2016 Highlights

During the last few weeks of Term 4, R5 took some time to reflect on 2016. We realised what a great year we have all had and we all felt a little bit sad that our time together was coming to an end. As a class we created a presentation of our 2016 highlights.
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Genius Hour Presentations #2

Aniva is really interested in the basket baller Michael Jordan. Check out what she found out during genius hour.

Lenaya was very keen to find out where books came from. She presented her information so well. She even wore a moustache to look like Johann Gutenberg.

End of Year Picnic

Yesterday our outdoors picnic was cancelled due to the unpredictable Auckland weather. Luckily we were able to meet in the quad, share some food and play some games. 

Picnic from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

R5's Mannequin Challenge Attempt

"Please can we do the mannequin challenge before the end of the year?" Room 5 pleaded on Friday. So here it is. R5's attempt at the mannequin challenge. I say attempt because they didn't quite achieve success but they had a lot of fun trying. There was far too much giggling but it was Friday afternoon! Check it out! 

R5 Mannequin Challenge from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Christmas Cooking

Looking for an easy recipe to make for Christmas? Last week we made chocolate and apricot truffles. Check out the video for the recipes.

Genius Hour

We have been learning so much during Genius Hour and have chosen a huge range of topics to learn about. Here are some of our presentations:

Taufeeq's research about exercise:

Amatan's research about computers:

Samson's Hulk research:

Term 4 Whole School Assembly

Today we had the final whole school assembly for 2016.

Y4 Talent Quest 2016

On Tuesday the Y4 Syndicate had their talent quest finals. Here are the highlights put together by Amatan, Siddhu and Salah. Congratulations to Seam and Bileeana who came first equal!


Y4 Talent Quest from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

On Saturday the MRPS Ukulele Group performed at Vector Arena. It was a fantastic day and the group performed like professionals. A huge THANK YOU to Mrs Dawson for all of your hard work and dedication. What an awesome ukulele teacher you are! 

OMG Tech Rangers!

A group of Year 4 learners attended the @OMGTechRangers event on Saturday the 26th of November. They had an amazing day learning about the possibilities of science and technology. Check out what they got up to:

Music with Mrs Dawson

We are so lucky to have a specialist music teacher at MRPS named Mrs Dawson. She takes us for music lessons a couple of times a year. She has taught us so much about reading music. Check out what we did with her today!

Electrical Safety

Room 5 have created some resources to teach a Year 1-3 student about electrical safety.

Bileeana's Prezi

Snedhal, Eugenia and Kelly's iMovie

Taufeeq and Saulala's Poster

Chocolate Crackles #2

Here are some more recipes outlining how to make chocolate crackles. 

Vaka and Siddhu's Google Presentation:

Josiah and Samson's iMovie:

Chocolate Crackle

On Tuesday we made chocolate crackles as part of our learning about procedural writing.

Maka has used Prezi to share his recipe.

Dev and Samuel used the recipe mixed with images they took on Tuesday to share their recipe:

Procedures Using Screencastify

We have been writing procedures outlining how to complete a chosen task on a chromebook. We used screencastify to record our procedures. 

Tuakana Kapahaka Assembly

On Friday the Tuakana Kapahaka Group entertained us with an assembly item all about Ranginui and Papatuanuku. Check out the highlights.

3D Printing

The Y4 Makerspace Group have been working extremely hard to get the 3D printers up and running for people to use.

Siddhu, Amatan and Salah couldn't wait to get started. They created a minion using Tinkercad and today they printed it!

The Y4 Uke Group Won K Factor 2016!

They did it! The MRPS Y4 Ukulele Group won Kmart's K Factor competition.

Here is a youtube version of their winning performance.

Paper Sculptures

Room 5 had an awesome day with Mrs Bateman creating paper sculptures! 

Y3/4 Athletics Day

On Wednesday R5 competed in the Y3/4 Athletics Day. They did really well. Here is a video with a few highlights.

Electrical Circuits

As part of our Electricity unit we are learning all about simple electrical circuits. We have been creating simple circuits with wires, batteries, lightbulbs and switches and discovering how electrons flow. 

 

Aniva and Taufeeq created diagrams to explain what they had learnt. 

Y4 Ukulele Band

The Y4 Ukulele Band have recorded one of their songs. Check it out! Thank you Mrs Dawson for sharing this video with us.

Dog Safety

Last week MRPS had a special assembly all about dog safety and we learnt lots of helpful tips! 

Bike Giveaway

At the beginning of this term, we were told that Miss Bishop had 20 free bikes to giveaway! She asked everyone from Y2-5 to write a letter explaining why they wanted, needed, deserved a new bike! 

Looking On

We have been writing poems based on a poem called The Looker-On, by Frank Kendon. Using the same structure, we wrote our own poems based on our surroundings at MRPS. We spent some time just sitting and watching the things that were happening around us.

Money Raps

We have been using our knowledge about financial literacy to write raps. We created our own soundtracks to go with our raps using soundation.

Money Raps from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Here is Ben and Maka's Rap.

Jerome Ropati Visited MRPS @DuffyBooks

Jerome Ropati came to our @DuffyBooks Hero Assembly today. He also brought Ben Henry along with him. We learnt so much from his visit. He showed us the jersey and medal he won during the 2008 Rugby League World Cup.


Some of R5 based their costumes on The Day the Crayons Quit, by Oliver Jeffers. We made signs to hold during the parade after the assembly.

Duffy hero assembly from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Jerome Ropati is Coming to MRPS @duffybooks

We are having a special @duffybooks assembly on Thursday of this week. The special guest will be none other than Jerome Ropati. We did some research yesterday to find out more about him.

By Maka

EFDS0962 from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

By Edwin

 By Vaka and Salah

 By Amatan and Siddhu

Describing SpongeBob Squarepants

This week we have been writing descriptions about SpongeBob Squarepants. Yesterday we used these descriptions to create shape poems.

Check out our super sentences about SpongeBob.

Collaborative Posters

We are learning all about Financial Literacy. As part of this, we have been creating collaborative posters. With a buddy we had to complete this task without talking to each other face-to-face. We had a go at using many of the communication tools available on Google Drive to collaborate.

Here are our posters:

Arataki Visitor Centre

On Monday we visited the Arataki Visitor Centre to learn all about staying safe in the bush. We had an awesome day. The weather was great and we got to explore the Waitakere Ranges. 

Y4 Arataki Trip 2016 from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Year 4 Cross Country

Check out the highlights from the Y4 Cross Country Race.

Y4 Cross Country 2016 from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Illustrating Adjectives

Our poem of the week was The Googies by Shel Silverstein. 

We used this poem to identify adjectives. Then we had a go at creating fonts for each word that show their meaning. Here are some of the results.

Whole School Assembly

Yesterday we had our Term 3 whole school assembly. We were treated to some awesome performances. Here are some of the highlights. 

Planet Description

We have been inspired by this movie called The Planets to write descriptions about imaginary planets.

The Planets from Handymartian on Vimeo.

Aniva, Ben and Salah decided to publish Ben's story about Planet Robloxia using iMovie.

Jia wrote about description about planet number 1 from the video.

Speech Finals

Lenaya and Muhammad represented R5 in the Y3/4 Speech Finals last week. They did an awesome job and presented their speeches very confidently! 

R5's Speeches from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Persuasive Writing #2 @AdobeSpark

Some more persuasive videos by R5.

Ben: Why watching TV is good for you!


Sendhal: Why I should become a doctor!

Persuasive Writing @AdobeSpark

We have been busy learning all about persuasive writing. Today we decided to use our writing to make movies using Adobe Spark.

Here is Sneha's opinion on whether students should be allowed to bring cellphones to school:

Salah strongly believes that he should be able to bring a dog to school. Here's why:

Here is Muhammad's movie about why WWE is real!

Lenaya and her brother would love a new dog. Here's why.

Saturday Sport Action

Check out some of the learners in R5 playing their Saturday sports! Way to go guys.

Tinkering with @ThingLink

R5 has been learning how to use Thinglink. Check out some of our interactive images.

Oh no! What happened to our teacher Miss Lepou?

On Thursday Miss Lepou had accident while playing soccer with her class. Check out this video made with Adobe Spark.

Olympic Athletes #2

Some more research on current olympic athletes.

Eugenia's poster

Snedhal's poster

Vaka's Report

Olympic Athletes #1

We have been carrying out some research on current olympic athletes. 

Aila, Rebekah, Jia and Lakshita's presentation

Maka's presentation


Siddhu's presentation

Science in a Van

The Y4 syndicate had a visit from Science in a Van on Friday. What an entertaining show it was! Not only was it funny, it was also very educational. We learnt all about the 3 states of matter. Check it out.


Science in a van from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Speech Preparation

R5 have been very busy writing speeches. Next week they will presenting their speeches in front of the class to see who will make it through to the finals. Here are some of the ways we have been preparing. Don't forget to practise over the weekend R5!

Speech preparation from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Here is the success criteria for your speech.

Comparing Countries

As part of our learning about the Olympic Games, we have been comparing the different competing nations. Aniva and Muhammad decided to share their learning with and iMovie.

NZ and Jamaica from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Aniva's presentation about NZ and Jamaica:

Dev's poster:

Salah's research:

Samuel made a Volcano

Samuel made a volcano at home! He brought it into school so that we could make it erupt.

He has written instructions for making a volcano.

No Running in the Corridors!

We have a problem in our corridor! People run all the time and their have been a lot of accidents. We decided to write stories to persuade people not to run in the corridor! Here are the results.

Snedhal, Maka, Ben and Wolfgang decided to make a movie to show the consequences of running in the corridor.



Wolfgang and Taufeeq created posters to be displayed in the corridor.

Y3/4 Olympic Ceremony 2016

On Thursday the 11th of August, the Year 3/4 Syndicates joined forces to celebrate the opening of the 2016 Rio Olympics. Here is a video of the highlights.

100 Days in R5!

On Friday we celebrated our 100th day of school. We did lots of activities. Check out Ally's pic collage and a movie of the cake ceremony:

Flying Tea Bag Experiment

What happens when you take the tea out of a tea bag and set it on fire?? Watch the video to find out.


Flying Teabag Experiment from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Here is Vaka's scientific observation of the experiment:

Here is Dev's observation:

Origami

We had some special visitors today at MRPS. A big group of students from Japan came to check out our school and teach us some things about their culture. Mrs Dawson used her iPad to take some great slow motion videos of R5 using their origami. Have a look at this video!

Origami from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Burning Candles

We are learning all about science observation. Today we observed a burning candle. Did you know that a burning candle is a solid, liquid and gas?

Science with Mr Carroll

On Friday, we had an awesome day with Mr Carroll exploring states of matter.  Check us out. We were like real scientists!

My Movie from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Diet Coke and Mentos Experiment

Here is a video of today's experiment.

Mentos and Coke Experiment from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Sensational Science

It is sensational science week at Mt Roskill Primary School. We have been exploring solids, liquids and gases. Yesterday we did an experiment.
Check it out. 

Young scientists from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Here is Bileeana's writing about the experiment.

Ben created a flow chart of the experiment.

 

End of Term Assembly

Here are some highlights from our end of term assembly.

Whole School Assembly T2 from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Congratulations to the Y4 group that won the 2016 Maori X-Factor!

Tiki Art

We had an awesome day celebrating Matariki at the end of last term. As part of this celebration we made soup and created Tiki Art. The lesson sequence for this art is from the Stitchlily blog.

Tiki Art from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Matariki Soup

We had an awesome Matariki celebration last week on Thursday. We made soup together and we created some amazing art. Here is a video of R5 making soup. 

This movie was made by Amatan and Aniva.

  SOUP! from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Check out Aniva's learning about the Maori gods.

Here is a presentation/screencast made by Snedhal about Matariki.

Matariki Presentations using Screencastify

We have been learning all about Matariki. We created presentations and yesterday we had a god at using screencastify to add voice to them.

The Year 4's Have Talent

Check out some of the Year 4 groups taking part in the Maori X Factor competition.

Room 5's Group

Room 4's Groups

Citizenship Awards

Here are the Year 4 Citizenship Award recipients for Term 2. Snedhal from Ruma Rima got her award for involvement.


Here is a video of Snedhal receiving her award.

Making some big cookies

On Friday we completed a task that we have been meaning to carry out for a long time. Our goal was to make a big cookie with a spider web pattern on top as part of our reading for @ChapterChatNZ. We did it and it was delicious. Eugenia made a video of the process.

Big cookie from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Information Reports

We have been very active and engaged learners during writing time this week. We have been carrying out research about a chosen animal and writing information reports. Here are some of the results.

Maka's prezi about lions:

Edwin's Puppetpals video about dolphins:

Salah's report about husky dogs:

Doubling and Halving

The Taimana maths group have been working on a new multiplication strategy called doubling and halving. Aniva and Taufeeq demonstrated their learning today by recording themselves using the strategy.

R5's Assembly!

Check out the highlights from R5's assembly.

Here is the Matariki presentation from assembly. Eugenia and Snedhal have used screencastify and google slides to present it.

Once Upon an Alphabet

Our lack of posts this week is due to our preparation for this week's assembly! However we did some creative writing today based on the book by Oliver Jeffers - Once Upon An Alphabet.

Duffy Theatre Show @duffybooks

On Thursday we had the pleasure of watching our very first Duffy Theatre Show. We were absolutely blown away by the performance and we came back buzzing.

The Duffy theatre show😎😃 from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Our Trip to the Auckland Museum

Yesterday we went to the Auckland Museum. We had a fantastic time and learnt a lot of new information about Matariki. Check out the highlights.

Survival Shelters

Last week the Y4 Syndicate spent the week getting involved in a deep learning task. They were set the task of designing a volcano proof shelter for their family to survive in for one week.

Here are some of the descriptions of the shelters.

Earthquakes in our first language #BookCreator

The learners from R5 have been using the @BookCreatorApp to add dialogue to an Earthquake story during their ESOL lessons. Some of them recorded their dialogue in their first language!

Inquiry Presentations #2

We have been busy inquiring into natural disasters. We are learning how to demonstrate our learning in different ways. These groups decided to use Google Slides.

Inquiry Presentation

We have been busy inquiring into natural disasters. We are learning how to demonstrate our learning in different ways. These groups decided to use iMovie.

The Present

The Present from Jacob Frey on Vimeo.


We have been using this excellent short film as a motivation for writing. Here are some of the results.

What to do in a storm #2

More explanations about how to prepare for a storm.

What to do in a storm

One of the digital tools that we have been learning to use is iMovie. We combined this learning with our natural disasters studies to create movies about storms.

Mt Roskill Campus Fia Fia Night

On Tuesday the 24th May, the Mt Roskill Campus had a Fia Fia Night. Here is a video with highlights of the performances.



On Wednesday Maka wrote a recount about the event.

Room 5 gutter board champions.

Room 5 have won the Year 4 gutter board competition. Today they took on the teachers and they won very convincingly! Vaka has written about the victory.

Letters to an Angry Bird

We have been writing letters to Red - the main character in the Angry Birds Movie that is out now.  We wrote explanations to help Red control his anger.



Here is Aniva's awesome explanation:

Digital Day

On Thursday the Year 4 Syndicate had a digital day! We spent the whole day moving around the four classrooms learning how to use digital tools for our learning. We were able to add a lot of new tools to our digital toolkits.

Charlotte's Web - Stop Motion

Another @ChapterChatNZ task! Bileanna and Tereana decided to have a go at making a stop motion movie about Charlotte's Web. This is the first time they have made one and they did it all by themselves. Stop motion is quite tricky and they have done a great job! Well done!

Stop motion from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Spiders! @ChapterChatNZ

Room 5 have been reading Charlotte's Web as part of @ChapterChatNZ and we just can't get enough of spiders. Each week we are set tasks that go with the chapters we are reading. Here are some of the results.

Spider facts from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

@ChapterChatNZ Creativity

Room 5 are loving the tasks/challenges being set as part of @ChapterChatNZ. We have been creating spiders.

We have also been creating barns.

Mark Sommerset Visits MRPS

Yesterday we had a very special guest at MRPS. His name was Mark Sommerset and he is a well-known NZ author. He talked to us about what he does and read some of his books to us. They were hilarious. 

Here is a video of the highlights.

R5 Vs R6 - Gutter Board Competition

Our sport reporters were on location again last week at the Year 4 Gutter board competition. It was a tight match between Room 5 and Room 6. Here are the highlights. 

Inside the Earth

We have been writing explanations about what is inside the earth. Aniva and Bileeana have made a movie to share their explanations.

Inside the Earth from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Vaka, Siddhu and Ben have used PuppetPals.

Inside the Earth from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Our first interclass gutter board match!

Yesterday, we had our very first interclass gutter board match against R7. It was awesome. Snedhal and Eugenia recorded some of the action and have made a video of highlights. Watch the video to find out who won.

Gutter board from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Happy Mother's Day

Happy mother's day to all of the Ruma Rima mothers. 

Here are some of the diamante poems we wrote for our mums. 

Maka's poem

Wolfgang's poem:

Amatan's Poem:


Vaka's poem:

Oscar's poem:

Our First @ChapterChatNZ

Today we had our very first @ChapterChatNZ! It was amazing communicating with schools from all over NZ about the book we are reading: Charlotte's Web. Here is a video of our experience.

We got to see some of the barns that other schools had created. They were awesome. Lenaya and Maka decided to have a go at creating barns using Minecraft.

Hawaiian Eruptions

Bileeana, Kelly and Eugenia have created a video to share their learning about Hawaiian eruptions.

Hawaiian eruptions from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Hawaiian eruptions get their names from the Kilauea volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii, which is famous for producing spectacular fire fountains.

Plinian Eruptions

What is a plinian eruption? Snedhal, Lenaya and Aniva have made a movie to explain.


A Plinian Eruption from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Plinian eruptions are extremely destructive. Check out this video to see just how dangerous they are.

Planning for Natural Disasters

We had a fantastic day of learning with Mr Dellow yesterday. He taught us a HUGE amount about disasters. He showed us this video of Rangitoto erupting and got us thinking about how we can plan  and prepare ourselves for a disaster should we be faced with one.

Auckland Museum Volcanic Eruption from Brandspank on Vimeo.

We looked at this great website that has a lot of advice about preparing for disasters.

What's the Plan Stan?

We created presentations about preparing for disasters and here is Lenaya's fantastic learning.

Creating Koru Art

Here are some more presentations about the procedure we went through to complete our koru art.

Koru Art

Last Wednesday Ruma Rima had a day with Mrs Bateman. We created some amazing koru art and here are the results.

Rebekah and Taufeeq created slides to show how they made their koru art.