What has Room 2 been doing for their identity topic?

If you want to know what Room 2 has been up to for their identity topic, have a look at the slideshow below. It contains information about all the great things we have been doing and a bunch of great work from students. A similar slide show was created for our last topic in Term One- Change. You can find even more information about our inquiry work and upcoming tasks on our Class Site.

Old Tech

On Monday we started the next part of our change topic, looking at technology. When students walked into class after lunch tables were filled with older technology from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s. For the task students had to pretend they were a salesperson, like someone from an infomercial. They had to pick one of the pieces of technology and sell it to someone else (in a piece of writing). BUT the catch was they were not told what the technology did, they had to use their detective skills to figure out what the piece of technology was and how it might work. After we were finished writing we had a discussion about all the different pieces of technology and what they did. 

The different pieces of technology were as followed

1) VCR and VHS

2) Record Player and Vinyls

3) Viewmaster 

4) The first Ipad

5) Cassette tapes

6) Xbox 360

7) Wii

8) Portable DVD player

9) Video Cameras 

 Here are some photos from our activity. 

This activity is a follow on from our look at how toys/video game and movies have changed, which we looked at the previous weeks. For the rest of the week students focused on changes in technology, working their way through google slide activities, you can find the link here. A record of what we have done for our inquiry change topic can be found on our class site, link here. 

Drama Time!

 On Monday Room 2 tried their hand at drama, for a lot of the students it was their first time being introduced to the the concept of drama. We started with a warm up, were students had one minute to make various shapes in groups. Here are some photos...

To start with students had to make the letter M

Then students turned themselves into pineapples

And lastly into a vase of flowers

When then explored our topic of Change through Drama. We read a story about a family who was moving from the country to the city, and leaving behind their big brother. We tried to get inside the mind of the family members in the story by creating still images. After which we had a large class discussion about experiences the students had with moving houses and moving countries. 

If you wanted to share a story about one time when you moved, write it in the comments, our class would love to hear it!

Our De-stress Jar

On Monday we made stress balls, and decorated our floor with rice in the process. To continue with our Change topic, we had discussed ways in which we could cope with change. So, we had thought of using stress balls as one solution. Students worked in pairs to fill balloons with rice, and as a class we created over FIFTY stress balls. Room 2 is very proud of all the stress balls we made, and our de-stress jar will be sitting up the front of the class for the foreseeable future. Have a look at our awesome de-stress jar!

What is Change?

This week Room 2 was in class for only two days, in that time we started our term 1 social studies topic...

~~~CHANGE~~~

To try to answer the question 'what is change?' we did a class brainstorm about what changes, this was the result...

After doing a big brainstorm, we then split up in groups and tried to think of things that have changed for us, in four big areas - At Home, At School, For New Zealand and For the Whole World. Each group had some time thinking of ideas for each area. Our ideas have been put into word clouds, check it out!

If you want to learn more about our Change topic, keep an eye on the LCS Inquiry tab on our class site. Click here