Habits of the MInd

In Room 5 we have been using the Habits of the MInd to help us figure out and solve problems successfully. We have been using the Habits of the Mind to persist, stop and think and use our past knowledge. We also use the six hats. The colours are yellow, black, white, green, blue and red. We also use them to reflect on our work during the day.

By Nikita and Simone

More alliterations by Jasmine

Jasmine drank juicy jelly.
Dad dug up doggy doo.
Kimberly's kangaroo cooked crabs.
Latesha likes lemons. 
Simone swam and sang. 
Mum made muscle muffins.
Ellen eats eggs on elephants.
Karen kicked Kimberly's kangaroo. 
Catelyn  cooked carrots. 
Mum made muffins in Mornington. 
Mum made micy muffins.
Nikita nailed nails near naughty nuts. 
Anita ate an apple. 
Brianna biked beside bananas. 
Hope had hats hanging on hooks.
Anita ate ants at Antarctica.  

From Jasmine

Alliterations

Five fat fish flipping and flopping.

Simone swam in slippery slimy sauce.

Mum made mini marmalade muffins.

Nathan nicked Nick's knickers.

Jasmine jumped into juicy jelly.

Mum made mini mayonnaise and marmalade muffins.

Dad drank doggy doo.

Briana brought brown bananas.

Mummy made marmalade muffins on Monday morning for Mummy and Molly.

Latesha loved little lions.

Latesha licked her little lollipop.

Latesha likes lemons.

Alliteration challenge

Wow! What a busy week we have had.

I am really thrilled with the language work we have produced this week. What a lot of descriptive words we came up with. This should really help with our writing!

Didn't you all do well with your alliterative sentences. I wonder who can make a comment with the longest alliterative sentence. It must make sense, though.

The Battle of the Mountains

My blog is about a Tongariro Legend. Pine Hill School has been learning about the volcanoes in the Tongariro area of New Zealand and I did my blog about a legend because I wanted to learn more about legends and the volcanoes. It is part of the Inquiry process called going further with my learning.

The Battle of the Mountains

The Battle of the Mountains is about Tongariro, Tauhara and Pautuaki and lovely Pihanga. Pihanga was the girl they all loved. The war began when the two youngest went to the east. Tauhara looked back to see the lovely Pihanga. He went to Lake Taupo. Tongariro always let out a blood scream to his brother Tauhara. Tauhara felt so sad when he remembered the childhood time they played every day. Now they stand side by side.

by Mikayla

How cool is this!!!

Today over on our podcast page from last year, http://room5.podomatic.com we received a comment on one of our book reviews. Now this is nothing new, we get lots of comments on our book reviews but this one was special... It was from the author herself! Click on the image above to make it bigger. Check it out!

Fear Factor Challenge

On Monday 5th of March Room 5 at Pine Hill School went to Camp Sutton. We did lots of challenges at Camp Sutton.

The fear factor challenge had 5 different challenges. One was a team challenge. In this challenge teams had to fill up the bucket of water with cups full of water. The winning group depended on how much water was in the bucket. In our group we passed the water into the other persons cup and they had to keep on going until they reached the bucket. Each group had to fill up the bucket until the pot of water was gone and then sit down at the end.

Another part of the Fear Factor challenge was the Quiz Challenge. One member from each team had to answer questions from a quiz to earn more points to win immunity. When you won immunity you got to wear a necklace and you could give someone your chores or ask them do something for you.

People from each team also did the Food Challenge.Each person had to eat or drink a special meal that had a horrible name. One was pineapple, weet-bix and tomato sauce. It was really disgusting!

In the Rip Challenge you had to pick a person from your team to rip a mintie wrapper from the outside to make a paper chain. Dione and Jasmine were really close and the other people did very but Jasmine won this challenge.

The last part of the Fear Factor challenge was the Art Challenge. You had to pick a person from your group to draw someone. The class then voted on the drawing that looked the most like the person. Nikita won this Fear Factor challenge.

The Hound Dogs won fear factor immunity.

We thought going on Camp Sutton was fun and the Fear Factor challenge was really challenging.
By Nikita and Jasmine

Survivor Sutton Tribal Council and Camp Concert

On Monday the 5th of March 2007 Room 5 of Pine Hill School, Dunedin New Zealand went on school camp.
We went to Camp Sutton for school camp, near Middlemarch in Central Otago. The theme for our camp was Survivor Sutton 07.

On Thursday night a tribal council meeting was held. A tribal council meeting is when the camp adults vote someone off the camp. Most adult’s voted Adrian off because he burnt the toast and had smelly feet. Debbie didn’t like his legs. Mrs Ritchie voted for Mrs Jewiss to go away from Camp Sutton. Adrian was voted off and he was really sad when he left.

On Thursday night we also had a concert. Mrs Jewiss gave Mrs Ritchie a make over because Mrs Ritchie voted for Mrs Jewiss to go away from Camp Sutton, so Mrs Jewiss was doing pay back. Mrs Jewiss put mousse and gel in Mrs Ritchie’s hair and dark eye shadow on her eyes and brushed her hair with a hearth brush and brushed her teeth. She looked funny. At the concert there was also acting, singing, dancing, mirror miming and puppets. It was really fun that night.

By Mikayla and Karen

Survivor Sutton Salt Lake Experience

On March 5, 2007 Pine Hill School went to Camp Sutton. On Wednesday we walked to the Sutton Salt Lake where we found a geocache. A geocache is a container hidden in a secret place. These are all around the world. You put things in them so you can take other things out. The Salt Lake is the only Saline Salt Lake in the Southern Hemisphere. We walked across the Salt Lake because it had no water in it but when it is full it is less than 1 metre deep. When we got to the other side we sat down and ate rice crackers and then we painted the view. We painted mountains, the Salt Lake and the sky with watercolor paints. After that we wrote our names on the bottom of the salt lake with sticks then we walked the long walk back to the car park. On the way we saw lizards and we caught some. We looked under a big rock and found two lizards but we only caught one of them. Then we got our class photo taken on a big rock. We rode our bikes back to camp. After that we saw a cyclist from San Francisco and he took a photo of us.
It was a really fun and tiring day.

By Jesse and Warren