Cupcake Core Sampling

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Drilling Cupcakes by Antonia

This morning we learnt about core samples and we did it in some cupcakes. It was so fun. Real geologists do it in the ground.

Cupcake Core Sampling by Junior

This morning I have been learning how to take core samples. We took samples from a cupcake and guessed what the core (inside) looked like. In real life geologist take samples of whats under the land.

First Day of Term Two by Sateki

Hello my name is Sateki this photo about me and the cupcake. We are learning about core samples. Everybody had are straw and a cupcake. We had to poke the straw in the cupcake and we pulled the straw out of it. We had to color what we though the inside would look like. Then Miss Ouano cut it in half and we had to see if we were right.

Cupcake Core Sampling by May

This morning Room 14 have learnt that geologists drill holes under the ground, then they pull back up big core sample that shows what it looks like underground. Instead we used a cupcake to do core sampling.

Cupcake Sampling by Toma

Room 14 have been learning about the cores inside a cupcake and also the earth.

Holding a Friendly Conversation

Holding Friendly Conversations - 1080p from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.
This morning in Room 14 we were working on our oral language. Miss Ouano was telling us all about holding a friendly conversation with someone.

We say 'holding' a friendly conversation because we when we talk to people we are trying to talk to them for a good amount of time without it being awkward.

Conversations usually start with questions and replies. A good conversation should have at least 6 lines or more.

Here are examples of our conversation below:

James:

This morning room 14 are leaning about holding a conversations. It means when someone is talking to you. Me and my partner where having a conversation. my partners name was Tylah and we were so happy when we finished. I hope you enjoy it and please leave a comment.

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Ritua:
This morning Room 14 were learning about holding friendly conversations. My partner was Tihi and we used audio boo to record our friendly conversation. I hope you enjoy listening to our conversation and be sure to leave a positive comment.

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Tevita:

This morning Room 14 were learning about holding friendly conversations. My partner was May and we used Audio Boo to record our oral language activity.
listen to ‘Tevita and May Oral Language’ on Audioboo

Izac:

This morning room 14 are learning about holding a conversation. It's like when someone come's up to you, and you can't just drop the conversation so. Please leave a comment, thank you.

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All About Whales by Lorenzo

This morning Room 14 have been learning all about whales. Did you know that whales have blubber to keep them warm? I hope you enjoy my poster, and be sure to leave a comment!

Visit my blog here

Whales by Maroroa

Antarctica: The Frozen Continent

This term our school wide inquiry is about Science. Our terms slogan is 'PSI - Pt England Investigates'. Team 4 are investigating all about Antarctica. Here is some of our cool learning this week. We hope you learn something new!

Dictogloss: Antarctica The Frozen Continent by Quinlan


In Antarctica the South Pole is found at the bottom of New Zealand. The ocean around Antarctica is called the Southern Ocean. It is the most driest and coldest continent on earth.

No people call Antarctica home only researchers. Some animals can survive in Antarctica like penguins, seals and snow petrels.

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Antarctica by Izac


Antarctica is in the south pole, which is at bottom of New Zealand. The ocean around Antarctica is called southern ocean. It is the driest and coldest continent on the earth.

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Ture Seals and Eared Seals by Mista

All About Icebergs by Alizhay

This is my google drawing All About Icebergs.

Cupcake Core Sampling by Tevita

This morning Room 14 have been learning how to take core samples. We took samples from a cupcake and guessed what the core (inside) looked like. In real life geologists take samples of what is under the land.

Making Reading Movies

Last term, we used our ipads to make movies to retell our stories in different ways. Look and listen to some of our examples below:

Dog Saves Girl From Sea by Sarai and Antonia


Dog Saves Girl From Sea from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

We have made a news story about based on the story Marama’s Dog. I first thing we did was write a script for our group. We shared a doc with each other worked on the one doc together. Once we finished that, we practiced it, then we filmed it on the ipad. When we were finished we editied it on imovie then uploaded it to vimeo.

When it was on Vimeo we hopped on our netbooks and embedded the video on a new blog post to share it to the world!

We hope you enjoyed our movie.

The Dog Who Chased Lighting by Elizabeth, Paris, Tihi and Maysun.

Kiwis News flash - The Dog Who Chased Lightning from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

Room 14's Learning Reflection

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Today Room 14 have been using Padlet to reflect on our best moments in term 1! This is just a snippit of their full reflections. Visit their blogs for their full reflections on their learning in term 1.

Making Movies in Maths Class

Maths in Room 14 is different this year. This year Room 14 and Room 13 cross group for maths. So that means that during maths time Room 14 and Room 13 are mixed into different maths classes!

One of the activities we do in Miss Ouano's maths class is make movies showing our understanding of our learning. When we finish our practice activities we get to work with a buddy to plan and film a movie showing how we solve different maths problems.

Here are few examples of our movies:

JB Boom! R14 Maths from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.



Antonia Jumping The Number Line from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.


Lorenzo Jumping The Number Line from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.


May Subtracting In Parts from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

Creating E-Books in Room 14

Do you know what an e-book is? No its not an egg book, it is a 'electronic book'. This week Room Fourteen have been learning how to create an e-book using google presentation.

The week before Easter, Room Fourteen used Story Starters to find a prompt for their writing. Miss Ouano guided us through the structure, helped planned, and away we went writing. 

After we had edited out writing, we marked with a buddy then with Miss Ouano. Then we used our writing to create an e-book using a template that Miss Ouano had prepared. We had to draw pictures for each page to show what was happening in each part.

Some of the prompts from Story Starters were hilarious! Check out some of our cool e-books below!

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Tim The Super Dog by Toma 

My story starters was:Write a quick story about a fast dog who can fly in the sky.

This is a story book that I made in class with my teacher. I hope you enjoy It.

Gerry's Day by Antonia


My story starter: Write A horror story about a spider monkey who finds a newly discovered planet.

My Letter To The Jumping Banana by May

This is my story starter that I made myself that I think I done lots of work on.

My Prompt: Write a birthday letter for a jumping banana who goes to the beach for the summer.


 The Milkshake Who Joins The Hungry Class by Dartanian
Prompt: Write a funny story about a milkshake who is in your classroom.


My Postcard to the crazy princess by Elizabeth


Prompt:  Write a postcard to a crazy princess who eats muffins all day.

You will see why she is  a crazy princess in the story. I Hope you enjoy.

Goosebumps:Clowns in the Amazon by Junior


My story starter: Write a story about a horrible circus performer who is lost in the Amazon.

The Sheep Who Only Wore Green Clothes by Izac

Kia Ora today you are looking at is a writing story that is about a Sheep Who Wears Green Clothes.

Prompt: Write a quick story about a red sheep who wears only green clothes.

The Very Short Cat by Sarai
This is a story about The Very Short Cat named Tylah I hope you enjoy my story.

Making Movies on our Ipads

We are so lucky because Mr Burt has given us two new ipads! Now we are able to create and share our learning in a different way.

This week we were learning how to make movies of ourselves talking about our Omaru Creek maps. First we wrote a script for our movie, filmed it on the ipad, edited it using the imovie app, shared it to Vimeo, then finally embedded the movie on to our blogs! 

Room 14 are so on to it that nearly the whole class filmed and edited their movies this week. Here are some examples below:

This is short film of my Omaru Creek Map. I hope you enjoy.
Omaru Creek Map by Sarai from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.


 
Omaru Creek Map By Junior from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo. Here is me talking about my Omaru Creek map. I hope you like it.


 
Antonia Omaru Creek from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.
This is my Omaru Creek map that I made in Room 14. Please leave a comment!

 
Lorenzo's Omaru Creek Map from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.
I hope you enjoyed watching this!

Embedding Photos from Flickr

This morning in Room 14, we were learning how to embed photos from Flickr. We learnt all about what a HTML code is, how to find it, and where to use it.

The photos we used, were taken at our local Omaru Creek during The River Talks show. The River Talks was held for our community to raise awareness of the bad state our river is in. People shared their experiences, opinions and thoughts about Omaru Creek.

Here are some examples of our amazing embedding skills:

This is a photo from the Omaru Creek, you are looking at a clay pot full of clean water - Izac.


This is a photo of a wet sheet that was dipped in the Omaru creek. Look how dirty the water is - Maysun.


This photo was taken at the River Talks show at Omaru Creek. In the photo is a lady covered in clay because it shows how she feels about the river - Sarai.

Swimming by Toma

Room fourteen were thrilled when we were In the changing room. We put on our togs, but sometimes we would use some spare togs and some people sometimes bring some goggles. My class and I swam for two weeks In Glen Innes aquatic center to learn how swim to survive.

When we got the pools we had to put our school unIform on a big stage. Then we had to go and have a rinse in the shower. I am in group one with James, Izac, UlI, TIhI, Mista, Henry and MaurIce. Our Instructor was Toby and he is awesome!!!!!.

After that we went on to learn some swimming skIlls. First we always do crocodIle arms It Is very easy sometimes and fun. After that we dId motorbIke arms it is cool lIke when we are swimmIng to Island and back to the begInnIng It Is sometimes hard for me.

I really felt super marvelous with my swimming and I felt really sad that we have no more swimming. I really miss Toby the most, and I also want hair like Toby too.

Better Together

Room 14 2013 have made a movie about helping one another and loving your neighbour. We are all truly better together :)

First Week with Netbooks!

It is our very first week with netbooks this year. This  has been our first time creating Google Presentations, and even embedding them to our very own blogs! We also managed to use ALL legal images for our presentations, using advanced search on Google Images.

Miss Ouano is so proud of Room 14 because we are such speedy learners! :)









Click our names on the right hand side of our blog to see more of our hard work!

Chromebook Roll Out 2013

Year 5 students all around the Maniakalani cluster are extremely excited to receive their brand new Chromebooks!

Here is a sneak peak at the beautiful PES children and their savvy new Chromebooks at the roll out today!

Welcome to 2013!

Welcome to 2013! I am extremely excited for a brand new year full of new learning, creating and sharing!

I am also so excited to meet my new class. I'm sure you can't wait to work together using our brand new Chrome Books.

Watch this space world...

Miss Ouano :)

Haiku Poetry by Lesieli

This week our teacher decided that we needed some fun in our learning.

So we decide to do a Haiku Poetry. If you don't know what I am talking about, well you a just about to know. An 575 Poetry is a Pome that has only 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second  and 5 in the third line.

eg : MY - TA - LAN -TED - FRIEND.


HAVE A LOOK AT MY PICTURE AND TRY WORK IT OUT IN A 575 WAY!

Swiss Blue Bayou - Animated by Room 14

Swiss Blue Bayou - Room 14 from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

Room Fourteen were given the task to creatively animate lyrics to Swiss' Blue Bayou. Each kids was given a line of lyrics that they had to illustrate using hyperstudio.

It only took two days to put together, thanks to Room Fourteens hard work!

Enjoy :)

Netbook Reflection 2012 by Rebekah

During year four I was using paper and pencil. “Boring Right!” But now I use my a really cool netbook. It is kind of like a laptop but more amazing and more fantastic than pencil and paper. 

Pencil and paper was the only thing that I could only use when I was small and a little bigger. “That is it! I don't want to use paper and pencil ever again”, I said to myself. I was really sad that time when I was using paper and pencil but, now I could smile because I have a brand new netbook. Woo hoo!

When I first got my netbook I was thrilled but I was frustrated at the same time too
because I didn’t know how to use my netbook but a couple of teachers helped me and then I was so very happy!

About my netbook being a learning tool is great anyway and so very exciting because I get to learn how to write narratives and also recounts that I could share to people around the world. They could see it on my cool blog!

Next year I will not play games I will do my work and homework to because it is more important than a game.

Hope you like my netbook reflection.

Jumping The Number Line 3 by Josephine

 

We did Jumping the Number Line again! But now, I we three digit numbers and got it just like a snap! Actually, I expected it to be like a snap but no need to worry I got it in the end.