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.

War Horses

As part of our study of Animal in WW1, we read a story today about horses in the war. Here are some of our responses to the text.

Google Drawing by Chloe.

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.

Poems, by Zephaniah and Avalon

Here is a poem using colours written by Zephaniah.

Here is a poem by Avalon about why she loves Auckland. She has used some beautiful imagery.

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.