Acrostic poem

Friends

Friendly people who care for me

Really fun times

 Interesting times with your friend 

Every person needs a friend

Never-ending friends

Devastating breakups

Superfriends to the rescue

The Sun Poem

The sun is a light bulb helping me see.

It is a candle lighting up the sky.

The sun is a heatwave melting God's people 

it is a fireball making me blind.

The sun is hot lava burning the world. 

It is a disco ball shimmering everywhere.  

 

Room 5 assembly

On Friday room 5 had their assembly. We did a song and a play. Our play was about stereotypes the message in it was that some times we make assumptions. The song that we did was individuality. 

           

The Cook Island language week

This week is Cook Island language week.  Allessandra taught Room 5 the Sign of Cross in the Cook Island language and she also taught our class a song called My God Loves Me. In the Cook Island's they speak Cook Island Maori and English. The currency they use is the Cook Island dollar and the New Zealand dollar. 
We also spent time reading some Cook Island Myths.
  

Circle Iced

On Wednesday Room 5 did a science experiment. We had circle ice which was created with balloons. Then we put the dye on the ice then we put salt on it. We had to write down what we noticed and some questions we had. In the end, we threw the ice up.  

Egg Sitting

Last week we did egg sitting. The whole point of this was to look after and keep the egg safe. Mrs Drummond wanted us to realise how hard keeping after a child is. My egg's name was Archie. My egg stayed alive for the whole week! 

Acrostic Poem

In Room 5 we did acrostic poems about mythical creatures. Here is mine.

Unique

Nice

Intelligent

Colour

Outdoor

Really amazing

Not Mean

Soft

Maori Art

In Room 5 we did Maori art. We had to pick a drawing from Peter Gossage. I picked the moon. We used pastels and then dye for the background. Here is mine.

Water Cycle

Today Room 5 did a really cool water cycle experiment. We did some of the experiment on Friday and finished the rest of the experiment on Monday. My buddy on Friday was Ella. but on Monday Ella wasn't here so l did it with Meredith.  We had to make a water filter. Our water filter had paper towels and cotton balls. Then we put dirty water on top of our water filter. Our water came out pretty clean but didn't win the prize. Here is our water filter.

      

Book week

This week is Book Week.

That means we get to buy new books, rubbers, bookmarks and other things. I went as Cindy Lou Who and Ruby went as the Grinch. On Tuesday I went to the library with my mum to get some books. I got 2 dairies, 4 bookmarks and 4 books. I loved seeing everyone's costume and I can't wait to go next year.      

Country study

In Room 5 we studied a country. We could choose any country.   I studied Brazil. We had to find out about their traditional clothes, food and sports. Did you know that Brazil has 212,392,717 people?! Here is mine.

Anzac Art

Last week we did Anzac art. This is how we did it so first we coloured in an Anzac picture. Mine was a cross with cool things like flowers. Then we got some paper and glued it on. Then we dyed some paper. The colours were green, pink,  purple,  yellow and blue. All of Room 5 took their Anzac art to assembly and everyone.

Anzac Pamphlets

For Anzac this week, we did Anzac pamphlets. I did my pamphlet with my friend Ella. ANZAC stands for Australia New Zealand Army Corps. Our pamphlet is on New Zealand peace celebration badge.
 When we finished we made pockets for our pamphlets and put the pamphlets on the wall next to the writing wall and on the reading everyone's pockets were red. This is how they turned out.

        

Last week of the term

This week is the last week of school. On Monday the Quokkas performed their play. On Tuesday I went into Room 8 because most people went to touch rugby. On Wednesday we did Mandarin. On Thursday we will watch a movie if we finish cleaning. On Friday I will have a pie for lunch. After school, I RELAX.   

Room 8

Today Me Ella, Allessandra, Justin and Leo are all in Room 8 because most of Room 5 and 6 people are at touch rugby. Room 8 did a science experiment the experiment goes like this you colour the water then you put celery in and then you leave it to set. We did our maths work on Khan Academy and we did an assignment on No Red Ink. Then we did a research project about St Joseph.

animal posters

This week we are doing research on animals and creating posters. My chosen animal was red pandas. My poster looks like this: 

The stuff we have to research is are they endangered, their diet, habitat, looks and about the baby red pandas. Red pandas live in China and Nepal. I really enjoyed and loved learning about it. 
   

Lent

My class did a Lenten promise. My one says I'm going to give up candy and chocolate. It is hard to give up candy and chocolate because I love them and it's so yummy. The Lenten promise ends at Easter and that's when we can eat all the candy and chocolate again.   

 

Mantra

Today we did a mantra. Everyone did a different one. My one looks like this. My one says "Let your smile change the world but don't let the world change your smile." We did a mantra to remind people that their day won't be a total disaster and that they won't have a rain cloud on top of them and that everything you love will come alive in your imagination.       

Orange Day

Today is orange day for Shine Week .Everyone is wearing orange to stop domestic violence. Me and  Ruby were wearing matching clothes. You needed to bring a gold coin donation if you wore orange.     

Shrove Tuesday

Today is Shrove Tuesday. This morning we saw Father Bernard burn the palms from last year's Palm Sunday to become the ashes for Ash Wednesday.  
After lunch Room 5 went to Room 1 to make pancakes. They were amazing. We made pancakes because in the olden days the ingredients would go rotten during Lent so they had to be used up.

       

Sun Smart

 On Friday we were told we were going to do a sun smart poster with 4 or 3 people in a grope. In my group there was Meredith,me,ruby

and Ella. Slip on a t shirt slap on a hat slop on sunscreen wrap on sun glass slide in the shade.I think you should wear sunscreen every time you are in the sun  so please do. 
    

  

SWIMMING SPORTS

Yesterday we had the Connolly swimming sports. they were at west wave pools .I entered the freestyle,relay races breaststroke, and backstroke races .I had the most funnest time ever My favourite part of swimming was the relay races

A POEM

At home, I wrote a poem, and I would like to share it.

I went to the beach it smelt like a peach.
When i got home i found a big stone I
t was shaped as a love heart. 
But it smelt like a dove fart. 
I sat down and ate a tart 
when i finished my tart i threw a dart. 
Then i went up the stairs and found lots of bears.     

Hello! This week was the best first week ever!

 We have done some Waitangi art and made some puzzle pieces to show we are all part of Room 5. My favourite part was the Maori art for Waitangi Day. We also went swimming and the leader ship assembly, naming books and learning new games.