Today we had a Kahikatea Cake Stall to fundraise for camp. Sylvie and Emily decided that they wanted to make homemade lemonade. They went to a lot of trouble as you can tell! Well Done Kahikatea as we raised $495.10. Nearly halfway to the $1,100 we need to raise.
On Thursday this week in writing Sally gave us a free choice writing session. Some of us wrote comics, others of us wrote emails to our parents and some of us wrote raps.
Haiku poem by Caleb
The world !!! The world is so big. We have a core it's so hot. The world is so grate. Rap by Theo and Ed
We have had an awesome week of learning and activity in Room 5! On Monday we had lots of teachers from Beijing spend the day in our school. Sally was very impressed and proud of how we were all so focussed even with lots of people coming and going throughout the day.
On Wednesday we started creating our paper mache planets to create a class solar system. We are trying to make our model to scale so some of our planets are the size of a balloon, whilst others are smaller than a marble! Sally was proud of how well we all worked together helping each other out. We also worked hard in our groups researching our planet.
On Thursday we were treated to a performance by te Te Pouahi Kapa Haka group. The put on a dress rehearsal for us as they performed today at a competition in Blenheim. And to end the week we had fun during buddy time skipping with our little buddies!
One fresh Monday we started our week. We finished off our recounts about our holidays. We were very lucky because Andrea, Andre's Mum also bought us in fruit kebabs to celebrate Andre's birthday We also learnt about telling the time. On Thursday we went to the Suter Art Gallery. We visited the I'm Pulse exhibition. As part of our visit we made stars out of clay. In the middle of our star we wrote a key word that relates and is important to us. After the Suter we went to the hall and did gymnastics with our class. This week we also got into groups and have started researching the different planets in our solar system. Soon we will be making paper mache models of the planets.
What a great start to Term 3 we have had. On Monday Sally was nearly knocked to the ground by all the hugs she received! She has loved being back in Room 5 and seeing all her friends again.
This term we have a bit of a space theme going on. As part of our inquiry topic we are learning all about Space. During ICT this week we brainstormed what we knew, key words and any questions we had. Check out our brainstorms below. We also had fun in drama as we recieved a letter from the U.S. President informing us that they were just about to launch the first mission to the moon and required our help!
On Thursday morning we were lucky enough to have Oliver's baby rats come and visit us. They were super cute and friendly! Oliver taught us all about caring for them.
On Thursday afternoon we opened up our Zany Zoo to the public. We have spent the last couple of weeks designing a 3D animal that fits into the classification of an animal group. We then showed them to the rest of our syndicate and invited our parents in to see them.
Today we had a party day in Room 5. This was both the end result of our Statistics unit (see earlier post) and a farewell party for Sally as she is off travelling in Term 2. Jenny Dron will be our teacher. As surveyed by one group of children the most popular theme was a beach theme. Lots of us had fun dressing up. Here we are doing the hoola!
Wow the term is quickly coming to an end and what a week we had in Week 11. In Maths we have been focusing on Statistics As part of it we are planning a farewell party for Sally as she is having Term 2 off to travel around Europe. We have each chosen a topic to survey in order to plan a great farewell party. We are surveying different things like our favourite party games, party theme, flavours of fizzy, lollies and so on. Some of us chose to make voting boxes, others are interviewing and some of us have even created surveys on the computer using google docs!
On Friday we also had lots of fun blowing bubbles with our little buddies from Room 10. Their poem that week had been all about bubbles. Check out more photos on our class facebook page. Room 5 Class Facebook Page
This week we have had an awesome time making our 3D animals for our inquiry. First we chose an animal group that we wanted to create e.g. mammal, insect, fish and Sally matched us up with a buddy. We planned our animals and decided what we were going to use to make them. We created our animals. Some of us made them out of salt dough and some used cardboard, paper and recycled junk. Today lots of us had fun painting them and adding all the extra details. In Week 12 we are going to turn our classroom into a zoo. Hopefully you might be able to visit it!
One fresh Monday we started our week. We finished off our recounts about our holidays. We were very lucky because Andrea, Andre's Mum also bought us in fruit kebabs to celebrate Andre's birthday We also learnt about telling the time. On Thursday we went to the Suter Art Gallery. We visited the I'm Pulse exhibition. As part of our visit we made stars out of clay. In the middle of our star we wrote a key word that relates and is important to us. After the Suter we went to the hall and did gymnastics with our class. This week we also got into groups and have started researching the different planets in our solar system. Soon we will be making paper mache models of the planets.
