Communication through flags

Hi Room 5, Here are the links to the work we have been doing in class on communication.

Week 4!

We've had another great week in Room 5.  This week we had fun exploring some more ways that people communicate with others.  We learnt about Morse Code, using the Military Alphabet, and Semaphore Flags.

This term we have been doing dance.  We have a jungle theme going on.  This week Sally put us in groups of four and we had to think about the dance element of levels.

We have had Sam relieving us.  We had lots of fun creating these bright and colourful clowns.  Aren't we talented!!

Communicate

We are learning about all the different ways we can communicate with others.  Here are couple of the links we have been using in class.



Morse Code Link

Sign Language Videos

Sign it!

We have been learning about all the different ways that people communicate with each other.  This week we have been learning more about sign language.  As part of our reading rotation we had to make a little movie using sign language.  Sally was blown away with what we came up.  Check out one of them below.  Watch out for them coming on our individual blogs soon.

Ruby M: Hi my name is Ruby.

Cooper: Hi my name is Cooper

Cooper: What sport do you play?

Ruby M: I like to play rugby.

Cooper: Whats the time?

Ruby M: 1:00

Cooper: Ok,Bye

Ruby M: Bye.

Sylvie:Hi good morning my name is Sylvie

Ruby R:Hi good morning my name is Ruby R

Sylvie:Nice to meet you

Ruby R: Nice to meet you too 

Sylvie:I am thirsty

Ruby R:Stop

[Ruby R goes and gets Sylvie a drink]

[Sylvie gives Ruby a thumbs up]

Ruby R:Bye

Sylvie:Bye

We also had our second week of gymnastics.  We are really thankful to the parents who are supporting us with this.

Talented Room 5!

We've had another fun week in Room 5.  On Tuesday a lot of us performed at Stage One with the school choir as part of the Nelson Art's Festival.  Check out the video below.  (Sorry that it is sideways)

On Wednesday Cooper, Ella M and Ruby M were really brave and helped Sally lead a Tekkie Brekkie before school.  They taught teachers how to use the Lego Movie Maker App to make animations.  Way to go girls!! 

Speak up!

 

On Thursday we kicked off our new inquiry topic titled 'Speak Up!'  We had a special syndicate assembly where Choi spoke to us entirely in Chinese.  We quickly discovered that whilst we didn't understand the language we could understand what she was saying.  She told us Nursery Rhymes in Chinese and Sally, Jo and Sue acted them out.  We then had to guess which one was being acted out.  

We discussed that we knew what Choi was saying because:
- She used actions
- She showed us numbers on her fingers
- Of her tone of voice
- The body language she used
- Of the facial expressions she used
- She acted/mimed
- She looked at us when she was talking to us

Week 10 Fun

We have ended Term 3 with a bit of fun.  On Monday we enjoyed making popcorn and then writing a free-verse poem about it.

Popping Popcorn

Popcorn blows out of the machine

It's trying to escape the popcorn cells

Jumping round and out of the popcorn maker

The kernels look like the golden sun

It is tired from leaping around in the popcorn maker

Spinning round like a tornado

It rests in the bowl after popping around

By Cooper

On Wednesday we enjoyed making paperplanes and then flying them off the adventure playground.  The strong winds made this experience even more exciting!

Here is one of the poems inspired by this experience

Planes

Crash, floating

Landing, zooming, racing

Paper planes are fun

Flying

On Thursday for discovery time we had a newspaper dress up contest.  We found we had to work together, sharing ideas and negotiating.

Video and photo time!

This term for our inquiry topic we have been learning all about water. We know we have a right to food and water but we learnt that people's access to water is not always the same. Check out our animations below to discover some of the things we learnt!

 It's that time of year again! Calendar art time. We have created some bright and beautiful artwork that will look fabulous on calendars, diaries and notebooks. Check out our work below or come and see them in the classroom.  Look out for the order forms next term.

Calendar Art by Slidely Slideshow

Today we had lots of fun dressing up to support KidsCan. This organisation supports disadvantaged children around New Zealand. Today we raised $402. Way to go Nelson Central!!

Limerick Poems

This week in writing we have been learning to write Limerick Poems.

Here are some of our favourites.

Coffee

I am drinking coffee right now

Somebody was wondering how

Well you take a sip

Whoops! I spilt a bit

Well I still don't really know how

By Sylvie and Klara

Fred

Once there was a boy named Fred

Who had a very comfy bed

He went to the school

And jumped in the pool

And then he went back to his bed

By Ned, Amba and Chyla

Jo

There once was a squirrel named Jo

On her tail she had a bow

She had a nasty cough

So her tail fell off

That poor little squirrel named Jo

By Floss and Anna

Co-operation is the name of the game!

This week we visited the Suter Art Gallery.  As part of this trip we became curators of an art exhibition.  We had to decide if we were in charge of the museum which artworks we would put on display and what the theme of our exhibition would be.  We all had lots of fun negotiating and working together.

Again during discovery time this week we were focusing on the key competency of participating and contributing.  As part of this we have been focussing on co-operating, sharing ideas and working together.  Check out some of us doing this below whilst we were constructing a marble run out of newspaper and when we were playing with the long skipping ropes.