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Monday, August 8, 2011

School Fair Inquiry

Our Term 3 school inquiry is:
'How can we be involved in the "School Fair"?

Tuning In:
First we discussed "What is a School Fair?" and "What things would you see at a Fair?"
We made a list of things that we would see at a fair. These included food, entertainment, rides and games and stalls where people sell different things e.g. books, cakes, artwork. 

We then looked up Youtube and searched for video clips of different school fairs to help us with our ideas and discussions.




Finding Out and Sorting Out:  
As a class we then discussed -
 "How can Room 4 help at the school Fair?" 
"What can we do to make money for our school?" 

Some of our answers included:
* selling different food e.g. icecream, cakes, candyfloss
* selling tickets to a game or ride e.g. ferris wheel, throwing balls into clowns mouth, dunk tank
* a clown selling balloons
* face painting and hair creations
 
When children were asked which idea they liked the best, it was obvious that there was a trend towards having some kind of 'food stall'. So we narrowed down our ideas and ......
 
We have decided we are going to make ...... 
Lolly Bags!! 

8 comments:

  1. To Room 4
    What cool blog. Your videos are awesome.
    from Tamati and Kamate

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  2. Those kids must have had lots of fun.
    From Mason

    The racing would have been really fun. I wonder how much they will be to have at our school fair.
    From Sophie

    It looked like the motorbikes were going really slow.
    From Kylos

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  3. You have made a great start on your fair inquiry. What will you do next?

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  4. Great ideas room4 keep up the excellent work :)
    Rebecca

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  5. TO ROOM 4 I hope you have a Excellent day. from MAUI VIOLET, Nexam Breeanna

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  6. Wow Room 4
    Lolly bags sound like a great idea!

    Yummy - I think we would all like to buy one or two!

    Mrs Rolton and Room 12

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  7. Hi room4
    Wow lolly bags yummy


    By Anakie in room12

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  8. hi rm 4
    we like your idea of making lolly bags
    we cant wait for the school fair to see you sell your lolly bags.

    From Matilda & Jonnie-Lee:L ~~
    (ROOM11)

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