Friends and Cars

Today we compared friends to our dream car. We looked at each individual part of the car and and wrote down similes for how friends were the same. Here are some of the ideas that Room 5 students came up with. I was very impressed with their creativity.
Friends are like...
- GPS systems, helping us find our way.
- Exhaust pipes, getting rid of the negative energy.
- Tyres, carrying a heavy load.
- Air conditioner, cooling us down when we are mad.
- A windscreen, protecting us from everything.
What similes can you make?

Making Inferences

Last week we were looking at making inferences for reading. We know that when we make inferences we need to look for clues in the text and use our prior knowledge to help us.
On Friday our class was challenged to write a paragraph that made the reader infer where they were. Here are a couple of examples that were written. Can you figure out where they are?

LJ's Trick Shot

Our class was given the challenge to practice and film a trick shot of some kind while in lock down. It was no easy feat and very few took up the challenge and shared it with us. But, check out LJ's effort. I am most impressed! We will keep this challenge going for a little longer and see if anyone can beat that. We would love to your isolation trick shots if you have done one.

Pass the Toilet Paper Challenge - Room 5 Meet

Today Room 5 had a go at passing a toilet paper roll through the class in our daily Meet. It was a fun challenge that is actually much harder than we thought it would be. Loukwon-Dre had to tap out because he kept freezing on us but we will try again tomorrow. What challenges have you been doing in your hangouts?

Meeting Houses Around the World

One of our subjects last term focused on Marae and the importance of them to our Maori community. We then looked at different meeting houses around the world and how they compared.
We did a T-Shaped learning grid to gather our information then we wrote an information report to show what we learnt. This was a big job during lock down!
Here is Kaia's information report that she wrote. Please click on the picture to view it more clearly.