Mystery Box

Mitchell has created our Mystery Box.
His clues are
*It has big chunky wheels.
*It makes loud revving sounds like vroom vroom.
*It has a driver.
*It can drive over cars and big things.
*Travis Pastrama did a back flip in one.
*It has a roll cage inside it.
*This one is called a Grinder!

Can you guess Mitchell's mystery item?

Leave a comment with your guess.

It was a... monster truck.
Great clues Mitchell.

Circus Tricks

The Muffin McLay reading group read a really interesting book called Circus Tricks. After they read the book they followed the instructions. Watch the videos to see the clowns at work.
Circus Tricks from tracey hill on Vimeo.

Circus Tricks 2 from tracey hill on Vimeo.

Circus Tricks 3 from tracey hill on Vimeo.
What did you think of the amazing Room 5 clowns?

Duathlon

What an amazing event our Duathlon was. Mrs H was so so proud of the children showing determination to be the best they can be. Lots of us were very nervous before the race but afterwards the Kidd-li-winks were asking when they could race again.

Mystery Box

In Room 5 we have a Mystery Box. Each week one of us put something in the mystery box and write some clues for the rest of the class to guess what it is. We read the clues and think carefully in our head about what it might be. When we read the next clue we change our guesses in our heads. That is what super readers do.

Teague was the first person to put something  in the mystery box. Here are the clues he gave us.

*It is made out of wood and plastic.

*It can be many different colours.

*The surface is smooth and hard.

*It works best on the concrete.

*You need to make it move.

Great clues by Teague. His mystery object was...

A skateboard

Watch out for Mitchell's clues coming soon. We will post our clues each week  so you can comment and leave your guess.

Hundreds, Tens and Ones

The Thermometers maths group built the Little Pigs Houses out of hundreds tens and ones. They had a certain amount of money to build their houses. There were lots of wonderful discussions about how many 100s, 10s and 1s were in numbers. 

Beau's Little Pig House Livy's Little Pig House
 Louie's Little Pig House It cost $623 to build Bella's Little Pig House Piper's Little Pig House

Thank you for the wonderful idea Lemonade Stand.

Reading to create

Thomas and Declan used instructions they found in books to create these amazing creatures. Books have many different purposes and these boys have used books to help them make something. It is just like how we followed instructions to make our treasure chests. Well done boys.

Mammoth made by Thomas

Penguins made by Declan

Treasure Chests

The Kidd-li-winks have been making treasure chests. We have been practising lots of skills like measuring, cutting,sticking, gluing, painting and cleaning.

We had to show a lot of determination because we found lots of parts tricky. We learnt if we don't give up and keep trying we can learn how to do it. We also learnt how important it is not to rush. In Room 5 we take our time and do our personal best. 

Here a some of the amazing treasure boxes the Kidd-li-winks have made. Come into Room 5 to see them all.

Tens and Ones

We have been learning about how many tens and ones are in two digit numbers. Our challenge was to make the first letter of our name with the right amount of tens and ones.

Tayla making her T with 51.
There are 5 tens and 1 one.

Isaiah's I is made with 44.
4 tens and 4 ones.
Mitchell's M is made with 42.
4 tens and 2 ones.

Emma wanted a really big E so she chose 80.
It has 8 tens.

If you wanted a small letter what number would you choose? If you wanted your letter to be big and bold what number would you choose?

Monica made her initials using the right amount of tens and ones.

Bottomly Potts and the dr sound

Beau

Mitchell

The Bottomly Potts reading group created pic collages to help us when reading and writing the dr sound. We had to think carefully about all the things around the school that started with dr and take photos with the i-pads. Mrs McFadyen came in to Room 5 and taught us how to turn the photos into a pic collage.

Bella

Thomas

Kady

Skyla

Dacta Creations

We have been making monsters and robots out of dacta. We worked with our learning buddies to make our creations.

This is Room 5's success criteria for being a great learning buddy
*To help each other
*To speak nicely to our buddy
*To share and take turns
* To tell our buddy all the great things they do.

 At writing time we wrote about our robots and monsters.
Read some more writing from the superb authors in Room 5

My monster breathes fire and it can shoot. It's name is Fire Blaster. He can fly like a hawk. He can swim like a shark. Author Mitchell

My robots name is Roger. My robot is long. It cuts the trees for me. It can mow the lawns. My robot is red. I keep it in my wardrobe. Author Beau

My robot has eyes on its legs and arms. His name is Stretchy because he can stretch to the sky. It sounds like this pffff when he starts. He can change form into a racing car. It can go up the side of a building because he has a jet pack to zoom up high. It can go really fast. Author Henrietta

Monster Hunt

We were sitting quietly and listening to Mrs H and we heard a funny sound so... we went on a monster hunt.

Our monster hunt was inspired by a famous story We're Going on a Bear Hunt    

Read some of the stories by the wonderful authors in Room 5.

We went on a monster hunt. I wasn't scared. There was a puddle. We went through the water. Swish swosh went the water. We went through the storm. We went through the forest. BOO said the teacher monster.
Author: Ella

The monster hunt was fun because we went through oozy mud. we went splash splash splash through the puddles. We listened to hear as the monster went boom boom boom! It went in the cupboards, on the shelf and under the tables.
Author: Faith

We went on a monster hunt and there was a puddle. We went through the stinky mud and we went over the road and BOO said the monster. I ran away. I was scared a little bit.
Author Declan

Swimming

Room 5 are super lucky because they have an amazing buddy class. Room 16 came swimming with us today and helped us practise our swimming goals. It was lots of fun and we learnt lots at the same time.

Hannah and Monica practising gliding
Tummy up
Long body

Henry and Declan in the middle of the
pool being sharks.

Louie like a rocket ready to glide.

Tracey and Emma learning the starfish

Lily and Mya gliding along in perfect
position

 Mr Moriarty made a video about swimming with our buddies. Click on the link to watch the video on The Tree of PRIDE blog Room 16 Buddy Swimming Video

Room 5 Animals

We used the i-pads to turn ourselves into animals. Room 5 children were great problem solvers and very creative in turning themselves into an animal.

  CAN YOU GUESS WHAT ANIMAL WE ALL ARE?

 Room 5 Animals on PhotoPeach

Justice the bee

Nick the dinosaur

Snowball Fight

Snowball Fight from tracey hill on Vimeo.
We learnt about each other today. We wrote down things about ourselves and screwed up our writing (with some convincing) to make a snowball. We had a snowball fight and then had to work out whose writing we had. Watch our video to see how hard we can throw a snowball.

Code Hunt

Mrs H was so proud of the Room 5 Kidd-li-winks during their hunt around our class and school.

*They worked well with their buddies

*They showed determination

*They had fun with their learning

We used the i-pods to scan QR codes around the school to find out a message Mrs H left for us.

The message we found was

BE THE BEST YOU CAN BE