Inference

Yesterday, Room 9 read a book called 'Big White and Little Red Hen'. Miss Watts asked us to make our own chicken inferences. Inference means looking between the lines and explaining why you think that. You have to get clues from what your read in the book. This is Braedan's inference:

I think Harriet will send Little Red to Tiegal if she continues to make a mess. I think Big White feels happy because Little Red shared her nest.

This is Trent's inference:

I think harriet will send Little Red to Tiegal if she continues to make a mess. I think this because Big White cracked the eggs that Little Red laid but Harriet does not realise this. I think Big White feels happy when Little Red lets Big White share her nest and saves from the fox.  Big White stops being mean to Little Red.

Hot Water Bottles!

What happens to a hot water bottle after it has been filled up?

AND

Where does the heat go?

Here are our ideas so far....

When you fill a water bottle it is very hot. You don't want to touch it. After a while it goes cold.  I think the heat goes in to the air.  By Ollie

When you fill the hot water bottle it feels hot and after a while it cools down to warm.  When you take it to bed the heat goes into your bed to make it warm.If you are cold and you put the hot water bottle in your bed then it will get warmer.  By Madison.

When you fill a hot water bottel with hot water it feels warm.  After a while it goes cold.  I think the heat escapes out the bottom.  When you hop in to bed it is cold but when you put it in your bed it feels warm.  When the heat touches your skin it touches your bed.  By  Trent

Listen to our Voicethread to hear more explanations:

We will do further research to develop our ideas!

Hockey with Room 9

Today we went to the playground and practiced hockey skills.  We juggled hockey balls on our sticks.  We learnt how to dribble hockey balls around cones.  Sometimes it was easy and sometimes it was hard!  We played a game at the end called dog bone!  It was awesome fun!  Thank you to Aron for teaching us the skills.  Watch our video to see what we did. (By Jed & Trent)

In a class discussion (after I had made a comment on this post in which I asked a question about our school values) the students decided that we used our school values of resilience and persistence.  We decided that these school values are part of the key competency 'managing self'.  Read the comments about this blog to find out what persistence and resilience means to Room 9. (By Miss Watts a.k.a Emma!)

Aquarium Trip

This Term Room 9 and 11 went to the Aquarium.  We learnt about fishing for the future, just like the Minstrel did.

First of all, we went to the thinking room and we learnt about orange roughy.  We learnt that orange roughies are poisonous.

Then we went to the big tank with two eels.  We touched the eels, they felt so slimy!  Next, we went to the touch pools where there were baby sharks and one big shark.   We also saw eagle rays that are small types of stingrays.    Our t-shirts got wet! Finally, we went to the other touch pools, there were kinas and elephant slugs.  We touched the sea creatures and fish lots of times.

It was great fun touching the eels,  sting rays and the creatures in the touch pools.  thank you Richard for letting us touch the sea creature in your aquarium.

Collector

We looked at the role of Collector.  We think that a Collector would:

• Collect all the equipment.
• Get equipment ready.
• Encourage everyone to help put equipement away

A Collector would say:

• "What do we need?"
• "Do we have everything?"
• "Come on team, help me pack away!"