On Wednesday, Week 4  Room 13 hosted an assembly. Our items were Paper Plate ice skating, Warren from South Adelaide Football Club, Kaleidoscope name art, Room 6’s Japanese song, The Green Team with a visit from Super Gecko, Pam with the Deputy Principal’s award and Mrs Leonard’s Certificates of Achievement.

The secret judge, who gave the Golden Ear award to Room 8, was in fact Sensei Schmitt! Better luck next time Room 13!

Our favourite item was the Paper Plate Ice Skating because Troy, one of the judges didn’t hold up numbers but held up things like a Cucumber, smiley faces, a banana and a blue circle. We think the Receptions really liked it too!

Emily and Jordan 😛

While learning about Ancient China we discovered they invented kites. Traditionally kites were painted as offerings to the gods. It was thought the kite would fly up  into the sky and the god in heaven would see it, instead of coming down to the temple.

Later on in China kites took on an even deeper meaning and developed into a festival of kites called “The Double Ninth Festival” (Ch’ing Yang). It was held on the ninth day of the ninth month: September 9th. On this day, kite flying is taken as a symbol of rising higher and higher, being better and better, stronger, smarter and finer in everything one does.

Here are the kites we made in our Technology lessons.

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This Term we made arcade games with our younger buddies and on Thursday other classes visited us and played our games. We all had a fun filled afternoon.

Earlier this term we were inspired by a nine year old boy, Caine. Click on the photo to view the movie.

9-year-old Caine spent his summer vacation building an elaborate DIY cardboard arcade inside his dad’s used auto parts store, and asked people to play. The entire summer went by, and Caine had yet to have a single customer, until one day, a filmmaker stopped to buy a door handle. What happened next inspired this movie, and launched a movement to foster imagination and creativity in kids everywhere.

Our class has decided to work with our Buddy class, Mrs Shannon’s class and build our own arcade games.

Room 13 students, leave a comment and tell us about your arcade game.

Mrs Shep

What shapes build the strongest structures –  squares, triangles, hexagons …?

Our challenge was to work as a team and try to answer this question.

What shape do you think is the strongest?
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