Film Makers of the Future

The future Spielbergs are shining this week as we commence the planning and design aspects of our mini documentaries. We had a brainstorming session where we discussed the features of documentaries. It was interesting to hear some students say that documentaries were boring, we unpacked this and discovered that this related to animal documentaries. Other students loved the work of Sir David Attenborough and especially liked his narration and photography. We refined our brainstorm by including features of "good" documentaries. 

For STEM this week we thought we'd put our reflection and evaluation to good use and re visit the Popsicle Bridge challenge. We made changes to the group dynamics also by reducing the team to just two. Groups of six seemed somewhat unfair for a fine motor construction task such as this with only a few students getting the hands on experience. The students did so much better - they were not going to repeat their previous design flaws. The best bridge for strength held 1.7 kilograms! Next we will build the best insulated lunchbox- what would your strategy be? 

We said "goodbye for now" to one of our class teachers this week. We couldn't let her go without a send off so we put together a flash mob to surprise her. It was truly joyful, the students did their own choreography and gave it their best to surprise and delight their teacher.