Milk

The children are enjoying having a carton of milk each day.
We have monitors who love giving out the milk each day to the other children.
Room 5 are now very clever, and can fold the carton so that it looks like a life jacket.

They are then sent back to Fonterra, where they are recycled. Did you know that they are made into roof tiles houses and books for children who don't have any?!

We have been learning to use Show Me to teach others. Listen to the steps that you need to take when you are drinking your milk:




  

Bike Track

Room 5 are so excited to hop on a bike and go on the new bike track.

We have been writing stories and talking about how lucky we are to have a bike track at our school!!!
Have a read of two fantastic stories by Mya and Blair

Welcome to 2014

Welcome to Room 5

We have had a great start to the year. Room 5 has 13 boys and 10 girls.

We are all getting to know each other and the children are working hard at establishing our class routines.

Our focus this term is all about ME and the children have enjoyed sharing their knowledge of their family with the class.

Swimming has got off to a great start and the children are keen to show off their water skills.

One of our goals this term is to work on Managing Ourselves before school, on the mat and working at our tables.

Room 5 have settled well, and are ready for an exciting Learning Journey.

Haere Ra from Room 5

Welcome to Term 4.
This term our Inquiry Topic is Space. Our big question is " What's going on out there in space?"
Here are some the things we have learnt.
The sun is a star.
We live on the planet earth.
There are 9 planets.
Earth has liquid on it.
Saturn had rings around it.
Earth has one moon.
We are excited about our learning journey.
From Room 5.

Our Inquiry Topic this term is Space. Our big question is What's going on out there in space?
So far we have found out that the sun is a star.
We live on the planet called earth.
Some planets have rings around them.
There is a moon in space.
Mars has more than one moon.
There are nine planets.
The planets are in the solar system.
By Rooms5 and 4.

Room 5 have been using digital photography to create our name using objects in the classroom.
We used counters, teddy bears and crayons.

For Art today we constructed a clowns face. We coloured and cut out the clowns hair, mouth, nose, eyes, eye brows and bow tie. We put the clown face over our face. We think our clown are very colourful.

We have been learning to manage ourselves by putting our book bag in our tray and taking our chair down.
We know how to sit on the mat with our arms folded and our legs crossed.
We work quietly at our tables when we are writing our story, doing our handwriting and worksheets.

Room  5's Bus.
Here we are in the bus that we made to go to the Faraday Centre and the Napier Library.
The photos were taken in the bus, then we printed them and put them in the windows of the bus.
We like seeing our photos in the bus windows.

Our WOW Factor in Room 5 are WHEELS as our Inquiry topic this term is Road Safety and Move It.
We will be going to the Faraday Centre to see lots of wheels.