Thinking Creatively

We had a cylinder shape. The challenge was to change the cylinder shape into something different. We have to think outside the square and be unique. 

Thinking creatively makes our brains work in different ways.

Look at some of the creative thinking.

Cast on a broken arm
By Jacob

Vase of flowers
By Caitlyn

Rocket launching into space
By Rana

Person climbing through a tunnel
By Henrietta

Turned on lamp on a table
By Jeevanjot

Panda puppet
By Bella
Great connections to our learning

Space rover
By Zane

Stinky rubbish bin
By Teague

Toilet paper on a toilet roll
By Czar

Chameleon
By Gemma

People having an outdoor party
By Neesha

Marmite
By Faith

Horse eating a bale of hay
By Ruby H

Loom bands
By Logan

Penguin
By Emma

More Puppets

Puppets have made Room 8 an exciting place. The puppets have had lots of adventures with the children and a few more have been completed. 

The puppets have made their journey home. 

I wonder what they will get up to? 

Creating Graphs

We have been learning how to create different kinds of graphs and tables and to read the data on the graph. 

One of our challenges was to create an interesting graph or table.

We had to think about all the features of a graph and then share 3 different pieces of information our graph showed.  

We also tried using an app 'Fotobabble'.  

Summarising

We have been learning to summarise information. 

We chose an animal we wanted to find out about and created Pic Collages to teach other people about the animal.

We were not allowed to copy out of the book but put the information into our own words.

Made by Ruby H and Bailey

Made by Toby and Teague

Made by Isabella

Made by Rana and Thomas

Made by Jeevanjot

Made by Logan and Zane

Made by Mya and Ruby L

Made by George and Emma

Puppets

Room 8 created puppets

The puppets use levers and forces to make them work. 

There was a lot of creativity, determination and working together to create the puppets. 

Ruby and Bailey were reading with their puppets at lunchtime.

Kahoot

Room 8 learnt a new game called Kahoot. It is a quiz where the children all compete against each other. Here is a snap shot of the excitement and competitive natures it brought out in the Kidd-li-winks.

kahoot from tracey hill on Vimeo.

We have been mixing up words in our writing like through and threw so our quiz was about those tricky words that sound the same but have different meanings. Here are a couple of examples of the quiz questions.

You can create your own Kahoot quiz at https://getkahoot.com/. There are also thousands of ready made quizzes you can play. Check it out.

I wonder what our next quiz will be about? 

What do you need to learn or get better at?

Give me some ideas and I will create a quiz for us to play.

Congratulations to George and Ruby L for being the first winners of Kahoot in Room 8.

Thank you to Mrs Roil for teaching me (Mrs H) about Kahoot. It is another fun way to learn.