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!

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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.

Rock Cakes and Madagascar Cookies

Last week, Room 5 earned 100 compliments! They decided that they would like to cook some recipes from the Dreamworks Heroes Album.  Surprise, surprise they chose to bake madagascar cookies and rock cakes. Here are some photos taken by Ross.

South Africa, Fiji and Germany

Here is a Prezi by Chloe and Yee about South Africa.

Check out Rory's Prezi about Fiji.

Noah is from Germany and he has been there a few times. Here is his Prezi.

Our First Prezis!

As part of learning pathways, we have been using Prezi to present the research we have done on chosen countries. Here are some of our Prezis. Here is a Prezi about Antartica by Finley and Christopher. 

Here is another about Canada, by Avalon and Brooke. Press play to view the prezi more closely.

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.

Nevaeh T's Review

Room 5 just can't get enough of the Dreamworks Heroes Collection books from Countdown. Here is Nevaeh T reviewing the book. 

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Avalon's Book Review

Here is Avalon reviewing Room on the Broom, by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.

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Adam's Book Review

Here is Adam's book review of Captain Underpants, by Dav Pilkey

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Esio Trot, reviewed by Christopher

This week we have been learning how to write book reviews. We had to think about how to summarise the main events, talk about our favourite parts and give an opinion about our recommendations for who should read the book.

Here is Christopher's plan for his review. 

Here is Christopher reading his book review.

Christopher BR from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.