Room 3 displaying their learning

In room three we were set a task by our teacher. We had to make a large ball and a small ball out of 4 strips of paper with only 3 instructions and images to follow. This is what happened next.

Ivy and Unique collected their 4 short strips and 4 long strips and laid them out in groups of short strips and groups of long strips. Next to them Lucas and Kayson made a pattern of short strip, long strip. 

Next the students decided to lay out the strips into a snowflake as on the instructions but Unique said she was good at making snowflakes so she would be the expert and come and check to see if everyone got it right. She also said "remember don't glue until we know it's right."

Some students found it hard to get their snowflake right and started to ask for guidance from the teacher. Perhaps we could find the middle of each strip and that would help us put our snowflake together. I heard a lot of "oh, I can't do that!" Then Keira spoke up and said "Oh! I think I know what to do. We need to fold in half to find the middle." She quickly tried it out and soon everyone was busy folding their strips into half.

After finding half it was time to try once again to make the snowflake successfully. 

After completing the snowflake the students worked to make the ball shape. They found that if they joined two strips together and then continued adding to this, they would end up with a ball.

I was very proud of my students, not only did they successfully make a small and a large ball, but they displayed all of our classroom treaty goals: