Room 19 @ HNI 2016: May 2016

Reliability Checklist

This term in reading we are learning to how check the reliability of a website. This involves us questioning the information which the website provides us. To help us assess whether it is a good website to use or not, we brainstormed in groups then created our own checklists to cellotape to our desks. Here are some of the checklists we created:

Human Machine Challenge!

All of the students in Room 9 have passed medical school and are about to perform our very first operation. Chief of surgery Dr. Fisher has supplied us medical clothes and operating tables. It is our task to get into groups of 4 (select one member to be the patient with the others doctors) and construct and plant every major organ into the patient. When making the list of organs below, we had to think carefully about their size, shape, colour and more importantly the positioning.
Dr. Fisher also tested our knowledge by allowing the class to ask us questions about each organ. These responses were pair assessed by the class.

Graffiti Wall

For our introduction to The Human Machine we researched facts and created a graffiti wall to display in the classroom. We had to research our fact and check that it was true by referencing 3 sites.

Here are some of our facts:

Rotation using fractions and degrees

We have been focusing on transformation this term in Maths. One of these transformations we have been learning about is rotation. We learnt that you can rotate or turn a shape/object clockwise or anticlockwise. We then learnt how we could describe these turns by looking closer at fractions and degrees. We then went outside and drew our circles which showed this new learning.

Football!

We are focusing on large ball skills this term. For 3 sessions we were working with Miss Fisher playing football. We practiced drills which had us using skills like ball control, passing, dribbling and goal shooting. We then put these skills to work by playing games such as 3 ball soccer and backwards soccer. It was great to see everyone getting involved!! Next we are with Miss Hooper learning about basketball.

Whiteboard Cartoons

One of Room 9s favourite things is the drawings Miss Fisher has waiting for us every Monday morning. Here are a few of them! :)

Reading with Expression!

Miss Fisher found a really fun reading game which we had a go at! Its called 'roll the dice voices' and it can work with any texts. What you do is pick 6 different voices/moods and number them 1-6. You then pick a text, find a partner and roll the dice. Whatever number you roll, you have to read a sentence of the text in that voice. It was so much fun! Here are 6 emotions we used.

1. Accents/ Character voices	2. Sassy	3. Slow-motion
4. Angry	5. Crazy	6. Heart-broken

Poppy Art

As part of our ANZAC learning, Miss Fisher gave us the challenge of creating poppies out of tissue paper. This was very difficult as we learnt that tissue paper is very very delicate!

To create an effective background, we scrunched up our paper, then dyed it from a selection of colours. They turned out incredible! And it goes really well alongside our solider's tale poems.

(P.s Thanks to those who helped Miss Fisher cut out over 200 poppies to make our 'Lest We Forget')

ANZAC: Dulce et decorum est

For writing we have been reconstructing a poem following the structure of Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen.

I read us instructions and we constructed our poems about ANZAC and the war. Here is Bradley's Poem:

THE DAY MY FRIEND DIED

Men so tired they drag their bodies across the battlefield.

Unable to breath, choking on coughs and smoke from machinery.

Men march from the frontline, worried that they might get shot

As i look around and see soldiers Fall to the ground.

Bare feet, bleeding toes, only ripped shoes to protect them.

They stagger, intoxicated by the battlefield.

Slow they can’t move quick enough to escape the explosions.