End of Term One- 11 weeks of learning!

Today (Friday) marks the end of a fantastic 11 weeks of learning in Room 7. While we are all feeling a little weary, we have managed to tie up all the loose ends nicely this week- finishing a recount all about "The best party ever", completing some art, topic and PE portfolio pieces, having a fun "Healthy Sandwich" making lunchtime on Thursday, and completing some amazing self-portraits in pencil and charcoal.  We have been busy!

Room 7- enjoy the 2 week break! See you next term!

Healthy Sandwiches

As promised, here are the photos take at Lunch today, when Room 7 made the healthy sandwiches. They all looked delicious!

Using a ranking ladder as an assessment activity

This afternoon we started an assessment piece for this term's topic, "Happy Healthy Me".  Rather than individually writing a report on what they have learned, children worked in small, co-operative groups to brainstorm ideas about what they can do each day to stay happy, stay healthy and stay fit. They recorded their ideas on post-its. A couple of children chose to illustrated some of their ideas, if they felt they didn't quite have the words to describe their thinking.

Next, the children worked together to discuss the 'importance' of each idea. Each group used a ranking ladder to do this. Rules for using the ranking ladder include:

• each member of the group must be satisfied with the place of each idea on the ladder.
• If disagreement occurs, each person must explain why they wish to rank that idea the way they do
• If disagreement continues, then the idea is placed to the side.

Finally, they numbered their most "important" idea as number one, and then worked down, in terms of importance.

This activity promotes lots of oral discussion and negotiations skills. It also allows for students to support each other with the remembering of key moments of learning.  Rather than 'sinking or swimming' individually, collectively the group can all work together to achieve a successful outcome.

New student work on Class of 2011 blog

Recently Room 7 have written description of people we know really well. We have started to record these descriptions and post them on the Class of 2011 blog (link to the right). This is our first time using Vocaroo, but we hope to get much better as the year goes on!

Using Vocaroo to record a story