Certificates Week 5

Congratulations Hub 1 Students!

These 5 AMAZING learners gained certificates this week in Hub 1.

Great work everyone!

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. 

Break Through

Mrs England's Break Through Fridays!

 Taylor was determined to find out information from a book she found about balloons. She sat with Mrs England and found out some new information about balloons by listening and reflecting on the information Mrs England read. She now knows balloons are filled with air and gas. They get bigger when they are filled with air and they become heavier. When they are not blown up they are light. 

Oliver has been VERY determined! He wanted to tie a balloon up from day one of break through and guess what??!!! HE HAS DONE IT!! He was able to think, and reflect, about how to tie a balloon using YouTube clips and reading articles on google search- AWESOME thinking and connecting! He has definitely used the learning process by making meaning with his research and now applying his understandings by using the clips to help him.
 I am so proud of his achievement. He did it all by himself as well which is just wonderful! 

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 have been hard at work today in Hub 1…

The Balloon group managed to ALL blow up their balloons. Many even managed to tie them up! 

We decided to stop trying to tie up our balloons, as it was getting to hard to do. We are now researching animals we want to make for next week and going to have a go at making them. 

Julia and Brittany were able to experiment with paint and create some wonderful paintings.

Next week they want to experiment with another art media and research some other medias to use to create art.

The magic group researched and found many tricks they can do (40 in 4 minutes) WOW!

This group was so focused today- good on you! They are not going to try out these tricks and bring some materials from home to help them do the tricks.

The dance group had some time in the hall today going over their dance and working together to go over some moves. They are now wanting to organize costumes for their performance and to keep practicing their dance to get better at performing on the stage area. 

They also want to create a document explaining all of the roles and dance moves each person can do so that they know who is doing what and as a group they know who can do what and that they are all taking part- good on you girls! 

Building our Learning Capacity in writing.

Numeracy

Strand Math Measurement:

We are comparing what is smaller and bigger than our Gingerbread man.