Friday 19 August 2016

Breaking Strain - Room on the Broom



Today we read Room on the Broom and talked about breaking strain. 
We learnt about the Space Elevator. 

This is an elevator that goes all the way into space. It can't be built because of the breaking strain of the metal.

We worked out the breaking strain of the broomstick by estimating the weights of the animals and adding them up





Thursday 11 August 2016

The Learning Pit



Today we talked about the learning pit.
 We noticed that at first it feels like you are falling down a hill when you are trying to learn something new or hard. 
At this time it easy to blame people, distract yourself or destroy your work to avoid the feeling of falling.
However once you hit the bottom and start climbing it gets easier and you start to feel good about things.




Friday 5 August 2016

Room 11 ans 12 assembly


Well done Room 12 for sorting out the assembly independently without Miss McCoubrey. 
Thanks Whaea Lou for being there and helping them too.

Tuesday 2 August 2016

House of Bricks Technology Challenge





Anyone for onions?


Room 12 and  11 made some pizza! 
First we put pizza sauce on the base. Then we grated cheese on top of the sauce.
Each group had to decide what to put on the top.
 Sometimes we even had to do fractions because only one person liked onions.









Monday 1 August 2016

Senior Discovery

On Friday we had some discovery time. We could choose between making balloon cars, salt art, maths art, and other cool activities.