Rata and the Totara Tree Art

Room 5 explored koru art and maori designs before reading the story of Rata and the Totara Tree. 

We discovered that just like the birds and insects in the story Room 5 have worked together this year and just like Rata we have learnt to respect our environment and each other. 

So... we created some spectacular art and student led conference invitations to share the fantastic skills we have learnt this year...

Check out the slideshow of us making our art:

Click on the students' blog to the right to see which of these amazing pictures they created and listen to a recording of what they had to say about their art and the story of Rata and the Totara Tree.

Chalize Visited Room 5 Today!

Chalize, from Room 9, did such fabulous work in her poem book today that her teacher let her share her work with another class. Room 5 were very privileged to be this chosen class. 

Room 5 had lots of positive comments for Chalize!

Well done Chalize and thank you for sharing your work with Room 5  :-)!

Kapa Haka

Some of the fabulous senior syndicate kapa haka group getting ready for their performance this morning! Well done everyone!! 

Room 5's Murals

Illminster Performance

Room 5 really enjoyed the performance and from our discussions afterwards it was clear that everyone understood the message Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.

Thank You Illminster!

Click on the link below to check out what Te Aroha from Room 5 had to say after the performance...

Help Save The Earth by Te Aroha

Digital Story Telling

Check out what Room 5 thought about their first digital story telling experience on their individual blogs!! 

We explored, read, interacted with and had great discussions about Inanimate Alice!

Links to their blog are on the right. Leave them a comment and maybe ask them about their ideas for making their very own episode! Very exciting!!!

Back in action in Term 4

Room 5 have been learning to play a new game. It's very like a game we all know and love!!Can you guess what they have to do?

Room 5's Positive Privilege Day!!

Wow - Room 5 had a very productive Privilege Day!

Endangered Species Presentations
In Term 3 we worked in co-operative groups to research, take notes, cross reference, write and get a report ready to present to the class on an endangered specie of our choice.

This is us presenting our reports  followed by a questions and answers sessions!

OUTSTANDING...

Healthy Eating!!!
We have definitely been listening to Mr Langford in assembly!

On Thursday, in preparation for our shared lunch, we talked about Mr Langford's messages about eating healthy and about what Steve and Harold from Life Ed taught us about food that gives you long lasting energy... So to make sure we made the most of Privilege Day we had a great balance of healthy food for our shared lunch.

We all made sure we had some healthy food before we tucked into the treats.

Here we are eating some of the fresh fruit (We had a fruit salad which was so delicious it was gone in seconds!),  sandwiches and carrots! Yum!

Thanks heaps parents/caregivers/whanau for all the delicious food!

As well as all that we played games(including rugby), rode around on our wheels, played on the computers, watched a movie and finished off our murals!

Murals Room 5

We have been doing lots of work on our school murals! We are all very excited and love the ideas and drawings we have come up with. Can't wait to see the other classes' murals too :-).

Room 5 - Teamwork :-)

Room 5 visited the Town Library today. There was a world map zigsaw on the floor when we got there. After Room 5 had issued their books they began to work on this puzzle.

This was not a planned activity and no adult had actually suggested it but look at the success Room 5 had when they used their own initiative and worked as a team!

Eastwood Hill

What an amazing day! We absolutely loved our time at Eastwood Hill. We learnt lots and have lots of questions to research too! One of the trees even shares the same name as one of our class mates, Zaquioah!
Here are a few of the fun moments we caught on camera...

Artists in Room 5 learn to blend colours! Check out their masterpieces!

This was us choosing colours that blend well together..

Here are some of our finished pictures...