Jacob's Transformer

Check out this amazing Google drawing of Optimus Prime that Jacob has created with a Chromebook touch pad! 

Whale Evolution

We have been learning about the evolution of cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises). Did you know that cetaceans are the marine mammal descendants of land mammals? Jacob created this awesome illustration of what he learnt.

Here is one of the videos we looked at as part of our learning.

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.

Green Bay Writers

Over the past few weeks we have been writing poems. Melanie (Noah's mum) came into Room 5 to do some poetry workshops. She is collecting some poems for the annual Poetry Box competition. One of the poems she taught us about was shape poems.

Melanie working with R5

Miah writing down ideas for her poem

Jacob's shape poem about a dragon

Adam's NRL  shape poem

Melanie has also been collecting book reviews for the books shortlisted for the NZ Post Book Awards and putting them onto the Green Bay Writers website. A picture of Kashish's review was published and the publisher of the book left Kashish a message!