Room 2 Rocks 2010

I loved doing maths because it was fun. HS
I loved learning to use "Toondoo because it was fun making up stories. JC
I liked learning things at "Bible" time. Our teacher was really nice. ES
I liked doing all the art escpecially the picture we did for the calendars. ChP
I enjoyed reading because we had interesting stories. DH
I liked the "Big Day In" because we had fun games and a movie. MH
I liked playing games on the computer on wet lunchtimes. MW
I liked the "Big Day In" because we watched a "Franklin" movie about Christmas. AS
I enjoyed the cross-country and having mufti days. KF
I liked the "Big Day In" and Athletics. I came 3rd in the cross-country too. PH
I enjoyed everything especially maths. TC
I enjoyed doing Mathletics because it is awesome. DN
I think it was great doing maths because there were fun games for us to play. CP
I liked going on trips. The Museum one was the best. JG
I enjoyed doing art. The calendars were the best to do. SH
I liked doing art. I liked the "Maui and the Sun" pictures best. TH
I liked doing Christmas activities and doing things on the "mimio". AR

What would be a really great activity to do in our next holidays?

This is the movie of Maui and the sun that we made. First we drew the pictures on Kidpix using a mimio pen on the big whiteboard. Ms H showed us how to cut around things and move them. We had to save lots and lots of pictures. When we tried playing our movie on kidpix it went too slow so Mrs H put it on Moviemaker. We had to add the sound to our movie as well. We are really proud of our work.

On Friday morning our class ran the school assembly. It was great to see some of our parents there to see us up on the stage. Here is a movie taken of us on the stage with our poi song. The song is called E rere taku poi. We have learnt the poi actions to go with the words of the song.

Tell us about your favourite book or story. Why do you like this story?

We have made some of our classmates "digikids". They are good at doing things on the computer and mimio and can help other children when they don't know what to do. We have two "digikids" each day and they have tasks to do. They also wear badges so we know who we can go to for help.

One day when the rocket was flying it broke down. They landed on Venus. They thought they would find something and they looked and looked and looked but they did not find anything. So they looked again, but they still did not find anything. They looked for an hour.
Along came an alien. He asked, “What is the problem?”
“We broke down.”
“You can use mine.”
“What about you?”
“I have a spare one.” They all felt happy. Sometime they visit each other.
KM

Once upon a time there was a duck. She went for a swim in the pond but it was too muddy and she got stuck. No one came. She waited two days. At last the pig came. “Are you stuck?” asked the pig. “Yes,” said the duck. The pig called the cat and the cat could not pull the stuck duck out. So the cat called the cow, but the cow could not pull the stuck duck out. The cow called the horse and the horse pulled the duck out. The horse felt good because he pulled the duck out.
KM

Today there was great excitement at our school when the Commonwealth Games baton arrived from Howick Primary school as part of the relay around the commonwealth countries. We made flags to wave to welcome our visitors and the baton. We thought the baton looked really beautiful with the red, white and blue colours shining. We learnt that the Queen had written a message and it was inside the baton. The message will be read out at the commonwealth Games in India, in October. Some of our Year 5 and 6 children ran in the relay to take the baton to another school.

We are learning a special dance to improve our fitness. Later this term the whole school will be dancing this Heart Jam dance to raise funds for heart research. Heart Jam is lots of fun. It is like Jump jam and we all love doing that. We are trying to learn the dance by watching a DVD that is being shown on the big screen in the hall.

Today we had a pod of 4 laptops in the classroom. We worked on them in pairs and learnt how to turn them on and log in. Then we had to find out where Kidpix was in the programme files and open it. We had time to make pictures on kidpix. Some of us made amazing space pictures and others of us just enjoyed finding out what the tools did. Perhaps we will be able to show you some of the pictures we made. As you can see by these photos we really enjoyed our time on the laptops today. The rest of the class will have a turn tomorrow.

Listen to us reading our poem called Rockets. We have a new poem each week to take home for the weekend. We are really enjoying reading our poems. We have it in our poetry books and have to make our own illustrations for it. You can see some of our work in the video

We love going to the library every week. There are a lot of books there that we enjoy reading. We are allowed to take home a book each week to share with our families.
Today we took a video to show and tell you about our school library. This is our first try with the new flip video camera and it was great fun using it.

We have been getting to know each other at the beginning of the new school year.