A BUSY WACKY HAIR Day!

What a wonderful Wacky Hair Day we had in Room 5 today. Thank you so much for all the time that went into creating the magnificent wacky hairstyles!

Today we had many fun and interesting learning experiences, from Kiwi Sport Football to Spelling Rockets and Mathletics with our buddies, to hosting Junior Assembly. 

Well done Room 5, you really tried your best and did a fantastic job!

Here is a little snapshot of our busy wacky day.....

Watching the rocket launch was a great way to end science week.

We were waiting....waiting....waiting.....

Then....

BLAST OFF!!!

A Taste of Africa

Last Monday the Junior School enjoyed watching the Out of Africa show. Room 5 have written Recounts about this experience. We have tried to include some WoW! words to get a picture in the reader's head. Here are some of our recounts...

Out of Africa

 

Yesterday after morning tea, the Year One and Twos went to the Out of Africa show in the hall. Valanga, an African, performed some music and stories. 

First of all he played a little wooden box with strings that made a beautiful sound like a bell.

Then he played a metal instrument that made a buzzing noise. He put it next to his mouth and plucked the needle on it. Once, he put it in his back pocket and sat on it and everyone thought it was part of the show and one of them said, "Do it again bravo!"

Then he played a curved stick with a string on it that he wanted to hit with a feather but wasn't allowed, so he used a twig.

Valanga played amazingly. I hope he comes back next year.

by George

Out of Africa

 

On Monday after morning tea, we went to a show. It was so funny when the man washed a drum, because it sounded like someone was farting.

At the middle he played a drum and it was very loud when he picked some kids and they whacked the drum. When they whacked the drum, his eyes went wide. It was so funny.

At the end, he sang a song with Mrs Ryan with a homemade instrument. It was amazing. I hope Valanga comes back next year.

By Harriet

The Africa Show

 

Yesterday the Year 1s and 2s went to the hall to watch a show. Valanga showed us how to play instruments. He played a drum. This is how he played it, he used a tissue to make a fart sound.

I liked it when he played the instrument where he used his mouth and a stick.

Valanga made a guitar out of a container.

I loved the show. It was amazing and loud.

By Cameron

The African Show

 

Yesterday after morning tea, the Year 1s and 2s went to the hall to the Out of Africa show.

Valanga used his fingernails to play a little wooden box with strings. It sounded like a bird tweeting. 

He used an instrument, it was called the duck. It sounded like a fart.

Valanga is a great performer. I wish he will come back next year.

By Abigail

Out of Africa

 

All of the Year 2s and 1s went to Out of Africa, it was awesome. I liked it when he put the cloth into the drum and it farted. Everyone was laughing. I found it funny too.

He told us a story about a girl who was going to the river and heard a voice, so she went there and found a lion. The children clapped.

By Sarah

Thank you Room 5...

for a fantastic Term 1 full of lots of hard work and learning both at school and at home!!!

Thank you parents and caregivers for all the work you do at home to support the learning that goes on in the classroom...reading with your child, helping them with their spelling words and supporting them with Mathletics. This all makes a really big difference - thank you!

The last few weeks of Term 1 have just flown by. Here you can see a few of the learning experiences that have been happening in Room 5 over the past few weeks. 

I wish you all a very happy Easter holiday!

Our Writing Goals and "What do good writers do??"

We looked at some pieces of writing by children who had been at school for two years and talked about the things we noticed them doing really well. We then looked at our own writing by ourselves and with a buddy and talked about two things we do well and found one thing to make a wish (a goal) to get better at. Our goals are on the classroom wall along with a piece of writing written by a child after two years at school.

Published Jump Jam Recounts!

We all wrote recounts about doing Jump Jam in the Hall. We were learning to get a picture in the reader's head by using the five senses. We used the laptops to write our title and our name. Mrs Saker typed up our recounts. We then illustrated them. Come into Room 5 to read our big book: "Jump Jam!" Here are a couple of our recounts:

Published Writing Box

Jump Jam! book by Room 5

 

 

Tens and Ones Maths - Understanding how numbers are written

In Maths we have been learning how many groups of ten we can make from a number and how many ones are left over. Understanding how to do this helps us to write two digit numbers correctly. For example, from the number 12, we can make 1 group of 10 and have 2 ones left over. From the number 20, we can make 2 groups of 10 and have 0 ones left over. Here we are using cubes to make numbers:

Butterfly Art

We have also been lucky enough to have two butterflies hatch in Room 5 so far this Term (and we still have three chrysalis left on our Swan Plant!). We have been busy looking carefully at the butterflies and used paint to make our own beautiful butterflies. Look at what a wonderful job we did:

Meet the Superheroes of Room 5!!!

We all have something that we are SUPER at doing.
In Room 5, we made up our own superhero name and Mrs Saker took a photo of us doing our favourite superhero pose. We used mirrors, pencils, black vivid and pastels to create a self portrait of our faces and then used coloured bits of paper to collage our own superhero cape.

Look at all the superheroes in our class...

Ratalie Portman

On Tuesday Seren brought in her pet rat 'Ratalie Portman' to meet us. Ratalie is able to move around very cleverly inside her rat ball. Seren took her out of the ball and we were allowed to pat her if we wanted - we found out that she is very friendly and clean! Of course we still washed our hands afterwards. One of her favourite places to play is her shoebox.

Our Super Big Buddies and Spelling Rockets

Every Friday Room 5 are very lucky to be visited by our big buddies from across the road...Room 22! They help test us on our spelling rocket words and then we spend some fun time together. Last week, our buddies read to us and then we showed them around the Junior butterfly garden. This week, Room 22 had a special activity for us to do. We made our very own....butterfly circles! We can't wait to share them once we have finished decorating them. THANK YOU Room 22!

Life as a Caterpillar

Today we watched this fun animation about life as a caterpillar: