Arohatia Te Reo Resource - Loop Box

For our Arohatia Te Reo Resource we created a Loop Box. For those of you that don't know what a loop box is it is a box which uses sets of cards that have a English word on one side and the Maori version on the other side. You put the card with the English side facing up into the top slot of the box. Inside the box is a slide like passage in which the card slides down, it flips the card around revealing the Maori word. We also made many different topics of cards like sports, food, animals, days of the week, everyday sayings, months, colours and places. We think the Loop box is a great way to teach people basic Maori words.

Here are some pictures of our creation -

By Jenna

Ki O Rahi

Ki O Rahi is a Maori game that was played by some tribes as a competition instead of fighting and losing lots of their warriors. We are lucky enough to be being taught the game by some push play people who are very friendly. The game seemed very complected at first but after learning about it some more it started to make a lot more sense. Now we have played it we have found out how fun it could be. We will continue to learn and play the game until we get very good at it! Thank you to our push play helpers for teaching us this awesome game!

Emily, rm5

juciywriting - lists

Countries

New Zealand                  
Zimbabwe
Australia
America
Uganda
Thailand
India
Syria
Russia
Afghanistan
Fiji
Haiwai
Taiwan
South Africa
Italy
Ireland
Spain
Ukraine
Namibia
France
England

Term 3

Another term has begun, dodge ball is beginning on Thursday 19th July and we are versing Room 12. Term 3 will probably be a blast. I like term 3. Term 3 is awesome I hope term 3 will be spectacular and we do well in dodge ball.




Scott Room 5

Sustainability

Term 3 has begun, and a new term means a new inquiry topic and this term we are focusing on sustainability. Our first homework task for this term is a very creative one, we have to create a sculpture for Huia's sculpture exhibition. There was only one rule for this sculpture, it had to be made out of recycled materials. we were are given till the friday of week 4 to finish this task, I think we're all expecting some awesome sculptures.

By Jenna!

Science, Term 3

This term we have been learning about matter in science. Matter is what all the things in the world are made up of, solid, liquid or gas. We have been learning about things that can change from one matter to another like ice it is a solid but it turns to water a liquid when it is heated. We melted chocolate from a solid to a liquid and we made jelly into a liquid and then let it set into a solid again. we were trying to melt the chocolate in as many ways as possible this included heating in the microwave and even blowing on them! We had a fun time doing these experiments and eating the remains! We all are looking forward to doing more science so bring it on!

Emily, Room 5

Inquiry

In inquiry we have been doing a big research task in groups of 3 or 4. Our task is to choose out of the countries Mrs Goldfinch had given us to choose from. My group is doing Syria, some other groups are doing countries like China, Uganda, South Africa and many more. We had to complete various questions about 5 categories using the different solo taxonomy words about our country. The 5 categories were, culture, geography, resources, history and issues and problems. The questions were mostly based on human rights, because that was the topic we had been focusing on before this. Here's some of the questions that are on the sheet -
- How does the religion of the country impact citizen's freedom?
- What would it be like to go to school in your country?
- Do the country's politics violate human rights?
- What does your country import/export?
- Imagine if you were the leader of your country. What would you do? How long would it take before you see a significant change?

these are just some examples of the questions we have to do. We had to research these questions or if they require thinking we would do so, there were options on how we could display our research/answers like on myportfolio pages which the teachers had set up, on a prezi or on a poster, etc. We are now nearing the end of our research topic,mostof us just have to finish of those last questions.

By Jenna!

Science

In the last few days we have been doing science everyday. On the first day we did an experiment on which lolly will dissolve the fastest, we did this by sucking on them! Yesterday we did an experiment called the magic balloon where you mix warm water, yeast and sugar in a jar and the place a balloon on top, the balloon is supposed to inflate. For some of us this experiment went well but for some others it went badly as their balloon did not inflate. We will be carrying on with science for the rest of the week lucky us!

Inquiry

For the last few weeks we have been working on inquiries in small groups of four. In my group is Cassie, Christian, David and me! We did an inquiry on Uganda. We made a poster and filled in alot of My portfolio pages. Did you know that Uganda is landlocked and also it is a republic, it also has 8 times as many people as us! We have now just about finished.

Emily, room 5

Matariki concert

Yesterday it was the matariki concert at Tawa Intermediate school. The concert was made up of all the academies from the Intermediate performing the things they have been working on in their time on Wednesdays. It all went very well and from what I have heard it was very enjoyable, I certainly had fun. I was in the choir and we performed two songs and I am also in art academy but we did not perform, although our art was exhibited. My dad said that his highlight was Summer singing at the start he said she was amazing!

Emily, room 5