Here are our finished instrument sculptures.

We hope you like them 

Hmmmm not much has been happening here for the past month or so

but

that’s because we have been working over at our wiki!

Please take a detour to see what we’ve been doing over at our 09 AllStars wiki.

Image: ‘Make up your mind‘ 
www.flickr.com/photos/41894176980@N01/460131948

We are studying music for the next few weeks, and we will be using the wii to help us explore and experience a huge range of instruments.

We used our Golden Time today for the intial taste of what the wii can do – everyone had a quick turn at playing an instrument and we all had a bit of a laugh as well.

Stay tuned for more posts on what else we are doing with the wii Music.

As we come to the end of our unit we are starting to think about and reflect on some of the things we have found out during our investigations.

We have put together this slide show of our thoughts so far …..

What do you think?

Over the past few weeks we have been working on our own “Big Beliefs Project”. We have been finding out about the different beliefs and religions people in our class and our community have.

We have found out many interesting things about religions, and the different ways that diffent people worship in their religion.

To try and keep track of the information we are finding, we have constructed  tables to put our info in. Each group had to come up with their own table/grid and the topics/ headings that they would be finding out about.

In this slide show you can see us working together to come up with our tables/grids. We are having lots of fun sharing our ideas, listening to each other and encouraging everyone’s ideas and thoughts.

You can see what else we’ve been up to on our DET trial blog right here!

www.worldmathsday.com

We tested our brains,

asked questions,

solved problems,

explained answers,

tried new ways of doing things and

gave reasons!

All on World Math Day (which was a couple of weeks ago!)

We worked on computers,

used the iwb,

played games,

used rulers  to design and draw,

made models,

and wrote clues to a treasure.

Whew! Maths is everywhere, everything and lots more than just worksheets and correct answers.

We think Maths is fun too

Despite the heavens opening and almost washing us all away, we had a visit from Natalie from the Waste Watchers team. Natalie was an expert “Water Watcher” and we spent the afternoon ……. 

Revising what we knew about the water cycle:

Talking about how to save water at home:

And sharing suggestions for conserving water:

There was time to talk, to listen, to think, to answer questions, to ask questions, and to come up with great ways or reducing, re-using, and recycling water.

We wonder if you can guess what we are making:

Hoola hoops

Crepe paper

Staplers

Sticky tape

Cardboard

Imagination

A sense of fun

Great ideas

Clever kids

Teamwork

Co-operation

That’s all it takes!!!!!

Sitting in the dark…

Squashed up by the windows…

Reading by the light from outside…

 What’s going on?

 NOT THE LIGHT!

 NOT the Computer!

 NOT the IWB!

It’s Earth Hour!

Earth hour is a time where all electricital appliances are turned off to conserve electricity for 1 hour.

Globally, Earth Hour will be held 8:30 pm – 9:30 pm on Saturday night, but we wanted our school to participate so we are having earth hour this morning.

 Earth Hour has made us think about:

• How we can save electricity
• How we can be in the future
• How it was in the past
• How it can help the future
• Global warming
• Sleeping!!!

Don’t forget if we use too much electricity we could be back in the DARK AGES!!!!!!!-(boom tish).