Poems by Finley and Brooke

Here is a poem Brooke wrote about her blanky.

Finley has written a poem about the day R5 had a power cut.

Poems by Erica, Rory and Ross!

Here are more poems written by Erica, Rory and Ross. This will be the last post we will see from Ross. He has now left. We will miss you!

Rory's poem is about the day we had a power cut at Green Bay School.

Erica has also written a weather poem, but it is about a sunny day.

Poems by Charlette and Ben F

Here is a poem by Ben F about the strange weather Auckland has been experiencing. He has used his senses to organise his poem.

Here is an acrostic poem written by Charlette. It is about her cat Fluffy.

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.

Ruma 12's Dance for Asthma

Ruma 12 have put together an awesome video for the Dance for Asthma Competition. Click on the image to go to the video. Good luck guys, we hope you win!

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!

The Day the Lights Went Out!

Yesterday we arrived at school to find there was no power! Many of the children had no power in their homes either! The children were shocked, "What are we going to do?" One said. "No computers, we'll have to go home," said another! 

To see more photos of the damage in Auckland click here: PHOTOS

However, we had a great day! We took this teachable moment and ran with it. We created poems, created survival kits, played board games and much more. Here is a slideshow of some of these activities.

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Vaiaso o le Gagana Sāmoa - Part 2

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

Vaiaso o le Gagana Sāmoa

Last week was Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa, Samoan Language Week. Our week was packed full of Samoan language and cultural activities. On Friday, we learnt about the legend of Sina and the Eel. Here is a video of the legend made by COCONET.TV.

We then opened some Eel heads (coconuts) and had a taste of the juice and the flesh. Here is a slideshow of our experience. 

Life in the Cook Islands

As part of our Learning Pathways topic, we have been reading about different people around the world. We have been considering how their lives might be different to ours. After reading the journal story Feeding Time, Christopher and Finley used little bird tales to illustrate what they learnt from their reading.