Poetry Recital

What a challenge our Poetry Recital was!  Not only did we had to remember the poem but we also had to say it aloud in front of the other students and parents and stay still at the same time.

Our 3 finalists from Room 5 were Tulialo, DJ and Joseph.  We are so proud of them!!

Tulialo's whanau came to support her

Exploring Patterns with Maths

Maths is so much fun, especially when we get to 'play'!  We have been learning about Algebra- making patterns, continuing others patterns and talking about them.  We have used ourselves eg long hair/short hair, girl/boy, shorts/long pants.  We have also used shapes, other types of materials, colours and number patterns too.

Open Morning

We had invited our whanau to come and watch us working in our classroom for our open morning.

Shelan with her dad and Sione with her mum

Thank you for visiting us and watching us work!

Skip Off

What a great day we have had for our skip off!  Our 3 finalist, Aleki, Christina and Ariel tried their best with Ariel coming third in the junior skip off.  Shelan got the certificate for the most improved skipper.  We have learned so many ways of skipping, both in the short and long rope.

The junior skip-off

Showing our skipping talents outside our classroom

Room 5 Cross Country Winners

Congratulations to our cross-country winners!

World of Insects

We have been learning about insects and now we know lots of facts about them.  Did you know that insects have 3 body parts- head, thorax and abdomen and that there are more insects in the world than any other animals?  They also have their skeleton on the outside of the body and they belong to a group of animals called arthropods! 

We went for a hikoi to study some insects and we found bees, a monarch butterfly and ants. We studied how they moved, where they lived and what they looked like.  We were careful not to hurt them.

We also wrote letters to insects inviting them to our parties or giving them information.


21.9.16

Dear Fly

I am inviting you to a Stinky Dad's Shoe party.  The party is outside the steps.  The party starts in the afternoon.  I'm inviting a lot of flies, cockroaches and ants in my dad's stinky shoes.  We are having a a party because we want to surprise you.  It is on Friday afternoon.

From Christina


22.9.16

Dear Ant

I found junk food in the cupboard.  It was sugar that I had found but there was ant poison too.  I had a heart attack everywhere in the house and I nearly got trapped.  I looked somewhere else and suddenly I found something I liked.

It was my favourtie, it was a strawberry.  I ran back home to tell my mum and dad.

From Solomon


20.9.16

Dear Monarch Butterfly

I am inviting you to a flower party and I have invited the bees and caterpillars too.  You can come to the daisies on the field, in front of room 5 and come in the afternoon.  I am having a flower party because it is spring.

From Shayna

We Are The Champions

What a great day we have had for the cross-country race today!!!  We are very proud of ourselves.

Waiting for the race to start

See us go

A Fun Duffy Assembly

Henry from Books in Homes came to talk to us about the importance of reading.  He was very funny when he told us how he first started to read during his shopping trips and then discovering the library.

We are going to enjoy reading our library books!!

Going to Tamaki Primary School

What an exciting time we have had at Tamaki Primary School.  We were invited to their Tongan Language Week show and we enjoyed watching the students perform the dance, listening to their band sing and looking at all the costumes worn by the Tongan people.

Thank you Tamaki Primary School for having us!!!

tessellations

Tessellations is a type of art using geometric shapes with no overlaps or gaps.  We have been practising making tessellation art using hexagon, rectangles, diamonds and triangles.  Our next step is to choose 2 colours and colour our art in.

We Made Popcorn

We made popcorn today so we could write a description about it.  We looked at it, we felt it, we smelt it, we heard it and we smelt it.  Some words we used to describe it were white fluffy cloud, sheep wool, crunchy and munchy and buttery.  We watched it pop and the smell was delicious!

The best part: eating!!!

It's Spring

In Room 5, we have been busy learning about signs of spring.  We went for a hikoi around the school to find signs of spring.  We learned that in spring birds make nests and sing, there are baby animals around, the days are getting warmer and longer, the daffodils come out, the plants start to grow and there are blossoms on trees.  

Skipping

We have started to practise our skipping for the big skip off .  We are trying to skip for as long as we can and are learning some different techniques too.