Room 15`s P.E for the Term

Room 15 have been learning outdoor games such as:
Four Square, Bat Down & French Cricket
We have improved greatly in these games and have enjoyed learning every
single one of them. Some are our favourites and some are not.
Today we all went out to play Bat Down, French Cricket or Four Square we enjoyed our time out there
and we got to choose which game to play.

Auction Fever

We are learning to identify keywords - Barry and Andrew

The Naughty Ann

Hamish has been reading this story. He is learning to recognise words by themselves.

Windy Nights

We are learning to identify keywords - Anya and Bethany

Tama's Putorino

We are learning to identify keywords - Logan and jack


we are learning to identify keywords by Logan and Jack

Windy Nights

We are learning to identify keywords - Ethan Flynn

We are learning to identify keywords - Sam and Alexa

Auction Fever

We are learning to identify keywords. Gage and Lachlan

Tama's Putorino

We are learning to idenitfy key words -Bailey and DJ

A Cat Under The School

We are learning to identify keywords - Katie and Joel

Auction Fever

We are learning to identify keywords - Phoenix and Riley

Harry's New Hat

Hamish is practicing reading with confidence.

Wake Up Dad

Listen to Grace practicing her reading.

Margaret Mahy

Beaten by a Balloon by Margaret Mahy

I am learning to retell a story - Emma and Flynn

Collage

I am learning to crate art work around me-Barrie

Collage

I am learning to make a picture all about me- Ethan

Collage

Collage

I am learning to create a picture about me -Riley

Collage

I am learning to create a picture all about me - Bailey

A Cat Door for Percy

We are learning to read to the punctuation. Great reading Katie, it was easy to hear you.

A Cat Door for Percy

We are learning to read to the punctuation. Great expressive reading Joel!

Problem Solving

Homework Challenge

Margaret Mahy

Margaret Mahy - New Zealand author

We are learning to identify sentences with descriptive detail.

Success Criteria:
Read a Margaret Mahy story
Locate sentences with exciting or interesting adjectives, active verbs and perhaps even adverbs
Similes - does Margaret Mahy include these in her writing

Using Comic Life your task must include:
Title - Author
photo of an exciting event that happened in the story- use Photo Booth
At least 4 descriptive sentences you discovered when reading the story.
Save As - MM in a folder - You are to do this with a buddy

Once edited your completed work will be placed on our blog

School Swimming Sports

>The Senior Stars had their school swimming sports today and here are some thoughts from Room 15.

The thing that was interesting for me was going under the water for longer and not putting my feet down. Joel

The best thing at swimming was competing in all the racing with my friends. G.M

The best thing at swimming was when the teachers were competing against the children. Bailey

I did really well with the flutter board at our swimming sports. Grace

The hard bit is when you get in because you don't know how fast your opponents can swim. But the
best part was when we had back stroke because I won. R.M

My hard bit was when I had to go and do breast stroke. A.D

My hard bit was when I had to face faster swimmers than me. Bethany

I think my hands need to be a bit slower becuase Natalie

I think I needed to kick my legs a lot faster so that I get to the end faster. E.B

The hardest bit of swimming sports was when I did breaststroke with nerves. R.B

At swimming sports I got two 3rds and one 1st. DJ

I had fun even though I did not come first. LOGAN


I enjoyed helping the judge. Jack

At swimming sports I came 2nd place at backstoke. A.H

At swimming sports I came second to last place at freestyle. N.T

At swimming sports 1st 2nd 4th at swimming. k .t


At swimming sports my mum said I came 1st at backstroke. FS

At swimming sports I came 1st in breaststroke. E.J

At swimming sports I came 1st place in freestyle.M.K

Tukutuku panel

We are learning to: design a tukutuku panel which has meaning for Room 15
The designers of the four panels are very happy it is now complete. The whole class has been involved in some way with the completion of the panel. Two terms work!!!! It will now be placed somewhere in the school alongside the four others created by the rest of the Year 5/6 classes.
Fantastic - Ka mau te wehi.

Fire cat work

W.a.l.t: summarise a story.

Firecat Comic Life

W.A.L.T: summarise a story in key words.

Elf yourself Summer, Ruby and Bethany

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Elf Yourself!

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

By Rachel

W.A.L.T gather relevant information on an author of our choice

Pop Art Using Fotoflexor

Pop Art with a photo from our DARE fun day.

Where was these photos taken?

What do you think is happening in the photos?

Diamante Poems

We are learning to write diamante poems

Room 15 explored a couple of websites today. They are under Literacy on our blog site. We saw examples of diamante poems, looked at the structure of diamante poems and wrote some of our own. We couldn't put them on our blog so we have written some out. We hope you enjoy reading them.

Dance

Fun Challenging

Swinging Tapping Moving

Dean's a great teacher

Knocking Jumping Playing

Confusing Exciting

Elvis Medley

Long jump

far, long

running, puffing, exciting

run, run, run, jump-

flinging, flying, landing,

high, fast,

Jump

horse

cute fluffy

running jumping eating

horses are fun to play with

playing talking sleeping

funny happy

pony

Word Mosiacs

Ruby, Brayden , Summer and Mrs Trembath have been having a play with word mosiacs.

Word Mosiac

Mrs Trembath has been exploring some poetry and word image sites. She has been having fun. Look to see what else she comes up with this weekend.

See the word mosiac link under Literacy

Pop Art Task

Flax flower using cartoon and painted picture effects before selecting pop art.
Bridge using straight pop art effect

We are learning to use a range of effects to create a piece of pop art.

Go to the link (under Topic) on our blog for terrific tools and choose the programme Fotoflexer.

Click Watch a Demo and practice using one of the images - flower, bridge or girls.

Play with the effects then choose pop art to see what the final picture will look like. Remember this is your practice one.

Then choose a photo from our photo library - this will be the one you save.

Choose an effect - the last one you choose will be pop art.

Save - look on the screen for this word.

Give your picture a name and save in documents in your own folder.

Have fun - by the end of today's session you all want to have a piece of pop art saved in your folder.

Pop Art by Andy Warhol

As part of our Arts unit we are looking at the Rock n Roll music era and for visual art - Pop Art.

Pop Art used the imagery and techniques of advertising and popular culture icons for their subject matter. It reproduced everyday objects like soup cans, comic strips and advertisements.

Andy Warhol was a young artist in the 1950s. He produced artwork in many media including painting, photography, printmaking and film.

Ruby and Rachels fun day interviewing the Minster Of Education

On the 20th of October, we (Rachel and Ruby), Michelle (Ruby's mum), and Mr Lovegrove (our principal) went to Parliament in Wellington to interview the Minister of Education, Anne Tolley. Mr Lovegrove is the editor of New Zealand's Principal magazine and he was lucky enough to score an interview with the Minister so he thought it would be a good opportunity for us to be able to interview her.

We had to get up very early so we could be in Wellington on time for our 10.15am appointment. When we arrived we walked straight to the Beehive to check in for our appointment. We didn't have to wait as the Minister was already ready for us. We sat down and admired her lovely big office while we were in one of her chairs before we started our interview. We got to ask 2 questions each.

Ruby's first question - Why did you choose to be Minister of Education?

Minister - You don't get to choose - John Key just offers you the job and you're silly not to take it. But if I got to choose what I could be Minister of - I would choose Education.

Rachel's first question - What have been your ups and down's during your time as Minister?

Minister -I have really enjoyed going and visiting schools, but I don't get a lot of time to see them. She showed us her schedule, it was very long!

Ruby's second question - Who were your role models early in life? Who inspired you?

Minister - I have always admired strong women in history like Elizabeth the First.

Rachel's second question - What other jobs would you like to do?

Minister - I would really like to be a full time Grandma.

Then Mr Lovegrove asked a few of his questions, we took some photos and then that was the end of our interview. We went back to the car and started to drive to Fisherman's Table. When we arrived we sat down and started enjoying the little games that we got on our kids menu. We all had delicious meals, Chicken, Burgers and fish. After lunch at Fisherman's Table we carried on driving back home.

It was a great experience interviewing the Minister Of Education and a really fun day!

By Ruby and Rachel :)

Seeds for schools

W.A.L.T: transplant seedlings (pingao) into root training trays.

SUCCESS CRITERIA:

First fill the root training trays with soil.

Use a plastic knife to carefully cut out a tiny Pingao plant.

Hold the Pingao and dig a small hole using our free hand.

Then fill the trays with the baby plants!

These pingao plants will be cared for by Awapuni Nurseries and when they are big enough will be planted out at a beach, helping to preserve the sand dunes.

We worked with Kelly Slater from the Department of Conservation.

Dylan, Anya and Rubys blog task

Tukutuku panel

Room 15 has been working on a tukutuku panel since the beginning of term 3. We are three quarters finished. One of them hasn't even been started though. The creators of them are Jachin, Mason, Ruby, Lucy, Summer and Alexa although all the class has helped. Summer is working on drawing the fourth pattern. The aim is to have it completed by the end of the year.

Rachel, Micheal and Natalie D.A.R.E Task

This Is our Blog group task. We had to use an application to send a message about the D.A.R.E program. Me, Micheal and Natalie did this scrapblog presentation.

Blog Challenge for Tuesday October 12th

In your new blog groups I would like you to choose from one of the following tools and show new learnings / understandings you gained from the DARE programme in Term 3.

Kid Pix - create a poster with an important message

Bubblus - make a brainstorm that shows the different areas studied

Comic Life - using pictures/photos and text show some important ideas from the DARE programme

Keynote - using an appropriate google image and text to advertise a message

Pages - use one of the templates to create a poster advertising a new DARE learning

Scrapblog - using pictures/photos and text again to create an eye catching poster with important DARE ideas.

If there is another tool you wish to use to get your message across then see me.

Brendan Gym Assessment

learning intention:

I am learning to do a pike jump off the mini tramp

Rachel's Gym Assessment

I am learning to:

Do a handstand twist off the vault

Success criteria:

Land in front of the vault

Do a straight handstand first

I think:

I did a straight handstand first. I needed to work on landing on the vault with out stumbling.

When I did my handstand twist on the vault at badge testing I got a 9.5 out of a possible 10.