Food Alphabet by Sajiha and Zeba

This Food Alphabet was created by Zeba and Sajiha. They have chosen an interesting food for each letter of the Alphabet (they even found an interesting food that starts with the letter x) and included a fact about each food.  You can visit their individual blogs to see more of their work.  Zeba's blog (http://pbszebas.blogspot.co.nz/) and Sajiha's blog (http://pbssajihaa.blogspot.co.nz/)  Remember to leave them a comment with some feedback.

How to write a paragraph by Room 5

Room 5 have been working to improve their paragraph writing skills.  This is a presentation we created together to explain how to write a paragraph.  Visit our individual blogs to see more of our presentations about how to write a good paragraph.

Animal Kingdom by Sajiha

Sajiha has had lots of creative fun on her Animal Kingdom maths activity.  She had to find 5 images of animals that are taller than her and 5 images of animals that are shorter than her. She labelled each animal with how tall it is.  Visit her blog to see more of her amazing work (http://pbssajihaa.blogspot.co.nz/).  Remember to leave her a comment!

The awesomeness of google presentation

Today we watched this amazing google presentation slideshow that was created using only the tools available in google slides.

We all thought it was awesome and lots of us have been playing around in google presentation working out how they created some of the slide sequences.  Jasmine went home from school and started working on her own "Most Awesome 450 slides".  Check it out (it is a work in progress) and leave her some feedback.

Measurement investigations

For the last two weeks of school, Room 5 students are completing a measurement tic tac toe challenge.  There are 9 activities to choose from and students have to complete 3 activities in a straight line from the grid of activities.  One activity is called How Long is my Foot?  Students have to choose 3 different measurement units, estimate how long their foot will be using each unit of measurement then measure and record their results.  These photos show some Room 5 students measuring their feet in different ways.  Check out our individual blogs to see our results.

Kahawai reading activity by Zeba

This is one of the reading activities Zeba chose to complete. She read a story called Kahawai. It was about a girl and her grandma in Auckland and it was set in the future.  In the story it is horrible - Auckland is polluted and the message is that if you don't care about the Earth now, in the future the Earth is going to be polluted. So start planting trees and pick up your rubbish. The activity was to write down all the things that they thought might be in the polluted water in the future and add some pictures.  Visit Zeba's blog (http://pbszebas.blogspot.co.nz/) to check out more of her digital learning creations.  Please leave her a comment with some feedback.

Animal Kingdom by Jasmine

This week, Room 5 have been working on fun measurement tic tac toe activities.  There are 9 activities to choose from and students were allowed to choose 3 activities in a straight line to complete.  This is one of the activities Jasmine chose.  Visit her blog (http://pbsjasmines.blogspot.co.nz/) to see more of her digital learning creations.  Please leave her a comment with some feedback.

Managing Self by Thomas

In Room 5, we have been talking about the key competency of Managing Self. We have been thinking about what it means to manage yourself and how we can manage ourselves effectively in the classroom and in the playground. This presentation is by Thomas. You can visit his blog (http://pbsthomasg.blogspot.co.nz/) to check out more of his digital learning creations. Please leave him a comment with some feedback.

 

The Ninth Dragon by Sajiha

Sajiha has been reading a novel called The Ninth Dragon. One of her activities was to make a google presentation about the nine dragons that were mentioned in the story. She had to find out what each dragon represented. You can find more activities she has completed about this novel on her blog (http://pbssajihaa.blogspot.co.nz/).  Please leave her a comment with some feedback.

 

Kiribati and Tonga by Inotia

This prezi was created by Inotia. It is about her cultural heritage (where her family members are from). You can visit her blog (http://pbsinotiaak.blogspot.co.nz/) to see more of her amazing digital learning creations.  Please leave a comment with some feedback.

Paragraphs - topic sentences and supporting sentences

We have been learning about paragraphs to help us improve our paragraph writing skills.  Today we worked with a buddy to complete a special challenge.  We were given some sheets of paper with sentences on them.  First we had to cut the sentences apart and find pairs of sentences that belonged together (were about the same topic).  Then we had to work out which sentence was the topic sentence (the big idea that the paragraph was going to be about) and which sentence was a supporting sentence (a detail or an example or some more evidence about the big idea).  Here are some photos of us working with our buddies.  We will be making some presentations about how to write a paragraph so check our individual blogs soon!

Recount with a Twist

For the last few weeks in writing, we have been working on writing a recount (something true that happened) with a twist (something imaginative). Here are some excellent examples of stories that Room 5 students wrote.


One day I was reading a story about BlackBeard, a famous pirate when suddenly the floor heaved beneath my feet. When it finally stopped moving I felt dizzy and sick. I felt like I was seasick. The floor lurched to the side and I fell over. It felt like the decking of a ship. A ship? I stared at the book in horror. Suddenly, I had appeared on Queen Annie's revenge, Blackbeard's ship. I looked around when a massive wall of salty water poured over the side and hit me full force in the face! I stumbled and nearly fell over the side, trying to get an octopus off my face when it squirted ink at me! I grabbed it and threw it off the side of the ship. Then a tentacle wrapped around my leg and threw me off the ship. It was the Kraken! I was about to become seafood. I prayed to every greek god I knew that I would survive this. I even offered my dads cooking! (It is disgusting so I did not want it in the first place) I hoped they liked it. Then as I was near the mouth, I felt a sword tip spear my shirt and hold me in place. It was BlackBeard! I turned around and then wished I hadn’t. His beard was black and worse it was full of bugs! YUCK! Did he even shave? Then a whirlpool picked me up and I teleported forward in time. I checked the year and it was 9999. Oh No! I went too far! Suddenly a tornado ripped through the city towards me. I got sucked into it. “Not again!” I yelled.

by Thomas


“Yipee daily blogging time!” Every day I would do a daily blog about a music video on Youtube. Today I was creating my very own music!

I was so jubilant that the video had gone viral! Every minute that passed, my video would get one billion hits. 3 minutes had passed and the computer started getting surrounded by smoke. I was worried. What was going to happen?….

“KABOOM!!!” The computer blew up. I tried to make the fire disappear before anyone would see but it was too much of a fire. I was going to be in a LOT of trouble when Mum and Dad found out about this horrific mess.

by Zeba


One day on Roblox, I was playing Build to Survive the Zombies. There was a minecraft set which was my favourite. I built my house out of diamond ore then I placed glowstone in certain places that would light up the area. Each time I won a wave I got some points. That way I could buy items that would help me a lot. I usually survive most of the disasters. But one time a disaster was a nyan zombie, they have the least health. When I turned around in first-person-mode, I saw it in front of me and it killed me. What a fright!

All of a sudden a black hole appeared where I spawned and it sucked me into my game. I could control everything! But I needed to get out before I became zombie food. A bright idea came into my head. I found out since I was in Roblox I could sprint as fast as I wanted without running out of breath like Usain Bolt and use my items infinite times. I went to the options menu and changed the current game that I was in to my favourite game which is Survive the 97 disasters. I was a bit lucky since I bought a fusion coil for 350 roblox tickets. A fusion coil is awesome since it combines the power of speed and non-gravity. I was having a bit too much fun and when the disaster black hole came I got sucked into it and died. Weirdly I didn’t feel a thing. I then returned back to my normal world. I was disappointed that I could not do things I had done as a Robloxian now but I was happy to be back. I looked into the mirror to see if I was still a robloxian but luckily enough I looked normal. Then my face glitched…..

by Harry

Visit our individual blogs to read more of our stories. Please leave us some feedback in the comment section. What have we done well? What do we need to work on to improve our writing?