Who Are These Characters?

Our female winner

Our male winner

 

                 

Mr Strong showed off his muscles but also has a
huge house to carry. It was waiting at the parade.

Our Visit to The Olden Days

Ready to start our time travel adventure.

Listening to instructions for the day at the Centre

Morning Tea ahead of a packed two-hour seesion

 Jobs and equipment around the home

Who'll take a bath first?

A variety of cooling and refrigerating equipment

Churning the butter

Getting ready to slice the beans.

Working the mincer.

Hard at work fetching water for the home.

Ready for some group games while waitng for the bus back to school.

THANK YOU!

Thank you for all your donations of lollies for Missions Day guessing competition. Our winner was Lachie, pictured here with his prize. This was a fantastic opportunity to learn about chance. Lachie had purchased 33 out of the possible 57 chances and was most determined to win. He was however often reminded that many tickets gave him a better chance to win but it was not certain that he would win. There was a collective sigh of relief though when he won the prize. He really deserved it.

Congratulations Lachie!

The Lessons in Making

Making is Messy! 

There was stuff everywhere. That includes glue, pieces of styrofoam and streamers. Not a good sight.

Making can take a while.

250 minutes later and we could have kept going but home was beckoning so we had to pack up.

Making is engaging and FUN!

We were so engrossed in what we were making that we forgot all about morning tea until nearly ten minutes later. And there were no complaints either. There were even requests to work through lunch. 

Making is collaborative!

Lots of students walked around, sharing ideas with one another of how to make models of various pieces of play equipment.

Making helps us get better!

Students presented their models and answered questions from their classmates. Classmates provided feedback by giving two compliments and one wish - e.g. "I liked that you put a fence around the water area. 

I liked the variety of equipment.

I wish you could have made your playground more colourful." 

The models were also judged on the criteria discussed earlier:

• safety
• fun
• aesthetically pleasing

Afterwards, each student completed their own reflection on what they did really well and what they could improve on next time. 

                       

Voted among the top three models.

Voted among the top three models.

Voted among the top three models

                       

Design Thinking Steps

As we begin to use the key design thinking steps a little more in our lessons, we find that we can focus on one smaller part at a time, making the task better managed and improving our progress.

We have been learning about playgrounds, their purpose, the reason for the various types of equipment and the forces required in the course of using each one.

So far, we have been able to:

DISCOVER: by exploring the location, look and purpose of a variety of playgrounds.

DEFINE - Our goal and direction - to create a playground for a specific age group considering exercise, aesthetics and safety.

DREAM - spent much time thinking of possibilities - really digging into our imagination and thinking of ideas

On Thursday this week, we will begin to build our models and see how well they meet the criteria. Early next week, we will then evaluate the models and improve them.

We have spent some time visiting the agriculture plot and thinking about how we can use the activities that go on there to help us in different aspects of our learning. We are still in the very early stages and will keep you informed. 

Thanks for your hard work Rihanna and Lachlan