Collaborative Narratives

We have been writing narratives collaboratively. We were given a dull story about a lonely spider that we thought was a Level 1 example. We had to work in pairs to improve the story in order to show what a Level 2/3 exemplar would look like. Here are some of our results.

How to look after Chromebooks #2

This afternoon, we finished off our Chromebook movies using iMovie. Here is Jacob, Erica and Miah's finished product.



Here is Ben S, Noah and Callum's movie.

Here is a movie by Avalon, Couper and Zephaniah.

Aboriginal Art

As part of our study of Aboriginal and Indigenous people during Term 2, we created some amazing Australian Aboriginal art.

We started off by exploring the Aboriginal legend about Tiddalik and the Flood.

Here are some images of R5 creating their pieces of art.

Tonga, England and Turkey

Here is a Prezi by Mary and Erica about Tonga.


Check out Adam and Don's Prezi about England.

Ben S and Zephaniah have been learning about Turkey.

Crocodiles and Alligators

Today the Ladybugs reading book read a story about crocodiles and alligators. The book explained how the two reptiles are the same, but also different. Ben S and Zephaniah chose to share their new learning using PuppetPals on the iPad.

Zephaniah's Facts from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Ben's Facts from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Safe Places

As part of Kia Kaha, we have been talking about the places in school that we feel safe to play. The children in Room 5 were set a group challenge of recording a video on the iPad of themselves in both a safe and unsafe place to play within the school. They made some great videos, here are the results.