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Like the rest of the school Room 9 is participating in the 2012 Digi Awards and one of the award categories is ‘Posters’. One of the tools we can use to create an effective, eye-catching poster is Comic Life. This powerful, but easy to use program can produce fantastic results. To help get you started watch the video below.

The team from Science in a van visited last week with their amazing science show. More details will be posted here soon, but in the meantime check out this small selection of images.
Listen to Tayler’s thoughts about Science in a van. Tayler’s Science in a Van

Cowabunga, Room 9 is learning about the 90′s, it is for our Inquiry. We are learning about what kind of songs they had in the 90′s. We are also learning about other things like their clothes too. In our classroom we have group-point’s. For the group names we have 1990′s band names like Van Halen, Radiohead, Offspring, Oasis and Green day.

By Tayler

The cellphone is quite a recent technology, only really becoming an everyday item in the 90′s, and it is one of the modern technologies that continues to experience a great deal of change. How much change? Take a look at the video below and then remind yourself that this video stops at the first iPhone, there have been great changes in cellphones since then.

At  the  end  of  term  the  school  is  going  to do a  school  production. All  of  the  songs  are  from  the  90′s  in our  class. Tessa  and  I are in  Vogue.  There  are  three  songs to  choose  from;  Achy breaky heart, Praise  you  and  Vogue.  We  are  doing the production at the Hasting’s Opera house.
We also know  that  Room  6  is  doing  songs  from  the  80′s.

By Caitlin  and  Tessa.

Room 9 have lots of questions about our chosen decade, the 1990′s, so we are using a Linoit wall to display and share our curiosity. Click on the small image below to view the Linoit wall full size.

90′s Wonderings

Welcome to the second term of 2012. I hope you all had a relaxing and exciting holiday and are ready for another great term. This term we travel back in time to before any of you were born. Our new inquiry is Cowabunga – Life in the 90′s. This inquiry is tied in to our school musical production, Music through the ages, and we will be examining our decade in detail. Get ready to take a time trip, to find out what life was like 20 years ago and how things have changed, or not. To get you in the mood for the 90′s have a listen to some of the big songs from that decade by clicking on the video clip below.

We have now reached the conclusion of our Extreme Exploration, but before we can claim victory we need to find answers to all of our Antarctic questions. Use the resources available to you, including the internet, books, peers and expert others to locate the answers to your Antarctic questions and then post your answer on the Linoit wall below. Remember to click on the small image to view the wall full size.

Antarctic Answers

As part of the 2012 Blogging challenge we have been sharing our school with others around the world. To give people an idea of what Arthur Miller School was like the Room 9 Cougar’s reading group have created a Photostory. Check it out below.

To honour the memory of Antarctic adventurer Sir Ernest Shackleton a British crew are planning to recreate the epic voyage of the ‘James Caird’, the small boat Shackleton and four crew members sailed through Antarctic waters in to bring help to their stranded expedition. Check out their story by clicking on the image above.