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.

Aliyah

Jai

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