Christmas in New Zealand
Add comment Posted in general Tagged: celebrations, Christmas, New Zealand November 26, 2008
Christmas in Mongolia
Add comment Posted in general Tagged: celebrations, Christmas, Mongolia November 25, 2008
Learning to Hip Hop for Production 2008
We didn’t like our original dance, so in JUST ONE DAY we learned a new dance! This is us practicing in class. We will post photos of the real dance, after it’s happened!
2 comments Posted in general September 11, 2008
Maths Olympiad Winners!
Last Friday we had the Elm Park Maths Olympiad. And guess who won the Year 5 competition? The Bright Sparks of Room 24! The winning team was Lanlie, Charlene, Sunny and Shehan! Well done, guys. We are SO PROUD of you!
We even made the local newspaper:
Featured here, from left to right are: Lanlie, Sunny, Charlene and running is Shehan!
To read all about it check out the local newspaper: Howick and Pakuranga Times of 18 August, 2008.
7 comments Posted in general August 18, 2008
A visit to the Auckland Museum
We had a wonderful day at the Auckland Museum, where we learnt about New Zealand in the early days!
Add comment Posted in general Tagged: Auckland Museum, Early settlars, EOTC, Maori skills August 18, 2008
New way to do Homework!
Georgia doesn’t hand in her homework book anymore. She has my permission! You may wonder why, and here’s the answer. She does all her homework on her blog. Well done, Georgia. I’m looking forward to quite a few more bloggers in Room 24, doing their homework on their own blog!
Those of you who aren’t lucky enough to have computer and internet access at home – you can just continue doing the great work you always have done. And remember to hand in homework each Friday!
3 comments Posted in general June 8, 2008
Holly Bloom’s Garden – Shared Book
Today we shared a beautiful book called Holly Bloom’s Garden. It’s on a fantastic site called Lookybook, and you can browse and read books using your Smartboard. After we had read the book, we split into groups to do a Voicethread task. Here is what we thought about the book:
4 comments Posted in pupils May 4, 2008
Autumn in the park.
Our class (Year 5′s) has collaborative teaching with Room 1 (Year 1′s) once a week. For the past few weeks we have been learning how to use digital cameras. We have learned different techniques and ideas. Today we went on our first real photo shoot. The theme was Autumn.
FC wrote:
After morning tea we went to the field to meet Room 1. We lined up at the blue gate, one in front of the other and were sorted into groups. My buddy was M. Our teachers told us what sorts of photos to take. We each took two photos, then we swapped cameras and changed places. After that we took even more pictures.
SR wrote:
Finally we got to take a photo of leaves and tree that are changing because of Autumn. I took a photo from the bridge to the nearest tree. I took another photo of a plant next to the water. D said: “Take a photo of that butterfly. Hurry!” So J took a photo of it, but after he took the photo it flew away.
We saw some logs so we went there, but then more people can and it started to get a bit crowded. JH took a photo really close to the tree. There were yellow bits on that photo.
The teachers were calling us to say you can take a photo close or far, or even lying down. They sent us away and I took a photo by lying on my back. I took one photo that I though was the best because it was an Autumn tree and the background was the blue sky with no clouds.
JZ wrote:
Both of my photos were trees. One of my photos was an evergreen tree. The other one was yellow and green and a little bit of brown.
SJ wrote:Today we got to take some fascinating pictures of Autumn. I took a picture of a nice bright orange coloured flower and C, my buddy, took a picture of a yellow leaf, which stood out really nicely. What a wonderful time we had!
GC wrote:
We went over a bridge and a sign next to the water read: Polluted water, no swimming. I ws horrified. Why would people do this?
I saw some interesting things like a tree with it’s leaves that grew all the way down to the ground and opened up like a door. The thing that I mostly took photos of was while standing under the tree, looking up for the sun to shine through.
I am hoping that if we put the best photos on our blog, one of mine will be there!
10 comments Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Autumn, Fall, photo shoot, photography April 8, 2008
