Term 3 Electives

For the next six weeks we will be doing electives such as, Drama, Science, Current Events, Building, Cell me a story, Strategy and structure as well as art.

Drama includes getting together with friends and making plays to perform in front of the rest of the group. Science is about learning new things and doing experiments. Current Events is when you learn about the events happening now. Building is taught by Mr Galloway, and Mr Vinacom, and there they build different creations. Cell me a story includes doing green screening, claymation and writing. Strategy and structure’ includes building items up using a few resources and creating things. Art is an opportunity to sketch, draw and paint.

Electives have been fun lately, and once they are finished we will share them in front of the rest of the senior team.

By Leilani and Amalya 

Check out the claymation movies the 'Cell me a story' elective came up with on their first day. 

  Sam and Daniel    

 Abby and Cameron George and Ajay

Term 2

Brain Visit

On the 3rd of July Room 13 went to the hall and discovered a giant inflatable brain. We then split up into three groups and went to different stations. One of them was looking inside the inflatable brain. Another on had the chance to use a pepitte, vial and vortex mixer. The final group got to touch plastic and real life brains. We saw a brain that was affected by Alzheimer's, another that had had a stroke and we also saw a healthy brain. It was a fun and interesting visit.

By Lochy, Harrison and Jack

Life Education Bus

Over the last few weeks we have been learning all about the brain (I'm sure Ms Pereira sometimes wonders where our brains are at). On the 2nd and 3rd of July our class went to see Harold at the Life Education Bus. We learnt a lot and we even met the Brainy Bunch! Did you know that when someone is having laser surgery on their brain that it can smell like blue vein cheese? (Yuck!) we also learnt that to keep your brain healthy you need it healthy foods like, nuts, tomatoes, spinach, yogurt, blue berries and so on. 

By Josh and Lucas

Bake Sale

Compassion was our value of the term. As part of our compassion project we had a bake sale to raise money for the Breast Cancer Foundation. Leilani and Jessica organised the bake sale with the help of Room 13. There was lots of delicious treats for sale. In total we raised $321. An impressive amount for a class of only 22 students. Well done Room 13! 

Written by Leilani, Jessica and Kiri

Strength Goal

We have been working on our Strength Goals in Room 13. Every second Wednesday we have a chance to work on them in class. We all have different strengths. Some of us have a strength in creating, building, art, sport and in academic areas. Leilani shared her strength goal the other day. Her strength is Netball. She created a lesson plan, took our warm up, skills session and then we got to play a fun netball game. We all hope to share our strength and challenge goals next term. 

By Connor and Paige 

Museum Visit

On Wednesday last week Room 13 walked to the Otago Museum to learn about birds and flight. We spent our time in the nature gallery.  We learnt about the birds physical features, habitats and how they fly. We were able to touch and hold birds feet, tails, wings, heads and feathers. In groups we went on a bird hunt, using iPads to take photos of what we found. Our class came back to school knowing lots of information about birds and flight.

By Room 13

Assembly

Silent Movie

Mr Value goes to school......

Room 13's Assembly

Room 13's Assembly

Class of the Week 

In Room 13 you will find an amazing group of creative and hard working Year 5 and 6 children. So far, 2014 has been action packed. Some of our favourite things we have done this year include, camp and adventure week, creating birdhouses and portraits, being senior leaders, visiting our buddy class and using ICT.

Come along to our assembly and see us share our art, descriptive bird writing, albatross information reports, colourful birdhouses and even a silent movie!