Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu Introduction to Room Nine

This term we are sharing our learning and ideas with 3 other classes around New Zealand.  We are in a programme called Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu that creates blog groups. We are looking forward to seeing, reading and commenting on work these classes are doing and having them do the same for us. We will have an audience for our work, and practise writing comments that are meaningful to others. The other classes in our group are on the right hand side of our class blog. They are from Auckland, Paparoa and Paihia. 

Our class contains 26 Year 5 and 6 students and is in a school that geographically sits in the middle of Auckland City. We are a very cosmopolitan class that works really well together. Our overall theme for the year is Integrity and our School Value is Respect. These two attributes are important in our learning and personal journey's and are areas we continue to reflect on and talk about.
The following slideshow is a brief introduction to who we are......

Electricity and Circuits

Charlotte checking the plans and examples. 

Along with the two other classes in our syndicate, we spent Monday afternoon checking out Brain Box circuitry kits. Our focus this term continues to be Electricity with Integrity as the over arching theme. We will look into circuits and what the necessary components to make a circuit work are. Our target is to design and create a toy or gadget that has a circuit in it in some way!

Zoe looking at what needs to be connected. 

We had an excellent time collaborating with two other students from different classes. We also used our ipads to photograph each circuit we did so we can create thinglinks that discuss the relevance of each part in the circuit. The questioning, thinking, and conversations were awesome and no one really wanted to stop when the cars started rolling into the play ground, indicating 3 o'clock was close.   

Sifa enjoying getting the right links to get
his circuit to create sounds

Storm unpacking and labelling the different components. 

Caroline photographing the circuits they created. 

Hanging Fog and the Green wall Disappears

Fog hung over school all day in the last week of term. This was the school yard at 5pm in the evening. Students enjoyed playing in the eerie stillness.

Early one foggy Saturday morning a large yellow digger came in to remove the green wall on the edge of the court. Space was being made for the new classrooms to come in. Soon Rooms 7 and 8 and 9 will all be in one large ILE (Innovative Learning Environment) on the eastern boundary of the field. 

Video of some of the wall coming down. Dancing Digger. 

 By Izzy 

 Reading Slideshows 

By Joyce

Students have been reading novels in class and answered several different questions to create a slideshow about the book they were reading. These two girls are committed to their learning and have finished their work quickly.  Click on their names to link to their work.  They have both researched extra information on themes that are in the book Crown Park by Des Hunt,
a great New Zealand writer.


More slideshows will be shown on students independent blogs when Room 9 start to blog for
themselves. We have been working on Limelight by Tania Roxborough and Store Trek by Kate Foxlee

Poems about Camp

Muriwai Camp Acrostic Poems 

Acrostic poems are a great way to get all kinds of feelings, thoughts, experiences and opinions down for others to read. Using the different experiences we had we wrote poems about that topic. 

Anti- Bullying Week.

Anti- Bullying Week.

Caroline used a classic
stop symbol and cut some
of the lettering

Sadie used strong colour
and large font

Back in May we did lots of work around Anti-bullying. We designed t-shirts for our walls throughout the school. Here are some examples from Room 9. We thought about grabbing the viewer's attention with different elements like colour, font colour and size, illustrations, symbols or signs and phrases etc.

       

Benson used 3 colours all
with important meaning 

Charlotte used quotes from
Dr Seuss  that were relevant
to the message

We also read a book by Tim Tipene called Bullies and Warriors

Dora had an excellent set of responses to the book 

 
 
 

More Camp Pics

Muriwai Camp Fun Times Challenging Ourselves 

What an amazing bunch of girls we had on camp this year. They all got out there and had a blast, challenging
themselves and managing themselves with Integrity and Respect.

Wild and Wacky Wheels Day

The Friday before camp as a final fundraiser, Waikowhai School held a Wild and Wacky Wheels Day. Room 9 helped with the organisation and also 'played' a great deal. We had bikes, unicycles, scooters, skateboards, trolley boards, roller blades, remote control cars and toy cars. For those without wheels there were stilts to master and moon hoppers to enjoy.  There were lots
                                                         of skills being shown off as well as being picked up new on the
                                                         day. Our biking training earlier in the year was being put into                                                                  good practise.

                                               

Toby could do all kinds of tricks on his bike and taught the other bike students a few things.

Zoe successfully managed the stilts with her friends and races were set up.

The new school trolley boards were a great success as they could create a train of children, be rolled down the hill, used liked roller skates and spun around on.

                                      

Houghton's Bush Camp at Muriwai

 Room Nine along with Rooms Seven and Eight headed out to Muriwai for 4 days. The weather buffeted and blustered and blew, but the students rose to the challenge of doing it all in the wind and rain, thunder and lightning, and still had a great time.  They showed perseverance, bravery, integrity and respect to the peers and the adults that were responsible for them. Many pushed boundaries to achieve success. A huge ka pai to them for making camp so much fun.

                                                                   We walked Goldie Bush Walkway from Horseman Rd off Bethells Rd to Constable Rd near Muriwai, checking out the waterfalls, crossing a cool swing bridge and tackling a multitude of steep stairs going down and then of course rising back up. The following day we headed to the beach and the Gannet nesting area. On our third day we used the confidence course at camp, went orienteering and created bivouacs. At night we tackled the Burma Trail hidden in the trees with and without our torches and held a camp concert.                                                    

We have so many photos and experiences to share with our families and friends over the next few weeks.