Research Write up!

The Pens and Quills writing groups will be using this interactive to help guide your writing about your passion project research. Great design starts with great research!

How we like to learn.

Last week's question of the week asked what we do that helps them learn in our class. It was also a chance for them to suggest things we could do better or different.

Here is a brainstorm I'm collating of all their answers. It makes for great reading.



Create your own mind maps at MindMeister I am often impressed with the creativity of our students. Here's Gabby explaining through a video about the idea of 'Kaizan' which is an idea about improvement. Thanks for doing sush a good job at explaining it, Gabby!

3D Nets!

Today we are going to start learning about 3D Nets - their shapes, vertices, faces, edges and how they can be categorised. Work through this interactive series to gain a better understanding before we start our activity.

What is Empathy?

Watch this video and brainstorm ways we can listen with integrity. How can having empathy helps us?

Embeding a flickr image into your blog.

Here's a challenge for your question of the week - embed a picture from flick into your post. You can watch this tutorial I made to help remind you of the steps.

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Writing Masterpieces

I'm writing some comments on everyone's blogs and I thought, Wow! There has been some amazing progress last term with your writing!

Here are some highlights from two great posts... What do you think makes these posts great?

This is by Gabby (her name is no shown at the top).

Cardboard Challenge!

Today we ripped into making our cardboard challenge designs - here's a slideshow of some highlights. It was a great way to have a go at the design process for the first time and we really understood the importance of 're-design' to fix up and make our ideas better.

Great work, everyone!

Cardboard Challenge on PhotoPeach

The Design Process in 1 hour!

The Design Process - Quirky

Sometimes the design process can be tricky and you may need to redraw your design. Here's a video that show how many drawings or concepts a designer can go through before they get to their successful idea.

Using a number line!

Ben W lead a group to make this showme - they are explaining how to use a number line when adding 2 and 3 digit numbers! Nice work, team.

Homework W1 T4

Global Cardboard Challange

What do you think about this? Should we take part (a little late)?

Imagination.is website

Why is reading important?

Here is a great documentary we will be watching today in class. You could watch the rest of this series at home with your family! Make sure you talk about the difficult words she uses and some of the ideas this raises - are you reading every night at home?

Your choice of Technology Portfolio!

Please return this form by this Friday (with money if required). Thanks!

S.D.L. Online!

This term we will be using some online docs to organise our SDL tasks (our must dos!). Below is a screenshot of what it looks like and you can find it on the 'our files' page above.

It is 'view only' for everyone with a paper copy attached to our wall in class. You can star each task as you work through the week on our paper copy. The PA will be in charge of updating your 'stars' on the doc and we can see each others progress throughout the week.

(If you are BYOD I will share the doc with you so you can view it in your google drive)

These task should be completed before Friday or they are a homework task over the weekend. I can email your parents to ask them to help you and I will check your tasks on Monday. You can work on these at home and even before school if you'd like.

When you have finished I will have some 'Can dos' listed at the bottom of the doc.

What do you think? Is there anything you can suggest that will help us be more independent? Anything we could change or add?