Room 231 students …….
On YOUR blog, in a blog post ……
embed the image of the plant that you were the expert for (from our flickr account - remember to login so that you can grab the code) and
write a post detailing it’s range of tolerance and it’s optimal environment.
You many also add any extra information [...]
Each week on F day we read with our KinderBuddies. KinderBuddies are Kindergarteners.
Room 231 students, please write a reflection post about reading with your kinderbuddy by this Friday. You could talk about why it’s an important thing to do, what you are learning by doing it and what you think your kinderbuddy might be getting [...]
Here Room 231!
Below is the tutorial for logging into VoiceThread and how to leave a comment (using your own identity) on your group’s page. I’m interested to see how many of you can teach yourself what to do just by using this tutorial and of course, your own brains!
Good luck …… (and remember, you can [...]
We’ve come to the end of our second Personal Narrative Writing Unit - Raising the Quality of Narrative Writing. Your next blog task is to reflection on how Writing Workshop worked for you as you focused on gathering more unpolished gems, chose an unpolished gem to work with, and then began to polish it and [...]
Our budding young scientists in Grade 5 have been learning about Variables and how to investigate them. During the investigations they have been learning things like how to use a two-coordinate graph, how to predict, how to identify variables and control them, setting standards and recording data.
To help them with their reflection [...]
Late this morning we had our very first skype call. We were “SQUIRTing” (aka: super quiet uninterrupted independent reading time) when the sound of a telephone ringing interrupted the silence of the classroom.
“Hello Daughter” said Ms H’s mum.
“Hello Mum, would you like to talk to my class?” replied Ms H.
We crowded around the laptop (cos [...]
I just came across this little gem of a site (thanks to our fabulous Miss Tara in the Learning Hub). It’s called What Should I Read Next?
Let me tell you a little about it …….. it’s a huge database that allows you to type in a book you like and get a list of [...]
Continue reading about Readers in Room 231 - Check This Out!
Another week has passed and it was chocka-full of exciting learning!
We’ve spent the week investigating Variables (like last week) in Science except this time we’ve been investigating whether the variable of capacity affects the number of passengers a boat can hold. Our prediction was that yes, capacity does affect the number of passengers and we [...]
As we begin to blog in Room 231, there’s a lot of things that we’re going to be learning more about. Keeping ourselves safe online is a pretty important topic so here’s a fun way for us to start!
Thanks to Mr Crosby and his class of awesome bloggers - we’re going to do the 7 [...]
