Sun Safety Crosswords

Room 19 have been learning how to be safe in the sun.  Here are some crosswords they have made that will help you to be sun smart too.

By Grace

By Harlem

By Riley

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

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.

Worm Farming!

The P.H.S Kaitiaki Leaders (Enviro Leaders) have recently purchased new worm farms. These are used for recycling food instead of sending this to the landfill.

Kaitiaki Leaders with the new worm farms

Room 19 decided to investigate what they should and should not send to the worm farms.  Here are some posters illustrating what they found out.

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:

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

Swimming

Today was room 19's first swimming lesson.  In today's lesson everyone was assessed and worked on some basic strokes.  Here are some pictures as we did this ...