Happy students

A great effort from the students last week! 

Team collaboration

Today the non option people are in my class learning how to use scratch! They will then begin making paper animations. Lots of higher order thinking and collaboration going on!

Financial Literacy Maths

This week we are working through a financial literacy book. We are learning how businesses work, interest in loans, shares and all about using spreadsheets! 

Animations

This week we begin our paper animation projects...today I have been exchanging emails with Annika and Rebecca who are giving it a go via scratch. As you can see, they have been actioning my feedback... Check out this apple!


Apple 1

Couch Apple

On the stairs

Haunted apple

Funny!
Risky business

Well done ladies!

A busy day for these ladies!

Congratulations to Natalie, Ella and Meaghan for receiving their badges this week!

Learning attributes used during the Marble Challenge

Learning Attributes During Marble Challenge I worked in a group with _____ and _____. Although we didn’t always get along very well we tried our best. Here are some of the attributes we used or should have. I could have done better with self direction; If I saw a problem I would just fix it but sometimes I wouldn’t be as confident and questioned everything. When we were getting to the end I started to doubt our creation. Working as a team brainstorming, discussing ideas and questioning was easy. But order was the hard part. We forgot to follow the design process and had to go back to see what we missed (Re-search). We reflected on our work and attitudes but sometimes we got annoyed and said things that weren’t entirely true. This happened near the end when things didn’t go the way we had hoped they would. One of the problems that occurred was when the beginning of our roller coaster didn’t work to our standard. We resolved this obstacle when we put our heads together and worked together with our differences behind us. One of our risk taking moments was when we decided to take out the loop because most of the roller coasters consisted of them. We took it out because it was time consuming and wasn’t necessary. I used the attribute of open mindedness when I let other people use their or modify and dismiss mine. For example I let ________ use her water feature idea instead of the cushion. I think my time managing could’ve been better. We did finish on time but it was rushed and stressful. Next time I would do it in order and set time limits for myself. Following the design process could have been better. We did do all of the steps but we did them in the wrong order. This project was fun but challenging. It was difficult because we were working with new people and when it started malfunctioning. We tried our best though. We enjoyed ourselves. Over all I think we did well and next time we will listen to each others ideas and make sure everyone knew what we were doing.

Quick Writes

Quick Writing by Aidan Reid

Day 1:Dialog.

▒ Bird 1 “There Doesn’t seem to be any fish today”
▒ Bird 2 “Shut up you’re probably scaring them away”
▒ Bird 3 “This is why I only eat one fish a day, now they’re all dead because you guys are greedy”
▒ Bird 4 “We all only eat one fish a day”
▒ Bird 5 “Stop shouting you’re fluffing up & squishing me”
▒ Bird 6 “I’m Older & I’m telling you all to shut up”
▒ Bird 7 “It was probably those selfish humans stealing all the fish, I mean just look over there”


Day 2:Caption. ‘The Kingfisher Council’ debates an invasion

Day 3:Headlines.
Kingfishers Invade 3 Countries

Day 4:Memoir. ▒▒§▒▒

I was chosen to join the demolitions battalion when the Invasion plan was decided. My fellow birds & I’s job was to use feather bombs and gas bombs to create cover for the ariel strike birds on the 9th branch. Each of us were nervous about our part, I could tell because I could feel them all huddling closer & shuddering when the commanding officer flew by. The question that was in each of our heads was were we going to complete our part, or ruin the invasion. ▒▒§▒▒

Day 5:Letter.

To: The Human Leaders We are giving you a chance to surrender yourselves because as you have seen we’re more powerful than you and could continue this war, but we would prefer a more peaceful conquer.