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.

Whole School Assembly

Yesterday we had our Term 3 whole school assembly. We were treated to some awesome performances. Here are some of the highlights. 

Planet Description

We have been inspired by this movie called The Planets to write descriptions about imaginary planets.

The Planets from Handymartian on Vimeo.

Aniva, Ben and Salah decided to publish Ben's story about Planet Robloxia using iMovie.

Jia wrote about description about planet number 1 from the video.

Speech Finals

Lenaya and Muhammad represented R5 in the Y3/4 Speech Finals last week. They did an awesome job and presented their speeches very confidently! 

R5's Speeches from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Persuasive Writing #2 @AdobeSpark

Some more persuasive videos by R5.

Ben: Why watching TV is good for you!


Sendhal: Why I should become a doctor!

Persuasive Writing @AdobeSpark

We have been busy learning all about persuasive writing. Today we decided to use our writing to make movies using Adobe Spark.

Here is Sneha's opinion on whether students should be allowed to bring cellphones to school:

Salah strongly believes that he should be able to bring a dog to school. Here's why:

Here is Muhammad's movie about why WWE is real!

Lenaya and her brother would love a new dog. Here's why.

Saturday Sport Action

Check out some of the learners in R5 playing their Saturday sports! Way to go guys.

Tinkering with @ThingLink

R5 has been learning how to use Thinglink. Check out some of our interactive images.

Oh no! What happened to our teacher Miss Lepou?

On Thursday Miss Lepou had accident while playing soccer with her class. Check out this video made with Adobe Spark.

Olympic Athletes #2

Some more research on current olympic athletes.

Eugenia's poster

Snedhal's poster

Vaka's Report

Olympic Athletes #1

We have been carrying out some research on current olympic athletes. 

Aila, Rebekah, Jia and Lakshita's presentation

Maka's presentation


Siddhu's presentation

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.