Term two - lockdown and back to school

 During term two, we chose our own topic to look into.  This made sure that the children were engaged and interested in their learning.   Here are some of the amazing creative pieces of learning that these children have done.

Noah S had some incredible research about Greek Mythology

 

 Kinae worked on her science experiment:  

 Leevy learnt some sign language:  

 Meesha create an awesome model of a Maori Pa:  

 Syrhys made a pick a path story:

The Popcorn challenge...

We had a popcorn challenge in our class. 
 This was our activity:

Design brief: Create a new exciting flavour of popcorn and suitable packaging for our class movie afternoon. The packaging must look good and be easy to access. The popcorn needs to be crisp (not soggy) and delicious! Important: the flavour of your group’s popcorn must take into account the things that certain members of your team cannot eat.


Stage 1:  Planning for practice:  This is where you plan what you need and what you intend to do.  It is important to make sure you read the design brief to make sure that your ideas will create an outcome that meets the brief.


 Stage 2: Brief development: This is where you create your new flavour - I think you will need to try things, test things, taste things, and change things before you come out with an outcome that fits the design brief. You will also need to try to develop your packaging and test it to make sure it holds the popcorn and is easy to get the popcorn out of. 

 Stage 3: Outcome development and evaluation: This is where you have other people (stakeholders) try your product and then you all evaluate to see if it meets the design brief - is it fit for purpose? We had a planning day, a practice day and a competition day, and then we finished with an evaluation afternoon. 

 Everyone worked really well together and we create some amazing popcorn. Here are four of our groups:

More amazing Learning from Jerusalem Learners!

Pyper created a model and habitat of a zebra:


 Nixon created a model and habitat of a taipan:


 Jayden shows us a model and habitat of the Nile crocodile:

 Jackson created a red deer habitat:
 

 Estella shows us the koala and it's habitat:


Ella created an axolotl ans it's habitat:

Kinae makes a model and habitat of a komodo dragon

We have been learning about an animal of our choice.  On of our activities was to create a model of our animal and it's habitat.  This was intended to be done at school, however we all moved to alert level four and began our learning from home.  The innovative and creative ways of the learners in Jerusalem have really been a highlight of this isolation time.  They are just fabulous!  Make sure you check out the individual blogs on the side of this (our class blog) to see what everyone has been up to.  Meanwhile, enjoy viewing the amazing example that Kinae has created.

Kinae Has also created her own Site all about her animal learning.  It looks fabulous and has a lot of informative and interesting information as well as  her coding and art activities.  What a massive effort Kinae!  Check out Kinae's Site.

Tell us what you think about Kinae's work!

Lego Day!

We had a lego day out our school.  The challenge for our class was to create a lego car that could go the longest distance (when we let it go at the top of a ramp).  We had some great looking cars and some of them went a really long way, some didn't!  It was a lot of fun.

Creating Robots...

Because our theme is robotics, we are creating our own robots.  Some of us are using kits and some of us are being adventurous and using a motor and a battery pack to create our own robot.  Creating these robots (even the kit ones) is very challenging.  We are learning a lot about resilience and not giving up!

Diana's Doodlebug.

 James is creating a solar powered car.

Marko is working on a kit.

Keira, Syrhys and Katie are using hot glue and creating a wind propelled creation.

Leevy is using a kit to create a doodle bug.

Term three begins...

Kia ora whanau and friends.

This term our theme is Robotics.  We have lots of exciting independent learning activities.  Check them out on our site.  One of our challenges is to create our own robot.  Then we will create an advertisement for our robot and make a short film featuring our robot.  Fun!  We are also concentrating on more coding, we are trying out different ways to code.

This term is very busy, we have many competitions and  tournaments taking place.  We have already all taken part in a first aid course.  We all know what to do when someone needs help.


This is our Create a Robot activity:

The Binary Code

WALT: Understand digital technologies.

In our class we have begun to learn about Binary code.  Here are some of DLOs giving a brief explanation of the binary code.

Click on this link  for Alyssa's presentation.

Pyper made a video:

Blake and Brian

This is Pyper's presentation: