Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu Introduction to Room Nine

This term we are sharing our learning and ideas with 3 other classes around New Zealand.  We are in a programme called Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu that creates blog groups. We are looking forward to seeing, reading and commenting on work these classes are doing and having them do the same for us. We will have an audience for our work, and practise writing comments that are meaningful to others. The other classes in our group are on the right hand side of our class blog. They are from Auckland, Paparoa and Paihia. 

Our class contains 26 Year 5 and 6 students and is in a school that geographically sits in the middle of Auckland City. We are a very cosmopolitan class that works really well together. Our overall theme for the year is Integrity and our School Value is Respect. These two attributes are important in our learning and personal journey's and are areas we continue to reflect on and talk about.
The following slideshow is a brief introduction to who we are......

Electricity and Circuits

Charlotte checking the plans and examples. 

Along with the two other classes in our syndicate, we spent Monday afternoon checking out Brain Box circuitry kits. Our focus this term continues to be Electricity with Integrity as the over arching theme. We will look into circuits and what the necessary components to make a circuit work are. Our target is to design and create a toy or gadget that has a circuit in it in some way!

Zoe looking at what needs to be connected. 

We had an excellent time collaborating with two other students from different classes. We also used our ipads to photograph each circuit we did so we can create thinglinks that discuss the relevance of each part in the circuit. The questioning, thinking, and conversations were awesome and no one really wanted to stop when the cars started rolling into the play ground, indicating 3 o'clock was close.   

Sifa enjoying getting the right links to get
his circuit to create sounds

Storm unpacking and labelling the different components. 

Caroline photographing the circuits they created. 

Hanging Fog and the Green wall Disappears

Fog hung over school all day in the last week of term. This was the school yard at 5pm in the evening. Students enjoyed playing in the eerie stillness.

Early one foggy Saturday morning a large yellow digger came in to remove the green wall on the edge of the court. Space was being made for the new classrooms to come in. Soon Rooms 7 and 8 and 9 will all be in one large ILE (Innovative Learning Environment) on the eastern boundary of the field. 

Video of some of the wall coming down. Dancing Digger.