Class Shield

During Friday whole school assembly there is a shield up for grabs for the best class during assembly. 

This week assembly was hot, long and sticky! Room 14 were amazing! They showed each of the school values and were fantastic throughout the assembly. 

Because of this we are now lucky enough to have a new piece of furniture in Room 14 this week. The children were also awarded $100.00 which was the amount they set at the beginning of the year if they received the class shield. Just in time for the end of term auction! 

Keep up the great work Room 14! 

Principals Award

This week our class principal's award went to: Patrick!

Patrick you have been putting in fantastic effort in your school work, your a great friend and you often help others. 

Patrick your balloon is flying high and I look forward to watching you continue on your learning path this year. 

ANZAC Poppys

ANZAC Day is fast approaching so Room 14 are starting to read some books and hear some stories about this event. 

One of this weeks must do tasks was to cut out a poppy and write a special message to a loved one or a solider from one of the stories.

Here is what some of the children have started writing: 

Food experiment

For our inquiry we have been diving into Ocean Pollution and Environmental Disasters that effect our water ways.

We are now focusing our attention on how and why the rubbish is making its way to the ocean. We are also learning about one of our main questions: How can we decrease the amount of solid waste before it gets to the landfill?

One experiment we are doing in class is watching to see how long it takes for different materials to biodegrade. 

Today we set up our experiment! We will now photograph it over the next two weeks to see what happens.

Which material do you think will biodegrade first?

Plastic bag, plastic straw, tissue paper, orange peel, apple core or newspaper. 

Principal Award

A big congratulations to this week's Principal's award winner:

Camille!

Camille, you have slotted into life in Room 14 perfectly. You have made friends, you have high work standard and expectations of yourself and you are a pleasure to have in our class. 

Welcome, and we wish you all the best for your time here at HNPS. 

Must do!

Last week saw the start of must do tasks. 

The students have set tasks and times where we have whole class teaching and activities. Once this is finished it becomes must do time and the children need to self manage in order to get the weekly and daily must do tasks completed. 

What an excellent effort for their first proper go and week doing this! The students worked in their groups and held each other accountable for ensuring they go the work completed. They even held me for ransom at one stage because I hadn't printed a photo they needed! Excellent. 

Here is what our must do charts looked like come Thursday!

Once the children have done this for a few weeks and go the hang of how it all works we will then introduce completing their own timetables! 

All very exciting here in Room 14. Make sure you come along and check out the action. 

Easter Egg Hunt!

In the spirit of Easter, Room 14 had an Easter Egg Hunt! 

The children had to write a set of instructions for someone else in the class to find a hidden Easter Egg. 

With about 4 other classes doing the same thing at the same time we were lucky to only lose 1 egg! 

Most children really put into practice what they have learnt in maths about writing instructions and included compass points, time connectives and numbered each instruction. 

An excellent way to end our unit on Position and Orientation. 

A visit from some cuddly friends

On Wednesday 23rd March Room 14 had a wonderful visit from 4 furry friends..

They told us that they were here to report back to the Easter Bunny about how well behaved they are and if they were completing their must do tasks. 

The children loved having a cuddle and we even wrote about what we thought it would have been like being in Room 14 from the perspective of one of the bunnies.