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 We are Room 11 at Meadowbank School. On our wiki we will be publishing our best work, commenting on other peoples work to give them feedback and feed forward and sharing our work with people from around the world! We would really love you to leave a comment either on the home page or one of our individual pages. Your comments often help us to improve our work and definately motivate us to keep up the great work we are doing! We love getting feedback on the work we are doing in Room 11 and also would love to hear/communicate with people around the world. If you are from a school in a different country then please let us know so we can start communicating with each other throughout 2010! media type="custom" key="5433089" align="center"


 * On Wednesday 27 October, Room 11 hosted Stephanie Alexander to one of our Garden to Table sessions. Stephanie set up the Kitchen Garden Foundation that is currently running in Australia. The Garden to Table programme is modelled off this programme and running very successfully in three New Zealand schools. **


 * We made a really yummy lunch using the pizza oven. The menu included Spinach and Ricotta Calzone, Pesto and Parmesan Flat Bread, Potato and Rosemary Pizza, Green Salad with a Paprika Dressing and to finish off we had Lemon Semifreddo. It was a gorgeouse lunch and Room 11 represented the school to the best of their abilities. **


 * Click the following link to watch the One News report about Stephanie's visit to Meadowbank School. **
 * [|One News Footage of the Stephanie Alexander Visit] **

**__Art Exhibition News__ -** Our Art Exhibition work was amazing! We transformed everyday gumboots into 3D Paper Mache Animal Creations. Our Creation Zoo includes Rhinos, Elephants, a Peacock, a Flamingo, a Lion, Penguins to name a few! Room 11 have worked super hard and I their end results WOWED people at the Art Exhibition in term 3.  media type="custom" key="7062859" align="center" **CHECK OUT OUR OLDEN DAY STREET - we have been looking at how shops and shop windows have changed. We brainstormed over 25 different shops that people used in the olden days. We all got to choose one out of a hat and then we had to sketch that shop front using a range of sketching techniques. We then used black, grey and white pastel to create a cobblestone path. Each shop has a typed description where we have explained what the shop was and why it was so important back in those days. In this activity we have described, compared and sequenced shops from the past and today.**

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 * We have been using SOLO taxonomy in every curriculum area to deepen our thinking and understanding of the subject. SOLO means that we use maps to organise our ideas to help us link our learning back to the main idea or concept. Some of the maps include Define and Describe - which get us thinking about more than one idea, Cause and Effect, Part/Whole, Sequencing, Classify - which get us connecting our ideas together and thinking about connections between our thoughts. There are some more complex maps which get you thinking at an 'Extended Abstract' level which basically means thinking beyond the immediate topic. We havent looked at these maps yet although some of us can relate our ideas to other contexts in very basic ways. Check out the photographs below which show some of our SOLO work.** **We use SOLO in Literacy, Writing, Topic/Inquiry and we have even started to use it in our Garden to Table sessions which encourages us to think about individual ingredients and how they impact on our end product.**

**During Term 2 we were learning about change. Our focus was looking at historical change. We went to Howick Historical Village which enlightened us to how people lived over 100 years ago. First we went into a room and had the chance to play with lots of olden day toys. These were very basic and different to the toys that we play with - most were made from wood! Some of them looked like they would be easy to make so we are going to have a go at reproducing them in our inquiry lessons! The school session was very interesting and somewhat scary! Miss Bryant was cracking up at our behaviour and the looks on our faces when we had to have our hands checked prior to the lesson and also when we were told about the punishments (the teacher had a whole range of canes to choose from)! We got to write on slate boards but had to do proper cursive writing (very hard and time consuming), had an arithmetic lesson where we chanted our tables and also had a spelling test which the girls won! We found out that the girls had a bit of a rough deal back in those days! They got told they had smaller brains therefore had to miss afternoon lessons to learn how to do chores such as cooking and laundry. Sophie and Hela got told they would make good wives because they were able to carry out the tasks very well! Arrian is going to make a good husband because he showed potential in the olden day school lesson! After all of the activities we had the opportunity to look around the village and explore the olden days at our leisure! We had a great day and are looking forward to using everything we learnt in our more current/2010 lessons!**

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**FLAT PEOPLE -** We have all made Flat People based on the story Flat Stanley. At the beginning of Term 2 we made our flat person a travel journal and then took them home to share with our families. Once our family had written their olden day memory in the journal we sent them around New Zealand. This is a pass on game and throughout Term 2 our Flat People have been visiting many cities collecting olden day memories or stories to bring back to Room 11. Towards the end of the term we started receiving the people and their journals back and they included a number of interesting anecdotes from the past. Thank you to all those people who have taken the time to join in on this project! We will try to scan in some of the 'travel journal' pages soon so that you can share in the fun we had! If you have any problems with commenting on this page feel free to email Miss B on wbryant@meadowbank.school.nz media type="custom" key="5229411"