Our Moa finalists

Room 4 took part in the MOA short film awards this year and here a 3 of our videos that made the finals.

A busy term

Room 4 have got down to work on our science and movie projects. For science we are looking at the elements and looking more closely at specific ones. Stay tuned for more updates.

Te Reo for Maori language week

Today we made a short video using Te Reo about asking each other where we are going.  Enjoy

Atoms

Room 4 has been looking at elements and discovered they are just different types of single atoms. We found that atoms have protons, neutrons and electrons. Our next step is to create some explain everything files about specific elements and the atoms they contain.

Matariki

This week Room 4 are looking at Matariki, which is the Maori new year. If you look up into the clear sky at night you will be able to see the star constellation. We are going to have an activity day about Matariki next week. Stay tuned

Moa awards

Room 4 have started writing our scripts for our MOA awards video. The students are hard at work coming up with great ideas and they spent the afternoon today brainstorming.

Science

Room 4 is has started our science unit and we are looking at the periodic table. We have started to investigate some of the elements on there starting with gold and hydrogen. Stay tuned for more.

Grace's Story

Mum can I  "help" yes" said mum. Can you please get the sugar. Mum what are we making? Mum said if we get the shapes  she will tell us yummy gingerbread men

Mum said I could roll the Dough. Me and my sister pressed the shapes into the Dough. Mum put the gingerbread into the oven and asked me “could you time them on my phone?”

While we waited. Me mum and my sister played memory. I won! Beep Beep! Went my phone.

“Mum! The gingerbread men are ready" the smell of the gingerbread men was delicious

Mum said we have got to let them cool.

We made some custard and we got some ice-cream and ate it yummy I licked my lips.

Road safety skills

Room 4 have been practicing our road safety skills on our bikes. We learned about the parts of a bike and how to keep ourselves safe when riding. Here are a few pics of the action.

Puppet Pals poem

Fergus and Sol have been busy making a Puppet Pals movie to show off their poem that they have been writing with Ms Nicholas. They finished it on Friday and here it is.

Preposition Poem

Room 3 have been studying prepositions for our writing and we wrote a small poem in class using as many different prepositions as we could think of. Here is one by Jackson

Across the farm.

Between the fence.

Onto the tractor.

Down the street.

Past the police.

Into the toilet.

Through the pipe.

Via the pipe.

Out into the opposite street.

Up into a tele-porter.

Towards the city.

Near a graveyard.

To the airport.

Aboard a plane.

Above the city.

Behind a jumbo-jet.

Along the country.

Within an hour.

Under the plane.

Near my doom.

Until I fall.

With a parachute.

Into a country.

Inside my car.

Following a villain.

Into the bank

Beside the police.

Into a jail.

Before waking up from a dream.

Swimming safely

Yesterday Room 4 had safe swimming lessons where we got to try on life jackets and practice some safe skills to do when we are in the water. We got to try out a huddle and link arms to paddle up and down the pool.

Hockey skills

Recently Room 4 has been learning the skills needed to play Hockey. We have practiced dribbling passing and even played a few games. Here are a few snaps of the action.

Starry Starry night Art

Our starry night art is finished and up on the classroom wall. We used oil pastels and dye to create a night time effect. Check them out!

The starry night

Room 4 are currently undertaking an art lesson where we are attempting to recreate 'The starry night' using pastels and dye. We are learning to use texture and direction with our strokes and it gives the effect of colours mixing.

The end of week 1

Welcome to our new class blog for 2015! We have moved around a bit and are now known as Room 4. We had a short week to start things off and are now getting the hang of being in the senior side of the school. Wish us good luck for this year!