Room 10 RBS

This week in maths we were looking at capacity. After doing an experiment on Tuesday looking at how the water level in a container rises when you put heavy objects in it we looked at what happened to a FULL container of water when you put heavy objects in it. We had been talking about Mr Achimede’s Bath and thought we’d try it out for ourselves.

Mr Archimede's Bath

However, a very strange thing happened … check out the video to see what happened.

We still haven’t figured out why the water rose ABOVE the top of the container … maybe YOU can help us.

For our homework everyone had to choose one form of communication to write about. Eli made an unusual choice.

Face Pulling

I chose to talk about face pulling for communication.

Face One: the neanderthal face. Puller(s): Sam, Eli
We pull that face to tell someone that we are not particularly interested in something.

Face Two: lip out, stomping and screeching. Puller(s): Eli
It tells you that the person is having a tanty.

Face Three: the death look. Puller(s): Mum
The death look follows a verbal warning. One eyebrow raised and total focus.

Face Four: happy face. Puller(s): Mia, Sam, Eli, Mum, Dad
It tells someone you are happy.

Recipe for an Island Holiday

• a suitcase full of clothes
• 5 large bags of food
• hooray it’s payday, a wallet full of money
• a tank full of water
• a tube full of toothpaste
• a sleeping bag

By Room 10

Ms Fothergill’s daughter came into our classroom this week and installed some old dos games on our computers. Here we are playing Maths Rescue and Word Rescue.

Dos Games on PhotoPeach

This is a slideshow of our item at the school Arts Festival.

Room 10 King Midas on PhotoPeach

Ms Fothergill bought a magnetic poetry set for us. We had lots of fun on Friday writing sentences.

What’s really good is that it’s easy to add and remove words to change the sentences around.

We also were able to use the numbers to make number sentences.

Last week was our Arts Festival. There were four night and four daytime performances. Our team performed on the opening night (Monday) and then on Wednesday during the day.

Here are pictures from our Wednesday performance.

One day Ms Fothergill told us that we weren’t going to write our weekend recounts in the usual way. Instead of drafting a story in our books we were going to draft pictures and then a script.

After we drafted the pictures we chose which comic layout we wanted to use and published our pictures. Then Ms Fothergill used her cell phone to record our scripts. Then she put them together in a voicethread.

Ms Fothergill likes to geocache as a hobby and owns a special cache called a stargate. This means she gets lots of parcels sent to her from overseas. Today she brought one into school and we got to look at all the travel bugs. These are coins or small toys that travel around the world visiting caches.

Here we are with the travel bugs.