We have been trying to reduce the amount of plastic we use so we copied an idea from Room 6 for our homework this week. We made posters about lunch wrappers that are good for our environment. Look at our fantastic posters. Thanks for the idea Choi!

We had two wonderful speakers last week. First Leigh Stevens told us bout the different habitats for New Zealand native creatures. Leigh told us about how the worst thing for our creatures was the way we have been destroying habitats for our roads, houses and farms. He showed us some photos of healthy habitats .

The next day Bruce Thomas talked to us about getting rid of the rats on New Zealand Islands. He told us that at first no one believed it would ever be possible to do that and how New Zealanders were the first in the world to manage it. Bruce was in the team that got rid of all the rats on Breaksea Island and that was the WORLD FIRST! He showed us some of his traps that people are using to create inland Islands.

Viv's First Monet Painting

We have been reading about a famous painter called Claude Monet. He liked to get his ideas for his paintings from nature. We took our own photos around the school then we used a programme at te papa to turn them into paintings just like Monet would have done. Viv did the one on this posting from one of our photos. Look on our blogs to see our Monets. if you would like to make a Monet of your own just follow this link to Te Papa museum.

Eye Spy at the Suter

We went to the Eye Spy exhibition at the Suter Gallery this afternoon. The works on display are all part of the gallery's permanent collection. Julie Catchpole, has written messages for each work and they are arranged alphabetically. Our job today was to make our own alphabetical messages and make a quiz. For the second part we swapped quiz sheets and tried to work out the tricky, riddle messages. Once we found the work to match the message, we skertched the work. It was great fun!

See if you can find the answers to these riddles in the photos.

Rocking, riding, person on a lean.
Rectangular, radical, random,roller, rainbow.
Fragile frog with a furious face.
Hypnotised, having fun on a holiday.

Blogging RULES in Room 5

We looked at some blogs which are already underway by room 5 people and found that Daniel and Jonti already had comments on their personal blogs. We decided to make our blogging rules so we could all be sure how to leave a comment and what sort of things we could say. Take a look at our rules and you can leave us a comment if you would like to. We love reading them.

Room 5 Blogging Rules

· Never leave your personal details on a blog, only your first name,
· No swearing or rude comments,
· Never make negative statements or put downs in a posting or comment,
· Always leave your first name when you comment on a blog,
· Always ask if it’s OK to use a photo of someone else on your blog.

George's New Top

Last weekend Maddy took George to her home for a sleep over. George told Maddy how cold it is in Room 5 at night time after the heaters have been turned off so Maddy decided to make George a new top to keep him warm. He won’t lose it because his name is sewn on the front. We took some photos of George playing outside in his new top. He looks pretty pleased with it. Thanks Maddy!

What if...?

We have started our Inquiry topic on Endangered New Zealand species now so we did a thinking skills activity today in our Inquiry groups. We scored our ideas on fluency (how many ideas), elaborate (detailed) and original. Then we added our scores together for a total. The highest score today was 10.
What if there was no-one to look after the kiwi?
1. Kiwi eggs would be eaten by stoats.
2. Kiwis will be extinct.
3. Kiwis could walk into the wrong place.
4. Kiwis would have no-one to protect them from predators.
5. Kiwi predators would come and attack them.
6. Kiwis would get eaten.
7. New Zealander might not get called “Kiwis” because there would be none left.
8. They won’t have enough food.
9. They will have no home.
10. They will be hunted.
11. They could be caught in a trap.
12. Dogs could eat them because there would be no fence.
13. Kiwis would be killed by other animals.
14. Kiwis will need some help because they will be dying out.
15. Baby eggs might get stepped on and killed.
16. Kiwis would become critically endangered.
18. We might not have the kiwi as a national emblem.19. Kiwis might get caught and die.