Term 3, Week 3

Immersion

Please have a look at our planning site to see the full workshops that we have run this week.

We have started off the week by inquiring into shapes, geometry and how we see mathematical patterns all around us.

We have explored tessellated patterns and the artist Escher who created art pieces that had us really interested in the illusions and use of positive and negative.

To help us grow our knowledge and understanding we have tapped into Studyladder and Khan academy as well as attending workshops to boost our thinking.  We used some assessment data to help us reflect on our strengths, gaps and needs to find a course that would be of the best use to us.

Have a look at the planner to find our support links that we use to reinforce and extend thinking.

Exploring Fibonacci number patterns and making connections to the magic of mathematics in nature!

Fibonacci Number Pattern
0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13...

Provocation Movie Shared

Exploring tessellating patterns

We were asked to manage our time and have a completed tessellating pattern art work by the end of Monday. Dispositionally, this meant we had to self manage and also collaborate effectively with others.  We also had to problem solve throughout the day when we got 'stuck' or 'in the learning pit.' Lots of the immersion this week has been based on the children problem-solving and having to think about growing resilience.  

Our student led workshops are continuing.  Amy ran an origami workshop, Mackenzie ran a musical theatre workshop & Maia took a Minecraft workshop.

In order to run a workshop:
All students have to complete a lesson planner, showing thought out learning goals, plan and organise resources whilst thinking about the sequence of their lesson.  They then reflect on what went well and what they would do differently.  It's a great opportunity to share our passions and develop leadership skills.

Amy's workshop

Rulers, pencils, compasses and protractors!

Can you please check that your child has the above equipment as we are using these tools as a part of our maths learning.

The weather is warming up and we have been noticing when our energy is sometimes lacking during the day.  The students are able to plan into their day a brain break and go for a run around to recharge.  Lisa is also starting up our regular run club. We will be plotting the distances and also exploring times.   We have also reflected that we need more P.E in our week so some students are going to run student lead sports skills and Lisa & Reid will be taking us for some games.

Today our reading group learnt how to make hokey pokey. We studied the recipe and discussed the vocabulary in the text. We worked out how we would grease, dissolve and froth our ingredients.

Some of our first attempts burnt, so second time around we kept the temperature of the elements much lower and the result was fantastic; crunchy, melt in your mouth hokey pokey!

We then linked this cooking to what we have learnt about adding a base such as baking soda to another element. We discussed baking soda as a rising agent, releasing bubbles and carbon to make our mixture rise and froth.