Swimming Sports

The swimming sports were held  on a sunny day. Room 21 won the relay out of the whole year five classes. The students had a relay against the teachers and the teachers won but the students won the 50 meters race. James did really well coming 2nd in all his races except one which he came first. We are all proud of James and everybody that swam.

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Whanau Day

On the 9th of December there is going to be an event held in P.C.S called Whanau Day. We are going to have lots of  entertainment including, a disco, sausage sizzle, and Christmas concerts held by Mrs Corke and P.C.S. There will be a range of performances and food available on the day and you can even invite your parents to have a picnic on our lovely field and join us to enjoy the Christmas concert.
We are really looking forward to it.

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Swimming

On Thursday 8th December, some of our fantastic students are going swimming. The swimmers are so nervous and so are we. The non-swimmers will be participating in wonderful games held by the coolest teachers. Mr McAleer and Miss Akava will be racing the top students. We wish them all good luck.


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Room 10 letters

On Tuesday we gave our buddy letters to Room 10. We replied to all their questions. They really enjoyed reading our letters and we enjoyed writing them. We had a great time.

 The Blog Squad

If you were an adult who would you vote for?

Room 21 has been discussing about who we would vote for to be Prime Minister. Would you vote for National and John Key or Labour and Phil Golf? We talked about each party's criteria and the pros and cons. For instance, Green is trying to help the environment but they are going to raise the taxes to pay for everything. We had big discussions and great ideas. If you could vote, who would you vote for?

Room 21 Blog squad 

Good bye Mr Mainwaring

Unfortunately Mr Mainwaring has left us because he needs to go back to University to finish his teacher training. We will miss him as he was a very helpful, kind and cool teacher

Room 21 Blog Squad

Buddy letters

Room 21's wonderful buddy class, Room 10 made some beautiful letters for us. They asked us what we did and what we liked, e.g did we watch the All Blacks win the World Cup? We wrote some replies and we will give them to Room 10 next week.

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Room 21's Assembly

On the 14th of November it was Room 21's assembly. We did a dance called 'Thriller'. We pretended to be zombies. Mr McAleer put face paint on us to make us look more like zombies. Mr McAleer said that we didn't need face paint because we already looked like and smelt like zombies!


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The new student

On 7th  of November, Room 21 got a new student. Her name is Harjot. She is 9 years old. She is not that tall but the average height of a year 5 student. She has black hair with brown streaks. She is very kind and P.C.S. She has a very positive attitude and fits just right in Room 21.


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Mr Mainwaring

This term we are getting help from Mr Mainwaring who is a Student Teacher. He is teaching us for the first three weeks. He is a great teacher and we have lots of fun with him, as long as well do ALL our work and are always PCS !
;-)

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Room 21's trip to Te Tuhi Art gallery

On Friday the 28 October Room 21 is going on a trip to Te Tuhi art gallery. This is part of our investigative studies. We will be going to a workshop called "Now loading" which will teach us about abstract art and show us how to make some.  We will also visit  an exhibition called "User friendly". It should be fun.

 The Room 21 Blog Squad

Responsibility

As you all know, this term's value is Responsibility. Room 21 has been talking about Responsibility.  Some examples that Room 21 came up with are; managing our selves, thinking about what you do, and making the right choices. Do you know what Responsibility is? We would love to hear about what you think about Responsibility.

 Room 21 Blog Squad

Hockey

This week Room 21 has started hockey. We began on Thursday and have been learning lots since. We learned how to hold a hockey stick, dribble around cones and pass. At the end of each session we even  got to play a game. We look forward to going again because it was a fun and a unique experience.

Room 21 Blog Squad

Instructions booklet

Throughout the week Room 21 has been working on our wonderful handmade Instructions Booklet. They were made very easily, the materials were:
 A1 page
Scissors or a ruler
Marker or pen (optional)
Stapler

Method:
1. Fold your page in half, then fold it in half again.
2. Then rip the bottom delicately with a ruler or scissors so it is like a book.
3. Staple the side and  fill it with all your Instructions

See how easy it was and everyone in Room 21 enjoyed populating it. We filled it with Instructions on how to make a booklet, how to get to school, how to make pumpkin soup, how to plant a tree and how to make delicious  milkshakes.

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Harold countinued

The last time Room 21 went to Harold Life Education,we learnt about the things which we should put in our body. We learnt that fruits and vegetables are very important and we should eat a lot. They are very important because they are rich in vitamins and minerals. We shouldn't eat a lot of fatty foods because they ruin our fitness. So next time you buy food, look at the ingredients and look out for too much fat.

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Parent Teacher Student interviews

On Wednesday 24th August we had the Parent, Teacher and Student interviews. Some of us were really nervous because we thought that the teacher would say something negative. Mr McAleer  discussed with our parents what our next learning steps would be. He also talked about behaviour, contributing to discussions and our progress with learning. Our parents were impressed with our learning. They told Mr McAleer about our behaviour at home, and our chores we don't do such as, not cleaning up our ROOMS!

Room 21 Blog Squad

Speeches

Room 21 has been doing speeches on a variety of topics; everything from 'Pollution' to 'My 10 favourite things' to 'My Mum' to 'Why we should exercise'. It was lots of hard work but we learnt to speak clearly, thoroughly research our topic and always keep our audience interested by using humour and interesting facts.
The Blog Squad.

Swimming

On Tuesday, Room 21 all went swimming at the Papatoetoe Centennial pools. We all started piling up excited to jump in the pool and get started. We had to swim to the end and the people that made it, got split up into level five and six. All the great swimmers (Daniel, Allan and James) got into level 6. They all hope to learn from this and over the weeks we probably will succeed. If you haven't gone swimming yet, believe us you will enjoy it.

The Blog Squad.      

Blog Squad

We are the Room 21 'Blog Squad'. Our names are:- Alysha, Nandini, Daniel and Trent.
We update the blog for Room 21.
If you don't have a blog squad like us, then you should get one.

Body Systems

On the 3rd of August, Room 21 went to Harold the giraffe.
We were learning about the three body systems.
They are called the Respiratory, the Circulatory and the Digestive systems.
These are the breathing, circulation of the blood and the eating activities.
We had lots of fun and learned a lot.

   

Arguments...

Recently we wrote arguments about the Pros and Cons of going to school.  Some argued that children should NOT go to school because it's more fun at home but most agreed we should go to school because we can learn more there,

Clean & Green

In Term 3 we will study the environment and what we need to do [or not do!] to help plants survive.
 WATCH THIS SPACE!

Year 5 Garden group

Two weeks ago we made some delicious hot chips from the potatoes we grew in our garden.
Next we are going to have some raw carrot and celery from our garden. We will eat it with with humus. YUMMY!

Art...

Last week we created some amazing landscapes using lots of different brush strokes.
We only used green, blue, brown, yellow and white colours on black paper. They looked cool - come to Room 21 to see them.

iMovie

We have been making iMovies about 'Forces'. Have a look at Josiah telling us all about gravity.
 We have also done lots of experiments with Friction including measuring how fast full, empty and half full bottles roll down a slide. Next term we are going to look at how we can stay clean and green and healthy.

Forces movie

Cake Walk...

Guess who won the 'cupcakes' ?!
That's right ... Mr McAleer. Yummy.
Congrats too to Bhumik who won two cakes !!,  Erica who won the amazing Angel cake and Dylan who won an amazing chocolate cake - happy eating guys 
;-)

May the Force be with you

This term we are studying forces. Watch out gravity, friction is on it's way!

Topic...

Our topic this term is 'Sharing the Planet'. We are learning about how to live cooperatively with other people, animals and plants so we are sustainabale.

Year 5 Garden Group

This year we are creating a Year 5 garden. We are going to grow lots of vegetables and cook and eat them. Yummy! Hopefully Mr McAleer is a good cook!

School is cool...

... ... better than being in a wet bus shelter!

Starting the new year

Room 21 had great fun on our first day ar school for 2011. We agreed to walways try our best and were very tired at the end of the day. Mr McAleer is our teacher and he is cool. Room 21 rocks!