Room 5 2022

We have been learning about symbols and signs of lent and their meanings. Check out our display on the wall to show two symbols and also Carlos making his at home! Can you guess what symbols they are? 

Well done to Jack and Henry for receiving the best batter and best bowler trophies on their final day of cricket!   

Our first blog post written as a class!!  Last week and this week we have been swimming along with the rest of NBC at QE2. We go every day for 2 weeks and we go just after morning tea each day. The girls get changed in the hall and the boys get changed in the toilets.  We walk in a line behind Saffron the line leader, then we walk up the stairs into the bus to greet the bus driver lastly sit down quietly on your seat next to a sensible person.  At swimming, we are learning to swim safely, we are learning to:  - Sculling on our backs  - Floating mushrooms - Rocket ships with our hands in the air behind our ears  - Jump safely into the deep pool.  - Learning how to swim on deep surfaces  - Rolling logs  - Back and arm circles to tread the water to stay afloat  - Dolphin dives  - Safety messages  - Strokes such as backstroke  We learn these things in 3 groups with different instructors. We also now know that the deep pool was...

 Room 5 has had a busy time with lots of creating this week! On Tuesday we started our morning off with some prop making to use in our plays on Wednesday morning. We had lots of fun using funky scissors and different coloured cardboard to create different props for our 'characters'.  In Topic we have been learning about communities, and a few weeks ago we had worked together to create a community called Sparkle Town, so after lunch we created a 3D model of 'Sparkle Town'. We worked either on our own or in pairs to create something from our community with play-dough, and we then shared our creations and put them on the town map. On Wednesday we presented our plays to the class, which was lots of fun. We had been working really hard on learning to read with expression and use body movements to show our characters. Today we finished off some artwork we had started a few weeks ago, when we were writing descriptions about Simba from 'The Lion King'. We created printi...

 Today for Poetry Room 5 learned all about Bob the Hero, who helped to keep his whānau safe by being the lookout. We had lots of fun making our own Meerkats, check out our hardwork!

 Kia ora whānau of Room 5! I am the new teacher intern in Room 5 until the end of the term. I have really enjoyed my first couple of weeks in Room 5, they are such an awesome class to be a part of. All of the students have been so welcoming, and I have enjoyed getting to know them all! Last week we ended the week with some Art, which was a blast and we all had lots of fun. Our focus for writing last week was 'Flying Houses', so we had a go at creating our own using watercolours. Our pictures aren't quite finished, but we will share some photos of the finished artwork once they are done. Ngā mihi India Halsall-Rae Teacher Intern