Creative Thinkers hiding among us...

Did you know that Room 27 have some amazing creative thinkers hiding amongst us? In fact we have A LOT of them!

Miss Johnson was so proud of all of the problem solving and creative thinking that went into our holiday homework. We had to create a game with our families, using some of the things we had a home. We created a plan and brought our games to school. 

Check out our games HERE!

Donabelle made a target game. She used an old shoe box. You have to throw the "balls" into one of the holes and each hole gives you different points. 

Makayla made an I Spy Lava Lamp. She hid a rubber jelly fish inside the lava lamp- You have to shake it to find the jelly fish. 

Peter made a Monster Marble Eater. You have to try and get the marbles into the monster mouth. Be careful of the teeth! 

Ashley made a Ring Toss. You have to throw your rings over each of the bottles to get points. Each bottle is worth different points, so pick carefully which one you want to get. 

Our Innovations

Stop Rubbish floating to the ocean! In Room 27 we are very concerned about all of the rubbish that seems to be floating out to sea, down streams and through pipes. We saw a stream and pipe at the back of our Native Garden and wanted to create something to stop our school rubbish from ending up in the sea.

These are our ideas on how we can help to prevent or solve this problem. 

Jephthah used a plastic plate to create a lid for the pipe. He cut out the middle so that the water could go through. The plastic tabs around the side are to catch the big rubbish and the string in the middle is to catch the small rubbish.

Summer has strung together plastic cups, they have holes in the bottom. The cups catch the rubbish and the water goes through.

Terri used a plate to create a lid for the pipe. He used string to create a spiders web to catch the rubbish. 

Evy created a lip to put over the pipe. The wooden ice block sticks are used to catch the big rubbish and the string is used to catch the small rubbish. 

Donabelle created a net from string, inside her lid. This is strong enough to catch the rubbish. 

Kyra used a plastic plate to hold her net on the pipe. She used string and pipe cleaners to make the net strong. 

Makayla used pipe cleaners to make her net because they are strong and have wire inside. 

Michelle used a plastic plate and pipe cleaners because they are strong. 

Dallas used a pipe cleaner net to catch the rubbish. 

Innovation of Fairy Tales

Room 27 have learnt that people can innovate or change fairy tales, like Little Red Riding Hood, so that the story is told in a different way. 

These two stories tell very different opinions or points of view

We made wanted posters for the Big Bad Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood. These posters told the different opinions on who the "baddie" was, in the story. We got to use lots of awesome adjectives in our writing. 

                                   

                                   

Extra! Extra! Read all about it!

Room 27 put on their reporters hats and wrote news paper articles about a HUGE problem we have at our school! 

Check out 'The Classroom Press' and its breaking news!

 

Statistics in Room 27

In term 1 Room 27 had lots of fun learning about the different features of objects, animals and things around us. We learnt that you can sort and group objects or 'things' by their shared characteristics. 

Miss Johnson gave us a challenge! We had to take photos of things around us and use Pic Collage to create two groups that have shared features. We all did a great job. 

Peter sorted his groups by shape. 

Farharn sorted his groups by colour. 

Donnabelle sorted her pictures by shape. 

Nathan sorted his groups by colour.

Shaye sorted his pictures by size.

Our Coding Afternoon

Room 27 had a coding afternoon on Friday. We learnt how to programme different characters to move in different directions. These are some of our first attempts. 

Check them out and please leave us a comment. 

If you want to try this at home you can download the app or click here for the website. 

Solving Addition Word Problems

The Comets have been solving maths word problems using our drawings and addition strategies. 

Michelle drew a group of 2, a group of 7 and a group of 4 toucans to solve this problem.

Meghana drew a group of 2, a group of 7 and a group of 4 toucans to solve this problem

Ashley drew a group of 2, a group of 7 and a group of 4 toucans to solve this problem

Peter drew a group of 2, a group of 7 and a group of 4 toucans to solve this problem

Donnabelle drew a group of 2, a group of 7 and a group of 4 toucans to solve this problem

Evy drew a group of 2, a group of 7 and a group of 4 toucans to solve this problem