Room5@Work

Hey team, great work on last weeks Blog Homework, your sentences were awesome. This week’s Blog Homework is again about Writing as this is a big focus for us in class.

Your Blog Homework task is to write a Shared Story. I am going to write 3 sentences to start the story off and each person has to read the other people’s sentences and add 3 sentences of their own to the story (a bit like we do with our Writing Boards in class).

Try to make your sentences flow on from the person before you and don’t forget all the things that make a good sentence (full stops, capital letters, verbs, adjectives, good vocabulary, must make sense, conjunctions, punctuation etc).

Here are Mr Baker’s 3 sentences and the start of the story.

Once upon a time there lived two little children named Kate and Jack. These little children were no ordinary children as they had special powers and they loved nothing more than to show them off. This led to many strange and interesting encounters.

Lets get creative team, I can’t wait to see where you take the story.

Hey team, here is a Maths quiz for you to try out. It is based on Fractions which we have been learning in class. Maths rocks, so lets get thinking!!!!!!

Blog homework this week involves Writing. The task is to use the 10 words below in 5 different sentences (2 words per sentence).

Crashing   Birdsnest   Mirror   Stinging   Socks   Mixing   Leaping   Blood   Stripes  Crane

Don’t forget to use the following: Full stops, Capital letters, Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, Conjunctions (1 per sentence), Speech Marks and most importantly your sentences must make sense.

If you want to learn more about Reading, Writing, Maths and Science click on this link http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/   It will take you to the BBC’s Website for kids which has great learning games and activities on-line.

Lets get learning team, see you tomorrow.

Hey everyone, well the blog is back in action again!!!!! 6 days seemed like a life time and I didn’t know what to do with myself.

Congratulations to Joshua Watson for winning the Blog name competition. Great work Joshua, the new name is great and very creative. Hopefully no one else has the same one!!!

Who is the new P.O.W? Well it is Courtney Izod. Awesome work Courtney, fancy going up two writing levels!!! You are the bomb!!!!!

Baby news - Well if you haven’t heard yet Mr B and his wife are having a baby…..BOY, due in early January. Now we know what we are having we will have to think of a cool name. Blog Trudi and I your favourite names, we would love to hear them. Roll on January!!!!!!!!

Congratulations to Room 3 and 4 for winning the Maths Challenge!!! See Mr B on Monday for your prize.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend and see you on Monday!!!

Hey everyone, well Mr Baker has some bad news…our house got robbed yesterday while Trudi and I were at work. Unfortunately they stole lots of things including our computer and ICT gear. This means the Blog is out of action while we sort out what to do.

I guess it’s back to communicating the old fashion way (pen and paper), Blogging was fun while it lasted!!!!!!

Hey team, Mr Baker has decided to give the Blog a bit of a make-over. I originally started the Blog as a bit of fun and had no idea it would grow into something so big and cool.

Anyway when it started I pinched the name Room5ians from another Blog thinking no one would know or care. Well Blogland is not that big and they do know so I think it might be time to get our own name.

This week’s Blog Homework is to come up with as many different names for our Blog as you can. Mr Baker will pick his favourite and change the Blog’s name. Here are a few names I thought of: Newbury Star, Live on Five and The Pulse.

I look forward to reading your suggestions and coming up with a new name.

Congratulations to Caroline and Georgina Evers-Swindell for winning their second Olympic Gold medal and New Zealand’s first Gold medal at this games.

Hey everyone, next Wednesday Trudi and I get to find out whether our baby is a boy or a girl. What do you think? Fill out the Poll below and let us know. Trudi and I both think it’s going to be a boy. Either way we can’t wait and are so excited!!!!

Did you know it is New Zealand Maths week? Well it is, so R5 has organised a Maths Challenge for the school. What you have to do is guess where in Newbury School these photos were taken. The class that guesses the most will receive a prize in next week’s assembly.

Below are some of the photos and the rest of them you can get off your teachers. Good luck classes, get hunting!!!!

Hey Room5ians, hope you are enjoying your weekend and have been tuning into the Olympics. Has your Country won a Medal yet? Anyway who is the new P.O.W? Well Curtis has decided to give it to someone who has never had it. It goes to… Sabrina. Awesome Sabrina you rock!!!

It’s a busy week ahead (as always) as Mr Baker is away Tuesday (Planning day) and Wednesday and Thursday are Parent Interviews. Can’t wait to talk to everyone’s parents about all the things you have been up too.

Homework this week is as normal. Blog Homework - If you could pick an event to win Olympic Gold in, what would it be and why? Mr Baker’s answer: The Marathon, I have always wanted to run a Marathon and think it would be a major achievement to win that event at the Olympics. I love it when they run the final lap in the olympic stadium.

Enjoy your evening and see you all tomorrow.

Hey Team, I have finished putting up your photography work and it looks awesome. Great job everyone, I think we have some future profesional photographers in our class. Enjoy your weekend, P.O.W will be up tomorrow. Who will it be?

Check out this really cool photo taken today by Casey-Lee of Emily. Great composition! Great Photo!!!!!

Check out these photos from today’s photography session.

Congratulations to following students who won their Year group’s Science Fair.

Y5 - 1st Curtis Rutland, 2nd Kelsi Byrne-Brown, 3rd Elettra Sciascia

Y6 - 1st Emma Adam (Overall Winner), 2nd Jessica Wilson, 3rd Renee Duncan

Y7 - 1st Ellie Sanson, 2nd Michael Butcher, 3rd Emma Clayton

Y8 - 1st= Ashlee Forster and Jonathon Adam, 3rd Daniel Trail

Hey Team, well it’s week 3 and it’s back to normal Homework. Homework this week consists of R5 Worksheet (Daily Spelling, Reading and 5 sentences) and Blog Homework.

Blog Homework is to send in a compliment via a comment to one of your classmates. You will receive your classmate in a mystery draw in class tomorrow. Also don’t forget your ACE project (I will start teaching you Microsoft Powerpoint this week) which is due in Week 8.

Also don’t forget it is Assessment Week. It is a great chance for everyone to show me how much you have improved in your Spelling, Basic Facts, Maths and Writing. Congratulations to Emma Adam who went up another level in Spelling on Friday. Awesome Emma, you rock!!!!

Check out the photos below. One is from Mrs Lye and the other is of our new look PE Shed. Mr Baker has tidied up the PE shed and re-stocked it with $3,000 worth of new gear.

Enjoy your night and see you tomorrow. (be prepared for a new look class tomorrow, I have changed things around big time!!!)