Game of Awesome

Room 5 have been learning how to play 'The Game of Awesome' and we are having a lot of fun with it. Watching the game in action, I have witnessed debate, justification, laughter, crazy ideas, complete engagement, hilarious story telling, imaginative connections and so much more. This is definitely a game that is worth giving a go.

 

Kaiarahi 2020

Congratulations to our Kaiarahi for 2020 (especially to Noah, LJ and Dayton from Room 5 and 6).

I know all of these students are going to lead our kura with pride and be great role models of our school values. Well done, I am so very proud of you all!

Room 5 Domino Challenge

Room 5 have been doing a challenge each Friday. Our first one was a domino challenge, to create a domino pathway in small groups, that linked with other groups, to create the ultimate domino run. We got this idea from Room 12 who did a great job and made it look super easy. Turns out, it was not! However, we worked together, we completed our sections, and although there were some stops along the way, we managed to achieve our task with creativity and problem solving.
We did this over 2 weeks as we learnt lessons from the first try and wanted to try and do better. We used the bigger blocks first and worked down to the smaller blocks which was more effective. We found it hard to space out the blocks to ensure we weren't using too many, but were close enough to knock the next one over.
Have a go in your class, we would love to see your attempts.
 

A Bit of Kindness

Last week Room 5 decided to spread a little kindness to kaumatua and kuia in our community. We wrote letters for the Red Cross which will be delivered to people in rest homes in our region, and we made cards for Kotahi Aroha - All For Heart which will go out in their winter packs. Our aim was simply to do something nice for others and hopefully put a smile on their faces. We wonder if we might receive some letters of reply, but also are not expecting them.  

I was blown away with the effort and care that was put into each piece. Awesome work Room 5! You make me proud!

Checking the Bees

Last week we finally got to get outside and check on our bee babies. Bailey and Tahlia suited up with me, Bailey helping me with the hive, and Tahlia the chief photographer. We opened up the hive. It is looking healthy and we still have heaps of bees living in there. We topped up the sugar syrup in the top feeder to make sure the bees don't go hungry over winter. We will check it again every 2 or 3 weeks, but not too often when it gets cold. It was exciting to see them again, but now need to get into the garden, it is quite overgrown, despite the drought we have been in.

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.