Team work

On Friday 8 February 2013 Room 6 had a team challenge. This team is making pancakes. Each team took turns at making pancakes, putting up tents and making movies.

This is fun and hard but we are still learning. To make this all happen we had to communicate and join in. We had to be careful around the pan.

This learning was really fun and we all hope to do it again.

Putting Up Tents

On 8 February,  Room 6 of  Springston School had a fun morning putting up tents, making pancakes and making movies.

I brought my tent to school and we had a mission
putting them up and taking them down.

We had to communicate with each other in our team. We also had to join in and all take part and have jobs to do.

Pushing Mr T's car in a team

This is Mr T's car. We were working as a team. It took 11 seconds to push with 5 people working as a team. It is a cool car.

We had to push the car 20 metres. Someone was timing how long it took.

We learnt that team work is the best, the more people working in the team the better. It was a pretty cool day.

Putting up the tent

                  

The team helped each other to put up the tent. They got better on the second go because they talked more and shared their ideas.

Pushing Mr T's Car

This was a team work challenge.

When one person tried to push the car it took 30 seconds.  As more people joined the team, they went much faster.

We discovered that when you work in a team you get things done faster and better and easier.

By Lachie Y5 and Jack S Y4

Team Work - tents

Everyone was putting up tents. It was team work.

Everybody had a piece to put in to build the tent. We all worked well together because we took turns and talked about our plan.

We liked the design of the tent and had an expert expert called Isabella who had the same tent at home.

Written by George Y5 and Tor Y4

Working as a team

Today we pushed Mr T's little car. We wanted to see if a team was better at pushing than one person.   We found out that TEAM's are the fastest.  We thought it was great fun getting to steer the car.  Mr T is very trusting.

Jig-saw Team Work

One person from each of our teams met to find out the information about the artist Kandinsky - hidden in secret envelopes. We made notes and then went back to share what we had learned with our home team.

Maggie's Home Learning

This is a picture Maggie sent me of her home learning. I wonder what she is making. This is the first home learning picture for 2014! (oops - really 2013!)

Team Work

Our class has been working on what it takes to work as an effective team.

Happy harvest - from my garden.

I visited The Secret Garden this morning and everything has been GROWING!  We will have to harvest the last of the allotments then dig them all over and begin again.  You should have seen the weeds!

Yesterday I took my Christmas present out into the garden and picked lots of produce.  Can you recognise anything in my basket?  I wonder how many different plants we can name in comments below.  Isabella, I know you are watching and will be the first to respond.  Who else is checking out the blog before school?

Bonus points for anyone who can tell me what this type of basket is called!

Welcome to the E-Team.

10, 9, 8 .... the countdown has begun.  Just a few more days till we we are back at school and all the excitement begins.  Here are a few things we have planned just to get you eager and ready to return:

1.  Swimming from DAY ONE!
2.  5 iPads in the class
3.  Putting up tents and baking pancakes in week 1-2
3.  Shared lunch in week 3
4.  Camp near the end of the term

Earn huge Brownie Points by writing a comment about what you hope we might get to do as part of our learning this year. Put your first name at the end of the comment so we know the great idea was yours.

I can't wait till Friday 1st February.   Enjoy the last few days of holiday and remember to write a comment on this blog post.

From your very excited teacher - Allana