Ocean pollution art and reports

We are learning about our oceans this term. We have been investigating the topic of ocean pollution. 

We created some art pieces with room 5 - world maps of crayon and dye, then we glued plastic shopping bags over the top (to represent the ocean pollution) and framed our art. 

Did you know that every day we use enough plastic bags to tie together and wrap around the world 63 times?

Next we wrote reports about ocean pollution and published them to edmodo via the iPads. 

Volcano documentaries

We have been working hard to create documentaries in iMovie about volcanoes. First we were divided into groups and we brainstormed the types of roles and jobs required to make a documentary. 

We worked in our groups to decide who would take on each role. We brainstormed what kind of resources we would need - we decided on a range of apps to help us. 

We used skitch to create our title and credits. We used puppet pals for some of the interviews and iMovie to put it all together. 

We worked hard - we argued, negotiated, contributed ideas, cooperated and collaborated. 

We wrote scripts, facts and credits. We recorded voice overs and chose theme music. We recorded puppet pals shows, rerecorded puppet pals shows and then did them again. We showed a lot of perseverance to achieve our end results. 

Area and perimeter

We have been learning how to find the area and perimeter of a shape. First we made some acronyms to help us remember what equation we will use.

We have used the saying "Popsicles are tasty, freezing and messy" to help us remember.  It stands for "perimeter add, then for area multiply".  We made Popsicles and wrote "AM" (area multiply) and "PA" (perimeter add) on our Popsicles. 

Now we are working on creating our own zoos and working out the perimeter and area of each enclosure. 

Clay birds

Earlier in the term we made birds from bakers clay. We have completed our native fantail birds with beautiful fan tails. Here are the end results. 

Mathletics

We had two teams in the mathletics competition. They had a great time and learnt a lot about mathletics tactics. 

Mt Bruce

Our trip to Mt Bruce was amazing. We saw lots of native birds, including the white kiwi. Everyone had a great time. We watched the tuatara being fed and some of us even got to feed the eels some mice!

Feeding the eels

Giant Rata tree 

New Zealand gecko - the only to have live babies rather than lay eggs.

Takahe

Kaka in the trees

Jakob's Mt Bruce Recount

 MOUNT BRUCE TRIP

 Rooms 8,9 and 10 went to Mount Bruce in Paihatua.  My parent was my mum Marise I was traveling with Daniels mum it was me,Daniel, Chisora, Katie and Breanna traveling in Daniels mums car. When we got there our guide was Rob.

  We went to see some birds there was the Kakariki, the kaka and a riflemans bird house the Kokako the  and the Takahe. Then we went to see the Tuatara it hardly moved it looked at us then turned away.

  We saw a baby gecko its was angry and trying to bite we saw its ears they were so tiny you couldn’t even see them the green gecko was very small and cute.

After that we went and saw the Kiwi, one was white and one was brown.  The brown one just walked around but the white one came really close and it was having a drink then it went into the second encloser. After that we went and had lunch    

Then we went to see the eels THEY WERE HUGE the biggest one weighed 15kg we could feed it you would feed it dead mice or kiwi food then the trout came and ate most of the food.    

Then we saw the kaka fly into trees and make loud noises then we went back home to Dannevirke