Space - What's out there?

This Term at W.N.S we have been learning about our Solar System and Space. Some things we have been learning about are planets, stars and galaxies. We have learnt about some planets. Some of these planets are Saturn, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Mercury and Neptune. We have got a wonder wall in the class and every student has written a question to try and find the answer to during research time.

Our Room 6 wonder wall

We have watched this video about our solar system on YouTube. This link will show you the video.

Introduction to our solar system

A picture of the planets

By Jack

The Star Dome

On Monday RM 6 went to the Awesome Star Dome in the school hall. We lined up and walked in and talked lots. We meet RM 12 in the Star Dome and then learned about our Solar System. Some planets are Saturn, Mars, Jupiter & lots more. We met the owner of the huge dome, his name is Richard. He taught us that dwarf stars exist and the milky way is made from over 1.5 million stars. WOW that's a LOT!! We learnt more but I won't tell as I have too much to share.We had a question session and the students all had good ones. My eyes got sore because of the sun that was on the dome.

                                                                       

                                                                    BY CAMRON R

New Zealand Sign Language Week

This week has been New Zealand Sign Language Week. Throughout the week Room 6 students have had the opportunity to learn some of New Zealand's third official language - sign language.

We started off by learning how to fingerspell our names, using the following poster.

Students also spent time learning other words interactively using Sign Ninja. Follow the link to start learning.

NZSL Sign Ninja

Lastly, we are learning the sign language that accompanies the New Zealand national anthem, to enable us to use all three official languages when we perform it. The YouTube video is linked below.

New Zealand National Anthem in NZSL, Maori & English

Stop Motion Animation

This is the year five's work creating Stop Motion Animation. We have been working hard to reach this level. It is really hard because you have to take one picture per movement, otherwise it will be a bit glichy! The app we used is I Can Animate. Hopefully you like our videos and that this will interest you into making one yourself.

(Please click on the link to view these)

Year 5 Animations

By Charlize

Name tangles

Friday  week 1 we got ready to do name tangles. Mr Barnett joined Zentangle with  name which makes you know. This is the 1st room 6 review. Well back to name tangle. We all finished 19/2/16. First we wrote our names big and BOLD. They had to make it stick to the side. Next we made little decorations. There were lots to choose. We looked on Chrome. Last we went over with a vivid. There were 30 names.

By CAMRON

Statistics

Room 6 are investigating what is in a packet of Pascall Lolly Scramble. We are using statistics to work out how many of each type of lollies there are in a packet. This was completed in groups and we are using graphs to present the data that we have collected.