Planting our class garden

Legend of the Seven Whales

Legend of the 7 whales from Kimberley Rivett

What do you know?

We are learning about heating and cooling processes in Room 22. We have been looking at how this affects different objects and this week we are exploring kitchen science and the heating and cooling process.

We are also doing some mini inquiry learning about volcanoes and how heating and cooling affect change in the environment.

Our trip to the museum to explore volcanoes next week is gonna ROCK!

More thinking about states of matter...

Today we have been learning about the properties of each state of matter:

Solids have tightly packed molecules and their shape is hard to change.

Liquids have moving molecules and they take on the shape of the container that they are in.

Gases have wild and moving molecules and cannot be contained easily.

We also looked at what they have in common:

LS = you can see them easily
LG = flow easily
LG = don't keep shape
SL = don't fly around 
LG = affected by gravity
SL = can feel them, hold them, weigh them

They can ALL be measured!

What is the MATTER???

This week we are working with our Inquiry Learning teacher, Mrs Munro, to find out all about MATTER.

We have the big question: What is MATTER?

We started by thinking about this as a normal question and wrote sentences about it. We thought it meant things like - what is the matter? But it wasn't that sort of MATTER that we were talking about! And it really does MATTER!

So we looked on kids' websites for info about the states of matter and the definition of it. We found out that matter is kind of everything. It has different forms like: solid, liquid, gas, plasma and BEC. The last two are VERY complicated so we are focussing on the main three of solid, liquid and gas.

We thought about the forms that things take and answered some fun questions based on 'what if...' which is the question we looked at last term about lots of different things.

Here's our thinking:

What if your jeans were made of wool? Samantha, Nancy, Amie, Olivia
- uncomfortable
- have to stand up
- no running (too hot!)
- change colour every day
- can't wash it :(
- one pair
- no shoes (too hard to put on!)

What if your rubbish bin was made out of cotton wool? Simran, Elizabeth

• we couldn't put the rubbish inside it
• will collapse
• you can't wash it
• you can't put lots inside or heavy things 

What if the door was made out of fabric? Adam, Alec, Jake

• people could rip the fabric and rob your house
• it would be nice and colourful
• you could walk over it/through it
• not strong

What if your t-shirt was made of cardboard? Taine, Ben R, Ben C

- it would get wet in the rain and fall apart

- it would stink

- you couldn't wash it

- it would be uncomfortable

What if your rubbish bin was made of cotton wool? Simran

• it would feel soft
• it will fall down when the rubbish is heavy
• if you put liquid in it, the wool would stain
• it would leak
• you can't put rubbish in it

What if your school bag was made of metal? Faye, Rui Wen, Ha Jin

- it would be heavy

- the metal would get rusty

- if you dent it, you'd get in trouble with your mum

- you could use it as a table

- you could protect yourself

What if your desk was made of wool? Tahlia, Meadow, Amy

• it wouldn't be able to stand
• you can't write on it
• you can't open it
• your things would go through it
• it would be really soft
• everything would make it crumble
• it might fly away!
• it would rip apart

What if your ball was made of glass? Guy, Sione, Kyle L

- when you kick it, it would hurt

- you couldn't play some sports

- it would be too fragile

What if your pencil was made of chalk? Kyle E, Jacob, Dylan

• it would be messy
• could be colourful
• dusty
• very messy
• might be allergic

What if your ruler was made out of paper? Josh and Ethan

- it would bend

- it would rip

- you couldn't rule straight

- if it got wet it would disintegrate

Sporty Year 5's - more agents of change!

Agents of Change Part 2 - A Year in R22

The Travelling Rhino Arrives!

It was mufti day at our school today and guess who arrived?

We are so happy to have the travelling rhino visiting us and we can't wait for our inquiry that we are going to do next week about rhinos. Dylan and Ben C took them for a cruise around the school and they met some of our fantastic students along the way.

The rhino is around for only one week before heading off on the next leg of her journey.

What do YOU know about rhinos? What does 'endangered' mean?

Howick Historical Village

We had such a great day of learning this week when we went to the Howick Historical Village. Check out some of the activities that we did... Howick Historical Village on PhotoPeach

Agents Of Change

In Room 22 we have been exploring what it means to be 'agents of change'. We have also been exploring the year ahead and what might in store for us by way of challenges and change. Check out the cool iMovie movie trailer by some of the Year 6 boys!

The Whale and Snail visit Adam!

Looks like Adam had fun with the whale but maybe his cat had even MORE fun?

Check out these great feline photos!

archisha and Rowan

jessica

Elizabeth and Rudia

Ha Jin,Jared,Saarah

Sarah, Amy and Meadow

Moh and Rohan

alyssa and Ruiwen

Alec and Lucy

GUY and RYAN

Voki Buddies!

Adam and Kashish

Buddy Voki Ethan and Blake

Voki buddies

The Whale and the Snail

Olivia has had a 'whale of a time' this weekend with the whale visiting her from our friends in Palmy. She has clearly been bouncing and singing and celebrating the amazing weather! P.S even the dog seems to have enjoyed the visitor!

Meet the Agents of Change in Room 22

In our class, Mrs Rivett has 'laid down the gauntlet' - in other words, she has issued us with a challenge. She told us to be 'agents of change', kids who decide to change something in their school/community/world through their personal choices and actions.

Our challenge is meant to remain a mystery to everyone else - only our actions might 'give it away'. We have decided what to change - or TRY to change - in our school, and now we are undercover, models and agents of change, trying to bring a positive change to our world!

Keep an eye out and you may spot what we are up to...


Agents Of Change on PhotoPeach

More fun at the ranch!

Sonshine Ranch fun! on PhotoPeach

Yeeha! A day at the ranch!

Sonshine Ranch 2013 on PhotoPeach

A Cool Visit from the Police by Alec

Yesterday two police officers came into point view school. they taught us how to lift finger prints and all about how to identify shoe prints. we learnt a lot of things most of the things we saw were new things to us things that we had never seen before yesterday. we had a really good time.

SOCO visit

Today we had a visit from SOCO - the scene of crime officer - called Neil. He came in to talk to us all about how the police deal with a crime scene like the one we found in our classroom. Even though ours was a 'staged' crime scene, Neil talked about the fact that there was lots of evidence to look at.

He showed us a board with fingerprint samples on it as well as shoeprints and some ideas about what DNA is. We looked at the Coke can that the victim left at our crime scene and Neil explained how DNA would be extracted from the can. He also showed us how he dusts for fingerprints and then he used one of our students to take some fingerprints off. We pretended that Dylan had climbed in the window and was the bad guy while Dylan planted his fingers on the side of the window. It was great fun to watch how quickly Neil was able to get a copy of the fingerprints (which he gave to Dylan!) and how the fingerprints could be identified.

Tomorrow we have to interview our 3 prime suspects for our class crime scene. We have already been SOCO officers and now it's time to deduce!

A Mystery!

A crime scene...

A mystery...

Some clues...

We are detectives and we are learning to deduce! Using all of our skills as info-tectives, we are challenged to find all that we can to solve the mystery: whose outline is on our floor?!

Who ARE you...?

Welcome to the Room 22 blog for 2013!

This term we are kicking off with learning about learning - who are we as learners? What is our learning style? What do we enjoy learning about and why? 

We are also going to be solving several mysteries...a series of clues will lead us to the answers and we will have to work together as a real team to be able to solve the mysteries.

Watch this space as we kick off the year and please leave us comments and questions!

From Room 22 & Mrs R :)