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!

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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.

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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.