Ellie's Kereru Report

Ellie has been finding out about our native New Zealand bird the Kereru.

Encouraging our birds!

Claudia, Heather and Fran have been busy with their inquiry this term. They have made this video to show what they have done to make a difference to the birds that live outside our classroom windows. 


The girls want to attract more birds to this area. They have visited an expert to get ideas of what sorts of things need to be planted to encourage the birds to move in. They have some plants and now they are going to finish clearing the area and plant the new plants under the tree canopy.

Ellie's Cooking Homework

For homework I made a chocolate cake and got Karen to cut the cake for the class for morning tea. Ineka thought it was delicious. I enjoyed making it because I got to make a mess.

Ashley's Dolphin Report

Ashley has written a report about Hector's Dolphin and shares what he has learnt in this slideshow.

Bryn's Bird Feeder Design

Bryn has designed and drawn a bird-feeder that has special features to protect birds. Here are his designs, and you can listen to Bryn as he explains the different parts.

listen to ‘Bryn's Bird Feeder Design’ on Audioboo

G for Gargoyles

This is Bryn's subject for alliteration. He looked up all the 'g' words and he discovered some interesting information about gargoyles. Isn't his drawing amazing! You can click on any image to see a larger view of it.

listen to ‘Gargoyles by Bryn’ on Audioboo

Our Alphabet Animal Alliterations

We have been making alliterations for our Alphabet Animal Book. Here are some that have finished their page. We have been trying hard with our presentation skills.

Claudia's Pukeko Report

Mathletics

Here are some of the children who have earned a Bronze Certificate for their mathletics this week. Way to go you guys.

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Traditional Dress

Last week Karen bought along a kimono that she had bought back from Japan.

Here are photos of Libby in the traditional dress. I think she looks very cool.

Soccer Hockey Tournament

Today's Soccer and Hockey Tournament at Burnham has been postponed until Tuesday. Class as usual please.

Mathletics

Today we are going to start our trial for mathletics. You can use this link at school and at home. Don't forget to have a copy of your password at home so you can log in.

Art Work

We have been working hard on our pastel and collage pictures about New Zealand animals (although we did have a stray snake appear).
I think some of the children have done a great job with their colouring of their animal and they look very realistic.
Our Animal Pictures on PhotoPeach

LEARN

It was really interesting that Carol showed me this LEARN video yesterday.
I was really impressed with the idea and today I found The Ins & Outs had also one on their blog called MOVE - great photography. You will be able to see the other Vimeo at the end of this one.
 How do they get their message across?


LEARN from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

Ideas for our Inquiry

Take a look at Room 9 Einsteins Blog and their Go! Animate about World Environment Day.
Could we use this idea in our inquiry?

Ipads and Animation

Yesterday afternoon a group 10 children from Room 5 got to have fun making animations on the ipads with Carol.
We learnt how to set up the camera and use 'onion skinning' to check we hadn't moved the object too far. We also learnt we had to take a lot of photos to make even a small animation. The children cooperated in pairs to develop their own animations, creating the storyline, titles, voices and sound to go with their animations.

See below our afternoon of great work. We think we would like to try more of these in the classroom.

Lucy and Mya's I Can Animate

Another sound problem - sorry girls will find out what the problem is.

Ashley and John's I Can Animate

Sophie and Zoe's Pollution Video

Whoops we seem to have lost your sound girls - I will check out with Carol tomorrow what happened.

Caelan and James I Can Animate Video

Get ready this has fast action paced sound

Mihimihi

Today Te Hawiki helped Room 6 with their mihimihi and he thought this would be a good way to share it with us in Room 5 as well.

Kimono Doll Bookmark

Today we made Kimono Doll Bookmarks with Karen. The kimono is a traditional dress of the people of Japan. We are enjoying the story Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr.

Snow Fun

I just found the photos Heather sent me of her great snow man. He looks really impressive Heather - great job.

Ellie's Birthday Present

Ellie got a new kitten from the RSPCA for her birthday. She has called it Maestro. She chose Maestro because he played with her finger when she poked it in the cage. What a great idea to get your kitten from the RSPCA Ellie.

Hope you had a great birthday Ellie.

Snow

Snow is very cold
I enjoy it lots and lots

Make a snowball fight

School open 10.30am tomorrow

School will be open at 10.30am tomorrow (Thursday 7th June)

The buses will run an hour and a half later then usual.

School Closed - Snow

School is closed due to snow.

Mya's Cooking Homework

Mya took on the homework challenge to make something using fruit or vegetable. She went and picked her own apples and then turned it into yummy apple crumble - delicious Mya. You are very lucky to have your own apple trees to pick your apples from.

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