My 3D animal by Jaimie

This is my Killer Whale.
It is a 3D model.
I hope you like it!

Jaimie's Kiwiana Stamp

This is my Kiwiana stamp (0:

We put lots of NZ features in it.
Can you spot the Paua shell? If you can spot it write where in the comments please!

Down By the Bay Artwork

Down By The Bay

Down By the bay

Where the watermelons grow

Back to my home

I dare not go

For if I do

My mother will say

"Did you ever see a lion kissing a python?"

Down by the bay.

By Jaimie

Our Water Filter

Hi everyone!

We are The Rock Stars.

We made water filters today. Here is what we did, in case you want to make one at home. Make sure you do it outdoors so you don’t make a mess!!!

In our water filter we had:

• Cotton (at the bottom of the container that has holes) make sure you cover the container and you can’t see any plastic at the bottom
• Sand (cover the cotton)
• Rocks (you don’t need to cover the sand)
• Charcoal
• Grass (only a little bit)
• Tissue Paper (fold to fit into bottle)
• Rocks again (same type of rocks)

 

Steps

1. Poke holes so when you pour water in it will come back out
2. Put the cottons in first and make sure you can’t see any plastic
3. Put the sand in which covers the cottons
4. Add the rocks in, to cover the sand
5. Break the charcoal into little pieces and put them in after the rocks
6. Now find some grasses that doesn’t cover the whole thing
7. Take a piece of tissue and fold into the size that would fit inside and put it in
8. Now add the rocks again which is the same type of the rocks in step  4
9. Put another bottle underneath the container with holes
10. Take some water from the tap
11. Pour them into the container with the holes
12. Wait and you will see that the water you put in will come out dirtier than the normal water
13. Pour again into a different bucket and put it back underneath the container with holes
14. Now pour the water in the bucket that has holes
15. Wait again and see if it is clean
16. If it is still dirty repeat step 13 & 14 until you get the water clean
17. If it is clean then drink it if it doesn’t have any other stuff in it (make sure it is absolutely clear)

 

Jasmine said:

Our class made filters this morning. It was lots of fun.

The container that I brought to school was bigger than the Pump bottle that Yuan brought, so we had to duct tape the sides so water will not drip out.

Yuan said:

I brought 2 bottles to school and traded 1 bottle to someone (because they didn’t have a bottle) and they gave some sand back to us. My other teacher, Mrs Figgins came to our class and helped us make the water filter. I hope you have a good time trying  the water filter. Try not to make any big mistakes. :D

Michael said:

It was fun doing the filter but it had its challenges like when we had to find good charcoal and get stones around school.

Jaimie said:

I loved the experiment.  I would of drunk the water but we weren’t allowed to, because we weren't sure if it was safe or not. I also loved making muddy water!!!

Room 5's Conclave

In Room 5, we found it very interesting to learn about how the new Pope was chosen. It is a very detailed election called a Conclave that involves a lot of very complicated rules. We were finding it a bit hard to understand, so we decided to have a class Concave, to elect the Class Captain! It was a very exciting day and we learnt a lot about the process. We still haven't managed to elect a Class Captain, because there are so many rules to follow, but we have narrowed it down to the top two - Maddy and Jaimie!

First, we had to decide on the job description for the Class Captain. It is a year long job and there had to be responsibilities, as well as rewards. Here is what we decided:
Responsibilities -
* Choose a different Co-Captain each week to help with responsibilities
* Allocate Monitor's Jobs each week 
* Check that diaries have been signed every morning
* Call the roll each morning
* Organise Lunches and Money Bag
* Take messages
* Help organise Class Assemblies

Rewards -
* Receive any awards Room 5 wins
* Give out House Points in class
* Wear a special Class Captain badge
* Be the 'Policeman' when the teacher is out of the room
* Organise music to play during art time
* Issue books at the Library

Once our job description was written, we all had to write speeches, explaining why we would be the best for the job. 






We had 20 minutes to write our speech and 10 minutes to practise it, so we had to work fast! 







Everyone presented their speeches and then the voting began!




After many rounds of voting, we were down to our top two Maddie and Jaimie.

We couldn't get a unanimous vote, so they have written speeches that we are going to put on the blog anonymously and see if we can get a winner this weekend!! Please leave constructive comments on the speeches, to say who you think sounds like they can best fill the job description.