Fairy Tales

We've been re-writing fairy tales and stories.

Check them out!

Micah The Daily Wimp from Room6HSS on Vimeo.

Charlottes Cinderella from Room62013 on Vimeo.

My Project 2 from Room62013 on Vimeo.

Catherine Cinderella from Room6HSS on Vimeo.

Vicky's Fairy Tale from Room6HSS on Vimeo.

Graham Percy

We were very inspired by our trip to the museum to see the Graham Percy exhibition. We are thinking of ways to incorporate his work into what we are doing in literacy around fairy tales- but first, we are trying to find out more about his life and artwork!

Check out this Google Doc that we have created to collaborate on our learning:

Garden Design Project Reflection

We've been working very hard designing an outdoor classroom for our school. As we finish the projects, we'll reflect on our work on our blogs.

The blog post should include thoughtful responses to these questions:
(please type out the questions in bold on your post)

1. What was the problem with the existing area?

2. Describe in detail 3 features of your design. How are they solutions to the problems that you found?

3. Reflect on how your group worked together. What did you do well as a group? What was a challenge? Did YOU participate fully? How?

4. What were the names of your group members?

You will also need to embed your group's proposal (see me, Chayden, Vicky or Gloria for help with this) and the 3D design onto your blog.

Have a look at these posts as excellent examples. Remember to leave them a comment to let them know what you think!
http://gloriar6.blogspot.co.nz/
http://vickyblog2013.blogspot.co.nz/2013/11/outdoor-classroom.html
http://chaydenhss.blogspot.co.nz/

The First Annual Room 6 2 1/2 Hour Film Competition

What's the best way for Room 6 to celebrate two birthdays in one day? A film competition of course!

I have been wanting to try this with the kids as a way to encourage creativity and bring the Key Competencies to the forefront of our group work. Shout out to Room 4 and Mr. O'Regan for sharing the idea with us!

The plan:

In groups, students got to choose a 'theme'- we brainstormed these and came up with scary, adventure, comedy, musical, family and.....romantic. Surprise surprise, most groups chose comedy!

Each group was given a prop and encouraged to use it in a creative, 'outside the square' way. These included a ring, an umbrella, a glue gun, a basket, scales and sunscreen.

Each group also had a line that they had to include in their script. Can you guess what it was from viewing the videos?

The finished films were meant to be no longer than 2 minutes long.

Once that was all sorted the groups had 2 1/2 hours to plan, film, edit and submit their films. Not much time, but they all made it!

Have a look at our finished products. I reckon we have some budding directors, actors and comedians!!

Best use of the prop goes to:

Pandoniesa Gone Wrong from Room6HSS on Vimeo.

Best use of the line goes to:

The Cursed Ring from Miss Bailey on Vimeo.

Best overall goes to:

The Mystery Stick from Room6HSS on Vimeo.



....and here are all of the fabulous runners up:

The Mystery Muffin Box from Room6HSS on Vimeo.

The Confused Kid from Miss Bailey on Vimeo.


The Halloween Monkey from Miss Bailey on Vimeo.

The End Of The World from Miss Bailey on Vimeo.

Masked Parade

Here are some photos from the Masked Parade- we had heaps of fun and won the best school category! Go HSS!!!!

Masked Parade

We are busy getting ready for the Masked Parade on Friday! Tatiana did an amazing post about it on her blog- have a look here- be sure to leave her a comment to let her know what you think. :)

Remember the Masked Parade is this Friday, October 18th. We are meeting at Montgomery Square at 5pm. HSS has been allocated to row B11.  Students need to be wearing all black or dark colours if possible, and have masks and shields ready to go (we will send those home on Friday afternoon). Parents need to stay at the parade and collect their children from the meeting point at 6:30 promptly.

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Prime Numbers

If you need help with your maths homework question this week, check out these links for some definitions and examples:

http://www.mathsisfun.com/definitions/prime-number.html

http://www.mathwarehouse.com/arithmetic/numbers/prime-number/




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pgA-H77BLc&feature=share&list=TL-V_csZ3pATU

If you don't know what a prime number is, this is a great opportunity for you to teach yourself! I always try Googling the topic with the word 'kids' to get simple definitions/examples (E.G. "prime numbers kids"). Please leave any other helpful links you find in the comment section below- we'd love to see other websites or videos that you find helpful!

Endangered Species

We've been doing a lot of work in Room 6 about endangered species and what we can do to help them.

Check out some of our finished projects:


Holly's Endangered Species from Miss Bailey on Vimeo.






Gloria and Charlotte's website:
http://gloriale4.wix.com/coral-reefs

Vicky's website:
http://savetheasianelephants.webs.com/

Kobie's website:
http://deermouse.webs.com/

Tatiana's interview:

Tatiana White Tiger from Room6HSS on Vimeo.

Ski Day

We had an awesome time at Rainbow Ski Field yesterday!

Friday Passions

Have a look at what some of the students have been up to in our Friday Passions Groups!
Thanks to Mr. Ashby for making the video. :)

My Project from simon ashby on Vimeo.

Welcome to Term 3!

Welcome back to school! We have already been very busy here in Room 6, and we are loving our new topic about survival and the test of time. Last week we were discussing things that have and have not stood the test of time. We had some great conversations about forms of communication that have died out so we decided to do some research and create mini presentations on what we found.

Check out some examples of our work:

Mores code from Amelia Kearney on Vimeo.

Tatiana Brianna Madi from Room6HSS on Vimeo.

We're Awesome

Check out some fantastic photos and videos from our end of term project! Room 6 has been working very hard. We've learnt a lot about group work, productivity, imovie and of course....space!


Rhys, Noah and Catherine:

Rhys Noah Catherine Escape Plan from Miss Bailey on Vimeo.

Charlotte, Brianna and Mason:

 Kobie and Tatiana:

 Micah, Gloria and Connor:

 Zavier and Jack:

Holly and Carys:

 Georgia, Olivia and Chayden:
Escape Plan Chayden Olivia Georgia from Room6HSS on Vimeo.

Vicky, Reegan and Joe:

Vicky And Reegan Escape Plan from Miss Bailey on Vimeo.

Sophie, Jasper and Ricky:
Sophie Jasper Ricky Escape Plan from Miss Bailey on Vimeo.

Millie, Sami and Zana:
:
Escape Plan Millie And Sami from Miss Bailey on Vimeo.