The Hits

Today we had a visit from The Hits radio station. Lexxie won a competition and they came to our class and gave us a bunch of free stuff. Each student got a voucher for some frozen yoghurt, a pass to Funky Farm and a round of Par 2 Minigolf.
The class were able to ask a bunch of questions to find out more about their jobs and what they do.
Thank you very much The Hits.

Rube Goldberg Machines

Earlier this week we finished our Rube Goldberg Machines.
The class had a while lot of fun making them but more importantly they learned many of the skills that Changemakers exhibit. All the class had to show resilience because they needed to refine their designs many times to get them working properly. Some designs were extremely complex while others a bit more simple (but still complex) have a look at this video to see the successes.

Inference

With our reading this term one of our foci is on inference. With one of the groups we read a story called "Grandad's Blood pressure Pills" The title was kept hidden from the students though and they had to try to infer what was happening in the text from the clues they were given. The students in the group came up with a variety of different ideas all with valid answers based upon the clues in the short story.

Here are some answers

Short Story: Grandad’s Blood Pressure Pills.

Name	My inference	Clues that tell me this
Student 1	Mother is panicking Hit someone, fire, I think that the kid could have broken a bone  (theirs or someone else’s) I think the kid has eaten something that they're allergic to and they need to throw up to get it out TITLE: Get it out?	She had small drops of sweat on her face, she’s running around madly, I can sense my mother's fear They need to go somewhere fast, there rushing out of the house. They went to the hospital Take this pill it’ll make you sick.
Student 2	The mother is panicking There's a fire      I think that he/she is sick or injured I think he's allergic to something Title: the weird hospital trip	Sense the mother's fear. She races around madly. Small drops of sweat build up on her forehead.   They need to get out as quick as possible. There at the hospital. She picks him up Take this pill and it will make you sick
Student 3	The mother is afraid There’s a fire I think that he or she is injured He’s allergic to something Title: Blowing up?	She got pink on her forehead and she had small sweat drops. Shes running around madly. They need to get in the car and get out. There at the hospital It will make him sick
Student 4	The Mother is panicking There’s a fire. I think that he/she is injured He or she is allergic to something. Title:	She is running around madly. She has small drops of sweet. She has a pink forehead They need to get out as fast as possible. There at the hospital
Student 5	The Mother is panicking There might be a fire He might be injured He might of ate something that he is allergic too Title	She is running around madly. She has small drops of sweat on her pink face. He can sense the mother's fear. She is trying to get him out of the house as fast as humanly possible. He needs to go to the hospital quickly. He wants  to throw up he needs to take a pill to make him sick to get him feeling better. The Trip to the hospital??

Fraction learning

Late last term some of the extension maths children were helping out in our class learning about different fraction skills. The regular maths class got to choose which subject they wished to learn more about and the extension maths class each took 2 small groups teaching each group the same skill.
Here are some pictures of the work in action.