Cosmo bringing smiles and some Easter goodies to share.
Our first practice with Ti Rakau - we think we did a pretty good job!
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.
2016
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.
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;
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.
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.
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.
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.
