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.