Weekly Treasure Hunt

Each week in Room 1 we have a Treasure Hunt in the afternoon. Here are some pictures from our latest one!

Room One's Weekly Treasure Hunt!

Every friday afternoon, a group of kids from Room One organise a treasure hunt for their class. There are around thirteen questions which every group answers to get a clue of where to find a letter. Only one person in a team is allowed out of the class to use the clue on their map to find the letter. When they find it in its hiding place, they come back to their teams in the class and get the next question. When they've found all the letters, they now have the quest of unscrambling the secret word. The first team to unscramble the word, wins the prize!

Step by step, it's like this:

1) As the team of organisers from the week(a limit of four people in the group) set the piles of paper that contain the sperate questions, the class gets into teams. It isn't compulsory to do the treasure hunt, but usually the teams set a limit to the amount of people there can be in a team.

2) The treasure hunt begins! Every team sends some one to get a map of the school, and the first question from the table where the organisers have set up. They return to their teams and try to work out the riddle, challenge or simple question, which sometimes requires computers to answer. They go to the organiser's table and whisper their answer to them. If they got it right, their map gets marked off for where the letter is and one person of the group sprints out of the class.

3) Arriving at the marked area, that person checks everywhere for piece of printed paper containing the treasured letter. The letters while usually be outside, not inside any buildings. It is at this point, or when the questions are being answered, when some teams go ahead of others.

4) This continues until a team has collected all the letters and solved all the clues.

5) Now they have the job of unscrambling the word and trying to be first to be the winners! First to unscramble the word wins. Some examples of the words we have had are: telecommunications; significance; bankruptcy; arachnophobia and consideration.

Geometry and Measurement

In maths we are exploring reflection and rotational symmetry. We did this by making snowflakes that have 4 lines (axes) of symmetry. We are also exploring 3D shapes and some students have chosen to make castles. This requires using diagrams of various parts of a model castle. Here are some photos of us hard at work and with our snowflakes.