Today we held a Toy Expo in the Discovery Centre. Over the last 2 weeks we have been designing and making our own toys at home. All the grades at school came to our expo to see our wonderful creations. We have learnt many things about toys and what they can teach us and this was a [...]
Our class made 7 awesome Robots! Junior G’s Robots Come out To Play! – flash slideshow maker Dan O. -I felt excited because we could unscrew things and cut wires and cords. I learnt that there are 2 different types of screwdrivers. They are Phillips head and flat headed screw drivers. It made me feel [...]
Our investigations about toys led us to a great contact in Manila. We skyped the students at the Manila International school together with their teacher, Mr Steve. We not only found out about their favourite toys but we also discovered that they had made a class robot. We were inspired to make our own. Look [...]
Today in Math we were doing model making. First we had to copy some simple models from the illustrations. Next we created the tallest tower that we could and then we tried to sketch it. Finally we worked in pairs to create a building in a town. We designed a Toy Town. It had streets [...]
Toys Chart Toy Where it’s made Moves Made from Buttons Batteries or electricity Where it was bought Feels like… Teddy bear China X Pellets polyester X X From Grandma Squashy Snuggly Action man ? X Plastic X X Toy World Hard Sparkle bracelet ? X Plastic metal wire √ √ NZ rubbery [...]
We have learned some wonderful things about toys already. We have recorded our discoveries on this Lino.
Here are some photos of Junior M’s reflections on the Toy Carousel we had last Wednesday. We wrote about what we learnt and how we learnt it…
This morning, we made a wordle about what we know about toys so far this term. We wrote about the toys and materials they are made from. We have discovered lots of toys and we have put some on this wordle. We are going to find out how toys work, how they wind up and [...]
Enjoy listening to our voicethread about our favourite toys!
