Week 4, Term 3

Our learning theme in Ruma Rima, for students and the teacher, continues to revolve around developing an understanding of what a 'Growth Mindset' is. Our focus has been on overcoming challenge, and learning about what to do when you are stuck. Science fair, innovative ways of learning, and learning to work together has helped us to develop towards being open to new ways of learning.

“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” - Winston Churchill

Science Fair

Managing time and using strategies/tools to complete tasks, has ensured that most students are comfortably completing their science projects that are due next week. Part of having a 'Growth Mindset' is about making sure that we keep on improving (unlike the timing of our classroom blog posts!) on skills, attitudes and effort. Below is an image (which is similar to the image from the 'Science Fair' booklets distributed last term) which serves as a reminder of the required parts/aspects of your science fair project that should be displayed on the board. A few students have forgotten about the journal, which is kind of like a blog or record of the experience. Don't panic if this has not been complete - will be something to improve on for next year.

PE Teams

Sport education is about using the 'sport team' model to learn about cooperation, collaboration, problem solving, and making connections with people. This term we are working to establish teams within the classroom who will work together to 'gain points' in a competition that mimics a sport tournament. We have six teams that are lead by 6 students voted in by the rest of the class as 'leaders' in our room. These captains, with Mr Fourie's guidance, selected teams that would be fair and effective in helping students to learn skills that will be useful for working as a team in the future. They have had their first challenge (maths challenge) to try working together. We will use the video below to reflect/improve on our team's strategies for working together.

Learning about Light

Light is an interesting subject of conversation. It's all around us, yet we have no idea of what it looks like! Jack's science fair project is about creating a hologram using a smart phone. As a class we will be building on Jack's idea of a smart phone hologram to see if we can come up with something even better... or at least bigger. We have used words to try to explain what happens when a hologram is created. Traditionally we would have written an 'Explanation' of the science concept... but we tried to use a creative solution to understand what is happening a bit better. Our creative solution is using the basics of the concept of a hologram to create a recount (story) about the experience from a 'Proto' perspective. Very complex language and concepts... but makes for interesting discussion and learning! Below are videos we have used to understand light and holograms better.