Year 5 EOTC

Year 5 EOTC Sleepover

The Year 5 EOTC activities for 2018 involved a sleepover with the sharks at Kelly Tarltons. They even got to feed the fish!

Genius Hour

This term we have introduced a new topic called Genius Hour.

This is when students work either individually or in groups to explore, research and learn an area of interest for them. The topic needs to be approved by the class teacher and then the students are responsible for the learning., with support from teacher when needed.

Some projects that we have going on in our class is dress making, sewing teddy bears, creating a video game and learning how to build a working rocket.

This is an amazing session where you really get to see the children passionate about their learning. They show great managing self skills and are eager to share their learning.

Here are some photos.

Leaf Printing

This term our art focus is printmaking. So far we have looked at our fingerprints and the different patterns we can find. We compared them to eat others and discussed how every ones finger print is different.
This week we looked at printing items from outside. The students went outside to collect leaves and sticks. Due to the weather being wet the sticks took to long to dry to use.
Students were allowed to experiment with different colours and different sized leaves. The students learnt then too much paint and you can not seen the pattern of the leaf.

Problem Solving!

This week we had a challenging problem in maths. The students had 16 sticks that had been placed to make 5 squares. The task was to move 2 sticks to make only 4 squares. They showed fantastic problem solving skills, thinking outside of the box and refusing to give up. They worked in partners and individually, then finally in the end all of them working together to tryand solve the problem.

See if you can solve the problem at home!

Athletics Day

An incredible day was had by all last week, so much so we forgot to take more photos. We were very lucky with the weather, making for a lovely sunny day. It was amazing to see all the activities everyone got to try. Even Miss Miller attempting the high jump. The students were on their best behaviour  showing all of the school values. We are very lucky that we are able to go to a stadium and participate in an excellent athletics day. Unfortunately due to some late buses we were not able to run the relays. Fingers crossed the teachers will still race us on the school field!

Market Day

WOW! What an amazing day, everyone had such a great time and the whole school was alive with excitement. As a class we decided to make tie dye socks, Oreo truffles, origami and home made carnival games. The students worked hard for weeks making the merchandise and designing our signs.
In the end we made $118 which the students were overwhelmed with. As a class we decided to spend the money on educational board games for the classroom and puzzles.
We hope everyone had as good a day as we did.

Tri Star Gym

Last term to celebrate finishing our gymnastics unit we had a fabulous day out at Tri Star gym. The students had a fantastic time swinging on the ropes, jumping on the trampolines and twirling on the mat. We all experienced a great time and many of us did not want to leave. Here are a few photos.