Room 2 - Day Out? Idea

It has been suggested that we go for a class trip to Quail Island later in the term when other classes are visiting the A and P Show.

What are some of the things we need to do to make this happen?

Brainstorm what you think and list your ideas in your journal

Then look at the secret list

• Book a date with the ferry company
• Work out the cost
• Get permission from Mr. Dolan
• Work out the risk management for the day
• Write a letter to parents for permission, payment and help
• Make a list of the gear we would need to take
• Plan some activities for the day

City Art Project

Take a look at these word clouds

They represent the top ideas from your thinking about what you value most about school and learning

The next step is to use these ideas to help us get some direction for our city art work.

Decide on some keywords that you want to try to express in a visual way.

Take a look at these images.

Eiffel Tower

Eiffel Tower

Step 1. note taking

In your journal draw and note down the keywords and facts about the Eiffel tower.

what, where, when, why, who, how

Built in 1889

as the entrance arch for the 

World's Fair in 1889

Location Paris, France

Stands 320 metres high

Made of 18,038 pieces of iron

weighs around 10000 tonnes

and joined by two-and-a-half million rivets

visited by

250 million visitors since its opening

The tower was built despite protests from 300 leading French writers and artists

who saw it as a “hateful column of bolted sheet metal”. 

When it was opened the lifts in the tower were not yet operating, so they went up the stairs on foot. 

It took more than an hour to reach the top!

Visit the Eiffel Tower

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Step 2. Brainstorm words to describe - teacher

size

shape

texture

number

position location

colour

age

movement

like a...

Step 3.

Use your notes and brainstorm words

Use facts combined with descriptive words to create a set of 10 expressive sentences about the Eiffel Tower

Step 4.

Editing Sentences - simple - compound - complex

Make the model
Paper Toys

Days of the Week

This video introduces the maori words for the days of the week.

The video was created by a group of year 5/6 children.

Start thinking about making your own short language video.

What's next?
Could you make your own video to teach the maori days of the week?
Create a song and some pictures then do your video with puppet pals.

One Day TO GO

Today is your very, very last chance to get your products
finished, packaged and priced

Here is a checklist of things to get done:

Complete your products

Complete your product signs for your stall - clear simple message - product name, price, identify your charity

Finish your product display or stand to help you show off your products

If you are working on a video advert or video of your product in action you must have completed the items listed above first.

Make a comic strip plan of your advert in your journal FIRST.

Blog Posts - lots of your pictures have been added to the web album and are ready for you to start using them in your market day blog posts.  GO TO the web album some photos have also been added to your own photo albums. Take a look.

Caption Competition: What is Amber thinking?

Sina and Aaron:
Organise your materials to try and bake some more biscuits on Thursday morning.
The burnt tray is in the science room waiting to be cleaned!
Plan your advert in your journal then go for it.

Jack, Dylan, Maddox:
Finish your products to a high standard
Finish your display signs with pricing
Make an imove advert by using the movie trailer feature - plan out your ideas in your journal first

Alice Poppy Lily Emma:
Bag and price your slime
Finish your painted masks and add strings to all of them

Melissa Christine Holly Shawn:
Finish all the wands and your instruction books
We can photocopy and stain the books on Thursday morning
Finish the signs you need for your stall

Rebecca and Eleanor
Great work on your video add and getting it on to your blog:-)
Take a look at the photos on the web album and use them to create a series of posts that tell the story of your product making.  Remember to tag them "Not Just for Profit"

Amber and Sophie
Finish your advert plan in your journal - then get to work with a ipad - you might even be able to upload it yourself and get it on to your blog

Aoraki Aaron and Cooper
Freeze more mini ice-blocks
Finish your signs for your stall
Then you can go back to your time-lapse video

Good luck

PS. There will be no maths on Thursday. This will give you a little extra time to finish a few things off.  We will be setting up our stalls from 11am on Thursday.

Business Ideas

Start thinking about some products that you could make for market day.  Take a look at the links below.

Consider:

• A product that your market audience will want to buy (other people at school)
• Something that is not too hard to make (your product needs to be well made)
• The skills you might need to learn to make your product.
• The tools, equipment and materials you might need to get or buy to make your product.

Let's Get Cooking

Term 2 Week 2 Challenge

To begin our inquiry into "Not Just for Profit" we first need to understand a bit more about what profit is and how it is made.
Use this classic Edmonds biscuit recipe to bake and then sell some biscuits on Friday.

The  Science and Technology Room is booked for Monday afternoon so that you can go and investigate what equipment is available for your cooking.

The Science and Technology Room is booked for Thursday 1.30pm until 3pm for you to do your cooking.

Sell your fresh biscuits on Friday at morning tea time.

Important
Keep a record of your progress through the week by taking photos of your adverts, the cooking and the selling of your biscuits.  If you use the ipads (use the same ipad for your group share one ipad between two groups) you will be able to easily upload your pictures and then add them to your blog. We can do this part next week.  PS. If I have an internet connection I'll send you some pictures of where the competition is being held.


Steps
1. Organise your cooking team (3 or 4)

2. Decide who will bring which ingredients (it might be a good idea to team up with a second group for the condensed milk - a small can will easily do this recipe 4x over)

3. You will probably want to make a double quantity (some to eat yourself and the rest to sell on Friday)

4. Check out the equipment and utensils in the technology room - you might need to bring some extra things from home. Some groups might like to bring cookie cutters.

5. Work out the cost of your biscuit ingredients.  Think about how much you will sell your biscuits for.

6. Decide on an advertising plan.  Biscuit name. Poster campaign.  
7.  A reason to support us - For this first go at making a profit I suggest that we use the money for some sports gear.

8. Make your biscuits.

9. Sell your biscuits.

10. Figure out your profit.  Money made minus cost of ingredients, power and labour! 

Recipe:

125g butter
1/4 cup sugar
3 tablespoons sweetened condensed milk
2 drops vanilla essence
1 1/2 cups plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup chocolate chips (I like the large chunky ones)

Cream butter and sugar and condensed milk and vanilla until light and fluffy. Sift the flour and baking powder and add with the chocolate chips until well combined. Spoon onto lined baking tray and bake for 20 minutes at 180 deg C.

ANZAC's

On the 25th of April every year we remember the people that fought and died in past wars.

The first great (big) war was the World War I.

In 1915 many New Zealand and Australian soldiers died in Gallipoli.

Look closely at these images from World War I

What do you notice?

What do you think it was like to be part of this?

Respond to these images?

Planning for Writing

Use these keywords to help you list as many ideas as you can about the war.

Parallel Thinking Document Click

Doing – Number – Texture – Colour

Shape –Position - Size

Feels-Sounds-Looks-Smells-Tastes

World War Art Images

Click on the slide show on the right to see more photographs.

Next Step

Use your ideas to write a series of descriptive sentences that recreate these photographs in words!

Sort and organise your sentences to create a vivid memory of the war.

Camp Memories

This time last week we were at Pudding Hill enjoying camp together.

Take a snapshot of your strongest camp memories, fun activities, challenges or first time experiences.  Hold this picture in your mind.  Use these thoughts and magnify them with words and bring your memory to life in a descriptive piece of writing based on an experience from camp.

Plan - Draft - Edit - Publish on the Camp Blog
(learn how to publish your writing and add some photos)

Have a read of these camp stories from Room 1