TERM 4

Term 4 has started of really fun! We have been learning how to draw tikis with Mr Power and all of us are really good!

We have also been busy drawing and painting our potraits. Most of us have finished them now and they are going to be put on the wall.

A few weeks ago the year 6 people had the year 6 porwhiti at broadgreen intermediate. They were welcomed by the broadgreen kapa haka. Then Nayland sang tutera mai na iwi. The year 6 students were shown around broadgreen and had to hongi the broadgreen kids.

In writing we've been writing pick a path stories. They can be about anything! First, we plan them on popplet. Then we write them and publish them.

We would like more comments posted on the blog please
bye!

basketball update

Hey guys its Jack.

Just updating with our basketball team. We have just won the semi finals by two points and are now in the finals. We are really nervous and hope we will win. Helen from the office has been a great help to our team. Our coach toni has also helped a lot. We really appreciate it. The team has improved with layups and passes ALOT! In our team is
Jack
Casey
Ashley
Tyler
Kaitlin
Nat
Sarah
and James Alen
Year 5 and 6 can join the team and the games are played at the Jack Robins stadium in Stoke.
Ps - the schools record shot is held by Zykiel in room 5. he shot from half court and it went in!

Science Fair

Only a few days left until Nayland Primary Science Fair! We are all very excited and cannot wait to show off our entries and watch the exciting experiments that are being performed on the open night. We have been busy putting the finishing touches to our display boards.

Our experiments and projects are all so different!

We have just given our variety show performance. It took weeks of practice to get it all ready but everyone was so good and we had lots of great comments about it,

Term 1 ends

This term has gone quickly because it already the end of the first term. Room 5 has done a lot this term, we have learnt how to break-dance, we are making a book based on Roald Dahl's The Enormous Crocodile, we have done art work based on Ralph Hotere, we have been learning two songs in class Ho Hey by The Loomineer's and I'm Yours by Jason Mraz, graffiti, learnt about our class' harakeke and much more.

holidays

Hi! I'm Susi!
In a couple of weeks, i'll be going to Germany to see my family again!!!!!
I will leave on the 28th of April.
I heard that it takes about 24 hours just to get there, so we will stop at San Francisco.
When we are there, we will get to go pony riding, shop for chocolate, and we will look for this very cute little toy owl.
We've been looking for it for about 2 years.
Thank you for reading this!
By Susi

swimming

for term one room 5 have been learning to dive into the pool of  the diving board.



it has been a good time and the weather has been great we had lots of fun

ApplE corE group

Hi its Casey



The applE corE group includes Me Daniel Lily and Nat.
The crew are going to fix up the blog so we can

SHOW LEARNING

MAKE LEARNING HAPPEN

CELEBRATE LEARNING

The crew hope you have a good time.


BYE.

Bell Work

When the bell goes in the morning we race into class and we get our whiteboards and whiteboard pens out and we write down our spelling words either linking or not linking. Once we have finished our spelling words we get out our hand-writing books and our teacher Mr. Deacon writes down one word from each of the three lists and we have to link the words three times on each line.

Here are my words for today

Library, safety and swimming.

cyber safety.

In class we have been learning about cyber safety. here are our top 5 ...
1. dont put personal information online.
2. choose approved websites.
3.dont meet people online.
4.If you see something inappropriate minimize or close lid then tell a teacher.
5.dont click ads or pop ups.

Welcome to 2013

Welcome to Room 5s Blog for 2013. We are going to celebrate learning, show learning and do learning on our blog. The applE corE group for room 5 are Nat, Daniel, Lily and Casey.

on Tuesday Levi and Bracken and Reben went to the bp tec we crated a fishing rod and hit and run and a gabber

Calender Art

This is our Calender Art. In this photo is Hayden and Eli. We each did our own Calender masterpiece and we used Cotton buds,Indian ink,Coloured dye,Black crayons and White crayons. It was based on a Photo and a Myth we were learning about.

Eva's exciting news and success

During Te Wiki o te Teo Maori all of Room 5 wrote descriptive stories to enter a special competition. Our stories needed to include Te Reo Maori as well. If your were a Year 4 you needed to write about your favorite thing a tresure/taonga. Your 5/6 wrote about their favorite place. Eva came second in the Year 5/6 section and won a $100.00 warehouse for herself and $500.00 worth of books for our Nayland Primary. Tu meke Eva!

Speech's

Thursday 30 august 2012 Man it's the speech finals already Sophie and I got in, it was in Room 2 on the 30th August 2012. My speech was about Greece I was so nervous I was about to be sick. It started around 9:30am on the dot all the speech finalist got to sit on chairs. The audience sat on the mat. I felt royality.My mum came to watch me I felt very proud to be a speech finalist. The 1st speaker set a very high bench mark I went 2nd. By Hamish.

speech comp

On the 6th of September Dania and Emma from Room 1 went to the Stoke Inter School Speech Competition. It must of been really hard choosing just one winner.Dania got 1st place and Emma speech was highly commended . GREAT WORK! Yesterday I was in the Senior Syndicate Year 4 finials. My speech was on the Olympics. Written by Zane

Braydon's Success

I got a trophy last Saturday.I got it for Player of the Year.

Inspired by Michael Rosen

Awwrquard Moment Of My Life Someone says That I am Wierd & boring. Well I take it as they think I'm Wierd,boring and really ugly. I think That what they call me is what they Probarlly are. And it is then that I realise I want to go see that person and sort things out. But I think because they might think im ugly so I better get looking good. So at that point i forgot we have no mirror. so I say"i'm so clever that I can use a car window. so I get hair gel(for men),Lynx so here I go. Five minutes later!!! Right i need to do my hair."Oh dont I look handsome" Spray my armpits"What a romantic smell"Double check my self also known as checking yourself out.Nek minute. Aaahhhhhh I just noticed there's someone inside the car...... THE END

Read watching! We use the subtitles to help us learn.

Room 5 doing AVAILLL toady- Read watching Earth the Power of the Planet

AVAILLL

For the last two weeks Room 5 have been doing AVAILLL. AVAILLL stands for Audio Visual Achievement In Literacy Language Learning. The way AVAILLL works is the teacher chooses 1 of 6 movies and her helpers turn on the subtitles and while we watch the movie. We also have to read the subtitles and it helps us to read them because all the activities are based on the subtitles. The helpers are Sophie,Ruben,Eva,An,Hamish and Ben. She chooses two of those people to be her helpers each time and the rest of room 5 write down the anwsers in our English\Reading books. So far we have finished 1 movie which is meet the robinsons now we are on a documenary on the eath called earth: the power of the planet.

Circus wEEK!

Last week we had a circus week.We had a comedy show,face painting juggling and gymnastics.We all had talents it was spectacular every one was goofing around like clowns.Ms.Williamson looked very funny on that special day.We made this juggling balls outside and we made a big mess!.I DONT THINK MR. TAYL0R WAS HAPPY! My friends liked making juggling balls and laughing.On the day we got to dress up it was awesome I wore a tie.Lots of things happened last week and we had so much fun! :D it was exicting. By:Alisha & Andrea

Thank you Mrs Power for your help to get us back blogging!

We are back!

Yay! We are back and ready to blog about our learning! So hold onto your hats everyone. We will start with our WOW week.

Blog on the Blink!

Hi blog followers Room 5's blog has been out of action this year, but we are all set to now get it back on the go! So what has room 5 been learning about lately? From Bec Power

Cute Kittens!!!

Today I bought my kittens to school for show and tell in. They are 1 month old but in other words they are 4 weeks and 1 day old.Their names are Richie McClaw,Baby Jaguar,Sock's and Hazlenut.There are 4 of them. They were born on the 22nd of October 2011.Richie McClaw is black and has a bit of white.Sock's is grey,white,black and has a little rectangle shaped bit of ginger on her forhead. Baby Jaguar is a tortorshell type of cat.Hazlenut is a tortorshell as well. By Tearesa.

Rm5 Frogs

On Friday the rest of our Tadpoles turned to Frogs, it was so exciting . We had 8 Tadpoles and unfortunately 2 passed away.

The Frogs all tried to escape but never did. The person that brought the frogs was Lisa. But Sophie took the Frogs home.

The Frogs grow to a hight of 3cm. The frogs were rm5 1st class pets it was so cool.The Frogs have moved to a good place now.

It was so exciting watching the Tadpoles turn to Frogs.

By Jackson

Nayland Primary Art Exhibition

On Friday 18th November Nayland Primary school had their Art Exhibition!!! Their was a live and silent auction with lots of great art work. The art work was by Nayland Primary students and artists around Nelson such as Barbara Franklet, Hoglund Glass, Alana Weatherall  and many more! Their were food and drinks for sale and performances by our own Nayland primary students as well as a local dance hip hop  group. The Art exhibition was fundraising for our hall we hope to get.It was great fun and I'm sure we all enjoyed our selves!!!


By Oakleigh and Tiahna :)

The frog has escaped

Monday morning we found out a frog has escaped so we had to catch it . It was moving around in my hand it jump out of my hand I cought  it Miss Williamson told us to set it free.Then Sabian came with me  to take a photo. We placed it on a log  it jumped away happily and free. Room 5 got the tadpoles from Rylee Allen 
Sophie's brother.We got the tadpoles after we voted for tadpoles and Lisa gave us a frog. The tadpoles changed fast three are frogs only one is a tadpole. 

by  hannah sabian

R.O.T.D (Reporter of the day)

Today for reporter of the day I spoke about The 13 story treehouse. Which is a book by Andy Griffiths. In their treehouse they have a lemonade fountain, a theatre and library, a games room, a man eating shark tank. A see-through swimming pool, swing vines a bowling ally and a bathroom a kitchen  room full of pillows a underground laboratory.My favorite part of the book is the end of it because their neighbour jill has this pram  that is being flown by silky the cat and her friends,so they flew Andy and Terry to their publisher Mr.Big nose in time.

Camp 2011 Week 1 Term 4

Reporter of the day today was Chelsea

• Today I was reporter of the day and I talked to Room 5  the place called Netherlands and this is what I told them . The Netherlands are found on the Northern hemisphire. Some of the foods they eat  Olibolan,they where  shoes called clogs and just about every farm in the Netherlands has a huge wind mill. And the most popular place in the Netherlands is Holland I think. That is what I told them so I hope that you know something about the Netherlands . This blog post was done by Chelsea 

Technology Challenge

Yesterday we did a technology challenge for Mission Impossible. We used newspaper and we  had to make 2 jackets , 2 hats,a handbag, a skirt and a pair of trousers.We only had one roll of sellotape,12 sheets of newspaper and 1 pair of scissors per group. It was hard because there were lots of things that we had to make and we didn't get much time but it was still fun. Some people's clothes started ripping probably because it was to tight on them. By Georgia

Team Rua

Team Tahi 2

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Photo Rally

Team Tahi

Team Toru

Room 5 Camp 2011 Term 4 Week 1

Room 5 2011 Camp slide show. Click to play and enjoy. Please leave a comment.

TREE PLANTING

Last week room 5 went tree planting at Monaco we had lots of fun digging holes then planting the trees we also got to put a popsicle stick by our tree, so if we came back with our family we could show them which ones we planted and at the end we got to take home a Kowhai tree which we can plant at home we planted lots of trees I planted 4 trees and everyone named their tree.

Postcrossing!!!

We have been receiving postcards from all over the world. Postcrossing is a website that you can send postcards to others all over the world and maybe even get one back. Some of the postcards we have got are from Ireland, China, Germany, Russia and many more places. Its really fun sending postcards to other people around the globe, sending postcards with pictures of your country and seeing other peoples countries.

BP technology challenge!

On  Tuesday the 27th of September 2011 

Some members of the Senior Syndicate were chosen to represent  and take part in the BP technology challenge. Their were three challenges  one was a  message carrier that  was made out of a balloon,paper clips,two sheets of paper,cellar tape  and a wood. In the second  challenge we had to make stilts out news paper, tape and string. The last challenge we didn't know  what we had to do ,we had to make a cannon to hold a film canister that had a  explosive tablet in it. To make it we had newspaper two green sheets of card  and tape. Unfortunately we didn't get a placing but we had fun and enjoyed it! Participators were Tiahna,Sabian,Logan, Jyles, Leticia, Benjamin, Cameron and Josh.

Written By Tiahna and Sabian.

Another of our AVAILL tasks

Start of the new movie today.

We have studied in AVAILLL different types of movies but today we have moved on to a great read & watch movie called the tale of Despereaux.It is about a mouse who learned to live with big ears & a big heart. We had to read watch the subtitles and read the last word we saw and write it down. then we put it in an envelop to keep it safe. We did this 8 times.

Our Availll Movies

flax

                                                                     THE FLAX

On August the 1st of 2011 Tyler &HANNAH 8-) went to measure the flax it was 67cm the tip

my dog Alfie

Today I came to school with my dog Alfie he's about 8 to 9 months old. He's a blue border collie. My family and I got him in Havelock. Alfie love's to play at the beach with other dogs. When he's at home he like a little digger the first couple of week at my house he had dug about 10 to 15 holes in the back yard.

Reading

Here are some sites for you to read and enjoy! Post a comment on our blog after you have finished reading to recommend what you have been reading to other people and why you enjoyed it.
Giggle poetry
Poetry4kids 
Nelson Library kids area 

Under the Mountain

• Its up to Rachel and Theo to save the World.Rachel and Theo Matheson are two redheaded twins with a friend by their sides they have to save the world from the creatures of the mountain.Rachel is a kind hearted redheaded little girl and Theo on the other hand is quite different.          if you want to find out what happens you should read the book. By Sophie

Under the mountain

What Eva and Chelsea predict in the story under the mountain .  Rachel and Theo get lost under a mountain/volcano that their ginger hair gives them heat power and they have to fight for there lives to get out of the mountain by Eva and Chelsea

Under The Mountain

Beneath the extinct volcanoes that surround the city, giant creatures are waking from spellbound sleep that has lasted thousands of years. Their goal is the destruction of the world. Rachel and Theo Matheson are twins. Apart from having red hair, there is nothing remarkable about them-or so they think. They are horrified to discover that they have a strange and awesome destiny. Only the Matheson twins can save the world from the terror of what is under the mountain.

By Georgia and Oakleigh!!!

Genius Cafe this afternoon

We have been teaching others our skills on computers. Each time we do that we get an m'n'm. We've taught so much were full of them. Its pretty busy in here and there are teachers eating more m'n'm's than we are.

By Braydon and Oakleigh!!!

HEALTHY HEROES!

In the Senior Syndicate rooms One, Four and Five have started a new Healthy Heroes programme! 

Today these classes were very lucky and got to meet a healthy hero,  his name was Jon Ruthan

he represents NZ in indoor cricket and is getting ready to go to South Africa.We wish him all the luck over there in his cricket.

Genius Cafe

Today Braydon, Me (Oakleigh) Mrs Power and lots of other people from Nayland Primary are at Broadgreen Intermediate for Genius Cafe. What we have to do is show teachers and other students what we can do with technology. I'm teaching Leticia how to create a blog.

Written by Oakleigh.

What a letter.

What a letter.


Yesterday I got the best letter you could ever get in you're life.
I got a letter from the Queen of England she could not reply as she is very busy
with her job so her Lady-in-waiting wrote to me.
She replies with a letter,info about her family and a copy of her family tree. 
Did you know her Majesty's Mother is named Elizabeth as well as our Queen today.


By Lisa
Rm5 

Creeping Along

This is what we found out about glaciers.
The ice is hard and slippery.
Ice can break and melt at the same time every year.
Ice can be thin and thick and is very heavy  when thick .
If it is very cold the water turns into thick ice.
If there is a frost there is thin ice over water.
Some of the glaciers are 3 kilometers thick and would reach from Auckland to Christchurch.
 By CALEB and RILEIGH

GLACIERS

GLACIERS
We learned about glaciers. We know that its very dangers & is very slippery. In fact ,most glaciers would take three months to slide the length of your class room. We have to glaciers in New Zealand. By Hannah,Braydon. 

Glacier.

For english and reading were learning about glaciers. 
A glacier is a frosty mountain that could be very dangerous because its cold enough to give you hypothermia.
First it starts in a very cold river then it starts to form into a frosty mountain.
It takes 100 years to form into a proper mountain. By Jackson and Zak.
We also have two Glaciers.

Glacier

A glacier is a mountain piled with snow and big gaps in between. The ground and it is very dangerous. Because if you fall in a small gap, you will not able to get out of the glacier and when it snows you won't be able to get out. Because you will get stuck under the snow. Sky and Tyler!   
                                                                                                                                

Hand ball comp!!!

On Tuesday 2nd of august  the senior syndicate started their hand ball competition!                                           

Room 2 vs Room 1. Room 2  took the winning lead with a score of 18-11.                                                    

Next was Room 4 vs Room 3. Room 3 won which unfortunately we do not  know the score,  it was a very   good game though!                                                                                                                                               

Then on Wednesday 3rd of August Room 5 vs Room 2. Nice try Room 5 but Room 2 won 9-        25 sadly :(                                                                                                                      

After that was Room 1 vs Room 4 and Room 1 took the lead and won, though it was a very  tight game, it   could have gone either way.                                                                                                                                

Now today Room 5 vs Room 3, wish us luck.                                                                                                  

                                                                                                                                                                          

Written by Oakleigh and Tiahna!!!                                                                                                                      

THE FLAX

                                         THE FLAX
 On Monday 1st August 2011 Hannah & Tyler measured room 5's flax it was 67cm high. The type of flax is TUKURA flax here is a description: A fine cultivar. Tall,very bendy leaves,soft but strong. Red margin and keel. Young leaves show reddish/brown shading at tips of blades. Grown in many districts  under different names. We are trying to see how far it will grow in a month. We measured all of the other classes flax plants too. We will give it some of our worm castings to see if it helps it grow stronger. We are going to sell the worm castings and the worm tea from our worm farm to help and raise funds for our school camp!
                                           By Hannah & Tyler

Science, Science!!!

Its that time of year again...
Science Fair.
Everybody is getting their boards and experiments ready.
Some experiments are BIG, small, yucky and YUMMY. There are people doing the classic bottle rockets and there are people melting chocolate
(people being Tiahna and I:) 
It has been SOOO busy here in room 5 this week, Luckily its Friday and the day is almost over, except for those who have Basketball, Good Luck Guys.
Oakleigh!!!

REGIONALS!!!

On Monday 20th June some members of  Nayland Primary went to the Nelson cross country Regionals!!! 

They had to run through a creek and mud four times at Saxton field. There was about 80 people in every race and I came 57th. Other members in room 5 came 27th, 38th, 26th and more. We had lots of fun and were challenged to push our selves.

Written by Oakleigh and Tiahna!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! :)

Room 5 wishes a happy birthday to Caleb, Alisha and Braydon!!! We hope you have a wonderful birthday and a great day!!!! :)   Unfortunately Braydon is  not here at school on his birthday!

HAPPY birthday guys!!!

Written by  Tiahna and Oakleigh!!                                             

Room Five AVAILLL!!! Today's reflection challenge entry.

On Monday  13th  June Room 5 was lucky enough to learn from a new fun reading programme called AVAILLL!  

AVAILLL is a reading activity  that includes  FUN movies and games to enjoy and help us

improve on our reading. Room 5 is the only class in the  school to be doing this activity at the moment to see how other classes can use it in the Seniors. We feel very fortunate to be doing this!

written by Oakleigh and Tiahna! :)

Room 5 water polo!!!

On every Tuesday of the week two teams from room 5 called the

Thrashers and the Speedy Gonzalis play water polo.In the latest

game the thrashers won 4 to 2 and tied with the room 4 title waves.

On Tuesday the 2nd of March the Speedy Gonzalis played the room 1

title waves and lost 3 to 1 to the Tidal Waves.

By Tiahna!!!

Tiki Taane- David Lange, You Da Bomb!- VIDEO

This has been a life changing year

We want to let everyone out there in New Zealand, Japan and the other countries that are currently experiencing the turmoil and destruction of OUR EARTHS natural disasters that we are thinking of you and sending you our positive thoughts and best wishes. KAI KAHA!!! STAND STRONG!!!

Gum Emperor moth caterpillar (Opodiphthera eucalypti). Introduced to New Zealand, New Zealand (NZ). Stock photo from New Zealand (NZ). Photos and Stock Photography by Rob Suisted

Gum Emperor moth caterpillar (Opodiphthera eucalypti). Introduced to New Zealand, New Zealand (NZ). Stock photo from New Zealand (NZ). Photos and Stock Photography by Rob Suisted

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