Rectangle making shapes

Here is the maths group called Rectangles.
They are playing maths games about geometry.

Briar is on the computer putting the answers in after the
group has figured them out.

Reporters Kyung In and Cailean

Playtime at assembly

This is someof the Room5 girls in assembly doing a play called Queen Bee Blues. Here they are doing a dance for assembly. This is Worker bee Briar trying to help the queenbee/Roshni do her own work.Worker bee Hannah became Queen Bee for a day until Queen Roshni got sick of hard work and took her place back on the throne.It was funny and full of action.They showed good co-operation and  drama skills.
Reporters Sahar and Abbie

Learning a Play!

 16/06/11

 Today we did plays about Bees. They were Awesome!. During the play some people were being really silly but at the end we did do a good play. When we do the play perfectly we will get to record it and after that we even might post in on the blog! At the start of the play Some of us play a cool tune on the guitar. When we are good at doing the play we may be able to use props and show assembly and it will be awesome! So thank you for reading this and hope you have fun checking out our blog we hope you have fun seeing what our blog is capable of. 
        
                                        

Paper mache for room 5's production.

Today we paper mached around lots of fake food and fake silver ware made out of lemonade bottles and rubbish bin lids. We used lots of paper and glue. We had paper on the floor and on our desks and most of the paper was coverered in glue.

                  Reporters Liam and Rhys

Room5 Reading about Bees 10/06/11

Room5 has been learning about bees.We are doing reading about bees. We read articles ,stories,poems and plays. Roshni here is writing in her book. She is writing Delightful Bees. It is really fun. Did you know? 1. that bees do go to the toilet. 2. The Queen Bee lays about 2000 eggs a day. 3. Male bees/drone bees don't have stingers   4. The female bees are the workers

Reporters Hannah and Abigail

Mr Sweney (Honey making)

Mr Sweney came to tell us about how bees
make honey and what it tastes like
fresh. He showed us some dead bees also and
we got to hold them. In this photo  Mr Sweney  is
standing by the honey extractor.He used an electrically
heated knife to take the wax cappings off.He let us
all turn the handle of the extractor. The honey
spins out, hits the side and flows down to the
bottom. The honey tasted pretty good.
Reporters Sam, JK and Rhys.

Matariki Newspapers

On the 2nd of June it was Matariki. Room 5 were given some newspapers on Matariki to read and fill in the challenging questions. Room 5 students worked together with the buddy that  they sit next to, like these two students Holly and Josh. Matariki is the New Maori Year,when seven stars can be seen in the sky. There are several Maori legends about the seven stars of Matariki. The Greek call Matariki the Pleiades. The Japanese call it the Subaru. Arcording to the Maori there are two meanings for Matariki, tiny eyes (mata riki) or eyes of God (mata ariki.) -Reporters Roshni and Briar.    

   

Room5 Music.

Room5 has been doing music. The songs we sang were, Better than War and Mauria Mai Taku Wai. Mrs Sweney plays the guitar and the children sing. One of the songs is about wisdom being better than weapons of war. We also sang Pu Kupu Maori. We sing in Room 6.

By Kian and Joshua.

Sam drawing a hexagon with a compass

We are learning about bees.We learnt that a hexagon is used because it can hold more honey. Also hexagons are tessellated ...that means they fit together with out any gaps. Some people found it hard.

Reporters- Taylor Allan and Georgia Ashton