Here is the end of week report for Week 5, Term 3.
First, our Maths-Whizz report for this week. In our google meeting, most people chose Maths-Whizz as their favourite activity in distance learning.
Our top 10 students (by time spent doing Maths Whizz):
- Kadin
- Lucas
- Eillie
- Milan
- Josh
- Abbey
- Otis
- Isabelle
- Emma
- Kadence
Our top 10 students (by progressing up Maths levels):
- Josh
- Kadin
- Otis'
- Eillie
- Lucas
- Adam
- Milan
- Kadence
- Wilson
- Emma
Students continue to enjoy reading from the EPIC virtual library of books and videos. This week's class summary (above) shows that overall we have read 4,154 books this year.
Of all our readers, we have five students who have read more than one hundred books in the last month:
- Oliver - 325 books
- Lucas - 153 books
- Milan - 151 books
- Constance - 143 books
- Josh - 114 books
This week in Science, we made tin foil boats and then investigated how much cargo they could carry before sinking.
Lucas made a Titanic tinfoil lifeboat which carried eleven LEGO passengers,
Kadin's tinfoil boat carried 28 coins.
Nathaniel's tinfoil boat had a mixed cargo.
Wallace's tinfoil boat was very sleek - he also has two mysterious eyes looking up from the deep!
Charlotte cleverly weighed her cargo of coins - 12 coins weighed 124 grams.
We also investigated floating and sinking in other ways, by experimenting with different objects to see what floated and what sank in water. People recorded their findings on a Tchart. Both Oliver and Dimitri tried out lots of objects.
We also made lava lamps by making salt sink and rise in layer of oil on a bed of coloured water. Wilson, Mia and Nathaniel placed a strong torch behind their lava lamps to make them shine.
In SeeSaw Maths, we did lots of multiplication practice and also solving word problems using doubling, sharing and halving. Some people drew pictures and some wrote number sentences to show how they solved the problems.
We incorporated dance and Maths to do newspaper fraction dancing. Charlotte, Isabelle and Oliver were able to dance on only 1/16 of a page of newspaper. Awesome balance and fabulous fraction work! (Everyone enjoyed the dancing too).
We also practiced fractions of shapes when we made paper plate fractions.
In Literacy, we read EPIC books and made origami bookmarks for our books at home. We wrote all kinds of lists and also wrote reports about our family photos or newspaper pictures for our Room 18 News Book.
Kadin started using his origami book mark right away!
Sam's bookmark was very colourful.
You really need books when you make bookmarks, so we made the next best thing - we designed book covers. I think that you will be able to recognise these two popular book characters when you look at these two book covers illustrated by Oliver and Milan.
We have also been practising our poem ready for the Poetry Competition when we return to school. There are seven different poems to choose from.
Wallace did a lovely job of illustrating his poem, 'Snowball' and numbering his pictures in sequence which will help him learn the poem so he will be able to recite it without reading it from a page.
. . . And finally, some people did the optional Super Secret Weekend Challenge, where you did something kind for someone that you don't normally do, as a special lockdown treat. Some people made cards, others did vacuumed or washed the dishes, some helped with cooking (Oliver even made his Mum breakfast in bed) while others did lots of little jobs that makes life more enjoyable like handing out cups of coffee and icecreams. Some people helped to look after their younger brothers and sisters, and Kadence even learned how to change her baby sister's nappy! Excellent effort, Super Secret Agents. Here are some of our busy bees . . .
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