Brilliant Book Week King Midas

In Book Week we were focused on Myths and Legends. We took a deep and thrilling dive forward and put ourselves in the King Midas story and found ourselves in someone else's shoes. Here are some stories. (More Stories Coming Soon!) :)

King Midas Stories

Rm 17s Magic Boxes

In Room 17 we have been imagining what it would be like to have a magic box all to ourselves. Honestly, it would be paradise having your very own world to yourself!

Magic Box Paradise

Tiny Book Necklaces for Book Week!

Thank you so much to Quincy's mum Brigitte who spent time in our classroom today telling the story of the Swiss Legend 'The Devil's Bridge' - the children were on the edge of their seats in suspense!

She also took time to show us the world's smallest book as well as explained how we could make them ourselves.

We used the afternoon to make our own tiny books and turned them into necklaces.  Fantastic for fine motor skills as well as a lot of fun! A great Book Week activity.

Collecting Bacteria!

Today we collected bacteria from all around the classroom using swabs.  We will watch this bacteria grow over the next week.  We even took it from all of our own hands... I wonder who is carrying the most bacteria!  (We will find out!)

Over the next week, we are going to research bacteria, understand how it grows, how can be good for us and then write an informative report about bacteria.  If there is time we might even make bacteria inspired art!

 Jackson taking a swab of the whiteboard

 Tina taking a swab of the very old box 

 Olivia taking a swab of a table

 Charlotte taking a swab of under her shoe (yuck!)

 Joey, Shiori and Lily's thumb prints as well as the bottom of their shoe!

We're ready to watch it grow!

Zach's Elating Newspaper Report

Zach has recently been doing extremely good description and has put some of his important findings in the latest and greatest newspaper. Read this at your own risk for this secret box might be coming to you next...

Zach's Writing

Jackson's Amazing Newspaper

In Room 17 we have been learning how to write newspaper reports that draw you in. Jackson was working on hooking the reader in with a shocking title. Read this to find out more about how dangerous flying boxes can easily knock out tourists.

Jackson's Writing

Clark's Paralysing Skydive

Clark was working on describing what it would feel like to skydive out a plane. How would you react to going skydiving? Would you dare to jump out of a plane?


Clark's Super Skydiving

Part of Our Awesome Spooky Stories

Towards the end of Term One, Room 17 began to work on some spooky stories. We listened to haunting sounds and used interesting language. Here are part of them but some are unfinished.  Read them at your own risk!!

Spooky Stories

Year 5 Cloud Writing

While the year sixes were at water wise the year fives did some cloud writing with the other kids. Have a look at the wonderful work they managed to come up with!

Year Fives Cloud Writing

Kaihono's Skydiving Story

Kaihono and the rest of Room 17 have been learning how to write about a moment in time. Here is Kaihono's exciting piece of writing.

Kaihono's Writing

NZ Writes Postcards

We have been lucky enough to have taken part in a New Zealand wide writing activity, whereby children have written a metaphor about themselves onto a postcard which will be sent this Friday to another school in New Zealand!  The school we have been paired with is situated in Nelson, so we hope the children there enjoy reading them as much as we enjoyed writing them!  We look forward to receiving theirs!

Jean-Ryan's Cat Poem

For homework last week Jean-Ryan wrote an acrostic poem about cats.

Ollie's Terrific Skydive

In Room 17, we were trying to create a picture in the reader's mind.  This is Ollie's writing, describing a moment in time.

Ollie's Writing

Quincy's Acrostic Poem

Quincy wrote a fantastic acrostic poem for his homework last week.  He created a vivid image in the reader's mind - we felt as if we were eating it!  Well done Quincy!

Oliva's Firework Writing

Olivia has been working on her firework writing using onomatopoeia to create a image in the reader's mind.

Olivia's story

Room 17 Metaphor Poem

The Year 5s spent their writing lesson today walking around the school grounds, recording the sights and sounds they could hear.  This was to get their brains into figurative mode!  They then came back to the classroom and wrote a Room 17 metaphor poem.

The Old Bridge

Olivia used different language features to describe this image of a rickety bridge.  

Olivia's Writing

The Secret Lake

Jane has been focussing on using the language feature of personification.  Take a look at how well she has achieved this in her paragraph about the secret lake.

The secret lake

Piano Exams

Emily has recently completed a piece of work about her Piano exam - she has captured her thoughts and feelings in a descriptive recount.  Please enjoy.

Emily's writing

Setting Sail

Zoe has been doing a piece of writing about setting sail on the sea and telling the story of what happened out there.  Please leave her some positive feedback.

Zoe's story

Nightmare at Sea

Leonie has done a piece of writing recently called nightmare at sea.  She has worked hard to use a range of language features to capture your attention.  Please read and leave her feedback!

Leonie's Writing

Dirt Bikes

Here is a piece of Jackson's writing from this term.  He used a picture to help him get ideas for writing.  His learning was focussed on describing a picture so that the reader can imagine it in their mind.  

Jackson's Story