Room6@Sunnyhills

This week we have started looking at 2D shapes. We have been learning new shapes, discussing the angles within them and using some geometrical language to talk about them. Then, to apply our new knowledge, we have started to create shape comics! Check out how we are going.

In room 6 for the last four weeks we have been using an amazing kit to help us develop our knowledge about Statistics and Measurement. We have researched what it takes to create a world record, created our own records and now we are testing and challenging them. While we are testing our records we are using lots of mathematical language, measuring things using the metric system, converting measurements, collecting data, organising data, analysing data and soon we will be presenting and displaying data. We are having so much fun working with friends and using our Sunnyhills GEMS to help us create our world records. Check out some of the photos from today!                

Room 6 is working through another glorious school kit. This one is designed to test our measurement skills, creativity and data displaying skills. This kit is all about creating and breaking world records! We have been very excited exploring different world records on guinnessworldrecords.com and discussing the different types of measurements used. We created a record 'The fastest average score when clicking on a mouse pad with your left hand on humanbenchmark.com while standing on your right foot in milliseconds' and challenged each other to beat it. It was a lot of fun to try to improve our own scores, work out the averages and compare results. Next, we are going to be coming up with more original world records and testing them as a class. We can't wait!             

As part of our inquiry topic Turangawaewae, we are going to be creating pieces of art that represent ourselves. We will sketch the outline of our heads and shoulders, then fill the inside of our profile with pictures and words of things that are important to us and make us who we are, finally we are going to add colour in the form of dye. It will look fantastic. Today we watched an amazing tutorial on how to sketch an eye and then practiced some of the techniques that we saw. This will help us when we start to sketch the outlines of our heads and shoulders and when we sketch all of the wonderful things inside. What do you think of our eyes?