Raps: Sir Edmund Hillary and Lord Rutherford of Nelson

Today we completed our raps.
We hope you enjoy these!

Here are our lyrics:

Sir Edmund Hillary Rap

By James and Joseph

Sir Edmund Hillary was born in Auckland

He was being chased by climbers up the mountain

He was wise and famous until he died

he didn’t give up, he just tried

So whatever you do,

Just don’t give up,

like Sir Edmund Hillary.

He just kept climbing

and if you see him on the $5 note,

make sure you say hello.

Lord Rutherford Of Nelson Rap

By Olly, Jonte and Daniel

Hey everybody have you heard of a man

His name is Ernest Rutherford, (Dan..)

He split an atom in half

By throwing other atoms in its path.

An atom is the smallest bit of something

It has lots of rays of energy, (sing..)

Ernest of Nelson, first man on earth

We all know what he is worth

($100 bill, yo!)

He really was quite smart,Ernest is the WISEst learner

He persevered and worked it out

And showed us all his heart.

Sir Edmund Hillary Rap

By Peni and Alex

Here are some things you probably don’t know

About Edmund Hillary, yo

He climbed Mount Everest with his friend Tenzing

Here is his message:

Never give up

If you climb that mountain

You’ll probably need Fresh Up

He was born in 1919

He died aged 88

Always try new things

That’s why he’s on the $5 note

Yeah, yeah, Edmund Hillary, yeah, yeah, Edmund Hillary

EDMUND…HILLARY

Thank you for listening to our rap about Edmund…Hillary

Our Final WISE Time

Today Room 5 and 6 hosted their final WISE Time with the Junior School. All the children wrote amazing speeches of their memories over the past three years. It was wonderful to see Te Wharekauri, Cerys and Jackson present their speeches to the whole Junior team. They spoke so well! Alexis and Peni also confidently presented their mihi.

Fantastic effort Room 5! It was wonderful to hear all those wonderful memories. I am going to miss you all so much!
From Miss C

Lord Rutherford of Nelson

Here is a video made by a group of us who were researching Lord Rutherford of Nelson who is on our $100 note. We hope you enjoy it!

Sir Apirana Ngata...

We have been working hard at completing our raps and videos for our inquiries into the famous New Zealanders on our bank notes. Today the Apirana Ngata group completed their rap. They wrote the lyrics and then recorded it on Garageband. We hope you enjoy it!

Here are our lyrics:

The Sir Apirana Ngata Rap

By Te Wharekuri, Jackson, Lilly, Emerson, Roslyn and Hunter

Hey everybody have you ever heard 

Of a man called Apirana Ngata?

He was born in 1874

And he died 76 years after

Not many were smarter

Than Apirana Ngata

The first New Zealander to get a double degree

At Canterbury University,

Publishing a book about Maori culture

Showed the way for the future

After constructing many meeting houses

He promoted sports, kids off their couches

Did you know Apirana was the third Maori to be knighted?

On the $50 note he will be sighted

Apirana was a real WISE learner, yes he was!

Our Awesome Kapahaka Team...

Yesterday our Kapahaka team performed. This team included many children from Room 5 who demonstrated commitment and enthusiasm over the past two terms. Their hard work paid off today with an amazing performance. Miss Meaclem and myself are SO proud of you and all the others in our team!
Miss Cousins

Kate Sheppard...

Art Gallery Lesson

Today we were lucky enough to have a wonderful teacher from the Christchurch Art Gallery come in to Room 5 and teach us how to  make cool Christmas decorations with modelling clay. We made our own and then painted and put glitter on them. They will dry over night.

Mr WISE's Adventures in Auckland today...

Our Opinions of the Uncontacted Tribe in the Amazon

Today the BFG reading group read a book about a blogger who wrote a blog about a tribe that had never ever seen anyone else before. They lived in the Amazon rain forest in Brazil. One day a plane flew over top and saw them. Have a read of our opinions in the comments section below...

Some More Entertaining Puppet Pal videos written by Room 5!

Halswell Domain...

Today we had so much fun at Halswell Domain!

More Puppet Pals Videos...

Here is a super story written by Daniel...

Crazy Hair Day!

Today we had a Crazy Hair day to raise money for the RSPCA.
Check out our cool hairstyles!

Our Puppet Pals Videos..

After planning, writing, recrafting and proofreading our very own versions of The Three Little Pigs, we turned our stories into videos using the Puppet Pals app. We hope you enjoy this first one, by Anahera, and there are many more to come!

Puppet Pals!

Today some of us started publishing our narratives on Puppet Pals. It is fun but we have had to restart lots and lots of times while we figure out the best way to read our story and move our characters and backdrops (settings) at the same time. Emerson had the idea to work together with a buddy so that one can read it and the other can move the characters. We will let you know how it goes next week!

How Heavy? How Light?

Today we compared our school bags. We wanted to know whose bag was the heaviest and whose bag was the lightest. We are learning about how heavy a kilogram is. By Te Wharekauri

Fractions Party!

Fractions Party!

Fractions Party!

On Friday we had our Fractions Party with our maths interchange classes. It was fun dividing up the food! We split some food into halves, thirds, quarters, fifths, eighths and even sixteenths!!

Kiwiana Calendar Art

Today we (almost) completed our awesome artwork for our calendars. They look fantastic!
We are looking forward to our Fractions Party tomorrow.

Athletics

Well done to all the children for their fantastic effort in the long distance and sprint races this week. They all practised so well and tried their hardest. Congratulations also to the children who earned placings: Emerson, Jackson, Te Wharekauri, James, Anahera and Ilea.

Making Music

Making Music

Making Music!

This afternoon we started our music topic. We got into groups and made sounds with objects in the room. Then we recorded symbols on a piece of paper so that we could remember what sounds we wanted and how many of each sound. We have not finished yet but check out this one group that has...

Dog Safety

Funny Performers!

Today we also enjoyed watching and listening to half of the BFG reading group perform their play. They were very funny! We're looking forward to the rest of the groups performing tomorrow.

Our Final Fabric Experiment

Today we also did our final fabric experiment. This time we did it as a class with a fabric expert, Ms Lang. We tested to see which fabrics burnt the quickest and the slowest. We now know that nylon and polyester melt and burn very quickly.

Our Self-Portraits, Van Gogh Style

Today we finished our funky self-portraits. Vincent Van Gogh painted many self-portraits in his lifetime.

'Sunflowers' by Room 5 (inspired by Vincent Van Gogh)

Here are some of our completed masterpieces!

Our "Sunflowers" Paintings

Today we painted our versions of Vincent Van Gogh's famous painting 'Sunflowers'. We used small brushstrokes like he did.

Fabric And Fibre Experiment 2

This afternoon we did our second Fabric and Fibre experiment. Our aim was to see which fabric would wear out the slowest.

Junior Cricket Lesson

This morning we were lucky to have Toby from Canterbury Cricket here to teach us some catching skills.

Our Results

Fabric and Fibre Experiment 1

Fabric and Fibre Experiment 1

The Amazing Starry Night Paintings

We are getting really good at doing the Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh. Today we are painting the stars and the wind. By Daniel

Tennis Coaching

Tennis Coaching

Today we were lucky enough to have Ian and Shane here to teach us some tennis skills. We are looking forward to our last lesson tomorrow.

Room 5's Starry Night Paintings

Photo by Alex.

Room 5's Starry Night Painting

In Room 5 we are making our starry night skies. We made it by mixing blues. By Alex.

Our Science Experiment Results

By Peni and Emerson

Our Science Experiment

Our Science Experiment

Today we started a science experiment to see what would happen to water and the three primary colours that we put in cups. Firstly we put water in two cups and some drops of food colouring into each one. Then we put an empty cup in the middle. Finally we folded two paper towels and folded one each into each cup. We then all came up with an hypothesis (which is a prediction). We will find out on Monday what has happened!
Some of our hypotheses were:

1. The colour would go up the two outside cups and then end up in the middle cup as a secondary colour.
2. The water and colour would go into the middle cup and make a yucky colour in the middle.
3. The colour would jump along all three cups.

Welcome...

Welcome to Room 5's first ever blog! Here you can find out the happenings of our awesome class.