Gold Badges

I should have been doing this throughout the year but better late than never.
Two students received Golds last Friday. Tyrin received a Cultural Gold and Carys received a Technology Gold. Congratulations guys.

Important task

Our class was asked to make a video showing the student's voice about working in a digital class. This is going to be shown to the up-coming year 6 students and parents next Tuesday night.

AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!! BIGFOOT!!!!!!!

Charliot and Carys (absent from the photo) created this impressive bigfoot wall display. It was only just small enough to fit into the class room, stretching to reach the 2.75m tall ceiling.
Well done girls!

Silent explanations.

We have been working on some silent explanations. The class only had a short time to research and prepare these to the class. They were presented over two days. Some children used pictures to explain things others used charades and some even tried to dance the explanation.
Here is an innovative one using cue cards and pictures.

SPLAT

Yesterday and today we worked on some creative writing as a break from the explanations our class has been working on. Here is Tyrin's. I really love the ending to it and the sense of urgency from the main character with all of the short sentences..

SPLAT

I OPENED THE DOOR AND THERE IT WAS...

“AHHHHHH.  Fresh air at last”  I was looking down from the sky.  “How high are we pilot?”  I ask.  “About 1500 meters Brodie.  On Green”  said pilot Frank.  I see two light bulbs above the door.  One of them is red.  all of a sudden the lights switch from red to green so then I leap out of the plane and do a big summer salt and then I lie on my tummy as the wind blows into me and my face.

BEEP, BEEP, BEEP.  I hear my watch go off which means that I need to pull my parachute.  I pull the string but nothing happens.  I try again but I pull harder this time, but  nothing happens.  I'm falling a lot faster now and I'm at 100 meters.   my parachute stills isn't coming out.  I look at my watch and its going down fast!  79, 78, 77, 76.  I'm starting to freak out!  32,31,29,28,26. I feel like I'm going to faint...

Splat!!!!

Journey through the stars - Alan Bagnall

Today we did a whole class reading activity on Visualisation. The class read and listened to a poem called "Journey through the stars" by Alan Bagnall. They then analysed the information and created a picture of what they were seeing in their mind's eye. We put all of the pictures together to display on our wall.

Here is the Poem:
On this gently pulsing deck I lie,
gazing down into
the infinite depths
of a night sky.
For every star in our galazy
is reflected on a polished sea.
Stars above
stars below
all sense of Earth disappearing.
Life is a space journey -
anyone steering?


Here are some pictures of a few of them and the whole lot.

Carys's Visualisation

Regan's Visualisation

The natural way to learn.

It was such a nice sunny day today we decided to go outside to do some research. Some of the class decided to do their work on the new playground. Others did theirs under the trees. 

We then started to make some poems about some unexplained creatures. These incorporated elements of the research the class is doing for their explanations.

Te Reo Maori

On a Thursday afternoon we combine with Room 7 to work on Te Reo Maori. Usually we work on the language but today we changed things and had a look at Matariki. Here are a couple of students working on a Matariki task on the computer.


The class also worked on the school song. Considering we had non of our Kapa Haka members present to lead us they perfromed well. Ka pai.

SOCIAL NIGHT

Two weeks ago we had our school social. I was lucky enough to host it for the children (although I pretended it wasn't me and obviously had all the children fooled) The children put into practice all of the dances they had learned over the previous term and earlier this term as well. It was a great night enjoyed by all.