Immersion Day 1

WOW!

What a day!

Today we were SO excited about being able to see in the space that has been closed, but we arrived... and it was STILL closed!! The strange thing was there was flour from underneath the door all the way out and into the garden.  Plus there were footprints! Well... we think they were footprints!

We did some measuring, investigating and check out shoe prints!  Some of us thought it was Mr Iain - but he came to visit us and said it wasn't him!

So the mystery continued.

Until Vicki from the office came running in with a letter for Room 11 & 12 marked 'Special Delivery'.  Miss Williams gave William the special honour of opening the letter and reading it to us.  It was from the 'Scientechnologists' and they had left us 4 bags to say thanks.  We couldn't find the bags when Miss Signal got a call from Mr Giles saying that the area was clear for us to enter.  Miss Signal risked arms and legs to check the area was safe for us before we entered - thanks Miss Signal!

When we got inside the lab area we discovered all sorts of interesting things!  Plus we found the 4 bags.  We were able to open Bag 1 today and it contained a science experiment that we learnt was a chemical reaction with vinegar and baking soda.  Check out the video below!

Here's some more photos from our first day of Immersion learning 

in our big idea of 'Filling the Bucket'.

Immersion Day 1

Tumeke 12's Arcade

Tumeke 12's Arcade from Amanda Signal on Vimeo.

Flashmob 2

IMG 1603 from Amanda Signal on Vimeo.

Flashmob

IMG 1128 from Amanda Signal on Vimeo.

So What?

Over the last few weeks we have been exploring the ideas of creativity and thoughtfulness.  Today we recapped our learning and shared what our big concepts and learning has been.

From here we talked about 'So What?' - how can we share our learning with those around us and show our understanding of these concepts we have been learning about.  We created a 'So What?' list of ways that we thought we could share our learning with others.

After we had created this list we used a thinking tool called a 'Decision Matrix' - it helps you to be able to make a decision on things when using some different criteria.  So on the left side Miss Signal placed all of our options and at the top we put all of our big learning ideas.  We then went through as a class and thought about how our ideas matched and fitted in with our big learning ideas.  From this we came up with 3 main ideas that we thought best matched how we could share our learning.

We then had a secret vote and decided which project we would like to be involved in.  You'll have to wait to see what we decided!

Prioritising Thoughtfulness

Miss Signal gave us a task to order these 7 things from the most thoughtful to the least thoughtful out of the list.  When we shared them with the class we found that we all had different ideas of what was the most thoughtful.

Does it sometimes depend on who the thoughtful thing is for - or is it just as important to be thoughtful to anyone on this planet?

 

In what order would you list these 7 events?

What Does it Mean to be Thoughtful?

Our next job is to investigate the idea of being 'thoughtful'.

What does it mean?

What does it look like?

What does it feel like? 

- When you are the one being thoughtful

- When you are the one getting the thoughtfulness

Does being thoughtful cost money?

Here are our examples that we could think about how we have or other people have been thoughtful.  After we wrote this list we decided what was the most thoughtful thing someone had done.  We thought about whether it had cost money or not.

What's a thoughtful experience you have had?

Leave us a comment to tell us about it - we would love to know!

What is Creativity?

From our Immersion Week we decided we would explore the ideas of creativity and thoughtful more - especially the way that we could use Creativity to be thoughtful.  Our big idea we are exploring is 'Can My Creativity benefit Others?'  Over the past 2 weeks we have been exploring the ideas of creativity and thoughtfulness.

Below are our first definitions of creativity that we shared as a class.  We then looked at what some sources, such as Dictionaries, told us about what creativity is.

We wonder - what is your definition of creativity?