Earthquake shakes NZ and Room 5

The quite big earthquake on Friday shook Room 5. Mrs H was very proud of the Kidd-li-winks and how they remembered exactly what they needed to do to keep safe during and after an earthquake. Everyone in Room 5 was calm and very sensible.

We created pieces of writing to explain what an earthquake is and what we need to do if there is an earthquake.

In an earthquake you need to drop cover and hold. how an earthquake is made is that there are two platforms under the ground that bump up and down and go on top of each other to make an earthquake. In Christchurch there are gigantic earthquakes. Sometimes the buildings fall down because the earthquake is so strong. In Hastings we had a mammoth sized earthquake! before Mrs Rose was born before Mrs Coombs was born. It was in 1931. Everything was crashed to the ground. I hope we will not have one big one like in 1931!
Author Tayla

In a earthquake we have to get under a table and hold on to a leg to protect our head. The ground shakes and then we have to be a turtle so we can be safe. When the earthquake stops you can come out.
Author Te Au

An earthquake is two big plates bumping into each other and going down on top of each other. The earthquake shakes the whole earth and the world. I heard the rumbling under the ground. I went under Mrs H's writing table into a turtle shell and I held my head  so I can protect it so my brain doesn't break. Then I can't learn.
Author Kady

In an earthquake the ground moves like swaying waves. Sometimes the plates crash together under the ground and make a rumbling sound. You have to get under the table and when you go under the table we put our hands over our head. We stay under the table until the earthquake stops.
Author Monica

Assembly Item

Room 5 are performing at the school assembly. Please note: This date has been changed to Friday 20 September. We would love to see you there. You may even learn how to crack open a coconut.

This is one of the songs we need to learn. Have fun practising and learning how to say hello in lots of different ways.
 

Making our writing interesting for the reader

We read a very funny book about what teachers do when the kids go home. If you haven't read it before you should.

We used the book as inspiration for our writing. We used humour to make our writing funny for the reader because that is what we liked about this story. 

Ring ring ring schools finished for the day YAY! The teachers all have ... fun. There's lots of food. A teacher even thew a pizza onto the wall like a frisbee. Then theyall said "Food fight!" Mr Cottrell didn't like peas so he threw them on Mrs Coombs glasses. Splat! And she couldn't see. Suddenly! a pavlova was thrown across the room and splashed on Mrs Heibner's face. With her fingers she wiped it on her face and tasted it. She said yum. They all had to clean up before the kids had to go back to school. When the kids came back to school they saw...pizza on the floor.
Author Skyla

Ding ding ding. The children ran to the school bus. But the teacher were planning something. What are they planning? They made paper aeroplanes. They threw them around. They made a water slide in the hall. They found a room. They put goggles on and they made an experiment. Suddenly...boom! Then they went to Room 5. They partied and the door opened and in came Mr G. He shouted "WHAT ARE YOU  DOING! Can I join? "Yes" said Miss Wilson. Mr G joined in . Then the children went to Room 5 and partied as well. They partied all the way to lunch.

Author Thomas

Ring ring ring ring schools over kids. The kids go running around school looking for their parents. The teachers grab their tummy stuffers and put their pillows in them. They squash them in their t-shirts. The bump into each other. Boom boom. The principal told the boy teachers to do ballet. The boys had to wear tattoos and they had to twirl in circles on their tippy toes. Some boy teachers bumped into the wall 'Ouch."

Author George

After school teachers start to play with nerf guns. They pulled the trigger...boom bang! the guns go. They go wild. One bullet gets stuck on Mr M's bottom. It went so fast it made a mark on his bottom. Now they start to zoom around the corners on scooters. They went up ramps and did tricks. They did tail whips back flips and loopty loops and the sun began to go down. During the night they played Mine Craft. They built towers houses rollercoasters. They were staring at the computer screen. they didn't realise the sun coming up. Whoopsys! The suns coming up. "Teachershurry up and clean with me" yells Mrs H.

Author Beau 

Over arm throw

We are learning how to throw overarm. It is used in lots of different sports. Mrs T taught us a rhyme to help us remember all the steps in an overarm throw. Watch the movie to learn how.

Over Arm Throw from tracey hill on Vimeo.

Vocabulary Building

We are building our vocabulary. One of the ways we do this is use the interesting words in our reading lots of times so they become part of our vocabulary.

Bitzer Maloney made a Pic collage of new words they learnt while reading. They had a choice of drawing a picture, writing words that mean the same, writing a sentence with the word in it, finding a picture off the internet. They also put the sentence from the book to show how the word was used in the story.

Beau

Bella

Faith

Henrietta

Kady

Livy

Mya

Tayla

Cook Island Drums

We made Cook Island drums so we can use them to play and learn about music. We had to use our problem solving skills from our last unit to create our drums.

Cook Island Drum Making on PhotoPeach

Before we got the balloon pump Mya learnt how to blow up a balloon. After a few attempts, a lot of laughs and a balloon flying around Room 5 we got there. Great perseverance Mya. 

 Here are our amazing Cook Island drums. 

Thank you so much to the parents and grandma that came and helped us on Friday. We couldn't have done it without you.We appreciate you giving up your time. 

I can't wait to hear what all the drums sound like together.

Magical Fairy Dust

We were sprinkled with magical fairy dust and we could go to any place we imagined.

Our challenge was to paint a picture for the reader. We did this by using interesting vocabulary and using our senses. 

Check out some of our adventures.

One day a witch made a curse on me. I went to a haunted haunted hotel with zombies and ghosts. The ghosts are killer ghosts. It was a rocket hotel that goes to the moon for the aliens to have a colossal midnight feast. Eyeball girl soup, slugs and blood milkshakes and girl pies. They played with knuckle bones made from the girl hands. If they try to escape a loud siren goes on and then they have to do a pass

code.   Author Teague

Today something very special happened. I got a magic spell put on me. I stamped my feet three times one two three and poof! Suddenly I turned into a stunning mermaid and I found that i was in Mermaid Land. When I turned I could see seaweed going side to side. I could hear the waves going swish swish! Suddenly I could hear something coming through the water wooosh! Then a voice shouted out "Hello my name is Rosy" they swam along together. They came across a dolphin that was stuck in a net so the mermaids ripped the net apart. The dolphin thanked them and they became friends and they swam away together.

Author Bella

Something sprinkled on my head. Suddenly I arrived at the hotel for monsters. There were vampires . It was at night. There are ghosts with glasses and red curly hair. There are ghosts coming out of the chimney. There are ginormous monsters with big blue skin. The hotel is brown with a green roof. When I was in the hotel it was dark and scary. The monsters had stairs because there are heaps of monsters and they need room to sleep. The people that sleep in the monster hotel the monsters scare them away to the forest and they will never return again.

Author Isaiah

I had glitter sprinkled on my head. It took me to a dragon world. The dragon let me get on him. A knight tried to kill us. Luckily the dragon and I were on a high rock. The dragon breathed out fire and killed the knight. It was a frosty day my dragon kept me warm by making a fire to keep us warm. My dragon went out to hunt for a deer to eat. Then the dragon brought the deer back. The dragon heated the deer up to eat. At night we went in our cave. I went to sleep. My dragon put his tail around me and protects me from predators. 

Author Mitchell    

Division with remainders

We are learning to solve division problems. Sometimes problems do not share into equal groups and there are some left over. In division these are called remainders. Our challenge today was to find out how many weeks babies were in their mothers' tummies. It was a challenge.

Bella, Teague and Henrietta shared their learning on the interactive whiteboard.

A cat is in the mums tummy for 63 days.

Thomas worked out it was 9 weeks

 63 divided by 7= 9

A possum is in the mums tummy for 12 days.

Caitlyn worked it out it was 1 week and 5 days.

12 divided by 7= 1 r5

A challenge for you to try.

A human baby is in the mothers tummy for 9 months. How many weeks is it in her tummy?

How many days would it be?

Hello from around the world

Next term all the classes at Parkvale have a different country to learn about. Watch the video to see how to say hello in different ways around the world.  

Room 5's country is the Cook Islands. Kia orana Room 5.

We are going to make drums. If you have any large tins or containers for making drums could you please bring them into school in the first week of school. 

Book Characater Day

It was book character day at Parkvale. What an exciting day with all our favourite characters around the school.
Book Characters on PhotoPeach

Read some of our fantastic writing about our chracters

Here are my clues for my book character day. He has a long tail. he is very smart. He has pointy ears. He has 4 children and a wife. He can dig very very fast under ground. He eats chickens. He has a small nose. Who can my character be?

It was Fantastic Mr Fox. I got my material from Spotlight with Mum. It was warm and snuggly the material colour was brown. I love being Fantastic Mr Fox.

Author Thomas

Everyone at the library came to life and they came into my classroom. They are fairies, ballerinas, princesses, wolves, foxes, police, turtles, Captain Underpants, Harry Potters and dogs and mermaids. My character is a mermaid it sways in the ocean. My hair do is bright pink it glistens in the sunlight. It was funny to still be wearing a tail and still be able to walk.

Author Mya

I am a pirate. i have a belt and a pirate hat and a feather. I have a parrot on my right shoulder and  it is made out of a balloon and paper.

Author Lucas

My costume is a character from a book. Her name is Rapunzel because her hair is golden and plaited and has a flower in it. Rapunzel's cloak is pink like a flamingo. She lives in a tower that is in the sky. When I was organising my costume dad looked on the internet to see what she looked like. This morning my mum helped me attach my wig to my real hair. My mum did a really good job because Mrs H and Livy tried to get it out but they couldn't. My hair is long like the wig but it is brown like dirt and not gold! I really enjoyed being Rapunzel!

Author Tayla   

Texture and Shading

We are learning about texture. We created lots of different textures for the different characters from the Hairy Maclarey books. Can you tell which character connects to each texture?

Hairy Maclary from tracey hill on Vimeo.

We also learnt about shading.
Our success criteria
Create
*dark bits
*light bits
*medium bits
*leave white bits
I think the Kidd-li-winks did an amazing job drawing and shading the characters from Hairy Maclaery books and achieved all the success criteria.

Our art will be displayed in the library to celebrate Hairy Maclarey 30th birthday.

Click on the link Hairy Maclary Birthday Website to help celebrate the birthday month.

  

Pyjama Fashion Show

We loved coming to school in our pyjamas. Just for fun we had a fashion show. 

Pyjama Fashion Show from tracey hill on Vimeo.

We reflected on  our problem solving day using an App called Puppet Pals.

Reflection from tracey hill on Vimeo.

Reflection 2 from tracey hill on Vimeo.

Reflection 3 from tracey hill on Vimeo.

Problem Solving Day Parachutes

Our challenge was to create a parachute for Rapunzel to get down from her tower because the prince never came to rescue her.

We planned, made, tested, made changes, tested some more, made more changes, tested some more and made more changes. Finally we went to the playground to see if our parachutes would bring Rapunzel down to safety. Some very creative problem solving!

While we were testing our parachutes on the playground Mr Gifkins came past and wanted us to test the safest parachute with 'Rapunzel the egg' instead of 'Rapunzel the doll'.
The winning teams were Ella & Louie and Bella & Caitlyn. 

Problem Solving Day Cafe Nga Tipu

Nga Tipu had an amazing problem-solving day. Our first challenge was to, set our own table, make our own breakfast in Cafe Nga Tipu and do the dishes when we finished.
We had so much fun and solved our own problems along the way.
Breakfast time for the Kidd-li-winks

Cafe Nga Tipu - slideshow

Making our writing exciting for the reader

 We used pictures to help inspire our writing. We acted out what would happen in our story using interesting vocabulary.

We tried not to tell the reader too much too early so they would want to keep on reading.

We then chose an ending for our story from the pictures.

What ending would you choose?

Here are some of the wonderful authors from Room 5

Down in the grasslands I was crouching low amongst the long grass. My ears were pricked up in the air to hear the group of antelopes near by. My stomach was rumbling because I was starving. I could smell them. I can't pounce yet because they aren't close enough. I have to wait patiently for them to get closer. And then pounce!I wrap my muscly legs around the antelopes body. My claws dug into him and he dropped to the ground.

Author George

I lion was peeking for food in the long grass. The lion was staying really still. he peered around to see if he could see any food and if he could hear anything. Suddenly he heard a galloping zebra and he pricked up hos ears because he heard the sound of the zebra nibbling the long green grass. Suddenly he pounced but he missed and suddenly something amazing happened to the zebra he was turning into a ...zebrafly! Two gorgeous wings came growing through his sides and the lion got a big thump because he landed on the hard ground. The zebrafly flew to a high nearby tree until the lion disappeared.

Author Emma

In the grasslands a lion was hunting for food. the lion was crouching on hos haunches. The lion was peeping through the long grass for some scrumptious food. A long way away he spotted a scrumptious stripey zebra. The lion will have to be very silent so the animals wont get to know that the lion is in the grasslands. The lion will quickly tiptoe to get his delicious food. Suddenly...the lion pounced onto the zebra. The lion put his claws inside the zebra's body and dug in deep. Suddenly... the zebra shrunk and he got magical wings! to fly away. The lion will come to the zebra and the zebra will flutter away from the lion. When the lion will keep on chasing the zebra. the zebra will keep fluttering away from the lion. the lion wins and the zebra loses.

Author Livy

In the grasslands a lion searched for food because he is hungry. He is peeking out of the grass. Suddenly... an antelope trip trapped by the lion. The lion zoomed to get the antelope. The antelope got scratched by the lion and bit him. When he got killed blood gushed out. He dragged it to his family. He shared it for breakfast!

Author Nick