Goodbye my lovely Room 21

Just wanted to post some last pictures for you all to view over the holidays. I will truly miss all of Room 21's beautiful faces and I can't wait to here all the amazing things teachers will be saying about them all! 

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year everybody!

Inquiry Learning

Over the past couple of weeks we have been developing our ability to ask questions about learning. We have explored, conceptualised and inquired into various areas within and outside the classroom. These photos are only some of the moments that were captured.
In Room 21 this week we began to investigate into how other countries celebrate Christmas.

What bugs can we see?

What plants can we see?

Cynthia making number bonds to 10 

Blake making a number sentence to 10 

The Gingerbread Man

Run, run as fast as you can... This week in Room 21 we read The Gingerbread Man. We conducted a floating and sinking experiment. We predicted that a gingerbread biscuit would float but it did both. We got the opportunity to make our own gingerbread men. It was lots of fun!

Joshua and Yeji making a prediction

Youssefs' about the experiment

Daniel, Aryan and Blake making their gingerbread cookies

Yum, yum now we get to eat them!

Solving simple addition problems

Today we used our problem solving strategies to recall facts within in 10. We are always learning to count on in Room 21. Here are some pictures of what we did.

Liam and Daniel counting to 100

Joshua and Celina working with materials

Cynthia making successful outomes

Celina trying her best to solve addition problems up to 10

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

 

Cows table working hard

Big book this week was Goldilocks and the Three Bears. In our writing we decided to write an alternative ending to the traditional story. Look how focussed we are. We also learnt how to make porridge. Yum yum!

Youssef stirring the porridge

Sharing and helping others 

Kangaroos table planning their writing

Spoooky Spiders

As it was Halloween this week we decided to make our very own spooky spiders on webs. We used white oil pastels and bright coloured dye to make our art. Here are some pictures of what we did and the final outcome. 

Dying over the top of our webs

Using white oil pastel to make our webs

The final outcome

Counting On

We got to experience our maths outside of the classroom. In these pictures we are learning to recognise numbers and count on. We learnt about number lines and how to form our numbers properly.

Jacob and Julie recognising numbers

Youssef, Avrille and Cynthia problem-solving

Our class outside number line

The Three Little Pigs

This week our big book was The Three Little Pigs. We are getting so good at our sequencing skills that we are now using them in our writing. Even though Room 21 are starting to see lots of tricky words, they are all having a go and trying their best!

Modelled Writing

Red Riding Hood

For big book this week we read Red Riding Hood. We learnt about the role that characters play in a story and why they are important. This story also taught us the life lesson of being careful, we agreed that we must not talk to people we don't know.

Alice working on her Red Riding Hood Art

Kangaroo's table are having fun

Stranger Danger Poster 

New and exciting resources

This week we got to use new resources in the classroom.

We have ipads! Room 21 got to learn all about how to use the ipads and the benefits of technology.

Word Bingo - Reading

Counting on with Egg Cartons

In Maths we got to create and use a resource that helps us to count on using imaging. Now we can use it to practice our basic facts. These are super fun and easy to make! If you get the chance parents, try it at home.

Jack and the Beanstalk

This term we will be learning all about fairytales. This week we read the book Jack and the Beanstalk, we loved reading it! From this book we learnt how to sequence our ideas and we also became little gardeners. In the pictures below you can see what we did. 

Our bean plants

Simon and Cynthia drawing the Ogre

Kenny's mum came to help Room 21 plant their beans.

Calendar Art

Yay! Room 21 have finished their calendar art. In these pictures you can see the stages and process of making our calendar art. We are so happy with the final outcome, don't they look amazing! Well done Room 21!! Parents can purchase them as a calendar, cards, iphone covers and mouse pads, if you would like to know more see me for more details :)

Youssef designing his art

Cynthia scratching out her scales

All finished!

All different Shapes and Sizes

In maths this week we learnt how to sort objects. In the pictures students are organising the maths equipment by colour, shape, sizeand sets. Maths is one of our favourite subjects, look how much fun we are having!

Yeji making sets

Kenny, Youssef and Yeji orgnising by shape

Eric and Daniel sorting teddies by colour

More lovely little people

At the beginning of this week we had some new students join our class. How exciting! Welcome to the class Blake, Alice, Angela and Ethan. Aren't they clever solving puzzles all by themselves.

New Learners

Welcome to Room 21!

Welcome and hello to all,

This is the place where you will be able to see all the fun and exciting things we are learning about in Room 21. 

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Room 21 and Miss Hillier