Our Term 2 reviews

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By Billy

Goal Setting - Mindmapping style

This week we have been setting goals to direct our learning for the term. We used a mindmapping structure to form our goals and state what strategies we will use to achieve them.
Before we started we discussed a set of criteria to follow when creating a mindmap. This is what we came up with:

* Our branches needed to look 'organic' i.e they needed to look like tree branches.
* Each branch needed to be the length of the writing.
* Each branch needed to be coloured differently.
* We needed to make our sentences short, using keywords.
* We needed to allow space to add to our mind map at the end of the term.
* We needed to add pictures to support our ideas.

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Term 2 Goal Setting

Today we started drafting our learning goals for the term. We discussed areas we want to improve on from last term and we shared our class goals for the year:

To improve our spelling, punctuation and grammar in our daily writing.
To improve our knowledge of place value in maths.
To improve our comprehension reading strategies.

We are using the fishbone template to brainstorm the 'helps' that will assist us to reach our goals plus the 'hindrances' that will get in our way.

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It's time to start thinking -Technology Introduction

Big Idea: How can we adapt and improve a playing environment to provide a safe yet challenging experience for all.

Today we used De Bono's hats to start thinking about the confidence course at Forest Lakes. Most of us had a go on the course last year so we already have some ideas of what it is like. We are going to refer back to these ideas throughout our technology inquiry to assist us with our designs of the 'Ultimate Confidence Course.'

 

  

  

 

What makes a quality Recount?

This term we are study Recount Writing  in Literacy. Today we had a discussion around "What makes a quality recount?". We formed groups to brainstorm what we thought were the essential components of a recount.

 

We then discussed our ideas together to develop a set of criteria to follow when writing in the recount genre:

Day 1!

Welcome to the new school year!

It was a great first day today in Room 15. Sounds like everyone had a very relaxing break.

Our first task of the year was to establish some guidelines that we want to follow to ensure we have a successful learning environment for 2010. We started off by thinking about this question:

"What kind of classroom to we want to have?"

 

After reading our responses together, we formed groups to brainstorm some guidelines for the year:

                                    

After sharing our work we collated our ideas to construct our Class Treaty: