Reading & Writing in a Different Way!

This week we practised our memorising and listening skills.  We worked together in partners to copy a story that was posted in different locations around the classroom.  One person was the dictator whose job it was to read and memorise a portion of the story and then tell it to the person who was the transcriber, the one who wrote everything down.  Between the two of them, they had to be as accurate as possible with words, spelling and punctuation.  It was tricky but really fun!  Next time we do this, we will swap places and finish the story.

Culture

This week we have began our study of the cultures that are represented in our classroom.  We have discussed the aspects that make a culture unique - traditions, birthplace, icons, food, celebrations, religion, clothes, language.  Each of us came up with something that represented our own culture and then we drew it onto our class mural.  After we drew it, we painted it as along with other pieces of the mural, to create a montage of icons and colours to represent ourselves.

Measurement

This week we have been working with measurement.  On Friday we had fun playing a game using measurement.  In groups of 4 we took turns choosing a card and naming a member of our group who we would measure.  We had to each estimate what the answer would be.  Then we measured the length and whoever was the closest won the card.













  

  

Happy birthday!

A huge smiley happy birthday to Maria!!

#Gallipoli

This week we compared forms of communication between 1915 and 2015. We discussed how difficult it would have been to keep in touch with our loved ones if we were in Gallipoli in 1915. We talked about all the many ways we can communicate now, most of which are instant communication, no matter where in the world we are. We imagined what it would have been like if the soldiers could have communicated like we can now.  We wrote Tweets from the Trenches and created Instagram pictures from Gallipoli as if we were there in 1915.

Welcome!

Welcome to our school and classroom, Oscar! Oscar comes to our school from China and is beginning to learn English. We watched a cartoon in Mandarin so we could see what it feels like to not understand what people around us are talking about.  This helped us understand a little bit of how Oscar will be feeling as he begins to learn English. It's great that everyone in our class is so friendly and welcoming!

Anzac Day

This week we are learning a lot about Anzac Day as we look ahead to celebrating the 100th anniversary on Saturday. Everyone is bringing something to share that they have seen or heard about Anzac Day.

Jordan brought in a huge book full of photos and facts. He also brought some Anzac biscuits for us to share. Parinaz found some interesting information in the newspaper. James shared some fascinating facts that he discovered. Josh brought in some photos of his dad's trip to Gallipoli.

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday to Juliet who celebrated during the holidays. 

Happy birthday today to Nicole!!

Term review

Amazing Learning in Term 1

We had a great discussion today about everything we had learnt and experienced in Term 1 together. Here is a list of everyone's favourites. 

Tobey - We went to Carey Park Camp.

Liam - I like the penguins in our room.

Chelsea - I loved going to the Marae.

Jade - The flying fox at camp was fun.

Josh - I liked being part of the school cricket team.

Daniel - I liked going on the rope swing at camp.

Maria - I liked the waterslide at camp.

Andy - I enjoyed doing our tiki art.

Tony - I liked doing the science week experiments.

Nicole - We learnt about the carvings and the stories about them at the marae.

Michelle - I enjoyed getting to know Cockle Bay School.

Jordan - I liked the school cricket team because I slogged the ball.

Parinaz - I liked doing the spelling on our Chromebooks.

Ben - I liked doing the marae publishing.

Charlotte - I liked drawing our kakapos.

Brad - I liked doing the Easter egg hunt.

James Ful. - I liked dyeing the easter eggs with our buddies.

Judy - I like seeing our buddies.

James Fal. - I liked doing science club.

Jack - I liked having the picnic with our buddies.

Juliet - I liked being the first one to have their tooth pulled out by Mrs Nichol.

Emily - I liked doing the milky way experiment with our buddies.

Amelia - I liked colouring the tikis and the marae.

MacKenzie - I liked doing the Mana Te Ao theme title page.

Chloe - I liked doing the Fun Run because I got 9 laps.

Mrs Nichol - I loved my first term in Year 5!  (and climbing the spider web and going down the flying fox)

Brad's experiment

Brad brought in a fun experiment.  We put very small, solid balls into water and within an hour they had expanded to large, soft, squishy balls that were very fun to play with!

Emily's experiment

Emily brought an experiment to school to share with us.  It is called 'Oobleck' and is made with cornstarch and water.  It was fun to see how it has the properties of both a liquid and a solid.

Mr Henty Comes To Visit by Tobey

Today Mr Henty came to visit our class and taught us about science. Phobic means fear of something and Philic means a love of something . Arachnophobia means fear of spiders. Philanthropy means love of people.  We had so much fun because I learnt lots of science thanks to Mr Henty. Hopefully we do more science this year!

Buddy Science

Milky way experiment.  We filled a small tray with milk.  Then we added a few drops of food colouring into the milk in separate places.  After we added a drop of dishwashing liquid, we used a toothpick to swirl the colours in the milk.  It made beautiful patterns.

Our next experiment was to make paperclip helicopters.  We had to follow directions to fold and cut the paper and add a paper clip to make our helicopters work.  We had fun letting them go from as high as we could reach and watching them spin to the ground.

Easter Eggs

We had a lot of fun dyeing Easter eggs with our buddies today. We used wax crayons to draw designs on our eggs and then we dipped them in dye to create colourful Easter eggs. 

 

Te Tahawai Marae

We have finished publishing our writing about our visit to the Te Tahawai Marae. We began our writing prior to our visit, writing about what we anticipated would happen. Following our visit we wrote about our experience. As part of our publishing we drew and coloured a marae. Make sure to pop in and read our stories.