Adventure Learning Projects

Every Friday we do Adventure Learning. Adventure Learning is based on Google's 20% Time. Google 20% Time is when Google employees are given 20% of their working week to work on projects that they're passionate about. Lots of teachers are now using this concept in their classrooms. 

Last term we spent a lot of time working through weekly group challenges e.g. making nachos, designing a hut and planting seeds. This term Room 2 have started working on projects that they're passionate about. They've just finished their plans and are now getting stuck into learning about their chosen topic. 

Here are some of the things that Room 2 children are learning about:

• A new jump jam dance to teach the juniors.
• Grizzly bears and polar bears. This group are learning about both types of bears and then are comparing how they are similar and different from each other.
• Golden Bell frogs. Once they've learnt about what Golden Bell frogs eat and need in their habitat they've going to design a new frog habitat for Lucky. 
• How to make ice cream from scratch. They're also learning about the Tip Top factory. Miss King knows the manager of the Tip Top factory so the ice cream group emailed him this week to find out some of the answers to their questions. 
• Guinea pigs. This group is learning all about guinea pigs and how to care for them. Then they're going to look after Miss Gentil's guinea pigs for a whole day! 
• Art and crafts. These girls have been using Pinterest to help them with their initial idea. Then they've modified the design and have started drawing up their own plans. 
• Fairy gardens. The girls have found out what a fairy garden is, what materials they might need and are now planning their own fairy garden. 

I'm so proud of how far you have all come and how hard you are working Room 2. Keep up the awesome work. 

Aria and Suga-Rae reading about how to care for guinea pigs and taking notes. I'm sure you girls are going to do an awesome job of looking after Peanut and Raisin. 

Stella, Carlia and Lakeysha using Pinterest to find craft ideas. 

The boys learning about Golden Bell frogs and what they need in their habitat.

Bianca using Pinterest on the interactive whiteboard to find some more ideas for their own fairy garden design. 

Tumai surrounded by books about frogs. He's also using Scribble Press on the iPad to start putting together some ideas for his frog book. 

Haylee, Hanna and Michaela practising their dance moves in Room 9. Look at that awesome timing!! 

Shannon checking out the Tip Top factory website to find out what flavours of ice cream they make. The ice cream group wondered what the first flavour of ice cream Tip Top created was. Maybe the manager will be able to answer this when he emails back. 

Joel, Luke, Jacob and Leighton working on their 'I wonder...' questions. Their next step is to find out the answers for both grizzly and polar bears, then compare the answers. 

Tori emailing the manager of the Tip Top factory in Auckland with some questions and a bit about what they're trying to achieve in Adventure Learning.