Room 18

Room 18
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Monday 18 March 2013

Seed to baby Sunflower




Our seeds have grown and we have baby Sunflowers.
We have learned a new word, Germination.
Germination means "begins to grow".
We learned that inside the seed is a root and a shoot or stem.
When the seed starts taking in water the seed swells bigger and bigger until the coat splits apart.
The seed uses energy to grow from the food it has stored.
The root begins to grow downward and the baby stem begins to curl upward.

Riley's Recount

In writing time we are writing recounts and we are learning to:

answer the four W’s in our opening statement – When? Who? What? Where?
write about something that has happened in the past
write about what happened in order
add descriptive language so that our writing is interesting to read

Here is Riley’s Soccer Game story. He has met all our learning intentions.
Go Riley!

Soccer Game

On Sunday 17 March I was playing a soccer game. We were playing the 10 year old division side and we were playing at Riverhills. Our whole team is 9 year olds.
We were playing in the wet drizzling rain. Everyone came with warm coats, track suit pants and scarfs except me, all I came with, was a soccer jacket and soccer pants. Everyone thought it was going to be postponed but no we still had to play in the pouring rain. Every mum didn’t want to sit down and watch but all the boys in my team including me and the dads wanted to stay.

Our coach Buzzer told us what position we were playing. He put out some cones to tell us where we were playing. Before the game started we did some training such as: stretching, shooting, passing and tackling. After we did training with Buzzer it was time to play the real game, I was playing striker. My Dad was refing the game. The other team looked quite big and tough and I was quite nervous. The other team was starting off.  My Dad blew the whistle and I charged up trying to get the ball. The other team quickly passed the ball to his team mate and my friend up front with me got the ball off the other team, he passed it to me then I ran up and shot, I scored! Everyone clapped and I gave my teammates a high five. It was 1 to 0 with only about 5 minutes into the game.

My Dad blew the whistle and this time I let my teammate get the ball and when he got the ball he passed to me then I passed back to the midfielder’s. The midfielder passed back to the defenders, the defenders passed back to the goalie, the goalie booted it up the field and then my teammate shot and scored. It started to hail a little bit so my Dad blew the whistle again. We scored again. Soon after that it was half time and the score was 4-0 to us. I quickly drank my drink and I was on the bench for a little bit, I was watching my teammates pass and score.
By the time I got on the field again it was 5-0. I ran up to the goal, my friend crossed it in I shot and I scored my second goal.

The man blew the whistle, they started to pass a lot. Our opponent went down the side of the pitch crossed it in and they shot, it took a deflection and went in the goal. We kicked off then we had a run down the field and someone passed to me, I shot but their keeper saved it. Then their keeper kicked the ball as hard as he could and passed it to their guy and only one of our guys was back. They had about 4 people luckily they scored but we didn’t really care because we were winning 6-2 with only about 5 minutes left. We kicked off, we passed, then we ran up, it hit the post then rebounded to our guy he shot and scored.

The game was over and it was so fun we won 7-2. We shook their hands. I was so cold so when we went home I had some lollies then a warm bath.

By Riley

Self-watering Seed Pots







We have turned plastic bottles into self-watering planters for our Sunflower seeds. We had to read the instructions on the packet of seeds to see how to plant our seed. The seed had to go down 2cm deep in the soil.
We waited and waited ...

Sunday 17 March 2013

Carlos's flower experiment answer


After leaving the flowers for a couple of days we can see blue dye in the petals veins. This means that the stem sucks up the blue water and the water goes all the way to the petals veins. This is how the petals get water to survive.

By Carlos

Wednesday 13 March 2013

Carlos's flower experiment


My wonder about flowers is ..... I wonder why petals look like they have veins?

Today we did an experiment in room 18.
We coloured water with blue dye and put in some cut flowers.
We now have to wait to see what will happen.

I think that the petals will turn blue because the flowers drink the water.

By Carlos

Monday 4 March 2013

Will's Maths Lesson










In maths we are learning to understand place value.
Will made a number with the place value blocks for his group and then we had to say what the number was and the value of each digit.
Great teaching Will.