School is COOL!

Room 5 very carefully and patiently made this entry for the 2011 School is Cool Competition.

We hope you like it!

Discovery Time - Thinking K4S

Today was our very first session of Discovery Time.
Today we were focusing on the Thinking part of the K4S and our session was all about Making Connections.

These were the activities Rachel set up for us:

• Play-doh
• Big Blocks
• Puzzles
• Toys
• Crazy Caterpillar
• Brain Teasers

We got to choose which activities we worked at. We had to keep the K4S of thinking in our head the whole time. We had to think about how we were doing the activity and what else we could do. We got to do as many activities as we liked.

"My favourite activity was big blocks. I had to think about how to make a kingdom" - Fynn

"I liked doing play-doh. I had to think about what I was going to make" - Callum

"I liked playing with the toys. I had to think about what they would say to each other" - Devansh

"I liked doing the crazy caterpillar. I had to think about carefully putting the marble on his hands" - Maria

"I liked the puzzles because they were fun. I had to think about which piece would go in the right place" - Regan



To learn more about Discovery Time, take a look here

Term 1 Reflection

We talked about what we have been doing in Term 1 so far this year.

Look at all the things we have been doing and learning about!

We have had lots of fun doing all of these things.

(Click on the picture if you want to see it bigger)

Our Term 1 reflections:

• I have enjoyed using the maths play-doh this term because we get to know how to do our numbers around the right way - Brooke
• I have enjoyed doing reading because I am getting much better - Connor
• I have enjoyed playing with the play-doh because I like making our spelling words with it - Hayden
• I have enjoyed icing and decorating our biscuits for our Friday Treat - Janison
• I have enjoyed playing maths games because I like them, I can get smarter - Hamish
• I like going on Mathletics because I get heaps of credits - Nicole
• I have been on Mathletics, I get to learn more numbers - Nathanael
• I liked learning about fires and being Firewise - Regan
• I liked being the Star of The Day because I get a certificate - Mana

Buddy Headshots

Today we used the digital camera to take a 'headshot' of our buddy. A headshot is a photo that shows the face/head, neck and shoulders of a person. We are going to use our photos on our responsibilities chart. In pairs, we needed to carefully take a picture of our buddy that showed:

• All of their head & face


• Their neck


• Just the top of their shoulders

Take a look at the slideshow below to see some of the photos we took.

Do you think we achieved our success criteria?

Room 5 Independent Headshot Photos on PhotoPeach

Our Digital Camera

We are learning how to use our class digital camera.

We started by talking about all the parts of the camera with a buddy after looking at some giant photos of our digital camera. Then we did a think-pair-share activity and told some other people in our class what we thought the parts of the camera were. When we discussed them as a class and we labelled them in yellow on our 'big camera'.

Next, we talked about what the different parts of the camera did and why they were important. We labelled these in blue on our 'big camera'.

We know that:

• You shouldn't put your fingers near the lens as it is the 'eye' of the camera
• You can press the 'playback' button if you want to look at your photos
• The zoom button can help you to see something closer up
• There is a button to switch between taking photos and movies on our camera
• We need to put the lanyard around our neck when using the digital camera.

Here are some photos of everything we learned:

Bubbles, Bubbles, Bubbles!

"Today we blew bubbles on the field."

- Maria

"Today Room 5 blew bubbles.

We blew them on the field.

It was fun.

I blew bubbles.

My table had a turn."

- Devansh

"Today Room 5 blew bubbles and we had to be in groups.

My whole table had a turn."

- Janison

"Today we blew bubbles with my group.

The bubbles were big."

- Nathanael

"Today we blew bubbles on the field.

I blew large bubbles.

It was fun.

I blew some circle bubbles."

- Hamish

"Today we blew some bubbles.

I had fun."

- Callum

National Silence - Remembering Christchurch

Today at 12:51pm we thought about Christchurch and all the many families and children affected by the earthquake that happened exactly a week ago.

We talked about how sad some of the people will be at this time and thought of how their houses and jobs will be affected and possibly ruined.

Just before 12:51pm the whole school gathered on the field and made a giant circle.

There we had our 2 minutes of silence.

Thinking of you all in Christchurch,

From Room 5 <3

An amazing Room 5

Take a look and see what we think makes an amazing Room 5!!
We brainstormed what our awesome class would look like, sound like and feel like.

Now we just need to work to get it that way :)

We are Room 5!

What a great start it has been to 2011 with Room 5!

Take a look at all the cool drawings we did of ourselves below.




We have been doing some graphing.
Did you know there are more boys than girls in our class?