Week 8 in the Rock Stars

Week 8

In the Rock Stars this week we did basic facts and our parents could come along and see what we do in math time. We all had fun. We played lots of games with our parents.

Here are some of the things we said afterwards:

“It was real cool, I love it because it was fun to challenge games that we could beat them at.”

“Fun, instead of just few games we did lots.”

“I liked beating my parents.”

“It was fun when Aunty beat Richard and me.”

“It was good practise for inter-school maths.”

“It was good to challenge yourself, because you get better.”

"My aunty thought it was nice to be part of my math learning."

Mum said "I liked the squares and primes game."

We have being learning about 3D shapes.

3D shapes have length, width and depth.

On Thursday night there was a math competition at the St Joseph's hall. Natasha, Anne and Amie were in a team. They got first out of the year seven and eights. Lachlan, Hudson and Hughin got third out of the year seven and eights. Thomas, William and Tamati got fourth out of the year Sophie and Aanalise got sixth out of the year five and sixes.

The Rock Stars have made 21 a game in Maori. You say the days of the week then the numbers 1 to 14 (or more) in Maori.

Welcome Noah!

Noah is a new kid in the Rock Stars. He has got some new friends along the way. Noah has come from Bulls school.He’s a Year 6. Jacob C has showed Noah how to play bull tag.

Week 7 in the Rock Stars

In the Rock Stars this week we have done some reading. We have been thinking why the author has decided to write this book. We have read some books, we think they wrote them because they want to entertain us. Now we have to work out what the author’s message is.  For example, in The Sneetches “even if you’re different, you are not any better or worse than anyone else”.

For math this week in the Rock Stars we have been learning about area. We have found that the difference between area and perimeter is that the area is the inside and the perimeter is the outside edges. When you increase the perimeter by a scale factor of 2, it doubles, but the area will multiply by 4.

This week in the Rock Stars we have traced around a template plate. Then we made some patterns on a cubes. Here are some photos of the first face of our cube.

WA about Kid President

We love the Kid President! He has such good advice.

WALT present our learning

In the past few weeks the senior classes have been undertaking a range of 'lucky dip' homework projects.  Wow! What an awesome result we have seen.  The students have been very open to learning, enthusiastic and resilient in learning new things.

In the Rock Stars we have had lots of board games made, wonderful presentations and some amazing art!  The students have asked for a 'lucky dip' over the holidays also.

Here is Paige's learning presentation about country she was interested in.  The class rated her 10 out of 10 for an engaging, interesting and informative presentation that was clearly and enthusiastically presented to us.

Week 10 in the Rock Stars

On Wednesday it was 7 aside tournament and most of the schools from the area went. Year 5-6 and year 7-8 went to the 7 aside.  It was an awesome day, the teachers heard lots of reports of fair ,fun play and ROCKERS values being shown.  Oh, and we won the Year 7-8 soccer trophy!

In math this week we have been learning our to create art using transformations of shapes. . We could use rotations (turns), reflections (mirror), translations (shifts) and enlargements. Here is one of our pictures.

On Thursday Room 2 went for a walk in the QE2 because Mrs Frost (our teacher) had never been in the QE2.  Some paths were overgrown and we got lost. We couldn’t find the particular part of the creek. Here are some photos that we took while we were in the QE2.

This week we have also been learning about descriptive writing and we did some monster writing. We will be sharing it with Parklands School, they will try to draw it. The people with the most similar monsters win. Parklands School might also be sharing some monsters with us that we will have to draw.Here are some photo’s of some monsters.  

My MONSTER writing

My monsters name is Cloudy. He has a ginormous blue circle head that is far too heavy for his small blue cloud like body. He has short blue arms and blue clouds for his hands and the same with his legs. He has 2 ears like a big old grizzly bear with 2 upsidedown raindrops inside them the colours for the raindrops are red green and orange. He has 2 green and yellow stripey snakes on either side of his head one pointing up and the other on pointing down He has 2 bulging eyes like Spongebob Squarepants with 3 eyelashes on each one. His eyes are about the size of a ping pong ball. My monster has 2 antennas with eyes on top. The eyes are like the other eyes, he has purple pupils. On each antenna he has purple sharp spikes, stuck to the antenna. He has orange polka dots all over his body.

And that is my MONSTER!!!

By Mia :)

We have also been working on our poppy art.  We have learnt how to draw a poppy and have recreated it 4 times using different mediums.  This week we are using collage.  

WALA sentence types

The Rock Stars are learning about the 3 different sentence types.  Check out this cool Youtube clip we watched. Ask us what the other 2 types of sentences are.

Complex Sentences

WALA Spain

Yummy!  Mrs Frost made us churros.  This is a traditional Spanish breakfast.  Churros are a long donut that is sprinkled with cinnamon sugar and then served with a chocolate sauce.  Mrs Frost made the churros at home, then at school we re-heated them and made the cinnamon sugar and chocolate sauce.  We like Spanish food!

WALA Spain

We are exploring countries and other cultures. We made these pictures that show two famous Spanish icons.  We first painted our backgrounds using the colours of the Spanish flag and then we traced and cut out the silhouette of our icon. 

To be successful we had to:

Think carefully about blending our red and yellow paint

Very carefully trace or freehand our chosen icon and cut it out

Place our silhouette in appropriate positions

Work collaboratively and respectfully to share our limited resources

In the making of these pictures we learnt about why only yellow and red paint was used (because it is the colour of the flag), we also learnt about some of the cultural differences in dresses and dances.

WALA our whakapapa

Summer has this amazing book, that detailed her family tree.  What a treasure this is for her and her family to come!

WALT describe

On Friday, we had a visitor to our class.

After Twinkle left we did a quick write to describe the bunny and/or the experience.  These are some of our descriptions:

Today, Rebecca brought her rabbit Twinkle into our school. It was a mini lope.  Her eyes were mammoth.  It's fur as smooth as silk.  She looked like a storm colour.  Mrs Frost said it looked like a Siamese cat. It was really scared of us.  Then Rebecca's mum had to take it to her house to put it in her hatch.  I was so sad when it left but I am going to get one.  By Cavan.

This morning Rebecca brought her bunny rabbit to school.  It was a bit scared, its eyes looked as if they were stolen from a teddy.  As soon as I felt the silky ears I wished I could keep it forever.  Her furry coat looked warmer than a polar bears.  By Thomas.

Mini Lope Bunny

She has white whiskers.

She is white.

She has brown eyes.

She has big ears.

She is two and a half months old.

She has big paws.

She has big feet.

She is a fluffy bunny.

By Samuel.

Twinkle, Rebecca's bunny fur felt like silk as I slipped my hand down her back. Her eyes were as black as a thunder storm.  Her cute feet looked like she was on tiptoe.  She looked scared and fragile.  Her type of breed is a mini lope.  She is so adorable.

WALA our whakapapa

Look at some of the amazing homework assignments the Rock Stars produced.  You guys rock!

WALA poumanu

As part of our week one Poumanu team art project, some of us have finished our art works.  They look fantastic.  Come in and check them out in the classroom.