Thursday, March 31, 2016

Extraordinary Earthworms

Last week Mr Carroll gave R5 a science lesson all about worms. Here are some movies we made to share our learning.



Information About Earthworms from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Thursday, March 24, 2016

Lego Descriptions

As part of our study of toys, we have writing about lego! Here are some of our factual descriptions.



Sunday, March 20, 2016

Tennis Lessons

Over the past month we have been lucky enough to have tennis lessons. Before we were given tennis rackets, we spent the first two lessons developing our timing with a tennis ball. Jia, Rebekah and Aila have made a movie with the highlights. Great timing Ruma Rima!


Friday, March 18, 2016

Lego Stop Motion #iMotion

As part of our learning about toys, we have been looking closely at lego. Today some of us had a go at using the iMotion app to create lego movies.


Lego jail from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.





Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Super Digital Citizens

As part of our learning about being digital citizens, we are creating posters to inform ourselves and other learners about digital citizenship. We used Cartoonify to create avatars and we described the characteristics of a super digital citizen. Here are some of the posters.






Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Monday, March 14, 2016

Mr Dellow's got talent!

Mr Dellow was in Room 5 today! As part of our topic study on toys, he brought his toys from home into school. Mr Dellow showed us a photo of himself as an 8 year old with his family holding his toy truck.

Guess what? He still owns the truck. Can you see him holding it?



He also showed us his wooden sword.


Finally, Mr Dellow displayed his spinning top skills! What a pro!


Thursday, March 10, 2016

Our Trip to MOTAT

On Tuesday, the Y4 syndicate visited MOTAT as part of our study on Toys. We had a great day and learnt a lot. Here is a slideshow of the trip. 


Here is a recount about our trip written by recount.

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Home Learning

Some of the learners in Ruma Rima are using their google drive to do some fantastic learning at home. Here are some examples:

Ben's presentation about Steven Universe.


Rebekah's fantastic recount about a trip to Queenstown.

Monday, March 7, 2016

Music Lesson #1

We had an awesome music lesson with Mrs Dawson last week where we learnt the names of many different instruments. We don't want to forget the names of these and the sounds that they make so Bileeana has made a video for us. Great job Bileeana!


Friday, March 4, 2016

The Bee Lady Visits

Today we had a special guest in our syndicate. As part of our study on bees, the Bee Lady came to share her expertise. She brought a real hive and we were able to see the bees in action! 


Check out this video of the hive. We managed to get a glimpse of the queen bee! She is the bee with the white mark on her head.


Eugenia and Bileeana wrote letters to the bee lady to thank her for her visit.

Bileeana's letter from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Storytelling with PuppetPals

We have been writing recounts. Today, we had a go at telling both imaginative and factual recounts using PuppetPals on the iPad.