Mrs England's Geometry Group

We have been learning all about 3D shapes in Geometry.

We now know we describe 3D shapes using faces, corners, edges and sides.

Today we traced around all of the faces of our 3D shape.

Here are some photos from our lesson. 

Certificates Week 3 Term 2!

Congratulations Hub 1 Students!

These 6 WONDERFUL learners gained certificates this week in Hub 1.

We are proud of their wonderful achievements!

Amazing Origami!

Amazing Origami Flower

Brittany lead her group to create this amazing Origami design. She had help from Carys, Julia, Taylor and Angela to create this amazing origami flower.

She collaborated with the girls to create different parts of the flower and then put all the individual parts together to create the final design. She followed the instructions correctly and followed the sequence in the right order to create her flower as directed. 

It looks stunning so far and we CANNOT wait to see the final coloured in flower!

Break through

Mrs England's Break Through Groups:

Friday the 4th of April has been a busy and full on day here in Hub 1.

One of Mrs England's break through groups, The Balloon group, have been reflecting on their break through choice and  have decided to move on and find a new topic/ idea to research. The children felt it was time to move on from balloons as they had researched about their history, found lots of balloon shapes to make and had a go blowing and tying them up. 
Half of the group moved into the art group, as they really wanted to research and find out about Origami, while the other half of children wanted to explore their passion in Magic, and were able to join that group.
The Origami group researched its history, coming from Japan. They also researched all of the shapes they would like to explore more in Origami. e.g. flowers, hearts. Here is the website that had a range of shapes to create: 

http://en.origami-club.com/

Mrs Ponomaryova brought in a book for the group to look through and many of the shapes are easily created by the children independently. 

The Magic group brainstormed all of the tricks and what they know about Magic to know what they wanted to find out about Magic. The boys researched using YouTube all of the tricks they wanted to look into - blowing fire etc. They found out you need to use gloves and water and be aware of the location of the trick, so no one comes to any danger.

The girls carried on with their magic trick of making someone disappear. They thought carefully about what they needed to do to the box to make the trick work. They came up with putting a hole in the bottom of the box, with a door like function so it looks like their is no hole (Its a secret door). Wonderful thinking!

Even though one break through topic has ended (balloons) it is just great to see how the other children have become so focused and interested in their new chosen passion- bring on the next break through! I can't wait to see the exciting ideas and new learning that will come from this new research. 

Mrs England's Break Through Groups

Mrs England's Break through groups

This is the dance group. They have been practicing on the stage in the hall. Mrs McDonald has been working with them the last two Fridays to support this dance group. 
The dance is really coming together. 
They are now working on keeping closer on the stage when dancing in a group and are now sorting out costumes for their performance. 

These boys and girls have been researching how to tie a balloon on YouTube. They found a wonderful clip.

You can view the clip on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzpMuO1BnJ

(the video can be viewed at the bottom of the page)

It has been very helpful to their break through goal- they are so close to achieving it! Go boys! 

The magic group have been practicing and researching a range of tricks they can do. 

Here is Justin doing his 'Cut the string' Trick. Enjoy :).

Here is the Dance groups run through of their dance at the moment (rehearsal #1).

Break Through!

Mrs England's Break Through Groups

21/02/2014

Balloons:

Today the Balloon Group's goal was to blow up and tie a balloon.
Many children had a go at using the pump, but didn't actually blow up a balloon using their mouth.
Some children watched YouTube clips to work out how to tie up a balloon while others experimented using their hands and balloons. 

It is a hard skill and the children are struggling with achieving this goal. Next week we may have to use different balloons that the children can easily blow up themselves without a pump and they will actually be able to tie the balloons. 

Mujtaba and Carys ACHIEVED their goal! They blew up a balloon, using a pump, AND tied a balloon!!!!! AWESOME WORK!!
Caleb and Taylor had go tying their balloons- Keep trying! :)

Next step... 
We didn't have time to look at balloons online. Our next step is to look at balloons online (for experts to have a go) and use NORMAL balloons to blow up and tie.

                           Hip Hop Dance:

The Hip Hop Dance group have been watching YouTube clips of dance moves today learning some basic moves to add in to their dance. Its been amazing watch them learn from the clips and other members in their group.

The girls are enjoying working together and trying out a range of dance moves. 

Next Step...

Hannah taught the group some moves.

YouTube clips to learn basic dance moves.

Our next goal is to dance on the stage to know how to move and work as a group on a stage when performing.

                                  Magic:

The Magic group used Google search to discover a new magic trick. Using a scrunched up piece of paper you put the pencil on the paper, you slowly push down on the pencil and the pencil rises and looks like is it is floating.  They also watched YouTube clips to discover how to do different tricks.

Next Step...

We used Youtube and Google to find tricks. We experimented with 2-3 tricks.

Next goal is to find a trick that involves no hands and having something free falling/ standing.

                                   Art:

Julia worked independently, as Brittany was away today. Julia worked on drawing an image and experimenting using water colours and paint brushes. She is becoming familiar working with a paint brush!

Next step...

Used water colours and experimented with paint brushes. House painting, cake and a present.

Next goal: Use actual paint to create the image- diamond.

Measurement: Learning about Capacity!

Mrs England's Measurement learners...

Today we focused on learning about capacity and volume.

We now have an understanding that capacity is the amount of space within a object and how much it can hold. 

We were able to order a range of containers, all different sizes, to see what ones had the smallest capacity, to the largest containers having a larger capacity. It was a very fun activity. 

The children gained a better understanding of how to find out how to find out a containers capacity and to see if it is larger or smaller than others. 

The children also used explored what millilitres (ml) and litres (L) are and how we use them to measure the weight of containers and their capacity.

We felt what a litre was, using a 1 litre milk bottle and then used this knowledge to compare other objects weight. 

We used a continuum and made decisions about where other objects sat on our 'buckets' (continuum) and placed where we believed each object sat by its weight e.g. if it was more, about or less than a litre.

Measuring Time

Mrs England's Measurement Group

 Mrs England's measurement group has been focusing on time this week. 

We have been learning about using seconds, minutes and hours to measure time. 

Today we timed ourselves completing a range of activities to see how long it took us to complete each one. Some of us drew pictures, writing numbers 1-100, jumping for a certain number of times, while others created a lego creation. Some of these activities were quick to complete while others took longer, about 5- 10 minutes. 

We used a digital clock to time ourselves, and some children had a go using the analogue clock, which was a lot harder.