Diwali

This week has been the Indian celebration of Diwali, Festival of Lights.  Room 19 has been learning all about this festival. Here are some acrostic poems we have written about Diwali.

Dancing with joy

In a

Winter festival

Already everyone is

Lighting their diyas

In Diwali

By Arham

Decorations at Diwali are called Rangoli.

India celebrates Diwali to bring good luck and light.

Wealth is what you get if you welcome the goddess in your house.

Animals are also used as Rangoli patterns.

Lights are what Indians use to celebrate Diwali.

Indians use bright colored chalk, crushed limestone and rice powder to colour Rangoli patterns.

By Liliana and Grace

D - Diwali is a festival of light

I- In India, Diwali is the most famous and largely celebrated holiday   

W- We celebrate Diwali to honor Rama- chandra the seventh avatar

A - Another name for Diwali is Deepaavali

L - lit candles surrounded hindus.

I- In India they celebrate the festival by exchanging gifts , wearing new clothes and preparing festival meals  

By Ala and Chanel

Show, Don't Tell - Character Descriptions

We have been learning to show, not tell in their writing.

Here are some of their character descriptions where they are focusing on show,  not tell.

The ibes-fen-cra-phant-tortoise

It is an ugly sight. A tortoise like back and elephant legs make me scared. And I won't forget the giant, black spiky snippers as pointy as the eiffel tower! As big as a baby at least. The enormous goat horns made me shiver! His face is so black he looks red! He is as short as a leprechaun but is quite bulky. His ears are as big as stones.

By Alex

The bis-cra-at-lion

Up flew the creature,she has grey shiny wings that show her black veins. As she flies around outside while the wind blows furiously,you could see her sizeable grey snippers stealing babies lollipops.She has horns as massive as a cow ,also light brown curly hair that is as short as a mouse's tail.As she walks down the street everyone is scared of her yellow and brown tail she just crossed the road and she went home and had a nap.

By Ane

The Bis-conda-cra-elly-ondor-stingray

The sight was out of the ordinary. It had a long pink slithery tongue sticking out of the mouth, claws as pointy as a blade and it’s hard shell around it. It had smooth white horns. I tried to look away but it was too amazing too. I had to do something about this ugly creature. It had blue slimy jellyfish legs floating across the sea I looked behind it and saw it’s mutated wings barfing out his back. He had a sharp wobbly barb on his back that frightened me to death. I knew I had to go after that.

By Barron

By Ala

Bis-cra-orse-at-crocodile

It was a good day and I was hiking but all of a sudden I got pulled in a cave. I could not help but notice his huge black pointy nipers that are spiky all over. Right away I knew he was a friendly creature, he only pulled me into the cave because an arrow was heading towards me. He had a regular head and hair but silver shiny horns. He also had huge black wings that blocked the sun coming into the cave but he had blue seahorse legs but he hovered with the wings. With the seahorse legs I  imagined that he could also swim through the water like a mermaid. He turned a round and I noticed he had a long scaley rough tail like a crocodile.
By Ryan

Upcycle Challenge

Today was the school Upcycle Challenge.  Students needed to create a product or art piece using anything that would be thrown out or recycled and change it to make a new or better product, or a product that can be used in a new way. Room 19 students have been working hard and produced some fantastic products.

Here they are with their creations...

The Longest Paper Chain!

Today in maths Room 19 had a challenge - who could make the longest paper chain out of 1 piece of A4 paper?

Students could either do this individually or with a buddy. There were many different strategies used and the chains ranged in length from 1.36m up to 6.76m!


Here we are creating, measuring and judging our chains.

Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori

This week is Maori Language Week (Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori). Room 19 have been making resources that can be used to teach someone else some basics in Te Reo Maori.

Here are some of our resources to teach you Te Reo.

By Connor and Barron

By Christopher and Abhishek

By Liliana

By Charlotte

Origami

This morning room 19 has been doing origami by making different creations. Some have been making boxes, ninja stars, fidget spinners, glasses and many more things.

Everyone should be proud of their origami creations.  

By Ezalle,Teahui and Lynkin

We had a great time doing origami, and we enjoyed folding the paper and doing creases. It was a great experience in room 19.

We made a origami ninja star that opens and closes, we made it by attaching all the bits together.

We think everybody should be really proud of what they put together. Just about everybody made an origami fidget spinner. Ms Leafberg said if you are a beginner to origami, you should start with the basic shapes and go from there.

By Abhishek and Victor

Easter Fitness

Today we had a fun fitness session based around Easter.  Everyone had to decorate an Easter egg, but there was a catch. In order to draw a decoration, an exercise needed to be completed first.

Everyone had a great time! Here are some photos of us exercising, drawing and some decorated eggs.

Maths Problem Solving

In maths we have been learning to solve change unknown problems.

These are the problems we had to solve:

We worked out that these are the mathematical equations to the problems:

a. 26 + ? = 31

b. 48 + ? = 81

c. 239 + ? = 275

Challenge: 1396 + ? = 1452

Below are our solutions we shared to solving these problems:

EOTC Days

Maths Problem Solving

Room 19 have been learning how to solve problems effectively in maths.  

To do this we are given problems based on a real life scenario.  First we are given time solve the problems by ourselves. Then we work in our thinking groups and share our strategies.  We also need to write down any different strategies we learn from our thinking group buddies.

As a group we decide on the most efficient strategy for each problem (the way that would be easiest to solve in our minds).  Then we may have to share this with the class and discuss our learning.

Here are some photos of us sharing our strategies in our thinking groups today and of our strategies shared.

Modigliani Abstract Self Portraits

Room 19 learnt about the artist Amedeo Modigliani and his style of portraits.  Using this we created our own self portraits in his abstract style. 

 Here are some examples.

Zaila

Ane

Connor

Alex