About Lawrence using iMovie

On Friday we were set the challenge of producing a short video to tell our blogging visitors all about Lawrence.  For most of us this was the first time we had ever made an iMovie.  It was really exciting learning how to choose the pictures and best of all learning to record our voices over the pictures.

We learnt lots of things along the way like.....

• Make sure you choose a quiet spot to record your voices
• Check that you have only used each picture once
• Don't push 'stop' too quickly when recording or it will chop off the end of what you are saying
• Try to begin each recording in a different way - not all with "This is...." or it starts to sound a bit boring for the audience
• Record each part separately so that if something isn't right you don't need to delete your whole recording
• The audience can hear us even if we whisper

We hope you enjoy these two movie tasters.  Parents and family members - feel free to come into Room 4 and we will proudly show you the other movies that were made.

Royals Ripper Rugby

Yesterday four lucky Room Four students got to play in a ripper rugby tournament in front of the Duchess and Duke, Catherine and William, in Dunedin. Here's their thoughts about the experience....

"Richie McCaw was there and he signed all of our tops!" - Charlotte

"I scored the most tries for Lawrence.  It was cool meeting the duchess.  I was the captain which meant that I got to shake the royals' hands.  The skills and drills were fun too." - Regan

"It was great getting to see the royals up close but it would be better getting to speak to them" - Te Aroha

"We lost the first game, drew the second game and won the last game" - Oakley

Camp fundraiser

Today was jelly and ice-cream and sausage sizzle day.  Yummo!   Thanks to the awesome group of mums who came in and ran this fundraiser for our school camp.  You ladies were super-duper organised and made sure everything ran like clockwork.

We love our iPads!

Today in Room 4 we have used the iPads for reading, writing, paired research, as well as using them to create our very own iMovies about Lawrence. Look out for these in future blog posts. Our teachers have never seen us so engaged in our learning. We wish we had them all day!

Shining Star - Charlotte

Lolly maths - creating 3D shapes

TEAMWORK

Alyssa and Aaron's 3D cube

William and Josie work on their cube

Lanie and Te Aroha's square pyramid

Triangular prism

Hexagonal pyramid

Pentagonal pyramid

We are learning about 3D shapes so today Mrs O brought along some lollies and toothpicks and we had to use these to make 3D shapes.  The lollies were the corners and the toothpicks were the edges.  Sometimes the toothpicks snapped so we had to work with a buddy to create our shapes.

WE LOVED our maths today!!!

Clifton and Samara's long triangular prism

"I really loved experimenting with the lollies and toothpicks" - Toby
"I liked it when we made the shapes together" - Isla
"I liked scoffing the lollies into my mouth at the end" - Lanie
"I liked working with a buddy because then we could both figure out ideas and work together" - Alyssa
"I liked to join them up because it was sticky and fun" - Charlotte
"Everyone was having fun and helping each other out" - William
\"Experimenting how the shapes join was fun" - Josie
"We were learning because we were making 3D shapes" - Regan

Student of the week - Anna

Anna thoroughly deserves to be Room 4's student of the week.  In fact she could be awarded this honour every week!  Anna ALWAYS is focused, bright-eyed and keen to learn.  She ALWAYS listens intently to class discussions and is ALWAYS the first with her hand up ready to contribute a response to whatever we are discussing.  You are a FANTASTIC role model to others Anna!

Using Google Drawing to create 3D nets

Thanks to our quadblogging friends at St Mary's School in Rotorua for the idea to try creating 3D nets by using Google Drawing.  We have been learning about the properties of 3D shapes - in particular identifying and counting the number of faces,edges and corners that different shapes have.  This group of students have also been learning to create nets for 3d shapes.

These students created the following drawings in only about 15 minutes.  What a fabulous job they have done.

Shining Star - Deija-Lee

We are so proud of Deija-Lee this year. She works so hard at everything she does. We are especially impressed with her homework and reading. It is clear to everyone that Deija-Lee is good at Managing Self. Keep up the great work!!!!!! 

iMovie of Strike Percussion

Isla and Imogen put together their first ever iMovie today, with help from Mrs O.  They took all of the video footage and enjoyed joining the clips together and adding voice and title features.

Strike Percussion

Today  3 men from Wellington came to LAS to perform a music show. They brought lots of drums and one other instrument. All of the instruments were really loud. The show was really long and cool.They chose some children to come up in front of everyone and play an instrument that was really big. Before the children went up two adults went up and the played two drums that are separate. They also did a performance with fire and spray. The fire fighters taught them how to do the performance with the fire and spray otherwise there might have been a fire. They did the cup song with drink cans but they didn't sing.

Imogen liked the part when they did the cup song with the drink cans and when they didn't sing. 

Isla's favourite part was when they used the fire and spray.

This performance was cool!!!!!

By Isla and Imogen

Strike Percussion on PhotoPeach

Student of the week - Oakley

Mrs May and Mrs O are super-proud of the efforts that Oakley is putting into his writing.  He is writing alot EVERY DAY and always has his head down working hard.  Keep up the fantastic report writing Oakley.  We can't wait to read what you write next!

Outstanding animal reports

For writing we have been learning how to group our information into paragraphs as we write factual reports. This is the first attempt at report writing.  Students chose an animal that they knew well, brainstormed facts about that animal and then organised their facts into paragraphs.  These two reports are simply amazing.  Read on to be wowed and to learn some very interesting new information.......

HECTOR’S DOLPHINS

Hector’s dolphins are endangered because people are catching them.  These dolphins hang around New Zealand beaches and really close too.

They are grey with black tips on their fins and snout.  They are very little dolphins and smooth ones too.  Hector’s dolphins like to live around New Zealand beaches and that is why they get caught so much. 

If you don’t know what they eat, they eat flounder, red cod and crabs.  Hector’s dolphins are native to New Zealand and endangered too because people are putting nets out and they get stuck and drown.

PLEASE STOP KILLING HECTOR’S DOLPHINS!

Samara

    

GIGANOTOSAURUS

Giganotosaurus is a dinosaur from the middle Cretaceous and is the largest predatory animal that ever lived.

It has small lumpy scales and long serrated teeth which it uses for shredding and gripping plant-eating reptiles.  This huge dinosaur has long powerful legs which it uses to scan the land.   Big feet help it to be able to leap on prey.  Also, long arms and serrated claws attach to them and a massive tail helps Giganotosaurus to balance its huge head and powerful body.  Sadly, since it died out 65 million years ago, we can not tell what its body colour was.

Giganotosaurus has a lot of hunting area in Argentina.  It probably had about 50km of hunting area and scanned that 50km in a day searching for food.  Giganotosaurus was a humungous animal. It needed a long range of food so it had a lot of hunting area.  A Giganotosaurus would have hunted an earth raking giant Argentinasaurus.  Since Giganotosaurus hunted in packs they would have leaped on their prey and inflicted deadly wounds with their ferocious bite.  After the blood loss and distress the animal would soon die. 

Giganotosaurus is now known as the biggest predatory dinosaur in Earth’s history, but who knows?  There may be even more ferocious animals to discover.

Toby