 

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If you think you can choose to just watch videos straight away - think again.

Have a great day:-)

Ink Monster Creations

We created ink monsters by dropping ink on a page then blowing the ink around with a straw.  Once the ink was dry we used pencils and colours to add details to the shapes to show the hidden creatures in the ink blob shape.

Take a look at our art and how we made it.

We a have also done some fun creative monster writing - watch this space for the link

 link to photo story for smartphones 

Animal Survival Game

On the last two Fridays we have played a game called the animal survival game.

We have a set of rules for follow  to make the game a bit like having predators and prey!

Have a look at these photos taken by TIM.

 link to photo story 

Sorry Everyone

I forgot that I had to go on a computer course today.

So this is a big test for you all.

Can you use the blog to organise yourselves?

Click on the GROUPS link at the top of the page then look for the maths and literacy link at the bottom of the new page.

Can you teach Mrs Briscoe how to play Zilch?

And take turns using mathletics?

Can you take turns so that everyone has 30 minutes using the Google Classroom 

to try and do TASK 1?

Can you finish your first or second copy of your descriptive monster writing?

Thank you

See you all on FRIDAY

PS.  Go through your books and add up your payments

Then we can update your bank accounts on Friday.

ANZAC Day

This week we have been learning about the meaning of ANZAC Day by reading stories about New Zealand and Australian soldiers in the first world war.  After reading one story about ANZAC biscuits Tim said, "I think we should make them." We organised some groups and everyone brought ingredients for making biscuits on Friday.  Good idea Tim.

We have also started to do some writing about war experiences based on our thinking about some war photographs.  We will publish these next week.

On Thursday we all took part in an ANZAC Remembrance Ceremony and two New Zealand Soldiers came from Burnham Army Camp.

Biscuit Day

On Friday we made ANZAC biscuits and then shared them with people at school.  They were very tasty.  Below are some pictures from our cooking and the ANZAC Ceremony.

Cooking photography by: Bailey

Human Statistics

Here is a way to do statistics - run around - and make a movie at the same time.

We made a set of different lines - like bar graphs - to show some information about our class.

Graphs
Boys vs Girls
Eye Colour: Brown, Blue, Green (other)
Hair Colour: Black, Brown, Blond and Red

By moving around this activity is more memorable and fun.
At the end we made a Human Pie Chart showing class Hair Colour then wriggled away like caterpillars!

If you watch closely you should be able to spot which graph is which?

Can you make a statement about the information these human graphs show?

Here are some photographs of the graphs to help you visualize what we are trying to show.

Water Balloon Catch

In a team of 5 or 6 hold the edge of a large sheet. 

Coordinate your movements and work together to toss a water-filled-balloon high into the air  -  and catch it again!

Photos by Arjuna

PS.  Click on a box below to show what you think about this activity and these photos.

The Water Challenge

Transport an ice-cream tub of water through the fitness course.

Rules:
You cannot touch the tub with your hands
You cannot put the tub down or let it rest on the ground

Link to more pictures

What did you have to do as a team to complete this challenge?

What did you do well?

What would you change or do differently if you had a second chance?

Contribute your thinking here:

Being a Team

Chair Challenge

Get your team across the crocodile infested swamp without standing in the swamp!

Equipment:  chairs (mini raft) one chair per person

Link to more pictures

What did you have to do as a team to complete this challenge?

What did you do well?

What would you change or do differently if you had a second chance?