Inquiry - Popcorn

We have begun our unit on Popcorn with a KWHL Chart (What we Know, What we Want to Know, How we are going to Find Out).  We will fill out the last part of the chart (What we have Learnt) at the end of the unit.
We are now looking at the life cycle of popcorn.  We will add some of these when they are completed.

Some of our Friendship Recipe's

My Friendship Recipe  -  By Will

Ingredients
1 level cup of love
1 raised teaspoon of kindness
3 cups of thoughtfulness
1 bucket of smiles
10 scoops of laughter
3 tablespoons of respect
3 pinches of finely chopped arguments
Method
1. Add the love and kindness into a bowl
2. Mix together
3. Add the arguments
4. Toss in the thoughtfulness, smiles, laughter and respect
5. Serve on a platter of trust

My Friendship Recipe - By Layton

Ingredients

2 generous scoops of respect

3 cups of laughter

1 cup of caring

3 tablespoons of sharing

4 tablespoons of responsibility

2 cups of helpfulness

1 cup of trust

Dash of bad attitude and sadness

Method

1. Add the respect into a bowl
2. Stir in the laughter, sharing and caring
3. Mix together with responsibility, trust and helpfulness
4. Add bad attitude and sadness
5. Marinate overnight and serve

Square Dancing

We have been practicing a square dance with Room 16 to the "Popcorn" music.  It has been a lot of fun because this music has a great beat.  It is quite bouncy like popcorn popping.  It has been a bit tricky to pick up the steps  and all keep in time, but we think we have just about mastered it.

Maths

In class we have been focusing on basic facts, trying to get them up to speed.  We are trying to have them instantly rather than working them out.

Games help with this.  Try some of these.

Modigliani

Today we started looking at the artist "Modigliani". He was an Italian painter and sculptor, who worked mostly in France. He became known for his modern style. His graceful paintings are known for their elongated heads and necks, some of the faces have the look of masks.
We sketched our pictures onto black paper and will complete with pastels. Once finished we will attached some to our blog to let you see the results.

Here is some of our artwork. We think they are fantastic  -  What do you think?

By Holly

By Olivia

 

By Liam

By Emily

Graphs

In Room 15 we have been learning about graphing.
Pictographs
First we looked at Pictographs - This is a way of showing information using pictures
We looked at the different eye colours in our room and which way we all travel to school.
To gather the information we used a tally chart, then we put this information on to our pictograph.
We then came up with statements that explained our graph.

Bar Graphs
We then moved on to bar or column graphs. These show the information in bars or columns.
We still use the tally chart and explain our graph using statements. We are looking at coming up with our own question, then following through the same process.
We are all enjoying this and are looking forward to the learning more.