Native New Zealand Wildlife Art Panels

We have been busy right up until the end of Term 4 finishing off some AMAZING art panels based on native New Zealand wildlife. During our Term 2 inquiry, Year 5 classes investigated what native wildlife we had in our beautiful country, surveyed the school to see what were the most popular, looked at possible ways of making some art for our forest area and found out how much it would all cost. This term for our Year 5 art focus we have been busy researching, designing and painting. We were inspired by images of geometric animals and here is the end result from Room 6...

The Kea

The Pekapeka

 The Tui

Don't they look AMAZING!!!

Tennis

This morning the Year 5 students had a sample of tennis skills. A team of coaches arrived and split the classes into five groups to teach them skills on a rotation. Groups practised serves, rallies, hand/eye coordination,  footwork skills and accuracy.  Students say that it was tiring but fun.

Here are some snapshots of the session...

VAS Athletics Day

Although it was rather windy, we had fine weather for our annual athletics day. Students were involved in a variety of events including 60m sprints, 100m sprints, 200m sprints, high jump, long jump and ball throw.

Well done Room 6 for your participation in these events!!! 

The following student made it through to the finals:

Girls 60m Sprints:

Mila

Maria (1st place)

Boys 60m Sprints:

Luca

Xavier

Hudson (1st place)

Benicio (2nd place)

Girls 100m Sprints:

Mila

Maria (2nd place)

Boys 100m Sprints:

Hudson (1st place)

Benicio (2nd place)

Girls high jump:

Mila

Alex

Maria

Boys high jump:

Oscar (1st place)

Lachlan (2nd place)

Benicio

House relay teams included the following students:

Jenna (Kowhai)

Luca (Karaka)

Mila (Pohutukawa)

Xavier (Koromiko)

Sasha (Karaka)

Maria (Pohutukawa)

Lucy (Karaka)

Lachlan (Pohutukawa)

Hudson (Kowhai)

Benicio (Pohutukawa)

Other Placings:
Long jump: Hudson (1st place), Benicio (3rd equal place)
Ball throw: Hudson (1st place)
200m Sprint: Hudson (1st place), Maria (3rd place)

As part of our "May the Force Be With You" inquiry this term we went to the Mind Lab to explore forces.  The three Year 5 classes were split into four groups and took part in four different scientific investigations. Emphasis was placed on making discoveries through trial and error, so mistakes were not only expected, but encouraged. 

There were four rotations of different activities including:

• Mixing unknown ingredients to create an explosive reaction with enough thrust to fire a film canister into the air
• Creating a structure from card to withstand having a tennis ball dropped onto it
• Constructing a vehicle propelled by a cardboard fan attached to a small motor
• Programming a remote controlled vehicle to make a series of movements

Alex, Lucy and Jamie constructing their fan-propelled vehicles

 

Xavier programming a remote controlled vehicle (with George from Room 5)

 

Lachlan and Tristan show off their fan-propelled vehicle

Oscar working on the remote controlled vehicle (with Ollie from Room 5) 

Maria and Anu constructing their fan-propelled vehicle

Adam and Alijah trialing their remote controlled car (alongside George from Room 5)

Kyran and Kaiu programming their remote controlled vehicle

Isabella constructing a fan-propelled vehicle with Charlotte (from Room 4)

Alea and Sienna programming their remote controlled vehicle

Eugene beginning to build a structure from card (with Mark from Room 4)

Isabella and Mila with their remote controlled vehicle

Eesha with her fan-propelled vehicle

Hudson constructing a fan-propelled vehicle (with Fred from Room 4)

Hannah, Jenna and Thanishka trialling their explosive mixed ingredients

 

 Benicio working on vehicle construction (with Hikorangi and Zach from Room 4)

Luca resting after a long day of science 

Read-A-Thon Book Character Dress-up Day

We had an amazing book character dress-up day at school today to finish off our read-a-thon. 

Here are a few interesting characters from Room 6...

Where's Wally? I hear you ask...well, he's right here

Matilda (from Matilda) and Paulina (from the Thea Stilton series)

Aldwyn (from The Familiars)

Jared and Simon Grace (from The Spiderwick Chronicles)

Three Hermione Grangers (from the Harry Potter series)

Leopard (from The Leopard and the Mouse) 

and Cruella de Ville (from 101 Dalmatians)

First Mate and Captain Hook (from Jake and the Neverland Pirates)

Matilda

Some non-fiction sports heroes...Kelly Slater, Jonathan Spector, Dan Carter and Philippe Coutinho

Bob (from The Billionaire Boy)

Mr Grin (from the Alex Rider series) and Zac Power

Percy Jackson and Annabeth (from the Percy Jackson series)

Cat Campbell (from The Courage of Cat Campbell)

Even the senior teachers got in on the act...with a particularly Dr Seuss-ish theme

The Grinch, Cindy-Lou Who, the Lorax, the Cat in the Hat, Thing 1 and Thing 2

A Feast of Visual Language

Earlier this term we were looking at a variety of poems including couplets, quatrains, haiku, cinquain, acrostic and diamante poems. Along with these we wrote a poem entitled 'How to Eat a Poem'. We brainstormed words that related to eating (gobble, chomp, slurp), as well as features we might find in poetic writing (similes, conjunctions, alliteration) then created our own poems. To present our writing we thought about a food or drink item and constructed a collage to compliment our writing. Here are a few examples (come and check out the rest in Room 6)

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