Welcome to Room 4 2020
Tuesday 23 June we had training from Stacey (Sustainable Coastlines) before going to Te Atatu Peninsula. We went to a strip of beach west of Harbour View Reserve, marked out an area and collected rubbish. We collected 581 pieces of rubbish! Today was the audit day when we categorised it, weighed it and recorded the results on the Litter Intelligence website - https://litterintelligence.org/data/ We collected 581 pieces of rubbish! Check out our photos.
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LOOK WHAT WE'VE BEEN UP TO!
Slideshow of LIFE IN LOCKDOWN
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Online Learning Term 2 Weeks 1, 2, 3, 4
Happy Easter everyone.
School Holidays 30/3/20 to 15/04/20
Two of our parents have sent in some fun activities to do - one is a Time Capsule. A Time Capsule captures the moment of what is happening now. The other is a DIY nature wristband. Click on the buttons above.
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Kiwi Kids News
Hi Room 4, To the right is a button which will send you straight to Kiwi kids news. When you get to the site click the orange button at the top. Each day there will be tasks for you to follow. Please email showing me your completed work or if you have any questions. Take care, Mrs Gill |
This dance studio was going to come to school but have instead made some online videos - click the buttons to take you to the dances. Have a dance-off with your whanau.
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Watch the 'funny' button - see what this Wellington family got up to- see what you can do with your family.
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Hi Room 4,
How are you all? I hope you are keeping in your bubble. I am in mine with my husband and 2 cats, Shadow and ABC, ABC stands for a black cat.
The virus is certainly affecting every one. My granddaughter, Hazel, is having her eighth birthday on Thursday, no party, no presents and no going out. We have been lucky with the weather, enjoy your free time and stay in your bubble. Keep reading. Mrs Gill and I are working on online programmes for you. Stay safe, be kind. Keep reading.
Mrs A.
How are you all? I hope you are keeping in your bubble. I am in mine with my husband and 2 cats, Shadow and ABC, ABC stands for a black cat.
The virus is certainly affecting every one. My granddaughter, Hazel, is having her eighth birthday on Thursday, no party, no presents and no going out. We have been lucky with the weather, enjoy your free time and stay in your bubble. Keep reading. Mrs Gill and I are working on online programmes for you. Stay safe, be kind. Keep reading.
Mrs A.
Hi Lifesavers,
How are you? I hope your Bubble is going well. My Bubble is doing ok - I am with my husband, Pete, two very happy cats and a super happy little dog. They are loving 24/7 attention. So far, apart from my bike rides, I have not needed to leave home. Officially it is term holidays but if you still want to do some work you are welcome to send it to me. I'd love to hear how you are getting on in lockdown so email me with what lockdown is like for you - use the Teacher contact button. Scroll down and check out what Cosmo has been doing. Keep safe and keep in touch.
Mrs Gill
How are you? I hope your Bubble is going well. My Bubble is doing ok - I am with my husband, Pete, two very happy cats and a super happy little dog. They are loving 24/7 attention. So far, apart from my bike rides, I have not needed to leave home. Officially it is term holidays but if you still want to do some work you are welcome to send it to me. I'd love to hear how you are getting on in lockdown so email me with what lockdown is like for you - use the Teacher contact button. Scroll down and check out what Cosmo has been doing. Keep safe and keep in touch.
Mrs Gill
Hi Room 4, How are you all? Isn't it strange not going to school? Thanks to technology we can still communicate with each other. You can email us using the Teacher contact button below. Mrs A and I have been putting up various sites and activities for you to do while you are at home and we will get into more formal work after the two week holiday. In the meantime check out Kiwikids news and become faster at your Basic Facts using Prototec. Being at home for a while gives you the chance to really spend time at a hobby you enjoy or to start a new hobby, like scooters, skateboards, beyblades, sketching, painting, jigsaws, puzzles, card games, card towers, gardening and building structures out of cardboard. Scroll down to see how Cosmo is getting on.
7 April Day 13 Dreaming about the good old days
6 April Day 12 Nothing like a good run in the mud
5 April Day 11 Looks like a sunny day
4 April Day 10 Recycling chores
3 April Day 9 Unloading the shopping
2 April Day 8 Doing jobs round the house.
1 April Day 7 Walk at the end of the street - one lucky dog!
31 March Day 6 I hope you're reading! I'm way smarter than these dogs!
30 March Day 5 I'm on dinner - Chelsea doesn't want to eat dog biscuits!
29 March Day 4 - "Who's going to be the Banker?"
28 March Day 3 From Chelsea, Cosmo reports " I've had a great day and am getting lots of attention. Today's walk was to the lake at the end of the street. I have to stay on a lead because I'm not allowed in other people's bubbles, whatever that means!"
27 March Day 2, taking up a new hobby. Not bad for a first attempt!
26 March Cosmo - first day in Lockdown at Warkworth - it's ruff!!
26 March 2020 LOCKDOWN!
Testing pH of various substances
Experimenting with acids and bases - making and eating sherbet
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Swimming lessons
Having fun in the pool |
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Trip to Muriwai Surf Life Saving Club
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Fun with bubbles!
Skateboard School!
Oh my gosh, skateboarding was fantastic!
Life Ed arrived. We learnt about keeping ourselves healthy and how our bodies work. Of course Harold popped in too.
Yay - swimming survival skills with Westwave
Bee rescue - the bee is drying out on the table - look at his long tongue so it can reach the nectar in flowers !
We had so much fun researching bees. Honey bees are super-important pollinators for flowers. This means they help plants grow! Bees transfer pollen between the male and female parts of the flowers, allowing plants to grow seeds and fruit. We became so obsessed with bees we started rescuing them from the school pool. We were very fortunate to be invited to see Billy's family's beehive.
Fishing quotas are part of Sustainability. Fishing quotas are a limit on the number of fish and shellfish that can be harvested. It gives the small fish and shellfish a chance to breed. Quotas prevent breeds of fish/shellfish becoming extinct.
This year our topic is Sustainability. It is a topic that is super important for all of us. Sustainable means
Room 4 is a class of 32 students focused on caring for our environment.
Welcome to Room 4 2019
Now for the firing and painting.
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Clay day - it was fun.
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Another exciting day. The whole school got together to watch Mr B and the teachers showing reversible and irreversible chemical reactions. Thanks Mr B for the noise, flames and explosions.
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Finally it was time for the Bug Lab and it was fantastic! We had great fun learning about the insects, playing the games and killing the hornet!
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After the native trail we went around the zoo looking at the other animals and working out the adaptations they have to live in their natural environments.
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Wow what an exciting start to the term - a trip to the zoo. Thanks to the zoo, The Warehouse and Ritchies buses who sponsored us. We went on the Native trail and a teacher from the zoo taught us about tuatara, kiwi and the wonderful native critters we have. We also learnt about pests and the need to provide for and protect our native species.
Term 2
Our art is spectacular. We have made beautiful pictures of seahorses and octopuses and have done a lot of research on them. They are truly amazing creatures and our teachers and all of us have learnt such a lot.
The final lesson in our water safety classes was down at Westwave. We had a play in the wave pool first and then our safety lesson which involved learning about and using lifejackets and buoyancy aids.
We have been studying honeybees and have learnt what amazing, precious and vitally important creatures honeybees are. Mrs Ayache brought a frame from a beehive to school so we could see how bees make honey in the hive. Lareen gave us some honeycomb which we all had a taste of - most of us thought YUM!
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We've made some amazing box creatures this term. Our brief was to use the boxes from our stationery packs to make an animal - real or imaginery. We have made some stunning creatures. It was fun making them and was another STEAM activity involving maths, design, technology and working together. Look at the progress of our designs.
STEAM activity in Maths - measuring scallop shells to work out if they are legal (100mm or more) or illegal and then designing a gauge for measuring scallops when diving.
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We had a visit from Jacob's quail - so soft, tiny and fragile.
Happy Easter everybody
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Another really funny group came to school and presented 'The Gift' to us. We laughed and laughed!
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More STEAM as we construct purpose built boxes for various products.
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We found out the glue has long flexible molecules in it called polymers. These polymer molecules slide past each other when it is a liquid.
When the borax in water solution is added to the glue solution, the borax helps link the long polymer molecules to each other so they cannot move and flow as easily. When enough polymer molecules get hooked together in the right way, the glue solution changes from being very liquidy to a rubbery kind of stuff! |
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OH MY GOSH - this is such fun! Slime expert, Trinity, teaches us how to make slime. What amazingly different effects you can get by adding soap or shaving cream and the borax solution is just incredible as it changes the consistency of the mixture.
Some action shots of Cosmo and Room 4 playing soccer.
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Another STEAM activity as we learn about 2d and 3d shapes in Maths.
We had some really cool groups visit the school. The first was a pair from England and they had their own kids show on TV. After a really hilarious show they took the Year 5 and 6 students for a workshop on movie making and making a television show. It opened our eyes to the jobs in TV and the time it takes to film a 15 second segment for TV. These are the photos of the two guys who took it and us giving it a go.
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Week 3 Our first STEAM challenge was to build a maze out of boxes, programme a beebot (cute little robotic bee) and get it through the maze. It was quite challenging coding it accurately for a successful run through of the maze.
We have enjoyed learning through STEAM lessons. STEAM integrates two or more curriculum subjects from science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics. STEAM gives us opportunities for creativity, critical thinking and problem solving as we work together.
We have had a great start to the year with swimming lessons from Westwave, cricket and soccer lessons and fun learning experiences in the class.
Check us out! We are skateboarding! Learning lots about foot placement, pushing, turning, where to look - it's kinda tricky stuff!
This is the art that we have done throughout the year that is all over our classroom
We are creating fish and creatures from clay, working to make forms, adding texture and details.
Cosmo bringing smiles and some Easter goodies to share.
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Our first practice with Ti Rakau - we think we did a pretty good job!
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Rooms 3 and 4 wanted to know more about Monarch butterflies, their life cycle and why some years there aren't very many Monarchs around. We invited Madam Butterfly to visit us. She answered our questions, dressed Mr Cartwright up as a butterfly, taught us lots of new words (like proboscis and metamorphosis) and showed us different types of butterflies. We learnt lots of interesting facts about butterflies and had fun.
Fun designing creations with the blocks.
After lots of Olympic Games research we decided to use our research to make board games. We started from scratch making dice, boards, boxes and question cards. It's been a lot of fun and now we are up to playing them. The criteria we used to evaluate the board game process was working together as a team, planning and design, writing clear instructions, identifying and correcting faults, presentation and fun to play.
We enjoyed having Melissa Ingram share with us about her experiences in the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games. Our reports will tell you more about her.
Our focus this term is Olympic Games. The Olympic motto is made up of three Latin words, Citius - Altius - Fortius which means Faster - Higher - Stronger.
Term 2
Term 2 started with a trip to the Stardome Observatory as our concept this term in Matariki and Beyond. We were amazed at the size of the universe. Some pictures that have astounded us are;
The art project this term was circle art. Our learning intention was to create a beautiful picture by observing through a porthole. We were really pleased with the results.
Waitemata Football Club has helped us improve at our soccer skills by teaching ball skills and games to reinforce these skills. We have enjoyed this so much and were sad when it ended. Our reports tell you more about it.
With all the rainy weather we tried writing about how we feel in the rain. Have a read of our stories.
We are also getting excited about camp and we had a meeting with our parents about it. We will keep you posted.
We are also getting excited about camp and we had a meeting with our parents about it. We will keep you posted.
Term 1
Welcome to Room 4. We are a Year 5/6 class and our teachers are Barbara Ayache and Deb Gill.
Let's tell you about the fun we have had this term. The focus in Term 1 was 'The Big Book-Off'.' We had lots of fun activities and challenges with books and reading. We had visits from authors and illustrators and learnt lots about writing stories. We had a school-wide read-a-thon to raise money for new library books.
Some of the terms highlights were;
Let's tell you about the fun we have had this term. The focus in Term 1 was 'The Big Book-Off'.' We had lots of fun activities and challenges with books and reading. We had visits from authors and illustrators and learnt lots about writing stories. We had a school-wide read-a-thon to raise money for new library books.
Some of the terms highlights were;
- Ross Kinnaird, illustrator of 'I Need A New Bum' and 'Dr Grundie's Undies', who drew an elephant in a tutu with a crown. He also drew a rabbicorn which the children thought would be a nice cross between a rabbit and a unicorn. He was very funny.
- Apirana Taylor told us some wonderful Maori stories and played bone flutes. He read us a really sad whale story. Apirana took a writers' workshop which some of us were fortunate enough to attend.
Mark Summerset - who wrote a very funny book called 'Baa Baa Smart Sheep', explained how he had his books published and how his wife did the illustrations. He livs on Waiheke Island with his wife and son, his books are published world-wide.
Have a read of some of our book reviews.
Have a read of some of our book reviews.
We were lucky enough to have 10 free swimming lessons from the Waterhold and just about all of us improved. Thank you Waterhold for teaching us skills to save our lives when in the water.
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We have created some spectacular art. First we drew, dyed and highlighted some very colourful arachnids. We learnt that arachnids are not insects. Arachnids have two parts to their body and eight legs, and insects have three body parts and six legs.
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Our second project was painting a parrot, trying very hard to blend colours.
A trip to the Cascades was a great finish to the term. We learnt about the traditional use of the forest by Maori and measured the quality of the water in the stream.
