Tuesday 6th May

Kia Ora all

Today we launched our term 2 integrated learning unit. Rooms 5,6 and 25 met in Room 5 where the teachers gave a short presentation of what are going to do.

Here is a picture of Mrs GH sharing ideas about students designing a future classroom or school.

And here is a photo of the board showing the timeline of activities and events.

Congratulations to MATINA who ranked 82nd out of 100 for New Zealand students on mathletics yesterday. Well done, Matina - keep up the awesome learning.

ANZAC Day assembly

Yesterday we held a short ANZAC Day ceremony at the whole school assembly. As part of that, Joel and Kendra carried and placed 2 wreaths that Room 5 made. This is a feature of ANZAC ceremonies so it was something we wanted to include. Well done to Joel and Kendra who did a wonderful job.

Wednesday 2nd April

Top Team

Today we had a great time outside at the Top Team event. We divided into 10 teams based on our house colours. With Rooms 4,6,13 and 25 we got stuck into some awesome challenges. Teams earned points as they went around each activity. The team scoring the most points received a certificate.
Here are the students from Room 5 who were part of that team.

Mathematics GOLD

Today we celebrate the awesome ASHTON who has earned enough bronze and silver certificates to receive a highly prized GOLD certificate. Well done, Ashton on your hard work and effort you put into your learning. Here's Ashton pointing to an image of his GOLD certificate.

 Run / Bike / Run success

Today Kendra, Jack and Zoe received certificates to go with their medals for placing in the top three at the recent Kauri Run / Bike / Run event.

It is great to see Room 5 bringing home some of the silverware.

Zoe placed 3rd in the 8yr individual
Jack placed 2nd in the 8 year individual
Kendra placed 3rd in the 8 year individual

Student Council 2014

Congratulations to BONNIE and LIAM who were selected to represent Room 5 on the Oaklands School Student Council.

They had their first meeting today and will report back to us tomorrow.

Well done to KENDRA and TYZELL who were selected as backups to Bonnie and Liam.

Super Mathletes

Wow! We almost got there. Today 20 students received a mathletics certificate. Tr'e top-scored with a massive 5000 points, which allows him to have his name in the draw 3 times for the Year 4 mathletics trophy at the next Kauri team assembly. Many students achieved over 1500points - the minimum to be included in the draw. Well done.

Buddy reading

Today we met with Room 19 for the first time. It was a 'get to know you' time; students asked questions to find out the name, favourite colour and favourite ice cream of some Room 19 students. We are going to meet up with them again before the next buddy reading session so we can choose buddies.

This year Room 5 is the tutor rather than tutee. We will be practising how to be effective tutors so that we can make the most of our time with Room 19.

Alphabetical Order

We are learning about alphabetical order at the moment as this will help us with our dictionary skills. On Friday we were given 5 words: cowboy, cat, come, cake and coat. Our task was to arrange them in alphabetical order.

C
cowboy
cat
come
cake
coat

They all began with the letter c which meant we had to look at the next letter. So we arrange it as:

cat
cake
cowboy
come
coat

This helped order some of the words into CO and CA. However, this was not enough so we had to look at the third letter of each word.

cake
cat
coat
come
cowboy

Now, we finally had the words in alphabetical order.

We decided to use the words in a funny sentence / paragraph. Here are our examples.

Once upon a time there was a cowboy who lived on cake island. His cat sits on his head and has a coat made of cake. Come to my party tonight.    By  Mishca

I  am a cowboy with a coat made of cat. Come to my party and eat cake.    By Jack


Come to my party, eat my cake  and get a coat of cat.   By Summer

I am a cowboy with a coat made of cats come to my party to eat cake      By Liam

I am a cowboy with a coat made of cats come to my party.     By Kynan Durie

I am a cowgirl with a coat made out of cake. I was riding a cat the cat was trying to eat my coat. I said to an old man hurry up old man.  By Brooke

I'm a cat and my owner is a cowboy with a cool coat made of cake .come cat eat my cake...I am a cowboy made of cat. My cat is yummy so bring a cake made of cat.     By Andrei

I am a cowboy and please come to my party and bring a cat with you and one of you bring a cake and most of all is to have fun. By Matina

I am a cowboy come to my party bring a cake or a cats head and let's  eat some cake it we'll taste  good and bring a live cat as well and the cat will be able to eat the cake .By Thorvin

I am a cowboy with a coat made of cats come to my party to eat cake.      By Jordan

Class Dojo and 'Happy' song

Kia Ora all

Next Monday is a full school assembly. We will be singing the 'HAPPY' song. Here is a link to a version that contains the lyrics.

Today we introduced CLASS DOJO. Class Dojo is a website that allows you to create characters for groups in the class and for each group to earn points. We have 4 teams, based on the four tables in class. Each group has a name. Today we used Class Dojo when tidying up our tables at the end of the day.

At the end of each week, just before morning tea, the winning team will be announced. The winning team earns 10 minutes free time outside. Here is a link to the Class Dojo website.

Garden to Table

Today we got the chance to get out into the garden to dig, plant and construct. Then it was over to the hall kitchen for a master chef session from Jacqueline, Suzanne and our wonderful mums and grandmas. Here are some photos and a couple of videos of what we got up to.

Below are two QR codes. They are a bar-code type link to websites. We are using them in class to research  two areas of interest. Yesterday we were discussing the alphabet and students had questions such as, "Why are there 26 letters?", and "Why is it called an 'alphabet'?", and " Why do we have an alphabet?"
So, I used the KIDREX search engine (linked on our class blog) to locate some useful websites, copied the URL into the QR code maker, and it gave our a QR code, as below.

Students are also interested in the flags of students from our class, and wondered why a particular flag was a particular colour and design. So, off we went to the search engine and QR code maker.

Below are two examples. In order to access the QR codes, you need a QR code reader. We use our Ipads and the app  i-nigma ( see image of app below). So, if you have an Ipod or Ipad, give it a go.