Seansons" by Capital E

Lights. Camera. Action! We watched an awesome stage show with puppets and people. When the actors ran into the theater, everyone cheered. The actors sang a song for each season. We joined in with the singing too. Some of us had never been to the theater. It was really cool.

Habits of Mind

Explaining Habits of Mind....

Managing Impulsivity
Sensible people think before they act.
Do you think before you act? If you want to make a decision, it is a good idea to think about it, look at the good things (Yellow Hat) and the bad things (Black Hat).

Like when you are angry, it is easy to call someone a name but afterwards you know it was the wrong thing to do. Managing impulsivity means walking away and talking to an adult. Let them help sort it out.

Remember, think before you act.

World of Maths

Yay! Room 6 cheered as we walked along the footpath to the church. Finally we arrived at the Maths Roadshow. Everybody rushed in. A guy called nick greeted us as we rushed of in our groups. In my group we tried to do all the activites. Most of the games were fun some were kind of hard. All the games were all about maths. We love maths!

Bike Check

We are learning about bike safety. We checked our bikes and helmets with Officer Tonkin.

HUTS, HUTS, HUTS!

CRASH! Down fell a chair and a desk. People are chatting, they can't wait to build their huts out of their class desks. It was a competition: Which hut had the biggest capacity to hold people? Capacity is how much a container or a hut can hold. But unfortunately one of the desks landed on my toe, so I didn't get to go in the hut that my group made. Whaea Aroha said this was maths, but I think this was too much fun to be maths!

We found out:
The capacity of a hut depends on how we put desks together.
Capacity is about the space inside a hut or container or 3D shape.
We use capacity all the time; Can I fit everything in my school bag?, baking, using our desks, packing our lunch in our lunch boxes,...

Can you think of a time when you use capacity?

Nelson Masked Parade

It was noisy and loud. People were screaming the tops of there heads off! The Masked Parade was about to begin. It was even louder when we were walking though the ear splitting crowd. Some people shouted, "Go MAPUA!" I felt excited and nervous at the same time. At the end of the parade I yawned my head off because I was so tired, but I felt so proud. After the exciting Parade we got to take our masks and shields home.

Play Time

We played at the Mapua Domain after tennis. We swung, climbed, chased, scootered and laughed all morning. A great time all round.

Basketball Challenge

Basketball Fun

Green House won the House basketball competition this term. They got to play the teachers and it was an exciting game. The teachers won, but only just...

Tennis Time

We walked to the tennis club and played some tennis. We also hung out at the playground and had our morning tea.

Hip Hop

We love Hip Hop!

We ran fast...

The inter-school cross country at Saxton Field was a real challenge. They had to run 2km. It was muddy and wet. It was the best not to wear shoes because your shoes would get very dirty. There were about 100 people in each race. It was sunny and roasting hot on the race day. Mr.Hepburn told the kids loads of techniques for the race. It was fantastic when people got their medal.

Congratulations to Mac, Jake, Bethan and Brooke who all took part in the race. Well done Jake, Bethan and Brooke who were part of a team which came third.

Rabbit Island Cross Country

My heart was pounding so hard, I wanted the race to start immediately. Finally I heard the speakers and the voices that said, "Year 5 girls to the start line please." I was relieved. I walked to the start line. There I saw a lady in tracksuit pants and sneakers. She took everyone in my race for a warm up. We did star-jumps and a quick jog. Then finally we all lined up at the start line. "On your marks, get set, go!" There was a sudden rush, everyone wanted a good placing, so did I. So I sprinted of at that point, I was in the lead and then I was over taken at the first turn. I kept my pace. I turned another corner to find myself running up steep slope, exhausted. Pine needles were wet under my feet and I nearly slipped. My legs felt heavy with the wet shoes on my feet, But nothing was going to stop me from going as fast as I could. I started to look at the person infront of me, picking them off one by one. I could hear the crowd cheering. My feet kept charging towards the finish line. I managed to pass someone close to the end. It was a mad dash to do my best. I came in 10th overall. I loved it! I can't wait for the next Cross Country. Thanks to everyone who organised the race.

Unmasking Room 6

Book worms

This term, Room 6 are reading Roald Dahl books, Rainbow Magic books and the Beast Quest Series. We all enjoy it. We all think it's fun because we think reading is really awesome! Anyway, reading books is the meanest!



HARRI

Cross Country

This term we have been practising for the school cross country. It is a big day. We all stood at the start line nervously. "Ready, set, go!" THe parents cheer, our feet take off and the race has begun. When we take off, we run hard to win.

Congratulations to everyone who participated.
Girls Year 4
1st Brooke
2nd Bethan
3rd Isabel

Boys Year 4
1st Mac
2nd Jake
3rd Daniel

Mind Maps

So far this Term we have been doing lots of things.But the thing I like most is making mind maps.We have been making mind maps about books,masks,etc.Now we know alot about
mind maps.IT'S FUN MAKING MIND MAPS!

Zane

Takaka sports

Cool! It was the Takaka Sports Exchange yesterday. We had a fantastic time. There were lots of sports like rugby [35-5 to Takaka], hockey [0-3 to Mapua],tug-o-war [3-0 to Takaka] and lots more. One thing was that we didn't win the shield but the main thing was that we had fun. Next year is our year Takaka!

Go Green

Last term we made creations to attract native birds to Mapua School. It was crazy fun!

The Amazing Race

We played the Amazing Race for maths...it was to help us with our mapping skills. The Amazing Race was a real challenge because some of the clues were hidden around corners,in tunnels and in doors.Before we got one of our clues we had to sing in front of room 1,we also had eat vegemite on weet-bix before we got another clue.(I just about spewed eating them!)Yellow Hat Thinking (Good things): my team came second, we got to run around quite a lot and we got to use maths in a really fun wa. Black Hat Thinking (Bad Points) most of us forgot half turns, quarter turns and how to read a compass. We think this happened because we were trying to hurry and win the race! It took longer than we thought because we had to re-check our clue, go back to the start and follow the directions more carefully.

Room 6`s Autoshow

On Tuesday 29 of June room 6 did an auto show. A auto show is a car show. The word auto is another word for car. Room`s 8,4,3 and 2 came to see our auto show. The classes loved the cars. We had four criteria`s our cars had to be. They were;environmentally friendly, safe, cheap to run and hi-tech. We had to do three auto shows. At the first auto show room 8 and 4 came. what they did was they went round to room six`s children's desks and each student had a speech about their car.When it was over room six was sad because room six really enjoyed talking about their car and shearing their work with other people.

Not so confusing maps

Wow I'm discovering Disneyland! I didn't think reading maps could be so awesome. It was like discovering another world. I reckon the key was the most helpful thing on the page. To get to somewhere, you used the key and then looked for that symbol on the map. This makes maths really fun and challenging.

Awesome School Band!

Today we sang with our AWESOME School Band (they rock.)
They were in tune, they sounded great and they were accurate.
Mark, you're a great teacher. Well done guys!

WE THINK YOU ARE SUCCESSFUL BECAUSE YOU USE THESE HABITS OF MIND LIKE ...
Remaining open to continuous learning by learning new songs.
Striving for accuracy because you try, try and try again to get the right tune.
Risk taking because you played in front of the whole school.
Persistence because you need to practise lots and lots to get it right.

We can't wait to hear more from you.

Making future cars in Room 6

WOW! I never knew making future cars would have been so fun in Room 6!
First of all we had identify different criteria for designing cars. We then had to use a tournament prioritiser sheet to decide the criteria we wanted for our future cars. We decided our cars had to be environmentally friendly, safe, high-tech and cheap to run. We had to create a design for our cars. Then the fun part, making our models! Some people made them out of clay, some out of cardboard and some of paper mache. Wow this was fun!

Mega-maths with the Bugs

We have been learning in maths how multiplication and division
are backwards. Our goal is to solve division problems using x facts. We are deciding to use magic with our maths and our show is going to be 27 divided by 3 and 36 divided by 3. We show our magic by using beans and putting them into groups and it looks just like magic!

Cats on the mat solving Maths!

We are learning to solve problems like 234 x 4 using place value partitioning
example
234 x 4=?
=(4x200)+(4x30)+(4x4)
=800+120+16
=936.

Bats Solving Sixes.

We are the Bats and we are learning to solve our six times facts using our five times facts. For example
6x4=? I know 5x4=20 so 6x4= 20+4= 24

Pretty cool huh! Here is a video showing this magic maths trick!

Doubling with the Bees

We are the Bees maths group. We are learning cool maths tricks to help solve multiplication and division problems. Did you know that you can use your 2x facts and 4x facts to work out 8x facts? We can show you by a magic trick.For a example...
I don't know 6x8 but I do know 6x2 = 12, 6x4 is double 6x2 so 6x4= 12+12=24
6x8 is double 6x4 so 6x8= 24+24=48




Here is Magical Maisie making marvellous magical maths...

Lets make a timeline!

On the 25 of May we made a timeline on "History of the automobile". We learnt that if the time is uneven you do crinkled lines as if you scrunched up the paper. We had to use the important things that happened from the year 1300 to 2100. We went in groups of 4 or 5 and we decided which important things and then we would put them in order and then we would put them on our timeline in our books.

Mother should be told off for bad decision.

Little Red's mother should have walked with her through the glooming ,creepy, dark forest.

Firstly, the forest is a dark, gloomy, creepy , scary place with lots of terrible dangers like the horrible wolf. So mother should have known this was an absolutely unsafe place for her kind daughter.

Also, the newspaper reported a horrible wolf sprinting through town and blowing the Three Pigs' houses down easily. They warned not to go out alone, especially in the gloomy, creepy, scary, forest. Mother Red should have listened.

Another reason, Little Red is only a kind small girl which makes her an simple target for huge animals. We all know huge animals live in the forest.

Last of all, she wouldn’t have spoken to a dangerous stranger like she spoke to the huge mean wolf, if her mother was with her.

Therefore, Little Red's mother should have gone with her through the glooming, creepy, dark forest to Granny's house. The forest is a dangerous place, she is only a little girl, the newspapers warned about a huge mean wolf and she wouldn't have spoken to a dangerous stranger if her mother had have been there.

Book Fair Dress Ups

"Ring,ring." School had started and it was dress up day for the Mapua School Book Fair. It was like a completely different world in Room 6 because we had dressed up as favourite characters from books we had read. We guessed who everybody was. People must have put lots of effort into dressing up because everyone looked amazing. The house leaders awarded prizes, which were books, and a certificate to the most creatively dressed characters. We then paraded around the tree to show off our costumes. Even the teachers dressed up. Wow people looked cool!

Big Little Red

I believe that Little Red's mother does not need to walk Little Red through the forest because she has been a caring and responsible mother by teaching Little Red how to be safe in the forest.
Firstly, Little Red's mother had taught Little Red to go to Fraggle Rock and see Red, because this is part of their safety plan to walk through the forest. But Little Red did not do this, she just casually walked through the forest, avoiding Fraggle Rock. Bad Little Red!
Secondly, Little Red's friendly dad knew she was going into the forest. She could have yelled out for help and her lovely dad would have known it was her. She left it too late to yell. Maybe, Little Red should listen to her parents a bit more.
Thirdly, Little Red was told to keep to the path, but didn't do this. She purposely skipped into the forest, off the path, to pick beautiful flowers instead. Little Red's responsible mother told her to follow the path, but Little Red didn't listen. Naughty girl!
Lastly, Little Red had been taught not to speak to strangers. She went to a self defence class to learn about Stranger Danger. She knows not to talk to strangers, especially a big scary wolf. But like before, Little Red chose not to listen to her responsible mother. Silly girl!
Therefore, Little Red's mother is not needed to walk Little Red through the forest because they are trying to teach Little Red how to walk through the forest by herself. They have a safety plan to stop at Fraggle Rock, dad is close by working in the forest, Little Red was told to stay on the path and she has been to a self defence class to learn about Stranger Danger. Mother is letting Little Red learn how to be responsible for herself.

Magic Maths

Maths is just like another language, well that is what our teacher tells us! Every Friday we have Magic Maths, a time to solve math problems in teams. We all have to have a special buzzer noise and action to let out teacher know that we have solved the problem. The team that solves the most wins and they get a trophy each for the week.

Attracting birds to Mapua School

How can we attract native birds to Mapua School? Well we learnt about native birds such as Fantail ,Tui and Kereu. We chose the Tui to learn about. We had a goal to create something to attract the Tui. My partner and I made a sweet drink because the Tui likes nectar and nectar is sweet.On Go Green day we hung it up at the end of the field up in a huge tree. Now all we have to do is wait watch and hope.

Five frame stories

Freeze, click! Five frame stories are fun. Its hard to keep still. I think I am going to fall. 2 minutes, 3 minutes. Great shot. Now its time to load the photos on the computer. Wow! we told the story of how the Piwakawaka got their fantails using Five Frame photos. Here it is.

Five frame stories

Freeze - click - five frame stories are fun.
Next step please ,click. We do all five steps.
It’s hard to keep still. I think I’m going to fall.
It was hard to act it out.
Keeping still really hurts.
2 minutes ,3 minutes.
It took a long time to load on the computer.
We ran down to the admin block to get pictures
and stuck them in our books.

Visit to the Aqarium

Where could you see fish?
We walked into a room that had a shark mouth entrance. Touch the sea Aquarium was like another world. Richard de Hamel spoke to us about our topic, birds. We learnt that
birds have to deal with a lot of threats, most were human threats. Two human threats were wharfs and coastal housing. You could help sea birds survive by not throwing rubbish in the sea and not build houses where birds live.

Swimming skills

Whaea Aroha has taught us great swimming skills. She let us show the awesomeness of
our swimming to our parents. She is nice when teaching us good swimming skills.
At the end she would let us play in the pool.

Sunflower Competition

At home I got a kebab stick. I tied some string around the wobbling sunflower and At the end of school I picked up a small green sunflower wobbling in its small green pot. thin kebab stick. Now the sunflower won’t fall over! I poured water on the sunflower. After a few days I planted the moist sunflower in the shining sun. Every day after that, I poured the water like a waterfall on the sunflower. After a few days I noticed that the sunflower‘s leaves were disappearing and ants were crawling over it. I got the bottle of slimy, runny insect killer and poured a tiny bit on the tall stalk. I left it for for a few days but the plant’s leaves were still disappearing. So I got the packet of green sticky slug pellets. I thought that this must stop the insects now!
When we measured the sunflower, silver staples were attached to the brown shingles of my house. A few days later I gave it to someone living down my street. A month later guess what? I won the prize for the tallest sunflower! My face had a big exciting smile on it.

Statistical investigations

Last term for maths we did statistical investigations. There were five steps and these five steps were write questions for an investigation, collect and record data using tally chart, display data using graphs, make statements about data displays, write a conclusion to answer the question. My favorite part was doing the tally chart because you would write down the answers. statistical investigations were awesome! They were my favorite part of maths last term!

Statistical investigations

Where are we going to sit in room 6 for learning? We carried out a statistical investigation to find out the answer. We recorded the data on a tally chart. Our results showed; 18 wanted to sit at desks, no one wanted to sit on the floor, 4 wanted kneelers and 1 person wanted group tables. So, the answer to our question is... the desks got the highest vote so the teacher let us sit where we wanted which was at our desks.


How to carry out an statistical investigation.

1. Ask a question.
2. Collect data on a tally chart.
3. Make a graph to put the data on.
4. Results: What the graph shows. Write 2 sentences about the graph.
5. Conclusion: Answer the question.

Aquarium

Visit to the Aquarium.
Interesting Facts.

Did you know...

Sea horses had propellers on their backs.

Richard de Hamel even said, “Humans are throwing rubbish and destroying animal habitats.”

There’s an anename that sucks your finger and tickles.

Some of us even touched baby sharks.

Rewards

You Rock! Ruler of the world! Awesome Points! Rm 6 have amazing rewards for thinking. The winner of “Around the world” wins a trophy and is “Ruler of the world”. The winner of the You Rock award acts like a turtle and sticks their neck out and takes risks. Like a turtle , you need to stick out your neck to get anywhere! And if you do that you get a rock that says “You Rock!” Magic Maths day. If your group gets all the answers right ... you get a trophy for each person in your group.

Weet bix Triyathlion

At 8.30 am I arrived at Tahuna, the place was crammed with people, bikes and tents. My friends and I went in the All Blacks tent. Then it was time to go down to the beach. It was an extremely long wait, and at the end it was probably the hardest part. At last I lined up at the start line. The man shouted, “Go!” We ran off down the beach and into the sea. The sea was so rough, we got bowled over. I finally got around the second buoy and ran up the beach to the bikes. I gulped some water and put my t-shirt on. I put my helmet on. I sprinted to where you start the bike ride. I zoomed off the grass and onto the road. It was obvious I was the fastest in the group. I had to bike 4km. I passed heaps of people, but my friend Mac passed me! I caught up though. When I finished the bike, I dropped my bike and flung off my helmet. I ran and sprinted around the field. I crossed the line and got my medal!

Poetry

Writing poems was awesome. We learnt about Acrostics , Limericks, Simile poems and Haiku. A Haiku is a Japanese poem. It is three lines long and it has a 5, 7, 5 syllable structure. It’s usually about nature. Here’s an example.

Big bubbles flying,
Smaller bubble’s flying too,
They are fun to pop

A Limerick is a five lined poem they usually have a syllable pattern of 8’8’6’6’8. They rhyme A’A’B’B’A. Whaea Aroha taught us loads of different strategies to help us with our poem’s

Tui at Mapua School

How can we attract birds to Mapua School? Well, we learnt about native birds such as the Tui and the Kereru. We studied the Tui. We made nectar juice for the Tui because they eat nectar from flowers.

The nectar juice was made from honey, sugar and water. My partner Jessica, looked up the recipe on the computer. We put it in youghurt pots and used string to hang it from the trees.

At lunch time the little kids tried to destroy the yoghurt pots with sticks. Luckily they didn’t knock them off. They gave up and the nectar was still inside.

I hope more Tui come to Mapua School.

Quinney's Bush

Wizz! Bump! Splash! Quinney’s Bush was lots of fun. We zoomed to a wicked BMX track. One of us fell and crashed into another person. We emerged at the obstacle course. There were bars ropes, swings and a climbing wall. Weeeee splash brrrr. It’s cold.It was like swimming in the Antarctic Ocean. I can’t wait for the next Big Day out.
By Analese.

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