Our first house designs are ready to present. Our Learning Pathway is well on the way.

EXPLORING - After reading and researching in books about homes around the world and what features they have to keep them cool or warm, we had some more ideas about what to think about for our designs. Then we conducted a Maths survey for the electrical appliances in our home and worked out which rooms had the most electricity use. They were the Kitchen and the Living Room.





Next we are MAKING MEANING AND CONNECTIONS between our own ideas and the evidence around us. To do this we are conducting a survey about the energy we use at home and how we can keep our home warm and dry when we need it that way. We also came to the conclusion that we need to know how to keep it cool in Summer as this is part of home design too.

Rylee, Ethan and Drake took a lot of time to work out how to support their roof, they have added carpet to keep warm, come in and ask them to describe the rest of their features to you!

Part of the Design Brief was to include bedrooms, kitchen and bathroom. These are rooms that we all like to have. James has put a lot of effort into making his tiny furniture to fit inside his model. The scale is very impressive.

Beau has used his roof to have a terrace to sit out on in the Summer, he has an umbrella to keep cool under and is going to install a heat pump to keep both warm in summer and cool in winter He has not got too much glass or windows where heat can escape.

Room 14 are beginning their home designs - the house of the future that is warm and dry. SHELTER

Following on from The Tread Lightly Caravan visit is the Year 3 Technology Inquiry into Shelter. We have started by thinking about what do we know about houses and their designs. This is our first model design. 

We each had to bring collected items to use and recycle. Some of us chose to work with a partner like Caprice and Kaya and some have chosen to work by themselves like David. 

Premiere of our first Lego imovies!! Stop Motion animation comes to R14!

This is one of our first trial films - we are playing or tinkering around to see what we can do with the lego models, time lapse, music, transitions, visual images and lots more!

More to come!!

The Tread Lightly Caravan visits our school

Thank you to the parents of Sammy, Aayush, David, Kiera, Jessica and Caprice who all came along to support us in the activities for learning about how to live in a sustainable way in New Zealand.

All the children took home a photograph of themselves holding their pledges. In their take home folders are pledges to make at home with their families. Please talk about this with your family and return your idea to school for us to record on our Tread Lightly Display Wall.