Immersion Assembly T4 W2

Last week on Monday Point England school had there annual Immersion Assembly in their school hall. Where they get to learn what they are going to do in term 4 and this term is all about Science and How matter changes from one thing too another. Every team of teachers created a movie or a play to show their students what they are learning.

The first team to preform was Team 1! They preformed a play where the teachers were dressed as witches and they were throwing ingredients into a cauldron and then they put the cauldron into a fake oven. In the end they pulled out a cake and one of the teachers took the microphone and told the school that they were learning how things can turn into a whole different thing. Second team to go was Team 2. This team showed us a movie of how things change by the change of temperature, like how ice can melt into water and how a liquid egg can be cooked into a solid egg.

Team 3 was next and they are learning about chemical reactions. They had Russian scientists come and do lots of science experiments, like when they put  mentos into a diet coke and it exploded. The fourth team made a parody of Myth Busters. They were busting myths like can Mr Goodwin stay awake without his morning coffee... and he couldn’t. They are going to be busting lots of myths.

The final team was team 5 and they did a play about a scientists doing some experiments on the team 5 teachers. One of the experiments was to see if a teacher could have ice put down their shirt without flinching. Miss Clark had ice been put down her shirt and she didn’t flinch the first time! But the last couple of ice cubes she did.

So overall this term seems to be very exciting and full of science experiments!

FIRST DAY BACK AT SCHOOL!!

As I happily entered my classroom on Monday morning from a two week holiday, I briskly chucked my bag at my desk and went to see my friends. It was the first day back at school and the last term of 2015. At 8:30am the year 7 and 8’s had to sit in the street for the karakia and himene. Soon after that we headed to the Hall for our Immersion assembly, I didn’t put my shoes on and it had been raining therefore my socks were soaked!!

After a couple minutes of waiting excitedly, Mr Burt our principal greeted us and told us that this term we are learning about survival and adaptation. Then he showed us a movie he made about an extinct bird called the Fia Poko Parrot and it was  really annoying that the people of the town got a Fia Poko hunter to hunt it down. It was Hilarious!!! Next we had team 1 teachers come and  tell us what they are learning about this term and they are learning about how animals adapt. They also had a karaoke competition where they had to sing ROAR by Katy Perry and  a year 3 named Mirka won and she got a  prize that was a free trip to go to the Zoo with team 1.

Team 2 was up next and they are learning about dinosaurs. The teachers of team 2 showed us a movie they made. They also had someone dress up as Barney and picked random kids to shake Barney’s hand and give him a hug too. It was pretty cool. Team 3 came up and they told us that they were learning about dinosaurs and they are going to make up their own type of dinosaurs. The teachers had already made their dinosaurs. There was Bossareptor, Musslesaurs, Manosaurs and Discosaurs are the dinosaurs  I can remember from Monday.  

Then we had team 4 and their teachers explain to us that they were learning about animals and their habitats. They had also made a movie where there were 4 kids in a green screen room and they had to guess what animal was behind them and  where they were. It was so funny watching them! The Final team was team 5 and the teachers performed a skit about adapting. Where they had a competition of who could finsh a plate of noodles in 30 seconds using chopsticks. Miss Clark won because her family used chopsticks all the time but Mrs Peato had never used chopsticks before and never had to. Then Mrs Hockly said she went to Japan so she had to adapt to using chopsticks because it was part of the Japan culture.

In the end I enjoyed being back at school and my favourite had to be team 4 and their movie. I can’t wait to learn more about adaptation and sense this is the last term of the year I will try and make sure this is the best term ever!!!

Immersion Assembly Term 3

When we come back from the holidays we have an Immersion Assembly where we learn what our inquiry subject is. This term our inquiry subject is Trade and Enterpri$e.

Every teacher from every year level have to present something to show their class what they are learning about this term. First team to present was team one and there subject is how to be money wise. next was team 2 and they are learning about Ice cream like which ice cream flavor do people like best chocolate or vanilla? And if chocolate wins than they should make more chocolate.

Team 3 is learning about Jobs and how to pick the right job so they can earn more money.  Next team is team 4 and they are learning about emotions and how  they react when they use money. And the last team of the day is my team, team 5 we are learning about how to be financially responsible with our money.