We have started our growth mindset maths day challenges every Friday. We have been learning how to work in groups and that our brain grows when we make mistakes and that it is okay to make mistakes.
Here was one of our challenges for Maths last week where we had to interpret this graph as a team. We came up with some fantastic ideas so that next week we can make our own!

Room 21 have been also inquiring about how we are harming the earth. This week we looked at what waste can do to the earth if left in the landfill. We learned that a plastic jug takes over a million years to decompose. WOW 

Well done to Loretta for achieving all these awards in the Auckland Inter school Gymnastics. We were so proud of you!!

Last Friday Doris got to teach the teacher. She taught us how to make these awesome glitter globes!

Here's some of our writing that Room 21 have been working really hard on. We did some writing on when we were sick and made poetry pops for our senses poem.

Last week Regan got to teach the teacher. Wow such a great experiment! 

This Monday for maths week Room 21, 20 and 16 did a pac man challenge where they were in teams and were given a certain amount of math challenges that they needed to complete. If they had completed a challenge they got some stick it notes to make a pac man displayed on our class window. They teams did so well!

Room 21 love our teach the teacher on Fridays! Last term Andrew shared how to make a volcanic eruption and to start the term off Diamon shared how to make eatable cars!  

We also had the Olympic flame come to Room 20, 16 and ours. The whole school came to watch our relays followed off by the Olympic oath we recited. It was a fun day!

Room 21 have also started our new topic in maths, multiplication and division. Students have done extremely well in finding groups of and using arrays to help us solve the answer 

We also were lucky to have ASB getwise programme come in and teach us about the importance of banking and saving money. We really enjoyed this and learned heaps. 

Last Friday Rose got to share with the class how something can change from a liquid to a solid and a solid to a liquid by mixing corn flower, food colouring and water. It was a fun experiment! 

In Room 21 we have been learning about the water cycle. We wanted to see how water evaporates so we did an experiment where we could see for ourselves. First we dipped our hands in water then placed them on a hand towel and drew around our hands, we then watched to see over time what was happening to our hand prints.
 

This week Loretta got to teach the teacher. She taught us how to make milos. Yum!

We also did a maths problem solving challenge where students were in a team and raced to solve problems. They needed to hand in their task cards in order to receive the other one. Well done to all the teams, especially Olivers team for taking out first place!