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.