Each term we have different topics and as always we’ve had immersion assembly to show kids the meaning of this topic and to give them a head start. We missed out on immersion assembly because we had tech. Still the teachers came up with an idea to have an immersion rotation with our teachers. Our new topic is BIGGER, BETTER, FASTER, STRONGER. Our five teachers in our team selected one of the themes: Imagination, Creativity, Discovery, Innovation, and Practicality.
We learnt about imagination with our own teacher. What we did was we created our imaginary pet called a zinger pinger. For our pet we designed what we wanted our pet to look like, whether it’s a she or he, the cool things she had and could do, and her own island. I really enjoyed it a lot, thinking outside of the box. I’m nearly finished with it because I’m making it really detailed.
Our second class was creativity with Ms Tito. We came up with different ways of how we could come up with a funky idea to design our names. It was cool because we could use anything to be constructive with our drawing and people were hiding their ideas every time people tried to sneak a peek.
Our last rotation was discovery with Mrs Nua. We first did an acrostic poem for discovery. Afterwards we had a competition to see who could create a shield or a barrier to protect an egg from cracking, when dropping it from 1 metre high. As we planned and got ready for our final design, we all started our experiment. We were given an egg, several straws, popsicle sticks, rubber bands and measuring tape. Our groups were in three’s and I was with Sela and Kezia. We placed out the newspaper and each group made their way outside to start.
Our final results didn’t turn out so good. Apparently our egg cracked, but it was very cool though. The winner was Casey and Tanielu. So what I learned from discovery was whether we could find out if our experiment worked or not. It was such a lot of fun.
Out of the entire immersion rotation I learnt heaps of things from the different teachers we worked together with. I really enjoyed it!
1 comment:
Hi Helen
Great post about immersion. I am looking forward to your post about your imaginary pet and island. Which activity did you enjoy the most? What would you like to learn more about regarding the topic for the term? Keep up the great work.
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