What is a Rousie? By the Kea's Group

Junior,Lorenzo And Tevita Rousie from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

Hi this is me and my friends Tevita and Junior and we were talking about what a rousie is. Hope you enjoy and leave a comment on me and my friends blogs: Tevita's blog  Junior's blog
What Is a rousie?by Quinlan And Arietta from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

From Farm to Table Animations

Junior from farm to table from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

 
Elizabeth's From Farm To You from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

Decorating Farm Animal Cookies with Antonia and Quinlan

From Farm To Table Room 14 from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

Room 14 have been learning all about farming! They decorated farm animal cookies for their immersion activity, yummy! Today, some kids from Room 14 will be showing you how to make different farm animal cookies.

Quinlan and Mahana Read 'Spring Chickens'

Quinlan and Mahana have used audioboo to record their beautiful reading! Click here to read the journal article on our reading blog.

listen to ‘Quinlan and mahanas reading’ on Audioboo

Our Key Pals In Spain!

Room 14 are very excited because we have new key pals from Spain! They are a class of 5th graders from Madrid which is the capital of Spain. We call them 'key pals' because we use our keys on the keyboard to type emails to them, instead of calling them pen pals!

Here are some examples of google drawings and emails we sent to our new friends:

 

Wednesday 20 November, 2013

Dear Key Pal,

Kia ora my name is Alla. I am 9 years old and I am a girl. The country I live in is New Zealand. I go to Pt England School. I like Pt England school because you can make a lot of good friends and there are lots of very nice teachers at Pt England school. Pt England school also has a wonderful principal.

My hobby is playing with my friends. My favourite food is sushi because I love the tuna one. My favourite place is school because I can play with my friends. My favourite sport is Netball.

My favourite book to read is Goosebumps because I love scary books. The best subject that I like at school is Maths maths is my favourite because we do fun stuff.

I hope you write back From your new friend Alla.

Wednesday 20th Nov 2013

Dear Key Pal,

Bula vinaka and my name is James. And I I’m a year 5 student. I am a boy and I go to Pt England School in Auckland. PES is a lovely place where you can have fun and learn a lot.

I live in New Zealand. My favorite food is KFC. My favorite places I like to go is the movies and the JB Hi Fi. Every day I like to go with my two brothers and play video games.

The best book I like to read is Jack and the beanstalk. My subject I like is maths because it helps you and think fast. In my family I have two brothers and one sister.

At home I have a Xbox 360 a Playstation Two and a Xbox. My brother has a flat screen and a ipad. I hope you really like my letter. Thank you for reading.

Ka kite ano and have a great day.

From James    

Maths Strategies Using Educreations

Miss Ouano's maths class have been working with multiple strategies this term! We have been using educreations to share our learning.


Aaron - Multiplying Hundreds, Tens and Ones by Aaron





Adding Hundreds, Tens and Ones by May, Elizabeth and Arietta





Jumping the number line by Kishan

The Adventures of Captain UnderPants And Reckless Rampage of Harold and George By Mahana

I have created my own comic book on this website click the link to create your own! 

Room 14 Beach Movie - Manaiakalani Film Festival

This year students in Room 14 worked together to come up with ideas for our movie. Their were many of great ideas, but the one that stood out the most was creating a musical based on 'Teen Beach Movie'.

The ideas were great, however there was a lot of planning, practicing, filming, recording and editing to do!

Here are some of the skills that the Room 14 film crew had to develop during the process of LEARN, CREATE, SHARE:

LEARN

• Use google docs to communicate and plan ideas for the movie
• Collaborate with other students to plan songs and dance choreography
• Study and learn the songs and dance movements
• Teach and guide students the chosen songs and dances

CREATE

• Use Garage Band to record and edit voiceovers and songs
• Use the flip cameras to film scenes
• Use Hyperstudio to draw background images for greenscreen
• Use iMovie to edit the final scenes

SHARE

• Upload to vimeo
• Share to Manaiakalani cluster school at the Film Festival
• Share to the world through our blogs

Well done to Room 14 for such a great job on this year's movie, and an extra special thumbs up to Junior and May who came up with the concept and were the brains behind our movie!

How Gelatin Is Made by Quinlan

My Boring Holiday by Junior

Have you ever stayed home watching TV and playing PS3 by yourself? Well I have. It’s so fun because you're allowed to play the game by yourself and and you don’t have to share! By the way, the game I was playing was Assassins Creed Brotherhood. It is so cool.


But I was so sad that my that my mum didn't take me to The Warehouse. So I just grabbed my blanket and the sky remote and started to watch Regular Show. Then I was punching my pillow like a lunatic.


I started to yawn, I was exhausted, so I went to bed and had little sleep. I woke up and my mum still wasn't home! So I got my controller and I started to kill the bad guy in the game, then I fell asleep again.


I woke up, and she still wasn't home! So I went outside and started to play touch with my friends. They were Joseph, Rocky, and Zavian. Then my mum was finally home. I was angry at her, but I still love her.

My Weekly Reflection by Antonia

Making Cheese

This is my Cheese making activity. I really like it because it is all about CHEESE!!!! Hope you enjoy it:) By May

Pt England School has Gone Google

Last term we had the honor of having Google film makers come to our school. We are all so proud to be a part of an amazing school and community. Room 14 and Miss Ouano also feature in this short doco, keep an eye out!

What in The World is Going On?

This term Pt England's school wide theme is based on social sciences, Team 4 is focussing on farming and agriculture.

In Room 14 we are looking at where our food products come from and also the process they go through. Our slogan is "From Farm to Table", we will be using this model to help us understand the processes of food.

As part of our immersion activity, Room 14 made farm animal cookies! Here are some of our awesome creations below:

Here is the movie that the Team 4 teachers made for immersion assembly, please close your else when Miss Ouano comes on hehe!
 
I'm A Farmer and I Grow It! from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

The Magic Castle by Quinlan

This is my audio boo and story in flip snack. Please press the play button with the story. Enjoy!

listen to ‘The magic castle’ on Audioboo

Performing Plays in Room 14

This week in Room 14 we have been learning to read with expression. Reading with expression means to read with different tones, sounding like the character, and not sounding like a half asleep robot!

First we read our plays with our group and Miss Ouano. Then we practiced reading the play with our group in a quiet place. We had to make sure when we were reading with our group we worked together and worked as a team.

Once we had practiced, we then presented our plays to our class! Performing in front of the class was really embarrassing and really nerve racking, but in the end it was loads of fun!

After our performance, we recorded ourselves reading our play’s using Audio Boo. We then posted our boo’s to our blogs, so that others can hear our expressive reading.

Reading with expression has helped us to learn many skills, here are some:

• Understanding the story
• Working well with a team
• Expressing ourselves through drama
• Performing confidently to an audience
• Improving our oral language

And lastly having fun!

We hope you enjoyed hearing all about our learning! Be sure to leave a comment on our awesome blogs!

Reading with Expression

This week Room Fourteen have been focusing on reading with expression. We have been using plays from our journals to practice reading with different tones and changing our voices to suit different characters.

Listen to our boo's below to hear some of our awesome reading!  Here I am reading the whole play by myself!!!

listen to ‘junior's training day’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Antonia The royla breakfast.’ on Audioboo

Nursery Rhyme Animations!

This term we are learning all about different types of stories. Room 14 and room 13 have been working really hard to produce this fabulous animations showing their favourite nursery rhymes.

Enjoy and please be sure to visit their blogs :)




Toma Hey diddle diddle from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.



Dartanian from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.


Mahana from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.


May's Animation from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.


Antonia Incey wincey spider from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.


Junior humpty dumpty from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.
 
Lorenzo Humpty Dumpty from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

Tihi's Spoken Word Performance

Tihi Spoken Word from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

Here is an awesome video of Tihi's fantastic spoken work performance. We was very brave to stand in front of the whole school to share his poetry. Room fourteen is extremely proud of you Tihi! Ka pai!

School Holiday's by Liz

No! It’s school holidays and I will have a great time. So I’m going to be having my birthday on the 28th of July and it’s a day before school. We will go to the movies and shopping. I can’t wait for Saturday because Mr Burt said that there will be  some little lights on my street. I am going to miss my netbook but one thing I will miss too is my teacher and my friends.

On Wednesday I am going to my Mum’s work. It is going to be cool. I will take my book and that and I hope I can go on my email and my blog. I hope my mum has a webcam, I can’t wait for that too.  And I can’t wait for Tuesday me and my brothers will help clean the creek.

Visit Liz's blog :)