Life Education Visit - Day 1

Room 9 visited Harold on Friday before lunch. We talked about living about the line, living our values and living below the line, not respecting our values. We also talked about bucket filling, doing for others and bucket dippers, taking from others. Jamie showed us some very cool graphics and lighting in the Life Ed classroom and we saw Harold. We also learned a little more about keeping ourselves safe when we use online media. Some of the things we talked about were not making friends with people we haven't really met and also not sharing passwords, talking to our parents, caregivers or teachers about online bullying or comments we don't like. We're going for another visit on Monday afternoon.

Checking the news

The first week back we have been investigating newspapers and looking at advertisements. We noticed things like fonts, letter size, colours and size of the advertisement. Then we looked at what information needs to be in an advertisement. Some of us got distracted by reading some of the articles and learned how newspapers write in third person. So last week we created some advertising for the Readathon we are doing at the moment and we advertised some of the things we did or wanted to do in the school holidays. Some of us are also trying to write articles using third person. The best part of literacy for the last two weeks was sitting in the sunshine, reading the paper!

Hour of Code fun

In Room 9 we had some time on a Friday afternoon to use technology to play hour of code. We can find this on: https://hourofcode.com/nz/learn

The different levels have different themes. There's the Moana one, Minecraft, Star Wars and Frozen. Coding helps to figure out left and right, up and down, forwards and backwards and the hard levels have different degrees. Working with a buddy helps to figure out how to move through the game and we learn from our friends how to go up levels.

We are learning to make iMovies (some of our facts might be a little unfactual!)

Please excuse the big loud noise at the start. We were all a bit excited.

Year 5 STEAM - Scooter Parking

For the last two weeks the year 5 students have been learning to hammer and nail safely while making something useful. We used three pieces of wood that were cut for us and we had to hammer the wood so it makes a U shape for the scooters to sit in. After we finished building them, we used some dye to colour them.

Northwest zone cross country

A group of Year 5/6 students went off to represent Bishopdale at the Northwest Zone Cross Country. We had some great results with Shakaia Clemens coming 17th and Ruby Geoghegan coming 25th. This kids all represented Bishopdale with pride and had great attitudes.

 

   

R9 & R12 Styx Mill Reserve Trip

We got on the bus and we went to the Styx Mill Reserve. When we got there we went to the picnic tables and met Bill the Park Ranger. While we waited for people to use the bathroom we found some prickly seed pods. They looked like little hedgehogs and some of them were still in a ball shape and some were flat. 

Then we walked across the road to the big fence. The big fence keeps cats from going in and getting some of the birds and animals in the reserve. We then walked down the bush walk and across the bridge. The river is called the Styx Mill river and it was very clean. The water comes from springs under the ground.

We saw lots of plants and we saw a Kahikatea tree. It can live for more than 1000 years and it can grow to about 60 metres tall. It is the tallest New Zealand native report. On the walk we saw some pukeko, fantails, sheep and we even saw a hare. Then we stopped and looked at the water birds. We saw ducks, Canadian geese, paradise ducks, black swans, Australian coot and some scaup.
After that we went and met Celia and we learned how to scoop bugs out of the lake. Some students found water boatman, backswimmers, damselfly nymph, dragonfly nymph, small fish. We also caught some worms, a leech, water snails, and some larvae. The best thing on our trips was getting outside looking and experiencing nature.