Reading at home

The race is on to fill up our reading at home chart in Room 22.

A good way to do that at home is to read books from this website.  If you read a story and have told someone about what happened (or read it with someone) then write it in your notebook and get it signed and bring it to class!

http://www.sunshineonline.com.au/

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Flight

Our topic this term is flight.  We are specifically focusing on our kite and the story behind it, but there are also many other ways we could think about flight.

Have a look and see what we thought of.  If you like you can add your own (but add your name so we can credit you with the idea!).

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Hard work and deliveries!

Today Miss J got a delivery of brand new basketballs, netballs, soccer balls and rugby balls.  They were sitting in boxes and she needed us to count them to make sure they were all there.  Then she tried to make us do writing - and well that wasn't as exciting as all the new PE gear.  So we made a deal - as long as we finished our writing and publishing we were allowed to pump up all the balls.  We had such a busy morning but we all finished what we needed to.  Miss J let us play with the basketballs outside - just to make sure they worked properly!!

Kruz and Jahvarn working hard

Unique, Afizah and Amy finishing their publishing

 Brianna, Meleana and Tina being productive

Victoria, Ella, Natalie, Tiana and Charlotte pumping

 Ayush and Anaru 

 Testing to see if the basketballs worked...turns out they are awesome!

Kapo Kapo Festival!

This week 42 Year 5 and 6 students headed off on a plane down to Wellington to perform at the Kapo Kapo festival.  They have been practising all year, and now they get to show off all their hard work.

 Here is the video showing performance #1 - prepared to be amazed!

 See if you can spot all the Titans!

Collaboration

We found out today that we might get a chance to interview Sir Graham Henry tomorrow.


Our first activity of the day was to discover who we might be interviewing.  Miss J cut up a jigsaw for us and we worked in 5 teams to sort out the mystery.  We discovered that it was Sir Graham.

We recognised his face but we didn't really know too much about him.

Our second job of today was to work together to find out all of the facts we could about him.  Some of R21 had never worked collaboratively in google docs before so it was cool to show them what to do.

Here are our list of facts:

Bye Miss Anderson

Today was the last day of Miss Anderson's practicum.  She has been with us for 5 weeks.  We made this video to show how grateful we are that she worked so hard for us!

Bye Miss A!

Techno Titans

What stuck with me today?

In reading I found out about migration and predators (Ayush)

Today I learnt about asthma.  I learnt that bronchial tubes tighten up and get swollen when you have an asthma attack (Raukawa)

Today I learnt how to do a Cook Island dance (Sela)

Today I had the most delicious hearty beef stew for lunch from Feed the Need (Amy)

I learnt that the WAikato River goes for 425km (Rawiri)

I learnt how to do place value up to 1000 and use it for subtraction (Anaru)

Miss Anderson taught me how to do partitioning (Victoria)

In maths I learnt how to use a number line to do subtracting (Jahvarn)

In reading I learnt about migration (Christian)

Today I learnt how to play stink in maths.  I liked it because I got good points (Kruz)

WE went to visit Harold.  I learnt about the kidneys (Kimiora)

I did my student profile sheet with Delphine.  I knew heaps of my knowledge (Merekara)

The strongest muscle is your tongue (Rhys)

The bigest muscle is your bum cheek muscles (Russia)

I learnt that the kidneys clean your blood (Sanford)

Today I learnt more dance moves for our Wellington trip (Meleana)

I learnt more about the human body than anything else today (Connor)

I learnt about you should have a shower every day or else bacteria grows and you smell (Unique)

I learnt that you have 2 kidneys and they clean your blood and the bad stuff goes out with your wee (Tiana)

In reading I learnt new words like irresistable and harrowing (Wyntah)

Today I learnt that you use the puffer and a spacer if someone has an asthma attack (Tina)

Today I learnt how animals migrate by using the sun (Afizah)

Today I went to Life Education and I met Harold (Neha)

Today I learnt about how you breathe (Tane)

Today I learnt that you need lots of sleep and it gives you energy for the next day (Jodeci)