WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING IN ROOM 18?
Hello to Room 18 Parents/families.
I am halfway through my teaching placement in Room
18. Three weeks have flown by and we have been very busy learning a lot of new
knowledge in amidst of all the routines of dancing, assembly rehearsals and soon
to be swimming (which is happening in Week 7 and 8 for us.)
It has been amazing to see the students working
hard to achieve their very best in all learning areas. All of the students have been working hard on
their assembly lines and our song. We are ready for the big day… tomorrow. We
look forward to showing you all what we have been doing and it will surely be
one to remember.
Last week for Big Write, the students had to write a
persuasive text about why schools should reduce their energy use to reduce
climate change. There were a lot of fantastic persuasive arguments using VCOP.
I was impressed with the very funny puns in their writing.
Some of
my favourites were:
“Cli, my mate…” - Luke
“Climate
change is a hot topic” - Aliyah
“I have a
hot idea, let’s turn off our heaters” - Jai
Impressive work by everyone. Check out some of
the writing of the students below.
In Science, we have been learning all about the
big topic of ‘light’ focusing
primarily on reflection and refraction. Students conducted experiments on how
light refracts in a glass of water with a spoon in it and were able to draw a
ray diagram to show what happened. We have also learned about how our eyes
enable us to see different objects every day and students were able to draw ray
diagrams to represent the direction of light from the light, to the object. We
have learnt a special chant to help us remember the learning involved. Here is what some of our students thought
about it.
“In Science,
we have been learning how a light source goes onto an object and then reflects
off it in a straight line to the observer (person’s) eye. We have learnt about
all the different lights sources such as sun, torch and fire. We have also
learnt a chant that helps us with this. It was good learning the words and
actions for this chant. For example, our light source (sun) travels in a
straight line to the object (table) and then reflects off the object (table) in
a straight line to our eyes.” - Makayla
“In Science,
we have been learning a chant for how light travels from the light source to
the object and this is how it goes: Our light source (anything could be a
torch, the sun etc.) travels in a straight line to the object and reflects in a
straight line to the observer’s eyes.” - George