Keeping in Touch

This posting is really a message to Saffron. It is lovely to hear from you. Thanks for your comments on the class blog and on Grace's blog. We all hope you are having fun at your new school.
We are starting to make movies about growing our plants. It might take a while but you will be able to see what happened to your group's plants.
At the moment we are learning about weathering and erosion. We are mostly using books and Kiwi Conservation Club magazines for our research though.
Groups have asked good questions and they have already answered part of some.
How can we stop erosion and weathering?
We haven't thought of answers to the erosion part but we know now that we can't stop weathering. It's just too big for us to stop nature.
We will look forward to more comments from you Saffron. Is this your favourite colour?

Kangaroos

We are learning about copyright and how to use an image from Creative Commons. When you use a photograph from Creative Commons you always have to attribute ownership. This is the code for the photo. Click the link if you want to learn more about the photo.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ysc/ / CC BY 2.0

Look at the Kangaroo. You might like to read our kangaroo reports on our blogs.

Room 5 was an exciting place to be today! We usually have a shared lunch every time we have 1000 hits on our blog and we were a bit overdue for that. As you can see we are well on the way to our second thousand.

Another way we celebrate when we do things very well as a class is that Viv gives us Golden Points. When we get to 15 Golden Points we can choose 15 minute free play in the Adventure Playground or another fun thing we would like to do. We had a vote and decided that we would have a Pyjama day. Lots of people came to school in their PJs and some even went for the cross country run in their PJs. It was GREAT FUN and DELICIOUS.

WHAT A DAY!

Our Enormous Monarch

Our Monarch butterfly is enormous. It hatched out and after a day it flew away. Room5 didn't get to see it fly away because it sneaked out when we were doing writing.

Pink Shirt Day

It was Pink Shirt Day today and everyone in our class wore a pink shirt or something pink for the morning. It was funny when Beau asked if there was going to be a Pink Skirt Day one day.We all had the giggles about the idea of the boys coming to school wearing pink skirts.

Pink Shirt Day is a day where we wear a pink top to show that we do NOT support bullying. It is a day that is celebrated in other countries too.

We are making Vokis

Get a Voki now!

ANZAC DAY

We have been learning about the meaning of Anzac Day this week.

In eLearning we made movies about the celebrations and parades that were held when the soldiers returned. If you would like to see our movies click on the link to digitanz. Maybe you would like to have fun making one too.