The Last Week!

This has been a very busy term for 4/5Navy and we are looking forward to finishing the term with a BANG! For the last two weeks we have been busily working on our individual inquires which aim to answer the question “How might we share our interests to extend our learning?” We have been working tirelessly to learn about the various things we are interested in and sharing our new knowledge with the community. It has been wonderful to have parent ‘experts’ in the classroom to help us as we work towards achieving great things.

This week we are holding the 4/5Navy EXPO. It will be running over two days and consist of a variety of events and must see items.

Students will be running a Café where they will be sharing their cooking creations, a cooking class and recipes. On Friday students will be sharing their creations, presentations and knowledge.

We look forward to seeing you there!

 

This week in 4/5Navy we say farewell to Mrs Giebels. She has been with our class since week one this term and we have really enjoyed having her with us. We have learnt lots from Mrs Giebels and we hope she has learnt a few things  from us too.

This term we have been learning all about plants, life cycles and adaptations in Discovery.  We are certainly expanding our vocabulary and are able to include words like adaptation, habitat, consumer and producer in our work. It is very important that we learn about and care for our environment, especially as the Ormeau community grows.

We redesigned the Domino today! What did you do?

Today students brought in their prototypes from our challenge yesterday which was "Could you design a new domino?".

 

We shared them this morning and then went about making our prototypes better. Then we were told that a fictional character acting as the CEO of Dominoes Australia would be coming in tomorrow morning to see why she should adopt our new domino design. With a clear task, context and audience we began prototyping a pitch. Initially we just wanted to feed forward on each others domino prototypes but after some practise we began to understand how to help each other improve just our pitch and then took every opportunity to do this including getting feed-forward from our peers, Mrs. Geibles, Mrs. McLean and then our Prep buddies.

 

Needless to say we are very excited to pitch our new domino designs tomorrow. This is a great opportunity to work individually and with others on our ability to use/give feed forward, think outside the box, speak to an audience, ask questions and continue to build our creativity.

 

Some of our new domino prototypes include:
Glass-rainbow-people(dots)-tiny-cone shaped domino
 

And many many more!

 

Paper-colourful-dog biscuits-large-rectangular domino

Wooden-plain-starry-traditional sized domino

 

Discovery

This term in Discovery we are looking at the life cycles, environments and adaptations. We have been attempting to grow beans in a variety of places and in a variety of conditions. So far some of our plants have flourished and some have done nothing except begin to smell. We have been analysing which conditions are best and the effects of giving our plants too much water or sun, etc.

Today we had to opportunity to plant our growing beans and plant more seeds, in the school's garden beds. Now that we have analysed what enables the bean to grow we are confident that we will have a budding crop of Broad Beans very soon.