Room 8’s Passion Projects
Room 8 - How can we as students articulate and explain our own understanding of our world?
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Mathsmatters - Hot Competition
Two Year 5 teams and four Year 6 teams pitted their wits against other students from Taupo schools and beyond
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Mrs O’Sullivan modelled how we could look at different parts of our dinosaur and use the words “like or as” to create a picture in the reader’s mind.
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Visitor from out of Space
While reading this book, Poppy, Jordyn-Lea, Patrick, Jack and Casey were very interested in what a scarecrow is and what they would be like in the real world, they wanted to create their very own scarecrow and find out.
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Mathematical Shops in Room 13
Many of us are finding it challenging to learn our facts to and within 10 and adding on or subtracting 10 (recalling basic facts help us in other areas of Mathematics).
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Passionate Performers
Passion Projects are a project-based learning experience where the group’s interests, strengths and passions are developed with guidance from the teacher.
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We also learnt that dinosaurs became extinct about 65 million years ago, before humans even existed! Our minds found it hard to comprehend exactly how long ago this really was.
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Natural Disaster (Lemon Volcanoes)
Room 5 nearly had a natural disaster on their hands as they did a scientific investigation to create lemon volcanoes. The results were delightfully messy.
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Fingerprints and the Police
Before reading they talked about what they might already know about fingerprints (activating prior knowledge).
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Awesome Real life learning
To further their exploration of this idea we arranged for them to construct and build a kitset desk by themselves without any adult intervention, using the instructions and their own amazing skills.
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