Learning to Play Softball

Last week three coaches came to our school and showed us how to play softball. We hit the ball off a tee with a long bat and ran as fast as we could to base one before the fielding team got the ball there. We are all looking forward to this Thursday when they come back!

Science Fair 2015

What a great afternoon of Science we had today! This year the focus was Physics. We got to walk around the classes to see what everyone had been working on. Buster took some photos of the afternoon to share with you. One of Room 5's favourite science investigations was Lukas's balloon hovercraft in Room 9. You will see a short clip of this in Buster's following presentation.

Room 5's Assembly

Here are some of our presentations from assembly. We were learning to blend paint with a sponge and painted lions using this skill for their mane. Our next movie is a science investigation on friction and toy cars. Taylor took most of the video for his group. Come along to school on Wednesday to see other investigations throughout the classes.

Recycling With Anouk

Today Anouk came to Room 5 to show us how to recycle and what happens to our rubbish. How could we turn our trash into treasure? Sunita wants to make telephones reusing tin cans. Taylor wants to make a train with boxes and cardboard. Frank wants to use the recycling numbers on plastic containers to teach kids their numbers.

Room 7's Visit to Room 5

Last term Room 7 came to visit Room 5 and shared with us their narrative stories. We really enjoyed listening to their creative written work that they had made into picture books. We also got some great ideas from the kids on how to turn our work into books. You can read and hear some of their stories on Room 7's blog http://room7ohaeawaiprimary.blogspot.co.nz/

Learning with Room 9

We had a great morning on Thursday working with Room 9 to create Stop Motion movies. We were learning how to make toy cars look like they were zooming around the school by themselves. First we created our storyboards, set the scene, and created an action sequence for one event. We had plenty of cars around Room 5 as we are also learning about force and motion this term.

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Get your own

Here is a collection of our movies.

Welcome back to Term 3!

This term we welcome Sione, Cash, Tristan, Christopher, Sydney-Rose and Stevie-Leigh to Room 5! We have an exciting term ahead including the Zoo trip September 10th-11th. Library day will continue to be Thursday and spelling tests are on Friday. I look forward to meeting all the new families!