Well done to all the room 5 students who walked to school or scootered every day last week.! GREAT EFFORT!  A prize draw will happen next assembly and your name might come out of the hat. Here's what the walkers tree looked like on Friday with all your names on it.

Next event to look forward to is Friday's SummerFestival in Aotea Square where the children will learn all about the dramatic art of improvisation and dance culture from our neighbouring Pacific countries.

Room 5 have been learning about
= = = = =  sharing equally = = = = = 
and making "fair shares"
Here are some excerpts from some stories the children wrote . . .
HARRISON
One day my friend came to my house and my Mum said we can cut some fruit. I said "Yes" so I cut a big bit for me and a little bit for my friend and my friend said "that's not fair." So the next time I cut it evenly in half and that was fair."

ALEX
Fractions are things what you can chop in half. By cutting things thats how you divide things.

DANIEL SOH
If I didn't share an apple equally it would not be fair. Fractions means sharing parts.

ANYA
On the video they said that cutting it in half was a good idea. Each piece is always fair, if it is the same size

GEORGE
To make quarters everything you need is a knife and an apple. Cut the apple into 4 pieces. Don't worry it won't take a long time. I'm not joking if you don't listen to this rule it may not be fair.

Halves     Quarters     Thirds      Fifths . . . . .

Today 12.9.2012
 Class Challenge. . .

How many ways can we make 12?
Room 5 came out with some extraordinary ways to make the number 12!

Childrens initials are next to their suggestion. . .
10+ 2  DS
  9+3   JC
  3+9   LZ
(10+10)-10+2  GG
    1+11  HL
 (5x2)+2  AS
(2x2)+8  QJ
(5+5)+2  HL
   5+7    OH
(20-20)+12  DH
13-1  RL
  0+12  MR
15-3   AS
14-2  MN
30-18  AS
31-19  DS
-2+14  Yes that is negative 2 plus 14 . . DH
-4+16  AS

What clever, creative mathematicians!

This week. . . .

Practicing our assembly songs for Monday 10th, september( Don't forget to come and watch!)

Our theme is Parnell District School as a multi - cultural community and we will be celebrating this.

Mathematics
How many ways we can we make 5?

Each day as part of our calendar work, we see how many ways we can arrive at a number - the number is always "today's date.
On the 5th this is what the class came up with, each child had a go and was successful.
Was super impressed with the multiplication sums!!!

Well done ruma rima!

Today is Harrison's Birthday and his kind Grandma got up early this morning and baked 19 cupcakes for the children in Room 5! They were delicious and here is what the children said in their storywriting today:-

" they were sweet, delicious, scrumptious and I had yellow icing on mine, and Harrison did too."
By Anya

" Today I had a cupcake and it had yellow icing.On the icing there was a blue star, it was little and there was a sprinkle too. It smelt like a pancake and was yummy."
 By Jayden

Today it was Harrison's Birthday and in the morning we sang happy birthday to him. For brain food Harrison gave us a cupcake. I chose a cupcake with red. Every one else chose yellow or brown. On top of the icing there were sprinkles."
By Grace

We had cupcakes for brain snack. They had yellow, red and black icing and tomorrow it will be his birthday. There will be lots of lollies!"
By Quinn

Poetry has been our recent writing focus, and there are indeed poets amongst Room 5

Writing "Cats, Cats, Cats"

"We drew our cat, or our friends cat"

Some of us were keen to recite our poems!

Week 1 - Olympic Fever!

Fantastic to see everyone back to school looking refreshed and ready for a busy term ahead.
The children have started putting thoughts into our topic study and written some wonderful stories about "I have a dream. . " and what they might want to do to make their dreams come true - these are displayed in our room so please come and have a look.
REMEMBER. .  . Diary the 9th August (Thursday) for our Mini-Olympics at school where the children will be striving to do their "personal best" in all the team activities planned for that day.

Some shots of our torch ceremony when Room 4 handed the flags and torch over on Friday.



Room 4 shake hands with Room 5

Flag Bearers and Torch Holder!

Photo's from our trip to Orakei Marae

KO TOKU MARAE TENEI

He wahi wiata

He wahio takaro hoki

He wahi powhiri

He wahi whaikorero

A very special cloak for very special occasions . . .whaea Celess wore this cloak when she got married. It is made from flax and pukeko feathers - a beautiful work of art.
many thanks to Lawrence's mum for taking our photo's.

Drawing the kowhaiwhai rafters wasn't at easy as we thought!

                                     


     Inside the wharenui . . .

 



On Tuesday 12 June Room 5 visited Orakei marae.  We went on the bus which was really exciting!  When we arrived there was a powhiri.  We had to take off our shoes to go into the wharenui.  We looked at all the Maori art work and copied some kowhaiwhai and tukutuku patterns. 

The children enjoyed their morning at the marae:

Maisie: "I loved the tikis and I saw the Maori canoe which was used for fishing."

Alex: "I liked the patterns of the Maori carvings."

Harrison: "There was a huge canoe with paddles.  Lots of people can sit in it."

Anya: "I liked doing the patterns."

Maalika: "I liked looking around the marae and I had my morning tea ("kai") in the eating house."

Today Whaea Celess came to talk to us about her Marae in Orakei.Celess talked about her marae as a place where she feels she belongs, and a place where her family and ancestors belong as well. Maori people consider marae as turangawaewae.
We learned about the wharenui which is like a big meeting house. In the wharenui, poeple sing, pray and have talks.We are learning about some of the customs held on a marae and also how the Maori people can tell their stories through art. We can't wait to visit the marae on June 12th and look at the 3 different types of art - Kowhawhai rafter designs, the Poupou carved side posts and the Tukutuku woven wall panel designs.

Whaea Celess explains how parts of our body are like parts of the wharenui

Learning a new game and some maori words was fun!

Whaea Celess explains some of the Marae protocols in preparation for our visit in June.

The week we climbed and conquered. . .





Will Rangitoto erupt again?

Igneous volcanic rock!

 This is what the children said . . .

When I was climbing up Rangitoto I saw lots of volcanic rocks. I was hot and tired and it looked like we had climbed to the top.
By Myiesha

On Monday I went up the mountain with Mamma. I looked around and I saw a crater.
By Oscar

Yesterday I went on the volcano and I looked down and I saw the crater. I saw the scoria and it was soft and we saw lots of rat traps.
By Quinn

It was beautiful when I was walking up Rangitoto, the rock was sharp and bumpy.
By Alex

When I was walking I can see sharp rocks that are brown and bumpy and are rough. The ground is so bumpy and the rocks are going into me.
By Daniel He

Our class have been learning about landforms around our school and around the harbour where we live.
We are learning new words that describe volcanoes.
We are learning to ask questions about things we are interested in and want to find out more about.
We have been doing lots of reading and today we went to the computer room and did Reading Eggs.

Dear Mum and Dad,

When I ask you inquiring questions about landforms and / or volcanoes can you please help me to write those questions down on some paper so I can take them to school.

Our model Volcano

Thank you.

reading. .  .

Monday 13th February

Dear Parents,
Reminders for the week:
1. Informal interviews this week and next if you wish to make a time to discuss anything that may help me target any specific learning areas or interests that relate to your child.

Well done Room 5 children, excellent behavior in assembly today. The first 2 weeks have seen most children settle in really well and our room has been full of smiles and often, somewhat tired faces towards the end of the day.

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