Hydro-Power System

Agent Apple Pie

Me, Don and Damien designed a picture for our story that was called Food Myths. Firstly we went on Google and got random pictures and put it on a Google drawing. Then we put the pictures together and we named it Agent Apple Pie.

Topic Study

doe our topic study we did three weeks ago we had to make a presentation about citizenship. Firstly we had to follow the instructions from the daily planner then when we finished we had to hand it in to get it marked.

My Visual Art

    
This is what I did in Term 1 for Visual Arts. I drew myself on sumo paint and then I did a painting of myself to put them together with my art. It turned out good because we look very similar.

Maths Square and Cube Roots

This week in Room 12 for maths we have been learning about square and cube roots. For our class to understand how to do it we used uni-link blocks. We built 2 Dimensional square and 3 Dimensional cube. Now the students understand what square and cube roots are and how to calculate them.

Origami

Every Friday for Visual Arts we have origami and we have been doing it for four weeks. Everyone in our classroom came up with different kinds of origami ideas from YouTube. We made dinosaurs, butterflies, dogs, cats, bow ties, dresses, air planes, dolphins, flowers, bunnies and hearts.

Origami is based on paper folding techniques and it originated in Japanese.

  

Our Reading Work

Walt:  Make a table to organise the different language features of this story. Decide on which features you wish to focus on. Discuss the author's purpose for choosing a particular language or phrase. Choose some examples in your discussion. Record your responses.

My Water Cycle

Staying Fit

Students exhausted and tired, and students active and energized.

Boys and girls who were tired and exhausted are the people who don’t keep fit but people who are active and energized are people who are fit and who exercise.

Every morning from Monday to Friday when the bell rings at 8.55am until 9.15am, the Senior Syndicate students which are the year fours, fives, sixes, sevens, and eights jog around the streets surrounding Ruapotaka. The whole circuit was approximately 2.49 kilometres.  

First, we lined up outside our classrooms ready for our fitness. After that we set off running out the back gates of our schools and Mrs Golder ordered us, “Take off your jumpers and give them to me.”

When we ran down Tripoli Road I could see the footpath lined with the trees and cars driving past and staring at us running and I felt like quitting at that time.

Two minutes later when I was jogging steadily I could see students just stopping and just talking. While they were walking I could even see some boys sprinting and after that they were exhausted and they just kept walking.

When we were jogging through Hinaki Street I jogged all the way to the end and then Mrs Buchanan, our year five teacher instructed me, “Take your hands off your hips.” After I took my hands off my hips and I was very thirsty but I carried on jogging.

When I made it to the finish line I achieved my running skills. I made an improvement and I built my stamina.

Staying fit is important in our school!

Syndicate Assembly

There are many people with wonderful talents in the senior syndicate so therefore we had a Talent Quest to display their unique talents.

Yesterday it was our class senior syndicate assembly and we decided to do a talent quest in our assembly. We had an awesome talent quest and our year 7 and year 6 class were tied for first place while the year 5 class came second and the year eight class came third. Everyone had an awesome time at our assembly.

Samoan Singing

From week 3 we had Samoan music every Friday and it carried on for 4 weeks. We learnt lots of Samoan music and even learnt some Samoan words that we didn't know. We had a new song every week to learn. Our tutor who taught us was our teacher aide. She was Samoan and her name was Mrs Folu. We all learnt the song in less than 15 minutes.    

WE HAD LOTS OF FUN LEARNING SAMOAN MUSIC!

Daffodil Day

What Was On The 28th of August? Daffodil Day!

Friday the 28th of August was Daffodil Day so we made some origami daffodils. We only needed yellow, green, and orange paper to make the origami daffodil. The first time we made it was alright but the second time we made it, it looked like a real daffodil. We were all proud of our daffodils and my daffodil was picked as the best daffodil.

These are all our daffodils we made  in our classroom and we even made the origami vase for the daffodils to sit in.