The Second Gold Medal

Today we played balloon hockey in the hall with Room 19. It was fun!

Thanks Mrs Hardaker!

The second gold medal went to...
Jared from Swaziland, silver was Mary from India and bronze was Brayden from Tonga :)

First Gold for Scotland!

Our first gold medal goes to Scotland! Silver to Canada. Bronze to South Africa. The event was Compass Fitness. Well done to Cameron for bringing home the gold for Scotland!

Master Chef Champions!

Master Chef - Video Maker

Our Master Chef day was so much fun! The Minions ended up overall champions, after winning the Brunch and the Spaghetti Tower Challenge. The lunch challenge was a six way tie, because we ran out of time to judge that. I was so proud of how all the tribes worked together, showing teamwork and putting Parkvale PRIDE into action. A huge thank you to the parents who helped on the day. Without you, none of this awesomely engaging learning opportunity would've happened.  

Judges' plates for our Brunch Challenge.

Designing a new swimming pool

The rich task - key tricky word - compound shape!

Today, we did self assessment of where we thought we were on our rich task progression. It was a tough rich task and us teachers had many debates on ways to work it out.

Room 6 assessed what we could do well and what our next steps in learning are. Click on the cluttered notes on our Padlet and you can scroll through which each student wrote.

Created with Padlet

Battle of the Banners

Battle Of The Banners from Kieren Moriarty on Vimeo.

We have our cooking day for Survivor Camp tomorrow. Today the tribes painted their banners. Watch the trailer to enjoy some of their creative process. Which tribe has the best banner? We have yet to vote on this. Your comment will help decide the outcome.

The Warriors

Minions

Green Thunder

Bubble Survivors

Golden Ferns

Blueberries

Survivor Tribes

The countdown to our Survivor Camp on Thursday has begun. Here are the tribes. Who do you think has the best name? Why?

Perimeter and Area of a Bivvy

Jaidyn's 3D bivvy model

For our Survivor Camp, we are going to make bivvies to sleep in. There is a back-up plan involving tents if they don't quite work out! On Monday, we tried measuring the perimeter and working out the area a bivvy would take up. We tackled this challenge with our learning buddies. Now we are working out how much the perimeter and area would be for a three person bivvy. I am very impressed by the thinking, measuring and problem solving using number strategies!

Now some students are designing 3D models of their bivvies.



Perimeter & Area of a Bivvy from Kieren Moriarty on Vimeo.

Can We Save The World?

Room 20 has been given a challenge to save the world from a hypothetical asteroid attack. It was given to us by Kevin Honeycutt.

Impact Zone

Mr M's IWB Sketch

World Savers (Groups)

This is the link to the Doomsday-1 Project. It has many resources to help us research information. We are trying to be as accurate as we can with our maths and science.

Wish us luck!