AFL Skills

Today Saint Kilda taught Rosebank school middle team and senior team. The senior team learnt how to do the Drop Punt. We enjoyed learning AFL skills and meeting the Saint Kilda team. We were so lucky to have the team teaching us because they are only going to 3 schools in Auckland!

Selfie! Say cheese!!

Looking good!!

Saint Kilda team! Can you guess the players?

Once again thank you Saint Kilda for making this day special!

What makes you, you?

We have been learning about how DNA makes up who we are. We then had a debate about what makes you, you....your DNA or the environment that you are in.
See our presentation for our opinions.
Do you agree or disagree?

Reading in the library!!!

Here are Losa,Abdul and Foi reading to the class.

Foi's turn to read.

Almost finished the book!!

This was the book they were reading. Potty Animals.

It was really funny and they used lots of expression.

By Shea 

Fact of the day

You are 1% shorter in the evening than in the morning. Isn't that amazing?

Imagine by John Lennon

We have been looking at songs, the meaning of the lyrics and the choices made by the musicians.
Here are some of our summative statements about John Lennon's song 'Imagine'

Adam
The world needs to be as one and have peace so we are all equal and there is gonna be no war.

Losa
This song to me means that people around the world should not fight about little things but have peace.

Sage
my statement is that if there was nothing no religion, no war there would be peace the world would be better than it is today.

Kevin
This song to me means that to make no more war and don't make this world fall apart so it will bring peace .

Patrick
I think that this song is about making peace for everybody around us because if there was war, countries, people and religion will be gone and there will be nothing.Heaven is gone and hell is just taking over this world.

Bradley
My statement is if people don't fight the world will live as one and will make peace.

Sammi
I think the song means peace for everyone in the world so there is no killing around everywhere.

Foi
I think this song is about imagining what will the future look like if you keep on having war around.

Marcus
I think this song makes peace around everybody because if we had peace back in the days  we they all would not have wars and things like that and still now are in in the world

Tylah-My opinion of this song is that peace and freedom is what we need to make our environment the same as others.  We need to live as one and hopefully join myself and others on our journey to stop our countries fighting and killing.

Xavier
I think the song means to imagine and make peace to the world.

Caleb
My opinion of this song is that if you imagine that there is no limits it might happen.

Mary
My opinion about this song is that it makes me feel calm and this song stops me from being anxious.The song is perfect for everyone to sing even if you're a bad singer. The song is so simple. It brings out my emotions.

Do you act the same offline as you do online?

Do you believe everything you see?

Heilala's opinion

Tiana and Mary's opinion

We have realised that what we see on magazines and in the media is not always what it seems to be.
Our class has been looking critically at photos of stars and celebrities and asking questions about some of these images.
We learned about photo-shopping and whitewashing.

Here are some of our opinions about this.

What do you think about this in our media???

Futsal

What a wonderfulway to start the morning! Room18 enjoyed Futsal this morning ,they learned skills played games and most of all they had FUN!
Futsal is like indoor soccer.

We learned spectacular skills,

Played a game that developed our teamwork skills,

And enjoyed everything.

Winning score!

School Athletics day

School Athletics day was mind blowingly awesome! Everybody had so much fun and enjoyed the activities that the staff organised.

A big thank you to all staff for making the day so special.Congratulations to all the people who tried hard and to the people who made it in. Thankfully it didn't rain. 

 Everyone was having fun!

Run Caleb,Run!

Keep going!

 TUG OF WAR!

Once again,thank you to all staff for making the day happen.

By Tiana-Tai, Shea, Mary and Merina 

First ideas about digital citizenship

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First term 4 singing assembly!

First singing assembly for the term 4 everyone. The first song was count on me by Bruno Mars.

Mathematics Shed

Most of you will have used the literacy shed and loved all the inspiration you get from there.
Another exciting website to help your numeracy is the mathematics shed!
It has lots of helpful videos and problems to solve.

Check it out!

                                                     

Culture....what does it mean to you?

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Whau assembly

This week Whau organised the school assembly.Here are some pictures of what they have shared.

This is Whau doing the chicken dance some people were dancing along.

Don't forget to wear your hats at school!

To be safe in the sun-you need to wear your hat during term four. You will have to play in the shade if you do not have your hat.

Adaptation Presentations

Last term we ran out of time to share some of our presentations and learning about adaptation...enjoy :-) There will be even more to follow!! Watch this space :-)

Term 4 welcome back!!!

Welcome back to school everyone it's term 4. We hope you have enjoyed your two weeks holiday.

This is the last term for year 6's .Work hard everyone so you can achieve your dream.

Adaptation Presentations

We having been learning about adaptation.
Here are some of the presentations we created to show our knowledge.
There will be many more to follow. Please comment positively :-)

Fact of the day

• Sound comes from vibrations. These vibrations create sound waves which move through mediums such as air and water before reaching our ears.

  

A is for Adaptation

Liana, Jordan D, Merina and Victor wrote a book about four animals and how they have adapted to their environments for children in room 16.  They included 'augmented reality' - using the iPad app Aurasma, you can point the iPad at four pictures in the book and a video of the animal will play.  Here is a video of the book.
(posted by Mrs Robyns)

Fact of the day!

Did you know that Ostrich is the fastest animal on two legs, amazing right!!!

Planet earth animals and their prey

Did you know?

Puma:

Puma is an Incan word that means powerful

Grizzly bear:

One grizzly bear can consume a tonne of salmon over six weeks

Ethiopian wolf:

The Ethiopian wolf is an endangered animal. There are fewer than 400 of them surviving in the wild

Snow leopard:

The snow leopard's tail is longer then its body measuring at 4 feet for a large adult

Goliath bird eating tarantula: 

The Goliath bird eating tarantula is the biggest tarantula in the world

  

By Tyler

Fitness/Skills basketball

Today we were developing our basketball skills and the control of their basketball. 

Getting into our teams

   Such a nice day to be out playing basketball 

   Teams making a plan

We had to work together to pass at least 5 times before we could score. 

   

   

Beak experiments!

Room 18 did a science experiment with different tools to show different beaks. We had pliers, a toothpick, tweezers, strainer and a straw! The first round was collecting water and putting the water to their stomach (the cups).                                        

              

We looked at the cups and saw who won that round....the straw! The strainer came last.

Second round the beaks had to crush the nuts !

The winner that round was the pliers!

Third round was catching worms! They were just string :-)

The pliers won again! We think the tweezers should have won though.

Last round catching fish - they weren't real fish

The strainer won!
After that we learned that every species of bird has their own specific kind of beak to catch food and eat.
If us humans took away their habitat, they wouldn't be able to adapt to a new one quickly and probably die out!
Nobody wants that....

By Jordan T

Manawa Assembly

Today was Manawa's assembly. Our class had been working hard to learn a dance. We adapted dance moves to the song Timber.
Here is the video of our dance. We hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed performing it :-)

Room 18

Animal Observations

We watched an animal YouTube clip where animals were fighting. We had to think like scientists and observe what we saw.
Click this link  to watch the clip and read our observations.
Did you notice anything else???

By Leah and Jordan T

Facts about Space

Did you know.....
The milky way has 400 billion stars. The sun is one of them. 
by Marcus

The sun is very large, you could fit more then one million earths inside the moon. 
by Tyler

The space station goes around the earth almost 16 times a day.  

By Shea 

  

 

Tongan Language Week

Today we had a student from our class read to us in Tongan.

    She is so brave

   Everybody was very interested in the story

   It's the end and everybody was not happy that it ended.

By:Jenna

Another great clip from Kid President

What do you think? Write your thoughts in the comment box below.

Adaptation Vocabulary

We created a wordle with lots of vocabulary related to adaptation. Do you know what they mean?


Comment below with the definition in your own words :-)

Killer Plants

Our reading group (Storm) were reading about killer plants. We made some presentations to show what we have learned about how these plants adapt to stay alive. Enjoy! By Losa and Leah By Bradley and Patrick By Abdul By Jordan T

Catching Mustelids

We have been learning how to retell and present our ideas.
Here is our presentation.

By Harvey and Sammi.

Panthers reading follow up

Panthers have been learning how to summarise. We are still on our learning journey but we have started retelling texts better. This is an article about how pigeons have adapted to help humans.

Our first attempt at a stop motion movie

Mr. Osler helped a group of us make a Jurassic Park scene and we thought it would be a great idea to make a movie with it.
It was our first time using stop motion so we have learned a lot about what we will do differently next time.
Narrated by Bradley.
Thanks to Mr. Osler for all his help.

Sports Shed Makeover!

Yesterday Rosebank School were lucky enough to have a group of generous people come and donate their time and efforts to help our school. They came to paint our sports shed!

We are very grateful for what they have done. We will be putting murals on the sports shed in the future too. 

Keep watching the blog for more pictures :-)

The amazing group with Bradley and Montell

Fixing the inside of our shed

Even the top got a makeover!

Thank you all again so much!