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. 

Comparative writing

After we used are speaking frames to write about the similarities and differences between different types of bugs, we wrote a comparison between Great White Sharks and Whale Sharks.

We brainstormed all of the features we could identify about these animals. 

Then we used  a Venn Diagram to sort out the different facts we knew about Whale Shark and Great White Sharks. These facts were sorted into those that were true about a Whale Shark, those that were true about a Great White Shark and those that were true about both. 

Summer did a great job sorting these facts into the Venn Diagram. 

Then we used our speaking frames,

They are similar because...

They are different because... 

To help use write a comparison between these two animals.