Freaky Apple

Check out this freaky apple Karen found in her lunch! It's half and half! 

A Theme Park on the Moon?

This week for Maths we are making a lunar theme park.  We only have 500,000 to spend. We have to decide what rides we can put in are park that will fit into the budget.  There is a twist... we have to pay electricity and staff costs etc. so we need to work out our profits and loss. It's a heap of work but heaps of fun. I hope we can open a Theme Park on the moon one day!   By Claire. 

Fraction Math

Learning all about fractions with chocolate! Mmmmmm

Mrs Lemi's class...

Visit the Phoenix class at Riverhills' blog - the teacher of which is our friend - Mrs Lemi.

http://phoenix12riverhills.blogspot.co.nz/

Should students be allowed to miss school to go on holiday?

This week the Captain Underpants reading group were thinking critically about a current event and coming up with their own personal responses.

They weighed up the positives and negatives to the new law change in the UK which bans students from being taken out of school for holidays during the school term.
http://www.kiwikidsnews.co.nz/students-allowed-miss-school-go-holiday#comment-24384

Every group member sided with the 125,000 people who had signed a petition against this change.

Here is Yuan's response:
"Students should be allowed to miss school so that they can visit their friends or family and explore some interesting places. Also they could learn more about incredible things and write about these in their diary or journal."

What do you think about this new law?

Whatuwhiwhi by Georgia

“Are we nearly their yet?” I ask my parents, we were heading to my grandparents bach at Whatuwhiwhi. “About half an hour” Dad replies. “Finally” I say, “It’s nice to get some fresh air”. "YEAH" my little brother shouts. As soon as we’d unpacked Baxter my other brother, Grandwink and Grandad arrived. It was late so we had dinner and went to bed.

I lay awake thinking about what I’d do tomorrow. It felt like forever during the night but when it was morning I ran down the mossy creaky steps towards the beach, how lovely it was to get out of bed. The day flew past so quickly. What a day it had been. I hopped into my comfortable bed and fell fast asleep. We stayed at Whatuwhiwhi for another two more days with Baxter and Reagan being totally annoying, and Grandwink making lunches.

When I woke up for the last day I realized "Oh no, pack up time", I sprinted down to the beach and played there until we had to go. “Time to go” yells my dad from the bach. Grandwink, Grandad, Mum and I have finished tidying.

I bet I’ll never have a holiday like that again.

By Georgia 

Sinking Ships Maths Experiment

Room 5 Maths are learning about mass.

We weighed marbles (approx. 1g each), estimated, and then measured; how many marbles it took to sink our paper boats.

Control: We all made the same style paper boats

We found out the following:

• Paper boats don't have a very long life once they touch the water!
• If you put a whole lot of marbles in your boat and cause an edge to take on water it'll VERY quickly sink your boat
• How many marbles depended on how you put them in your boat and also how balanced your boat 

Extreme Trampoline - by Alice

I was riding in the car waiting excitedly for us to get to the Extreme Trampoline building.

Finally, after a long bumpy ride we got there. 

When I walked in the doorway I could hear kids screaming and running excitedly.

When I came in, straight away we went to warm up on the nine Olympic sized trampolines. 

What I liked most about it was the huge climbing wall. You climbed up and then jumped into a big foam pit. I had the most amazing time and I’ll definitely go there again!

By Alice

Hard at Work

Working hard to complete our Inquiry for the term!

Not your ordinary class...

Look at the crazy bunch of kids Mrs G and Mrs T have to teach! 
Room 5, you are hilarious! 

Room 5 are Twittering about...

Room 5 are getting ready to connect to other students around New Zealand in a weekly Twitter chat called #kidsedchatnz.

Check out their blog  
http://www.kidsedchatnz.blogspot.co.nz/

Next week's Twitter conversation is: What makes a good teacher? 

Mrs Goodwin and Mrs Turner are very nervous about what Room 5 are going to say, but we know we are going to be respectful digital citizens and that what we publish in the digital world is there forever.

What are some of your ideas of what makes a good teacher?

Blue Penguins presented by Luke, Axel, Jaimie and Gina

After Tiritiri Matangi the children researched a bird of their choice and decided to present their findings in the form of a poster.  The children then created a piece of persuasive writing, convincing people to visit Tiriri through the eyes of their bird.

Poster

Presenting findings.

North Island Robins presented by Sam, Joe, Lara and Jasmine

Room 5 children formed groups to put together a presentation on a bird of their choice from Tiritiri Matangi island.  I like how this group did a question and answer part to their poster.  Well done.

Poster

Presenting poster to class

Wizard Writing

Over the last few weeks we have been trying out Wizard Writing to improve our fluency in writing.  This is where you write inspired from a photo.  One time Mrs Prescott showed us a story starter from a video and we had to continue the story.  A mother and daughter went into an antiques shop and whilst the mother was busy at the counter, the daughter, Elizabeth, explored the shop.   Elizabeth heard her name being called from a jewellery box and opened the box...  The video stops there.

Here are three stories that were selected by the children to share with the class.

Nick's Story


Claire's story - Do you get the twist at the end?


Maddison's Story

Saddleback presented by Alex-David, Maddison, Aodhan, Alice, Fisher and Rose

We researched information about the Saddleback and created a poster to show our findings.  We presented our poster to the class and then  practised our persuasive writing to convince everyone to come to Tiritiri through the eyes of the Saddleback.  We hope you enjoy!

Our poster.

Presenting our poster.

Can we convince you to come to Tiritiri to visit me, the awesome Saddleback?

Little Spotted Kiwi presented by Vanessa, Isabelle, Helena and EJ

We researched information about the Little Spotted Kiwi and created a poster to show our findings.  We presented our poster to the class and then practised our persuasive writing to convince everyone to come to Tiritiri through the eyes of the The Little Spotted Kiwi.  We hope you enjoy!

Poster

Presenting our poster to the class.

Can we convince you to go to Tiritiri to visit me, the awesome The Little Spotted Kiwi?

NZ Wood Pigeon by Thomas, Nick, Maggie, Karen J

We researched information about the NZ Wood Pigeon and created a poster to show our findings.  We presented our poster to the class and then practised our persuasive writing to convince everyone to come to Tiritiri through the eyes of the NZ Wood Pigeon.  We hope you enjoy!

Poster

Presenting our poster to the class.

Can we convince you to go to Tiritiri to visit me, the awesome NZ Wood Pigeon?

Team Work

Team Work on PhotoPeach

 

Tiritiri Matangi School Trip

After bad weather preventing our class going to Tiritiri Matangi in the first week of school, the second week brought about the most amazing weather.  Enjoy the following photos.

The first photo is the blue penguin nesting boxes and then we followed the Wattle Track up to the lighthouse where we ate lunch and looked at the visitor centre, lighthouse etc.  Then we made our way down to where the ferry was to explore the beach before departing the island.



 Tiritiri Matangi School Trip on PhotoPeach

My Inquiry Project By Isabelle

My Inquiry Project

  

Room 5 did Inquiry Projects. We could do what ever we pleased to show what we learned from our Umbrella question and Subsindary questions.

 

I did a poster with model showing a boat and dolphin. My poster answered 6 questions they were: How they die, What they eat, where they live,How many left and How to help , with the Umbrella question is 6 questions.

 

My Umbrella question is: How can we stop the endangered hector dolphins from dying. And the other 5 questions above.

 

I learned that hector dolphins die because they get stuck on set nets and they drown. I learned how many are left  and their big drop.

 

I could do better by: doing my work quicker and not only on weekends, get all my stuff so if I need some things I don’t need to go all the way to the shop.

 

                                                          By Isabelle