TEKKIE BREKKIE

This morning before school Cooper,Floss and Ruby R taught the teachers how to use the app Little bird tales. We were nervous at first but then we got happier. Lots of teachers came to the Teekie brekkie. We had lots of fun. Dr Potaka took lots of photos of us.  Then he interviewed us in his office.  HE'S GOING TO PUT US IN THE NEWSLETTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Cooper,Ruby R & Floss!!!

Let's get 3D!

Today we had fun with our little buddies using an amazing app called Colar Mix.  It turned our special colouring in pages downloaded from the Colar Mix website into amazing animated 3D images.  This app is available in both Android and Apple and can also be used on your smartphones.

Museum, measurement and mmmm..... chocolate cake!

We have had another busy week in Room 5 this week.  We kicked off the week by a visit to the Museum on Monday.  We visited the Christchurch Earthquake exhibition as part of our inquiry topic.  To find out more check out our blog posts on our individual blogs.

  

On Tuesday we sadly said farewell to our student teacher Roxy.  She has been in our classroom one day a week for the last 6 weeks.  We were sad to see her go but we loved the cupcakes that she made for us.

In Art this week we had fun printing our leaf string prints.  Most of us think the results were worth our persistence last week.

In Maths we have been learning all about measurement.  On Thursday we had fun seeing how many cups of water it took to fill a variety of containers.  To celebrate the end of our measurement unit and to also help Sally celebrate her birthday we baked a yummy chocolate cake!

Pirates, printing, persisting and performing

We have kicked of Term 2 with a lot of fun! On Monday when we arrived at school we found Sally dressed in a Pirate costume. Our Maths had a bit of pirate theme. Captain Blook A.k.a. Sally had a treasure chest to bury but she needed to measure out the correct distances and then draw it on her map. On Tuesday we had fun drawing out the measurements for Captain Bloods new pirate ship on the front courts. 

 On Tuesday after lunch we discovered that we could not enter our classroom as it was under inspection to see if it was Earthquake safe. As a result we had to have our writing lesson outside in a tent with just a small amount of resources that Sally was able to gather up for us. It was challenging as there were not enough pens and paper for us all. Room 7 joined us for a bit and we quickly discovered that it was very challenging due to the noise, because we were uncomfortable and hot. 

In art this week we started our new topic of print making. On our cardboard block we each created a leaf design using string. We all found it challenging to begin with, but we were proud of our results after we persisted with it. 

Today a large number of us performed as part of the school choir singing the song Malala. We were filmed performing this and our video will be combined with others from around the world to make a music video for this song.