Room 5 have had the opportunity to be teachers over the past week. Since almost half of our class knows how to use iMovie, we've taken that knowledge and let them have a go at being the teacher. On Wednesday afternoon, Room 10 joined our class, and were paired up with our 10 experienced iMovie-makers. These teams of two had a chance to … [Read more...]
Book Reviews by Room 5
On book week Tamati and Mere made a book review we had to choose a fiction book and read it to see what it was all about. The next step was to make a plan of a review from the book we read, in our plan we had information like the title, the author, characters, the setting and of course our favourite part in the story. We also had to … [Read more...]
Descriptive Writing
This term for writing our focus was on descriptive writing. We learnt about the recount trap and how to be careful not to fall into it while we are in the descriptive lane. In other words try not to use past tense words in a descriptive piece of writing. We all try real hard to paint a picture in the reader s mind as we read in to them. … [Read more...]
Teeth for Tex Rex Comprehension Questions
Room 5 has been looking at understanding comprehension question as we prepare for our upcoming AsTTLe reading assessments. We looked at the different kinds of questions there are, and what makes them different. As a part of this, each of the 4 groups in our class were given a piece of text, and from that asked to work together to create a … [Read more...]
Sports Class Spy – Room 5′s first video
Our first class movie - how exciting! On Friday Papa Jim took us for sport. We practiced throwing a Frisbee and using a parachute, which involved working together as a team. On Tuesday, Gemma, Jahzara and Bryn had a go on iMovie using the video clips Miss Clarke took. They were asked to make the clips as interesting and entertaining as … [Read more...]
Room 5 Homework Feature
For homework in Room 5, we’ve been focusing on describing a moment in time as we lead up to Asttle, to get in a little bit of extra practice making a plan, grouping ideas into paragraphs and using really juicy descriptive language to really paint a clear picture in the readers’ mind and make them feel like they are in that moment. Here … [Read more...]
Have a Go Surf Day
On Tuesday 20th of October, year 5-8 went surfing at 90mile beach a team of surfers came to teach us how to surf. We got divided into 2 groups. 1 group went out surfing first while the other group went to play touch on the sand. When we finished playing touch we went up to the club to have lunch, when we finished our lunch the other … [Read more...]
Using technology to Improve our Performance
Dance practice is full force in Room 5! We are fortunate to work with Nadia on Tuesdays, and we've come a long way in the first few weeks. She videoed our performance and we watched ourselves on the iPhone. Then we chatted about the things that we could change, and had another go making those … [Read more...]
Room 5 Online!
Welcome! We are so excited to be able to bring learning opportunities online in Room 5 and at Ahipara School. This is the start of some really great and authentic reading, writing and communication between our class, whanau and the rest of the world. Here's a quick summary of what we're up to in our learning for Term 4: Reading: Topic … [Read more...]