Interschool cross country

Mixing sport and literacy

On Friday students from Room 8 participated in the Interschools cross country competition.

The rain pretty much held off although everyone got very muddy. All the students had trained hard and did their absolute best on the day.

Room 8 are very proud of our cross country students and a special mention goes to Tom who came 5th in the year 4 boys.

While the students were out running, back in the classroom Alexus wrote this 'recipe for cross country'. A writing focus this term has been procedural (instructional) writing. We have written simple instructions for tasks such as 'making a cup of tea', 'playing minecraft' and we also tried writing instructions in the style of a recipe. 

We brainstormed the language that is used for ingredients in recipes and applied it to real life situations.

Here is the 'recipe' by Alexus for our runners!

A Recipe for cross country!!!

First you get a big field. 

Pour in some rain drops. 

Sprinkle muddy grasses. 

Sift in a bunch of students. 

Add in a teacher and a couple of blocks. 

Touch it with a bunch of cheering people. 

Prick with a little stitch in all bodies running. 

Combine it all together and you make an uncooked Cross Country. Bake till all students are finished.

Written by: Alexus Room8

Inviting Room 2 to try out our games.

We decided to have a formal 'games day' to show Room 2 our games. We want them to be able to have a go at all the different games and then give us feedback. It is important that we hear what they think about the games so that we can evaluate our work and check the outcome of our hypotheses.

We made invitations for the students. We looked at all sorts of different invitations to see what sort of information we needed to include. For this sort of event we decided we needed the following: 

• A title for the event
• The name of the organisers
• The place
• The date and time
• Some information about what they can expect to happen at event
• Illustrations or graphics to make the invitation appealing. 

 

Kauri team try out our games

Our games are finished, we have written out instruction sheets and we are almost ready to present them to Room 2. 

But first we decided to invite students from the other Kauri team classes to have a go at playing them and give us some feedback. Students from Rooms 9, 10 and 11 came and played the games and talked to us.

They gave us really helpful feedback. Some suggestions included 

'adding some more colour to make them appealing to the younger students', 

'making the game a bit longer as it finished very quickly', 

'making the instructions a bit clearer, they are a bit confusing'.

Thank you so much Kauri team for coming and helping us out!

It was a really good opportunity to test out our games on students our own age. We knew if they had questions then our year 2 buddies would definitly have questions!

Buddy class reading

Room 8 and Room 2 continue to read together on a Friday after lunch. We do this for about 15 minutes and usually sing a song together or do some dancing as well.

Room 8 really enjoy helping their room 2 buddies with their reading. We also enjoy reading to them as this improves our own fluency when reading aloud.

        

        

Presenting our projects to the class

We decided to present our games to the rest of the class so that we could all have a go at playing them. This also helped us check that we knew exactly what we would say to our buddy class when we share them. 

The demonstration that went with this robot was fantastic

 

This game combines learning maths and geography. A huge amount of time, thought and work was put into the design and production of this work.

These are personalised learning books. Two children in Room 2 are going to feel very special!

Muesli bars with room 2

Today Mrs M and Room 2 students made a muesli bar to share with us. After we had done some reading together we all sat down and Mrs M gave out the muesli bars. They were still warm and absolutely delicious!  Thank you very much for sharing, please could you share the recipe with us?!?!?

    

Some of the muesli bars were a bit crumbly, but it didn't matter at all - still delicious. Maybe nice to sprinkle on cereal...?

Inquiry - the games are taking shape

We have spent time planning our games and now we are in the making stage. We have watched you tube videos about how to make board games and have found interesting ways to make the different parts.

We have realised that making games by hand is quite challenging and that a lot of planning is needed to make sure we don't waste time and materials.

So many cards to make!

     

Maths board games taking shape

Every single card is designed and illustrated

A mega marble run

  

Very detailed drawings 

Making ladders for 'snakes and ladders'

Painting the maths box game

The final touches to the Learning Robot

This game combines maths and geography learning

Having a go at playing