This week was Book Week. On Tuesday, we had the Brainbusters Book Week Quiz, for which Room 5 had the theme palaeontology. An awesome job the students did too of dressing up themselves and the quiz table.
Yesterday we had a visit from Siouxsie Wiles, microbiologist with a particular interest in bioluminescence. And then today is R E A D dress up day.
We spent some time reflecting as a class on the process of creating the book quiz material. Here are our thoughts:
Last week Friday we started planning out how we were going to decorate our table and dress ourselves to represent our theme palaeontology.
We had a read of books about dinosaurs and fossils, wrote down lots of ideas in groups and shared these ideas with the class. We had a vote to make the final decisions.
We used the Balmoral habit of creativity by thinking about possible themes for the table; thinking about different possible names for the team.
We practised the Balmoral habit of thinking to generate these ideas together as teams.
We planned out what we needed to make and what we needed to bring, then we worked in teams to make our costumes and table decorations.
Making the costumes:
- Alice thought she maybe could bring her costume stuff in a day earlier to be prepared.
- Dev was pleased that he created his costume in one day - quicker than usual.
- The whole class: Balmoral Habit of creativity - using old fabric scraps and paper scraps to create costumes
- Keeru struggled with choosing her materials for her costume. She had to use the Balmoral habit of communicating to ask others to support her and help her create her costume.
- In fact, Jo saw everyone using the Balmoral habit of communicating to work together and problem solve.
Managing self - it’s a class goal at the moment. So how did we do?
Yay - these were great things
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Mmmm, oops, maybe different next time
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When Will started making the clubs and other people joined in to help making lots of them.
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In the audience for the book quiz - keeping our clubs to ourselves (and modelling to teachers how to keep their light sabres to themselves).
When Jo popped out of the class at times, we got a bit noisy.
After the book quiz, coming back to class, the whole block was a little out of control and rowdy.
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“We looked good.”
“#Swag”
“The table crew worked really hard and the table looked amazing.”
“Everyone was really independent and focused on making their outfit and this showed - it came out really well.”
“I think that our costumes looking amazing, especially Ullrich’s because he made his own pterodactyl suit. Justin’s mask too. We all spent so long making them.”
“I think that our costumes looking amazing, especially Ullrich’s because he made his own pterodactyl suit. Justin’s mask too. We all spent so long making them.”
“I think our table stood out and looked really good.”
“I think it looked pretty cool, because when we looked at the volcano we made, we didn’t think it had enough detail. So we improved it by adding more detail - Samara came and added creative ideas too, like the orange paper for lava.”
“I liked the special effects like the dinosaurs with their guts getting ripped out.”
“I felt like we were going to win the best dressed prize.”
