14 Days Until Christmas

We have been very busy with Christmas related activities in R5. We have been using the Literacy Shed videos as inspiration for our writing. Here are two adverts from John Lewis.

Today we used our senses to write poems about Christmas. We published these poems in many different ways. Here is some of our finished work.

Koito's Arcade Game

Koito was inspired by Caine to create this arcade shooting game. It is really hard to get the paper ball in the hoop.

One of the features of her game is that you shoot the ball from a distance that is age dependent.

Here are Zephaniah and Brooke giving it a go.

The Lorax 1972

Today, as part of our study of The Lorax by Dr Suess, we watched the movie that was made in 1972. We had to fill in a plan of the event while we were watching. Once we had finished watching the movie, we had to use our plans to write a news report about what happened. 

Here is Sakina's news report.

Ben F has written his news report in Samoan!

Koito wrote her report in Japanese!

Rice Birthday Cake!

Have you ever heard of or seen a cake made of rice? Well, Room 5 has. Koito showed us once again just how talented she is by bringing in a rice cake for Lina's birthday that she made with her mum. It was delicious, it tasted like sushi!

Thank you very much Koito! That was the most amazing cake I have ever received! 

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.

Vaiaso o le Gagana Sāmoa - Part 2

Here are some Prezis we created to show the new Samoan words we have been learning. 

Our Bi-literate Learners!

Check out our amazing biliterate learners! They can speak, read and write in two languages.

As part of our Learning Pathways study, we have been writing postcards to people around the world. Here is a photo of Koito writing a letter to her Grandma in Japan in Japanese. 

Here is Ben F's letter to his cousin in Samoa and here is a video of Ben reading his letter to his cousin in Samoan!

Postcard to Samoa from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Koito's String Skills

Last week, Koito brought her string into school to show us some tricks. Here is a video of some of the tricks she showed us.

Here is a tutorial of how to make a star with string. Give it a go Room 5! If you would like some wool to make a string come and see me.

Dolphin Popplets

Today the Dinosaurs reading group read a non-fiction book about dolphins. They used the Popplet app on the iPad to record some of the facts they read.

Here is Koito's Popplet:

Here is a Popplet by Dan and Sebastian:

Good Choices

As part of the Kia Kaha programme, we have been talking about making choices. Today we had to create some skits to demonstrate what making good choices is all about. 

Future Playgrounds on Minecraft

As part of our Learning Pathways topic: Future Focus, we spent a big chunk of term 3 creating futuristic playgrounds on Minecraft.

We used our designs to create playgrounds on Minecraft, we then had to take screenshots of the most important features in our playgrounds and import them into iMovie. We then used iMovie to make movies about our playgrounds. 

Here are some of the movies.

Our cool minecreaft playground from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Technological Objects

As part of our learning pathways study, we have been looking at inventions. This week the children in the Kowhai syndicate had the homework task of bringing a technological object to school. They needed to describe its function and how it worked. 

Here are Jessley and Andrei talking about their objects.

Here are Ebony and Jaiden

Prezi Colour Poems

A few weeks ago we wrote colour poems. We have used Prezi to publish our poems. Underneath each prezi, is an audioboo of the poem being published.

The Many Languages of Room 5

Many of the children in Room 5 speak more than one language. Lucy and Koito have written stories both in their first language and in English. They have used Paint to illustrate their stories.

Lucy's story written in Chinese

Koito's story written in Japanese

Here is Lucy's story about a princess. She has recorded her story in English

Here is Koito's story about her Dad's birthday. She has recorded her story in English.

Jack-in-the-Box

This week we have been enjoying some of Shel Silverstein's poetry. On Friday we illustrated one of his poems called Jack-in-the-box. Here are three of the best illustrations.

By Nox

By Koito

By Aroha