Room 5's Christmas Baking Challenge

Student Volunteer Army Project - check out our video!

The Sunnyhills School Year 5 students, registered to take part in the School Kit Squad's Student Volunteer Army initiative. For this project the students had to think of ways in which we could help our community. After lots of thinking and researching, Room 5 decided to visit the local Retirement Village, Room 11 visited the local Kindy and Room 6 did some work around our school grounds and also did some work with the junior students. We also gathered a collection of bits and pieces to deliver to the needy animals at the SPCA, as well as make 'Kindness Rocks' to anonymously deliver to some deserving recipients throughout our community. Here is Room 5's video of our journey. Big shout out to School Kit Squad for providing the plans, resources and truly meaningful and rewarding learning experience for us. Enjoy!

Diwali

On Wednesday we celebrated Diwali and the week before that we were lucky enough to have some international performers come and show us some of their traditional dances/songs and instruments. There are always so many interesting things going on at Sunnyhills! 

What did you learn about Diwali?

Student volunteer army community project ideas

This term, Team 5 are going to volunteer their services by taking part in a community project. Right now we are at the Get Thinking stage of the inquiry process, where we need to FIND the perfect project to do.

We are interested in hearing from our family and friends and wider community to find out what they think would be a good project for us to do for our community. Please comment any ideas you get below.

Number Talks with Mrs Madden

We were very lucky to have Mrs Madden come into our classroom yesterday and show us how to have 'Number Talks' in Maths.

She gave Room 5 the problem 18 x 5. Look at how many strategies we came up with. I wonder if our friends or whanau use any of these strategies or perhaps they have some other ones. It would be interesting to find out. Post any other strategies you can come up with in the comments...

Room 5's Rubbish Investigation for Conservation Week

Mindfulness

This term, we have been practising Mindfulness with Mrs Driver, and learning how to focus our thoughts and breathing to feel more calm and relaxed during stressful times. We are getting pretty good at it. Here are some of the activities we did today. If you would like to find out more, just ask someone from the Room 5 team.

Room 5's Series of Unfortunate Events

Here are some of our latest recounts that we have been working on:

Another busy week, filled with excitement

Get Wise session with Marlon

Gymnastics Team

Well done to Ali, Bodhi, Rose and Issey for your awesome efforts throughout the term with Gymnastics. These students have attended many practices in their lunch times and before school to perfect their Gym routines and on Thursday they all participated in the interschool Gymnastics competition. You guys are amazing!

Making persuasive adverts

We were learning how to make a persuasive advert, but it didn't have to be true.

Lucas Ai and I wrote this ad based on a golden spring.

What would you like to make an advertisement about?

By Clyde

Howick and Pakuranga Dance Festival 2018

Well done to Vera, Rose and Isabelle, who have had a massive week with two late nights this week performing at the dance festival. You girls were AWESOME!

The Tread Lightly Caravan comes to Sunnyhills

What did you learn when you visited the Tread Lightly Caravan?

Check out the art exhibition

All the hard work has finally paid off. Check out our amazing Koru Art on display at the Sunnyhills 'Art Matters' exhibition. We think Raewyn Harris would be proud of us. There are lots of other amazing artworks on display from all around the school. Make sure you pop in and have a look this week!

What an AWESOME Arts week

Room 5 have enjoyed Arts week. We started the week off Dancing, then doing Drama activities, followed by arts and crafts making Worry Dolls.

We also spent lots of time working on our Koru Art for Arts week. They are coming along quite nicely. Here are some sneak peeks.

Rhythm Interactive

We had lots of fun at the Rhythm Interactive workshop on Friday. We learnt seven different rhythms on the drums ranging from easy to difficult. Check out the ultimate focus from the Kauri whanau students (and teachers).

Come and check out our latest published pieces of writing: Biographies

Sneak preview...

Look on Room 5's 'Awesome Authors' wall for more.

Happy Mother's Day (for Sunday)

I think there will be some happy Mummies on Sunday! We hope that all Room 5 mums have a lovely Mother's Day!

Biography Guess Who

This week Room 5 students have been learning how to write biographies. A biography is when you write about somebody else's life. Each student in Room 5 interviewed a classmate about their life and then wrote a biography about that person. We decided to delete their names so that you would have to try and guess who the biography is about. Here are a couple of finished ones.