Celebration hats

In room 5 we have been learning about celebrations so we made hats that would show us celebrating special events. Some people celebrated Matariki and Halloween and Anzac Day and other special events.
Room 13 showed us their hats that they had made and we showed them ours. When our buddies came to our class we showed them our hats as well.
"I made a hat that showed a Matariki celebration," said Josh.

"I made a hat that showed a Christmas celebration," said Isi.

"I made a hat that showed a Matariki celebration," said Evie

"I made a hat that showed a Halloween celebration," said Joe R.

"I made a hat that showed a New Year celebration," said Bella.

A Visit From a Famous New Zealand Author

It's the Nelson Arts Festival this week and some people from Room 5 have already performed with the choir at the Red Square in town. Lots of us watched the Mask Parade and Rohan went to see "In the Deep End"
Last week a new children's book called "Herbert the Brave Sea Dog" was launched. It's a true story about a dog that was washed overboard in the sea near French Pass. Room 5 were lucky to get a visit from Robyn, who wrote and illustrated the book.

"I think Robyn is very skilled at drawing," said Josh.
"I think Robyn has probably been practising nearly all her life, because she's so good," said Sam.
"I really enjoyed reading the book and looking at the illustrations," said Hannah.
"I liked the end papers because they show Herbert's journey," said Evie.
"I think Robyn takes a lot of care with her work," said Thomas.
"It was amazing how Robyn drew that picture of Herbert and the dolphin for us to keep, in three minutes," said Ella.

George's First Day at Nelson Central School

We are going to create a new blog so Room 5 in Nelson can leave postings about George's adventures. We will invite Room 5 in Cambodia to tell us what Wiki has been doing too.

Rooms 5 & 6 have been getting together this week to0 do team building activities so we are all ready to get along well together on camp. Yesterday we pretended that the adventure playground was full of flesh eating fish and we had to get our teams across from one side to the other using only two little mats. Today we worked with a partner on the blindfold walk.

You will see George, having fun in the photos. Later on we will research monkeys so we can learn more about George's family.

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I found this blingy thing for blogs in the holidays and I thought that this could be a fun thing to do on our blogs when we have finished making movies and camp shows. I tried to make her look and sound a bit like me. Hope you like her.

Wiki Playing with Room 5 Children

Holiday time

We looked at our new friends' blog today and we have put a link to it in our links section. We tried to leave some comments but there was a problem . Every time we pressed the publish button, our comments disappeared. We won't be able to comment now until after the holidays so good luck with your blogging Year 5. Tracey will be able to tell us more when we see her after the holidays because she is coming to visit you. We loved your soft toys so much we decided to send you a kiwi to add to your collection. We took some photos of Wiki Kiwi in the playground before we gave him to Tracey. We know he will enjoy staying with you at your school and that you will look after him.

Finishing off Term 3

We have done lots of exciting and interesting things in and around Room 5 over the last three weeks.
We have had tennis coaching. Thomas already has tennis lessons so he was our expert on the day. Some other people from our class play tennis and they are practising their skills using our padda-tennis bats at play time.
We went to Penguinos ice-cream shop to see how they make their ice-cream. We were so lucky because after we saw the ice-cream come out of the machine we were given our own Penguinos ice-cream and Philip, the owner, let us choose our favourite flavour. Did you know that there are more than 70 penguins, (pictures, borders, ornaments and stuffed toys) in that shop? They have won gold and silver medals for their ice-cream.
We are still learning new dances at Jump Jam. Viv's favourite dance is Crazy Frog. We go on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays.
The last thing we have done is our Trade Fair. We used all of the information we acquired in our research to write a speech. We pretended to be Exhibitors and we were marketing our ice-cream to the visitors. We pretended the visitors were Retailers. Some people said their speeches 50 times and everyone had orders written on their order forms. If only the ice-cream was real we could be very rich.

Our Ice-cream Trade Fair

Comments from Cambodia

We are so lucky that people from all over the world read our blog. Our buddy class teacher Tracey has some friends in Cambodia where she used to teach and they have been reading our blog. We have had some lovely comments from Ellie, Adi, Christina, Anouk, Jalesa, Maliya, Sangmin and Alex. They have started up a blog and we would like to look at it so we can get to know them better. You can read their comments on our posting "Working in our Inquiry Groups" just below. Viv tried to connect to the address they sent but she couldn't get the blog to come up. Perhaps Tracey might be able to help us when we see her at buddy time on Friday. It will be fun getting to know some new friends in Cambodia.

Working in our Inquiry Groups

In reading this week we have been researching more information about ice-cream so we can prepare for our speeches at our "Trade Fair." We have been reading an article in an Air New Zealand flight magazine about a company called "New Zealand Natural Ice Cream." We had one main reader and we each had our own work sheet to complete so we had to co-operate to make sure we all found out the information we needed. Some of the information was right there in the text but some was hidden. We had to really think hard about some questions because we had to work on things we already knew. We used all of our reading strategies and our co-operative working skills.
We found out that ice-cream companies love it when airline companies buy their ice-cream. It's good advertising. The passengers will buy the ice-cream when they get home. New Zealand Natural ice-cream has won gold medals. Sometimes the food technologists design a flavour that's good and sometimes it's not successful. Coconut flavour was not successful because it was too white.