Dream Jars

We created dream jars just like in the BFG. The BFG collects dreams and keeps Trogglehumpers (nightmares) so they don't get to children and blows Golden Phizzwizards (good dreams) into childrens bedrooms.
We created our own dreams. We chose either a Golden Phizzwizard or a Trogglehumper.

Golden Phizzwizards

Trogglehumpers

A Golden Phizzwizard

I wished that I could be champion of bmxing. My dreams came true. I got my bmx suit on. I was exhausted from the race but I never gave up. The race began with a bang. I go flying down the ramp. I went zooming up the ramp when I went zooming up the ramp I did a back flip. I landed on the big ramp and then I went down it really fast. I then crossed the finish line. I was the champion of bmxing.

Author Jacob

A Trogglehumper

It all began when I made a candy maker. I needed a hammer, nails, a wrench and bolts. Then it was finished and it was as big as ten people and weighs like 13 elephants but it was missing a piece "Ahhhhh!" I said "It's out of control." I found a bucket of hot boiling water and it just made the invention even madder. Next I found the instructions and it told me its weakness...

Author Zane

Golden Phizzwizard with a bit of a Trogglehumper

It was a beautiful day when I was taking a walk on the path when suddenly I found a little bottle on the ground next to the footpath. "What is that?" I gasped. I picked up the bottle and drank a bit. Suddenly I started to shrink. My clothes disappeared and three chocolate buttons popped up. Wow, I'm a gingerbread boy. As I went a bit further down the path I found another bottle. I picked up the bottle and had a sip suddenly everything went jet black and then everything was clear. I was in...Candyland. Everything here is amde out of candy. "Yay everything is candy". next I had a look around. After that I found another gingerbread boy so I padded over to him. I told him I was new around here so he showed me around and when we got to the final place I turned around. I saw three black stripes and two red googgily eyes so I started walking as fast as I could suddenly a tiger pounced on me.

Author Bella

Golden Phizzwizard

Once upon a time there was a sky that was filled with clouds but special clouds. In winter it rains white and pink squishy marshmellows. In winter too it snows ice creams, any flavour that you wish for. There were gingerbread with numbers that were jelly  and had m&ms and licorice. You can eat everything. You can never get sick from eating too much. You can eat delicious treats all day.

Author Isabella

Managing our own learning

Faith had finished all the tasks on the Must Do List so she chose from the Can Do List. She chose to take photos of people showing PRIDE. She used her photography skills she learnt at the beginning of the year.

Here are Faith's snapshots of Room 8 managing their own learning.

Adding in Tens

 We are learning to add money and count on in tens from any number. We had $2 to spend at the ice cream shop. We knew we could spend any amount under $2 but no more than $2. Different flavours cost different amounts.

Neesha's ice cream

Toby's ice cream

Here  are some of the ice creams we purchased. 

We were learning to count in tens over 100

eg. 95,105,115 and we changed that to 95c, $1.05, $1.15c

because 100c makes $1. 

Czar's ice cream

Faith's ice cream

Jacob's ice cream

Lawson's ice cream

Making connections

We are learning to make connections to the books we are reading. It helps us to relate what we are reading to our own experiences and therefore understand what we are reading at a deeper level.
Fantastic Foxes and The Pellies made connections to books they have been reading

Bella's connection

Emma's connection

George's connection

Lawson's connection

Ruby's connection

We made connections to the story and why it was different for us.

Our challenge is to make deeper connections and we are going to keep working on this.

Caterpillar changes into chrysalis

We have swan plants in Room 8 and caterpillars that have been eating them very quickly. Last week we had a caterpillar change into a chrysalis in our game cupboard and another caterpillar change into its chrysalis while we were asleep at night. 

Today we were very very lucky because we saw the caterpillar change into a chrysalis. It was something new for all of us to see. 

  

In the holidays Mrs H was lucky enough to film the caterpillar change into a chrysalis. The whole change takes about 6 minutes. Here are the videos for you to see how it happens.

2014 first cat from tracey hill on Vimeo.

2014 short cat from tracey hill on Vimeo.

Sorry it is around the wrong way. I could not figure out how to turn the video around.

Visualising

We are reading The BFG and enjoying finding all about him. The Kidd-li-winks have lots of laughs about the wonderful things the giant says.

We are learning to make a movie in our head from the words in the story. Great readers make pictures in their head and imagine what the characters look like and how they are moving. 

The Kidd-li-winks drew what they visualised.

      Jerome visualised the BFG's cave with the dreams on the shelf and the snozzcumber on the table with Sophie hiding behind it. The Blood Curdling Giant has just barged in.

                                                                       

Faith has visualised the BFG with his huge flapping ears. Blood Curdling Giants is hairy all over with just a cloth wrapped around his waist. 

    Max has visualised The Blood Curdling Giant, who is much bigger than the BFG, coming into the BFG's cave. 

                                      Lawson has visualised the very scary  Blood Curdling Giant .

  Jeevanjot has visualised the BFG telling Sophie abobut how disgusting the snozzcumber is to eat. 

Rana has visualised the BFG carrying Sophie to protect her.

Place Value

We are learning about thousands, hundreds, tens and ones. 

Signs of success

*Can make 4 digit numbers out of equipment

*Can read and write 4 digit numbers

*Use a zero if there is nothing in a place eg. 608

*Know how many are in each place.

We made place value robots.

Can you see how many hundreds, tens and ones are in each robot?

Lawson

Jerome

Zane

Bailey

We played Place Value Battleships.

We had to think about each of the places, thousands, hundreds,tens and ones.

If a 6 is in the hundreds place it is 600.

Where can you practice reading big numbers?

Letterboxes?

Price tags?

The Kidd-li-winks each had a number. They made their number lots of different ways.

 Made by Caitlyn and Jeevanjot

 Made by Ayman and Bella

Managing our own learning

Room 8 are learning to manage their own learning. They have learning tasks that are 'must do' or 'can do' and decide the order they will complete each part of their learning. They need to manage their time to ensure their work is completed by the end of the week.

Room 8's managing self success criteria

*Stay focused on our learning

*Take our time so our work is our personal best

*Keep trying even when it gets hard

*Put our things away in the right place

*When we finish one piece of learning look on the 'must d'o list for the next thing to do

We will add to this as we practice our managing self skills.

                       

Sawing through the wood took a lot of determination.

Teague and Ruby very focussed learning new skills on the i-pad. 

 Neesha and George working through their 'must do' learning tasks. 

I was very proud of the Kidd-li-winks first week of school. They made a great start to managing their own learning. It is going to be a fantastic year filled with lots and lots of learning. The Kidd-li-winks have also worked really well together.