EOTC Week

EOTC week was fun!

Well done room 5 & 6 for completing a whole week of team challenges.  You survived and showed you are ready for Year 5.

Remember our key words were:
Listening Teamwork Safety.

I was very proud of all of you.

Miss Cowsill

When we got up to the top of  Rangitoto we sang to Tamaki Makaurau and thought that Ponsonby Primary  would hear us singing and lots of other people.

 Jemima

Doing the Technology challenge was challenging 

because we had to make a free standing pole with a flag.

I found it hard to make the pole and the stand.

Louie

While we were waiting to go to Rangitoto we were on the bus excitedly! And all of us had a chinwag about Rangitoto and what was going to happen! 
Layla 

At Point Erin Environmental Art the most hardest thing was climbing up the tree to put the sticks up and finding the right length of sticks. 

Sienna

   

On Wednesday after orienteering we did a Technology challenge where we had to construct a flag post with only the materials you were given . You were not allowed to hold it up! We all found it a challenge.
Myiesha

 

On Monday we went down to Point Erin to do Environmental art. It was such a challenge working well in our team but we all had so much fun.
Arabella    

Room 5 won the basketball

Blog posted by the basketball team.

This week Rm 5 and Rm 6 basketball team won the tournament!
It was a very close and exciting game. At half time the score was 6 all but we managed to win the game with six more and they had two more points. The total score was 12-8.

Firstly, they brought us into the prize giving room.
We put so much effort into the game that we won.    Tom

                                  We all felt so proud, the hardest thing was to try and escape from their defence.  Annabel

  I felt proud of the team and how we played our best, and the hardest thing I thought was stopping the other team from getting the ball.     Hugo

I felt proud of the team because we played well as a team.    Nic

I felt proud of our defence and us scoring  six goals, We need to work on getting better at breaking down their defence.     Zane

I felt amazed that I scored four goals and we won! Awesome!!           Liam

The hardest thing was to escape their defence when we were trying to score but I felt victorious  at the end!. Rocco

Our buddy time

Here we are sharing our sequel to the Three Legged Cat by Margaret Mahy with our buddies!

Athletics 2015 by Hugo Edward and Tiella

On Friday the 6th of November we had athletics at Takapuna 
Athletics Club.  Fortunately, it was a good sunny day.

When we arrived it was all set up for us to start our field events.

We did long jump, high jump, softball throw,and the rest who didn't get in a field event they did activities with Mr Bish.

After the year 6',s and year 5's had done their go at sprinting, it was our go to sprint!

  

Plenty of people from our class got in a final for sprints!
     

   Here are some people who got a certificate.

 This is Bea, Rosa and Gabi with their certificates.

                                              

  Miss Wiley was calling out the events.

   

This is Nic at the finish line about to end the race.

                                                 

Gabi is running, looking straight, and  coming 3rd.

This is 200 meter sprints. You can see that, Rocco, Tom, Edward, Hugo, and Patrick are in the first heat. 

Please add a comment about how your day at athletics day. We would love to hear about how it went.

Taonga/Treasures of Room 5 families

Tena Koutou Ruma Rima,

Welcome back to our last term this year.  I hope you are all rested and ready for lots of exciting learning.  

It was lovely to see Jade doing research in her holiday.  Make sure you read her post. 

 Add a comment about anything you saw  in your holiday which related to our inquiry last term about Culture!  I know that lots of you did see things as you have already told me about them!!

Taonga or Treasures from our families.

Layla brought in a taonga from her culture to show you.  Her grandma is Tongan so she brought in the lovely band which her grandma's friend made out of ribbon.  She also told her that this is worn on special occasions, such as at funerals.  Her next step is to ask her grandma what the band is called.

Here is Layla holding her Tongan treasure.

If you have a family treasure that you would like to share with our class then we would love to see it and learn more about it and you.

All you have to do is :

1. Email a photo of it to me.  
2. Add a comment on to this page to explain what it is and why it is so special to your family.

We can't wait to find out what is special to you. 


Riley's Treasure

Here is Riley dressed in her Jamaican Traditional clothes

Liam's Treasure

This is Liam's grandmother's bracelet.

Louie's Treasure

A family tree for my Dad’s mother’s family. Her name is Catherine Agnes De Latour. She grew up in Point Wells. Her parents were French. her mother was blind. The family tree goes back to the 12th Century in France.

Anna's treasure

My treasure is a Scottish Clan badge. It says on the box from the lonely sheiling of the misty island mountains divide us and a waste of seas yet still the blood is strong. The heart is highland and we in dreams behold the Hebrides.... A.Peters

Beas's treasure

This is my Great Great Grandad's sewing box. It's a treasure because it has been restored and passed down to my mum for her birthday and she will give it to one of us some day. Bea

Edward's treasure
My family's treasure is a bat which my dad scored 356 runs in one game also he did not get out also it is one of the highest scores in New Zealand.

                                          Sofia's treasure

This is a picture of my historic bach it is important to my family because,

1. It was built in 1852 it is one of the oldest houses in the county.

2. it has only belonged to 3 other families in over 150 years since my dad bought it

3. my dad says that it will stay in our family as long as possible.

4. my great grandad is a builder he built the dormer windows.

                                     Sienna's Treasures

                                     


                                       Gabi's treasure

          This is a picture of Gabi’s great great great great grandfather’s retirement watch, dated 1872.

Tom's Treasure

Read his comment.


Here is Roman's treasure.
He has attached the  important letter which was sent to his grandad to explain more about this beautiful taonga.

Kia Ora Paul
The Maori Weapon / Tool  gifted to you is a Tuku Rangatira . A gift to an esteemed Chief in acknowledgement for the services rendered to our people .
Services that protected us with the Rangatira prowess of strength  , Determination , skill  and conducted above all with honour.
The Toki Poutangata ( Greenstone Adze ) was a very important tool in Maori Society and was used in every day life as much as it was in time of war.
To Maori ,  items of this ilk are gifted only infrequently . They are a bond between your Whanau and ours in the acknowledgement of your Mana used in protecting us and advancing us . This Token signifies more than money  . It represents an acknowledgement of some of the better attributes of humanity.
The Toki is fashioned from the fruits of Papatuanuku ( Mother Earth )  and Ranginui (Father Sky ) . The effigy at the front of the Toki represents one of their Children Tumatauenga ( God of War )
The carving on the Toki weaves this connectivity through the tale of Whakapapa  . The Toki is a symbol of Strength and provision of defence and the ability to support productive outcomes .
It is right that your Mokopuna reflect on this  Whanau Taonga ( Family Treasure )   because it tells in one gesture the Mana of his Grandfather which he must pass on.
John


Annabel's treasure

My family treasure is a little rabbit. The rabbit was knitted by my great great great grandmother. It is special to my family because it has been in my family for a very long time.

Jade's Museum trip

Jade's museum trip

On the seventh of the tenth I went to the Auckland museum. Here is some information about waka:

At the bottom of a waka taua there are sticks tied together.

Can you see where the sticks are tied together?

On the bottom of the sides there are patterns.

It is the Pohoro. (It means speedy)

This is hoe the Maori use them in there waka taua 

This is the pattern Pohoro

This is the ancestor on the waka taua

It has paua shell for the eyes.




Now lets get on to the fishing waka

This is a fishing waka as you can see the bottom of the the waka, has no sticks at the bottom like the waka taua.



This waka does not have sticks because it needs more space.

Here is the hoe for the  fishing waka

Reuben Paterson styled hoe and tipare written by Riley and Roman

For our art this term we have been making and painting glittery hoe and tipare based from a famous artist that uses glitter on his paintings!

This is Roman's wonderful hoe with glitter on it.

1.  We started off by cutting two hoe shapes out of card. 
2.  We got our glad wrap rolls and lay it down around the bottom of the one of piece of card.
3.  We got sheets of newspaper and rolled them into balls and placed them on top of the piece of card with the glad wrap roll.
4. We got a long strip of card and stuck it on with sticky tape. 
5. We placed the other piece of card on top of the strip card and taped it on as well.
6. We cut the end of the strip of card off the base of the hoe.
7. We placed another piece of card on the other side of the base of the hoe.
8. We then taped it on to the hoe.
9. We taped the glad wrap roll on to the hoe.
10. We then got out some wallpaper paste and mixed it with some water. 
11. We ripped up strips of newspaper to stick onto the hoe. 
12. We got the wallpaper paste and strips of newspaper and started to dip the newspaper into the paste and then carefully placed the gooey newspaper on the hoe.
13. We completely covered the hoe with newspaper.
14. We let the hoe dry.
15. We repeated the process.
16. We let the hoe dry.
17. We repeated the process but this time with paper towels.
18. We let the hoe dry.
19. We painted the hoe with white paint.
20. We let the paint dry.
21. We got out our designs to sketch our designs onto the hoe with glue tack underneath.
22. We used black vivid to go over the pencil lines.
23. We used metallic paint to colour in the vivid lines.

24. We let it dry.

25. We  put PVA on and sprinkled it with matching glitter.

Finally we had finished and we used them on stage in the school show.  'Te Whakatere' 

Ruma 5 descriptive writing and characters

Stories About Reading Characters

Post by Patrick and Rocco and Tom 

We are learning to describe a character in different ways. We made our descriptions more interesting by using lots of adjectives, adverbs, similes and good verbs. After writing these we used our characters and put them into stories. Some wrote fairy tales and others wrote legends.

If you get a chance bring your parents in and show them your book.

                 

                                

Meet Rocco's evil dragon called Michael.

 

Here is Patrick's story about a lazy dragon.

 

  Come in and read Bea's book and find out who Kiwa's new mate is.

In Troy's book you can read about the Crocodile's Christmas slippers.

Sienna's story about Kiwa, the whale, tells you how he found his mate.

In Jade's book you can read a legend about how Rakiura (Stewart Island) came to be.

Maori Instrument Workshop

Written by Anna and Aimee

On Friday Ruma Rima got to learn about Maori tools and instruments with a person who studies about Maori musical tools. His name is Mr Handler.

Mr Handler told us that if you blow the taonga puoro at the end it sounds like two voices depending on how you blow. And if you blow on the top it sounds like a female voice. When you blow from the middle it sounds like babies. Ruma Rima got look at the Maori instruments he had made.

Tom holding the double flute.

Aimee holding a normal cocoon flute.

Rocco holding the Ancestor flute

He also told us about some rope that is made from the heart of the flax bush (harakeke). You use the rope to make the adze.The rope ties on the stick and stone. If the stone is loose you put it in water to tighten it.

Mr Handler drilling.

He made a drill out of sticks, some rope and a stone, and one 

other very sharp stone.

We got to make music in groups using:

• shells
• river stones
• Totara and Kauri sticks