Making Piklets

From this to this.

Today was Miss Uden's last day. She kindly made piklets with us so that we could use the butter that we made at Howick Historical village. They smelt and tasted delicious!

Making Minion Mats

We made Minion Mats. In the olden days they made floor rugs. It was a challenging activity tying all those knots using strips of cotton material with Minion characters on them. We tied them onto garden matting. Well done Room 24 for persevering until the job was done!

                                                                         Usher

                                                                       Jade

                                                                            Drake

                                                                             Peter

Isaac

                                                                           Emily

                                                                              Amelia

Howick Historical Village

Using the Butter Churn

Finally we have butter

Rinsing the butter

Unpacking the trunk - James 

Caleb with a small axe

Max with a Chamber pot

Horse and carriage

The school room - standing tall

Reciting the alphabet

Writing on a slate - Caleb and Usher

Ben and Peter

Isaac and Emily

Aston

Aston spelling words

Wash day - washboard, sunlight soap and tin bath

An old copper to wash in 

Old fashion irons

We had a wonderful trip learning about old fashion Technology. It was very hands on and a unique place to learn about the past so that we can appreciate the present.

Tinker Time Cubetto

Here is James, Max and Mr Armstrong at the beginning of the week trialing our new Tinker Time activity: Cubetto - a little wooden robot who loves to explore and play. This time round the boys experimented and then began programming - giving the robot instructions to follow using the World Map or Space Map, the Interface Board ( control panel), the 16 blocks (commands). Cubetto had fun adventures!

Tinker time begins

                                                                     Aayush

                                                                      Charlotte

Toia

This afternoon we started Tinker time in Room 24. We had to read a diagram and make the model using the Brain Box Electronic Sets. We all enjoyed the cool air made by the rotating fan. We were all great at figuring it out by giving it a go and persevering.

Selfie's

Room 24 used the iPad for the first time in this class by taking a photo of themselves. These were glued onto an outline and a long white straw was taped to the back so that everyone had their own selfie stick. We wondered around the class with them telling each other about things we like.
For next time we would lift the iPad up a little so that our eyes aren't always looking down.
Here is Jess with a good example of what we would do differently next time.