Colour Poems

This week Room 4 literacy have been focusing and learning about poems and how to write them. We are learning to use effective vocabulary. Here is Hilary's colour poem. She had to think of some items of different colours and use interesting vocabulary to make it more effective. She then cut out each line and arranged them to ensure they sounded great and had good rhythm.

Colours , A beautiful glowing cheerful rainbow.

Blue, a glistering gleaming sapphire as bright as heaven.

blue , the bright luminous sky.

Pink , a girls gleaming shiny glossy lip gloss.

Red , Ruby's as red and roses and roses as scarlet as blood.

Orange , a fiery blazing glow to fire.

Polyfest 2019

Yesterday team 5 got the chance to visit a cultural festival called Polyfest. For those who do not know what Polyfest is, it is an iconic cultural festival held every year (for 44 years!) in Manukau Sports Bowl Auckland, New Zealand. Every secondary school in the area get the chance to compete which is what the event is famous for, although it also features a range of food stalls and activities. The competition allows different people to embrace their cultures through traditional dances from Hindi (bollywood) dances to even the Tongan tau'olunga!

Polyfest hold a schools day on the Wednesday (the first day of the event) where schools are invited to come in and explore the activities, before the main crowds arrive. The companies and organisations at the stands put on a range of activities especially for this day. We visited a range of stalls, from the Fire Brigade to radio stations to AUT. Each stand had a different activity for us to participate in.

While most of the main stages were closed on this day, we managed to sneak in to see some of the Kapa Haka performances on the Māori stage, which was amazing! We were so impressed with the enthusiasm and talent of the students who performed. You could really tell that they were loving the experience! 

Some of our favourite stands were from Elections (who taught us about voting and what the mayor and prime minister do), AUT who told us about uni and taught us a dance and Vaimatina who came all the way from Hawaii to teach us to Hula!

We also met heaps of people who taught us more about careers. We met some people from different Universities and courses who taught us about all the scholarships that are available in a range of areas from teaching to welding! We also learnt about some specific careers like the Navy (which is more about disaster relief and peace keeping than many of us realised) and being a radio host. 

Overall the trip really helped us to learn more about our inquiry topic: Ko wai au?  Ko wai tātou?  Ko wai rātou?  As we have been looking at our past (our culture and journey to Glen Innes), our present (our interests and identities) and our future (our careers). There was something to support our understanding of each of those foci throughout the day. What a wonderful experience!

Ratio with Raro

WALT: Identify the relationship between numbers.

This week, Room 4 maths have been learning about Ratio. We realised how often we need to calculate ratio in the real world and that it is particularly important for us to know when we cook. We decided to investigate this in our DMIC problem involving raro.

Question 1 ~ Mrs Stone bought 80g packets of Raro. Each packet creates 5 200ml serving. How many packets should Mrs Stone buy to serve the whole class?

 We figured out she needed to buy 7 packets, because 7 x 5 = 35. She would have three servings left over, but you can't buy less than a whole packet!

Question 2 ~ If 80g of Raro makes 5 servings, what is the ratio of raro to water for one serving?

80g : 1000ml

16 : 200ml 

16 was the answer we found to solve this problem. The packet said that each serving required 200ml of water. We knew that 200 x 5 is 1000 and that 5 x 16 is 80.

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After getting through each problem we got to test out the ratio by making 5 cups of raro. We used all the knowledge that we learnt to make sure everyone had an even amount of the ingredients like water and we knew how much powder to put in each cup.

Welcome to Team 5!

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a student in Team 5? Check out this video to learn more about us!

Ko wai au?

This term we have been looking at our identities and answering the question Ko Wai Au? The students used Hyperstudio to create visual mihi. These represented aspects of their identities, like their culture, interests, families and faith. Can you guess who these visual mihi belong to?

We are authors

This week Room 4 literacy have been exploring their identity as authors. We started by looking at what makes a good learner:

We debated whether there is a difference between learning and behaviour. Then we looked at what helps us to write:

By King

Then we looked at some extracts from bestsellers and considered the aspects of the text that we liked:

What do you think is important in writing?

Our Whakapapa

Today in Room Four we have been inquiring into our history. We started by looking at our whakapapa and our different cultures, before we thought more deeply about the journeys of our ancestors.

We have all come from different countries, travelled different distances at different generations, but we have all made east Auckland our home and we all share at least one culture as New Zealanders.

This map illustrates the different countries that we are connected to and we have acted this out to make a virtual map of our classroom below.