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:

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.

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

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.

Olympic Athletes #2

Some more research on current olympic athletes.

Eugenia's poster

Snedhal's poster

Vaka's Report

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:

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.

What to do in a storm #2

More explanations about how to prepare for a storm.

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.

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.

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:

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.

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.

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.

Dev's embarrassing moment from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Samson's Imaginative Recount from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Honey bee movie #3

Salah, Vaka and Samson used iMovie for the first time to present their research about bees. They did a great job. Here are the results.

Getting to know each other #2

Here are the final results of our communication activity. Where we had to get to know a partner and use this information to create a google drawing about them.