Christmas Wreaths

Room 5 have been working hard making these eye-catching Christmas wreaths.  They have been measuring, cutting and glueing lots of loops of paper to create them.

They have taken a long time but it's worth it because they look AMAZING!

Moon rocks

Today Room 5 made moon rocks.  They worked in groups to measure and mix to make some moon rock dough then they moulded it into interesting shapes.  They had to think about what a rock from the moon might look like.  Here are some photos of the process and our finished rocks.

Learning to Code

This morning, Room 5 students are learning how to code at code.org.  So far they have learned how to move an angry bird through a maze to kill the pig and now some of them are learning to create shapes using angles.  If you want to have a try at learning to code, go to code.org, sign in with your google account and click on the courses (we are doing course 2).

Idioms

Today we have been learning about idioms. We have found out what they are and what different idioms mean. Check out our idiom illustrations and leave us some feedback in the comment section.

How to make an area and perimeter animal

Some blog visitors have asked how they can make their own perimeter and area animals so Thomas and Shannon created this slideshow to show you how.

Photos of our Area and Perimeter Animals

Here are our finished area and perimeter animals.  Some of us were super clever and we designed animals that could stand or sit up.  Please leave us a comment, we are really proud of our work!

Area and Perimeter Animals

In maths, we have been designing animals and working out their perimeter and area. We have designed our animals on maths paper then we are going to cut them out and try to make them stand up. You can visit our blogs to see more of our designs and what we have learned about perimeter and area. Here are a few photos showing some of our designs.  Can you work out what animal they are?

Learning about 3D shapes

In maths we have been learning about 3D shapes.  We were given a mystery net and we had to turn it into a 3D shape, work out what it was called then make a poster about it.  Here are some photos of us working collaboratively to construct our shapes and our finished posters.

Cubes

In maths we have been learning about 3D shapes.  We decorated cube nets then folded and glued them to create cubes.  It was interesting to see what happened to our patterns.

Our Film Festival Movie: How to Save the World Before Breakfast

Film Festival Room 5 PBS from Ruth Thomas on Vimeo.


Our film was inspired by our Term 2 Inquiry around sustainability.  We realised that there are so many little things that we can do to help look after our planet and if everybody made just a few little changes overall it would make a BIG difference.  What changes can you make in your everyday life to help our planet?  How could you reduce the rubbish in your lunchbox?  Could you walk to school instead of someone dropping you off in a car?  Could you encourage your family to use reuseable supermarket bags instead of lots of plastic bags?  How can YOU save the world before breakfast?

Sumdog Success for Sajiha!

This is Sajiha's blogpost about her Sumdog results in the latest competition.  She has won some very cool outfits this year.

I have come 4th in the Sumdog Competition in Auckland. Sumdog is a free learning game. The competition had started yesterday and I had to answer 1000 questions in a week. My score was 912 out of 1000. I am very proud of my score even though I had a much higher score in the last competition. In each Sumdog competition, each student that takes part in the competition gets a reward chosen from Sumdog. In this competition, each student gets free clothes for their character. I reccomend Sumdog to every student because it has helped me a lot with my maths and I'm sure it'll help you too! Here are a few clothes that I have won: 

Jasmine's diagram of Earth

Jasmine used google drawing to create this diagram of Earth as one of her inquiry activities.



 Today I had to make a diagram of earths layers. In my Google Drawing you will see the inner core, outer core, inner mantle, outer mantle and the crust where we are.

Reading Activity - Infographic about Mercury

Sajiha, Juanita and Harry worked together to find out about the planet Mercury and create this infographic.

Space Word Cloud by Room 5

Room 5 have been learning how to use a new tool (tagul) to make word clouds. Here is a word cloud about space that we made together.

Created with Tagul.com

Reading Activity - infographic about The Sun

Nazella, Mishaan, Javeylor and Oh Hsen worked together to learn about the sun and create this infographic.

Reading Activity - infographic about Jupiter

Gozan, Mya and Jessie-Lee worked together to find out about the planet Jupiter and create this infographic.

Space Vocabulary

As part of starting our solar system inquiry, each student in Room 5 had a word related to space to find out about. They had to find out what the word means and write a definition that kids can understand. Do you know anymore interesting words related to space and the solar system? Remember to tell us what the word means so we can increase our vocabulary knowledge.