Pike River Mine Disaster

29 miners are trapped inside the Pike River mine none of the miners can get out. Here are some of our well wishes and thoughts. Room Five is thinking positive thoughts that everything will be ok.

I feel really sorry that the families have lost some of the miners that are trapped down in the mine, I hope you will get them out alive. I hope you will get all of the 29 miners out. Its really cool that two miners walked out, but it is sad that 29 are still in there. Best wishes, Alex, Room 5 Makarewa school.

I really feel sorry for those loved ones trapped in the coal mine. I think those still trapped in the mine are still alive . I know you hope when they get out of the mine they will still be alive and healthy Here at Makarewa School we are also hoping they come out alive . From Summer at Makarewa School Room 5

After 5 days 29 people are still trapped in the Mine. I hope everyone comes out ok. By Ashleigh Butson at Makarewa school Room 5

I feel really sad and sorry that 27 loved people are trapped in a tunnel. It is a really terrible thing to happen. I really hope they get out soon. I hope they will till be alive when they get out. I am very sad. I hope the rescue team can save them I am very happy for the 2 people that but we still need the other 27 people to escape. By Anna O`Connor Room 5 Makarewa School.

There is always hope for the best. I'm absolutely positive that no families will be upset. After 5 days 29 people are going to dig them out and as I said I hope for the best. By Hannah Dawson Rm 5 Makarewa School.

I hope they come out healthy and alive. I also want you to know that we are thinking of them. Ashleigh Brooking Room 5 Makarewa School.

Fraction Fun!

Try this excellent website for some fun fraction games!

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/fractions/#Fractions

If at first you don't succeed...

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Room 5 Supports Team Motatapu

Check out these wicked photo's of fabulous Room 5 students showing their support for Team Motatapu. Thanks to Peter Bruggerman and the Southland Times website.

Room Five you make your teacher so proud to have such an enthusiastic group of students!

Miss C

Pet Day

Makarewa School had an excellent Pet Day on Friday 29th October 2010. Most of Room 5 bought our pets along for the afternoon. We all enjoyed making arts and crafts in the morning.

We want to say a big thanks to Mrs Cowan who organised the whole day.

Alex's mum was kind enough to email some photos of Fantastic Room Fiver's having fun with their pets. We made the pictures into a movie for you to enjoy.

Awesome Alliteration!!

Room Five has been writing poems using alliteration. Alliteration is when a letter sound is repeated over and over at the start of words.

Here is Emma's poem:

GLOOPY ALIENS

Leaping aliens are loopy and lumpy.

Slimy aliens are smelly and slippery.

Gloopy aliens are green and gooey.

Twisting aliens are tiny and tasty.

Monster aliens are mad and meanies.

Fractions

Check out the link to some great fraction games you can practice at home.

http://www.coolmath4kids.com/fractions/index.html

GOLD!!

Here is Ronan's inquiry keynote presentation on Gold. We have been looking at human and technological effects on Natural Resources this term.

Hope you enjoy!

Ruff

This week we decided we needed a class pet. Goldfish are boring and rats are stinky so we decided on a virtual pet. We adopted and named "Ruff". She is an 8 week old Husky. Just like a normal dog we have to care for her everyday.

Because it costs to adopt a pet we decided to not have a class auction this term and put the money towards the adoption.

Ruff is a cool pet. She really likes playing with her frisbee and getting lots of scratches.

Sing Out

Last week two talented members of Room 5 took part in the Sing Out Choir Festival. The theme was Divas and the ladies from the popular band Lipstick sang with them.

Tayla and Summer were in the front row of the massed choir. The year fours and Miss C got to go watch them on Wednesday morning. We thought they were awesome and we sang along with the songs we knew.

Congratulations to Summer and Tayla who had heaps of words to learn and smiled the whole time they were on Stage. Mrs R did a great job with the choir, we are very proud of Makarewa School.

Thanks to Tayla who sent through these photos to put on our blog.

Snow Fun with the Laurie's

Here are some pictures of my family and I in the snow, having a snow fight and making a snowman. We went in a sack and pretended it was a sled, we had rides in it. We had turns at having a go. Sometimes we both had a turn together.

By Alex Laurie

Elly in the snow

This is my dog Elly she is 7 months old and this weekend was her first time in the snow. She loved it!

By Miss C

Snow!!

Wow, what a weekend! Everyone in Room 5 has had a great weekend playing in the snow with many igloo's built, snowmen, sledding and numerous snow fights. Miss C's dog Elly had her first play in the snow and she loved it.

Sadly our awesome Stadium Southland collapsed under the weight of the snow, luckily everyone escaped safely and no one was hurt. On a brighter note at least the Velodrome is ok.

We have included some newspaper pictures of the Stadium.

Brainiacs in the community

This week the Brainiacs reading group has been learning about what is a community, what communities we think we belong to and what communities we know we belong to. As you can see there is photos of our spider diagrams of some of the communities we belong to. Room 5 students belong to a wide range of communities. I hope you like them.

by the Brainiacs

Conservation Week

As part of Conservation Week 2010 Room 5 has made a 5 minute goal to carry out each day to improve our Makarewa community.

Vege Car

This is the amazing vege car designed by James MacDonald. He invented the vege car in 1993.

The company is called Macdiesel. The website is called www.macdiesel.co.nz.

James Nui MacDonald decided to drive up to Cape Reinga which is the end of NZ. Bluff was the start the trip. They had 8 stops along the way. I hope you enjoyed this wonderful vege car advertisement by Holley.

By The Tiger Tanks Reading Group - Holley, Toby, Thomas and Scott

Under the Sea

This is a picture of Scott's amazing artwork about life "under the sea".

When we designed our artworks we thought about different things and sea creatures that we might find under the sea. Then we brainstormed the types of colours you would find under the sea.

The next step was to draw our pictures in pencil. Then we dyed them and lastly we outlined the pictures with black pen or vivid.

We hope you like Scott's fabulous artwork. There will be more to come from talented Room 5 artists soon.

Free Rice

An excellent website for practicing all areas of the curriculum is http://www.freerice.com/index.php

For every question correctly answered on this website the United Nations donates 10 grains of rice to starving families. It may not sound like a lot but it adds up, just check out the donations page.

Happy learning and feeding!

Wow What a Term!

After many technical hiccups the Room 5 blog is up and running again. We are going to be regularly posting on here from now on. You can look foward to seeing some of the exciting things Room 5 has been getting up to in class.

On a personal note I would like to say a massive thank you to all the Room 5 students who have made my first term at Makarewa School an awesome one.

Watch this space for excellent updates...

Farewell Room Five

Thank you to all the Room Five children and parents for making the past two terms so special. You are a great team!!! I look forward to seeing all the awesome things you do with Miss Canny and I can't wait to come back with our baby to visit :)

Thank you for the special farewell party, the photos are great!

All the best for term three everyone.

From Mrs B :)

Buddy Reading

We have been reading to our Room 3 buddies and they have been reading to us.

Check out our photos of our reading and learning. it has been really fun.

By Thomas and Anna.

The Sing Stars

We have been practicing our lovely singing each morning. This song is called 'In This Life' and we really enjoy singing it. Have a listen to see if you think we are star singers. Sing along if you know the words.

Our Group Story

The hairy, stinky giants were smashing fancy houses in the small village, because they were very angry. The brave villagers had fired enormous catapults at then and one had his brown eyes taken out.

The giants ran over top of the wooden houses and they were flattened. The terrified villagers ran to some dark caves nearby for safety.

When the giants went to the biggest house, they stamped loudly on it, but they didn't see the massive steel trap hidden underneath the mat in the lounge.

They fell through it and landed on millions of dangerous red-black scorpions that the tough and clever villagers had put in it.

The giants were poisoned. They died quickly and painfully. The happy villagers returned to their homes, and decided to leave the dead giants t rot in the muddy pit.

After a while the giants rotting bodies started to smell revolting, so the disgusted villagers moved away, by boat and plane, to Australia, and built a 41 story tower apartment by the beach.

They relaxed and sunbathed for the rest of their lives in the beautiful sun.

Written by Ashleigh, James, Brayden (Rm2) and Clayton (Rm2).

With the support and guidance of Mrs H :)

Awesome Animal Research

Room Five has been learning about what animals look like, what they do and what they need to survive.

We have been using laptops and books to help us research information about our chosen animal.

Here are some cool photos of us working together to find information.

Cool Kids in

Room Five
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We are the amazing Room Five class. We are a group of year 3 and 4 students. Our school is in the country and our teacher is Mrs B.

We hope that you enjoy seeing our fabulous learning in Room 5 and following what we get up to.

Term One 'Co-operation' Unit

We now have a variety of co-operation skills and strategies under our belts and we have tried a new, fun way to share what we have learned.

Room Five had a great time experimenting with and learning about Photo Booth and Kid Pix Studio.

Check out our groovy laptops :)