Things taller than 1 metre

Bonnie has done a great job of finding things that are taller than a metre. Check out her great work.

 The 7 Fish of Matariki Retell Elliot Jolly

Artwork for the Festival of Flowers

We worked hard to create these beautiful pieces of artwork for the Festival of Flowers exhibition. Room 2 have been learning about where we come from and cultures that make us all unique. We researched patterns that represent of culture and incorporated them into the petal designs on our flowers. We were all so proud of our finished work. Aren't they amazing!!!

Cultural Day at St Bernadette's

Earlier in the term we celebrated all of our uniques cultures with a special Cultural Day at school. We got to dress up in some traditional outfits, and clothings that represented where we come from. Each class presented a special cultural performance and parents were invited to come along and watch. At the end of the day we finished with a delicious afternoon tea with a spread of food from all around the world. Here is a video of Room 2's dance called O le Pepe. Didn't we do great!

Click here to see the video.

Humpty Dumpty needs help off the wall!

In Room 2 we have been busy designing and making machines to help Humpty Dumpty on and off the wall safely. We have used our knowledge about simple machines to create some fantastic machines.

Today we tested some of the machines and guess what?? They all worked! Humpty Dumpty didn't have any 'great falls' and was safely moved up and down, on and off the wall.

...watch this space for the next instalment of videos...

Little Miss Muffet's spider trap

Last week we worked together as a whole class to complete a technology challenge using our knowledge from our learning about simple machines to solve a problem. 

Room 2 Technology Brief

Little Miss Muffet’s Spider Trap

Situation:

Little Miss Muffet is fed up with the spiders coming out of
nowhere to frighten her. She must think of something to get
rid of those pesky friends.

Need:

We need to make Little Miss Muffet a spider trap. 

Considerations:

You must use at least one simple machine in your design.

Success Criteria: 

Your trap must be able to land on a specific target -the spider.

Our machine:

Here is a video of our machine that we constructed together!
Can you work out which simple machines we used?

Wheels Reports

Did you know that wheels are a simple machine? Last week we spent some time using Explain Everything to make a picture and record ourselves sharing our information report about wheels. This was our first attempt so we still have lots to learn about drawing pictures and making recordings.