My Personal Timeline By John

I learnt my Nan died in September in 2007 by Deziree. In 2008 I started school. In 2009 I was a year 2 student with the same teacher that I am with now.

Thomas' Personal Timeline

This is my personal time line on my life.

Angel's personal Timeline

This is my Personal Timeline. As you can see at the start I was born and at the end Its where we are at 2013. In the middle is when I went to school. Please leave some comments.

Fine's Silhouette Painting Reflection

Reflecting on my Silhouette Painting

1. Are you pleased with your Silhouette painting? why / why not?
Yes, because it is the first time I have made a blended sunset with a silhouette and I want to remember my first kind of artwork.


2. What did you find easy when you created your silhouette painting?
Folding the paper because it was easy to fold it because you can’t get anything wrong unless you haven’t been listening.


3. What part did you find tricky when you were creating your Silhouette painting? -think about blending of colours, tracing round your animal and painting within your animal.
Well definitely tracing the animal because once you think you're finished you have to check if you can see the traced animal on your artwork because if you can’t see the traced animal you have to start again but in the same spot.


4. Who / What helped you when you were painting?
Miss Paton helped me by showing me the steps to make
my silhouette painting.


5. What would you do differently next time? Think about: blending of colours, animal choice, presentation.
I would change how I painted my elephant because I didn’t take my time and I rushed.



6. What frustrated you when you created your Silhouette painting?
Tracing the animal because it's really hard.

My Silhouette Painting Reflection By Oh S'mar

Reflecting on my Silhouette Painting

1. Are you pleased with your Silhouette painting? why / why not?


Yes, because I tried very hard and it looks good to me.



2. What did you find easy when you created your silhouette painting?

I found painting the sunset very easy to me.


3. What part did you find tricky when you were creating your Silhouette painting? -think about blending of colours, tracing round your animal and painting within your animal. 
 I found tracing the animal hard because I had to keep the paper still.



4. Who / What helped you when you were painting?
Patrick and the teachers example. Patrick told me what to do and showed his work as an example.



5. What would you do differently next time? Think about: blending of colours, animal choice, presentation.
Choosing a different animal because the animal I chose was to easy.



6. What frustrated you when you created your Silhouette painting?
Tracing around the animal because it was moving a little bit and I had to take the paper off.

My Silhouette Reflection By Samantha

Reflecting on my Silhouette Painting

1. Are you pleased with your Silhouette painting? why / why not?
Yes, because my sunset stands out. Also the blending colours in my picture are very awesome. I also love my artwork because my elephant really stands out.






2. What did you find easy when you created your silhouette painting?
I found the sunset pretty easy because we had to fold our papers in quarters and when we painted it, it was really easy to blend the paint.




3. What part did you find tricky when you were creating your Silhouette painting? -think about blending of colours, tracing round your animal and painting within your animal.
I found tracing the animal pretty hard because when you trace your picture and then take it off its sort of hard to try and see what you’ve traced.

4. Who / What helped you when you were painting?
Miss Paton with my artwork by explaining how to do the artwork.

5. What would you do differently next time? Think about: blending of colours, animal choice, presentation.
I could work on taking my time when I paint my shadows.

6. What frustrated you when you created your Silhouette painting?
I was frustrated because I was rushing to get my work done.

Room 5 Darts Competition

Today we learnt to play darts. It was a fun Maths activity as we had four tries to aim for the Bulls Eye. During the lesson we had to apply our Basic Facts knowledge. Some of us scored inner and outer ring points where we had to double and triple our scores. Here are some photographs of the lesson. Next week we will be using Google Spreadsheets to create a graph on our overall totals. We will make interpretations on who scored the highest and lowest points. We will also look at why these students did well and will make comparisons on which try in the game scored us the most points.

More Silhouette Paintings Complete

Today we had some more students finish off their Silhouette Paintings. Check out their paintings.

Sequencing Miss Paton's personal timeline

During these last two weeks we have been learning about personal timelines. As an introduction to timelines we had to sequence Miss Paton's personal timeline along a rope. Check out how well we did.

Our Personal Timelines Presentation

During the last two weeks we have been learning about personal timelines. A personal timeline has a start year and an end year. It was a fun learning and ordering the special milestones we have experienced in our lives. Check out our presentation on some of the personal timelines we have made.

More of our African Animal themed Silhouettes

Here are some more of our African Animal Silhouettes. We have almost finished, only waiting on a few. We will be showing this presentation on Blog of the Week on Friday. Check out our amazing artworks.

Our Amazing Silhouette Paintings

This term we are learning about Silhouette Art. During the last two weeks we have been painting a sunset using blending techniques and tonal modelling. We decided to have an African theme and focus our silhouette pictures on animals of Africa. Check out our presentation. 

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Patrick's Time Line

Mrs Paton's interpretation Patrick was born in May 2002. I learnt that there is a start year and an end year when creating a time line. Patrick's time line year started in 2002, because this was the year Patrick was born. The end date is 2013 because it is the present day. When we made time lines we had to work out half of Patrick's age. Patrick is ten years old and to work out the centre line we had to half the 10 to make 5. This was the centre line to Patrick's time line. This was centre make which showed that Patrick started school. From 0-5 years on the left side of the timeline shows Patrick's early milestones from 6 - 10 years on the right side shows Patrick's school years.

Thomas' Personal Time Line

This is my personal time line on my life.

Yvette's personal time line

All about me: Raymond

Hi my name is Raymond.
I am 10 years old and my teacher is Miss Paton.
This is my second year in room five.
In my spare time time I like to go on Maths whizz, Sumdog and study ladder.
My favourite foods are corned beef and rice.
My favourite movie is Real Steel.
Over the holidays I went to Melbourne, Perth and Western Australia. In Room 5 I would like to move up writing levels.

All about me: By Lani

Hi my name is Leilani I’m 9 years old
This is my first year in room 5. In my spare time I like to read books that are fiction.
My favourite food is fruit and butter chicken.
My favourite movie is White and black.
I was learning with Miss Paton why we are at school we have lots of kids in this school and in our class we have 28 people.
In room 5 I want to achieve good work habits by working my best everyday at school.

All about Samantha

Malo Lelei.
Hi my name is Samantha.
I am 10 years old and my teacher is Miss Paton.
This is my first year in Room 5. In my spare time I like to play hand games with my friends and play on the computer at home.
My favourite food is butter chicken.
My favourite move is Alvin and the Chipmunks Chipwrecked.
Over the holidays I went to a place called Dunkirk Activity Centre and when I got there we went on a trip to the Maritime Museum in the city. When we got there we went in this big yacht and then we sailed on the harbour.
In room 5 I would like to complete my work on time this year and to get lots of blog posts up onto my blog.

All about me: Halaiano

Hello my name  is Halaiano I am 9 years old and I am Tongan. My favourite food is chocolate and popcorn. My favourite movie is Legend of the First. In my spare time I play my laptop and go onto my Facebook page. In my family I have nine brothers and five sisters. At my school my teacher is Miss Paton and this is my first year in room 5. Over  the holidays I played with my cousin Toa and we watched some movies. My Mum took us to Rainbows End. In room 5 I want to learn all my time tables.

All about me: Zeba

Hi my name is Zeba.

I am 8 years old and my teacher is Miss Paton.

This is my first year in room 5. In my spare time I like to read.

My favourite food is pizza.

My favourite movie is Wreck it Ralph.

Over the holidays I went to the beach alot.

In room 5 I would like to achieve finishing my work on time by asking for help if I find my work too hard.

All about Reon

Kia ora my name is Reon

I   am 9 years old and my teacher is Miss Paton. 
This is my first year in room 5. 
In my spare time I like to play with my friends. 
My favourite foods are lobster, shrimp and chocolate. 
My favourite movie is Arthur. Over the holidays I went to the pools and just stayed home.

In room 5 I want to get better at finishing my work on time by trying my best at all times.

All About Harry

Hi my name is Harry.

I am 8 and a half years old and my teacher is Miss Paton.

This is my first year in Room 5.

In my spare time I like to play with my friends.

My favourite foods are hotdogs and chips.

My favourite movie is Harry Potter.

Over the holidays I went to One tree hill and Mt Wellington.

In Room 5 I would like to work on finishing my work on time.    

Setting the Purpose

This year we have been focusing on the meaning of learning- what learning is and what learning looks like, feels like, sounds like. Here is our Voice Thread.

Personal Timeline Activity

Today in Maths we learnt about personal time lines. We were given the task in sequencing and ordering our teacher's time line from when she was born till when she went to the United Kingdom and Europe for a holiday last year. The first time line was very tricky as it did not have any years on it and we had to really think hard where to sequence the milestones in Miss Paton's life. The tricky milestones was trying to guess when Miss Paton went on her first camp and when she first learnt to play the recorder. The second time line had years and months that we could order and sequence correctly. This made the task a lot easier as we could determine what year and month came before and after.

A Global Learning and Thinking Community

This is our Room 5 vision for this year. This statement depicts the way we do things in Room 5. We will be referring to the Manaiakalani pedagogy of Learn, Create, Share throughout the year. The globe symbolizes going places through our learning we put on our individual blogs. Over the years it is amazing the number of views students receive from our international audience. The clouds represent aiming high, climbing to the top and going on an exciting learning journey together.   

All about me: Caitlin

Kia Orana my name is Caitlin. I am 9 years old and my teacher is Miss Paton. This is my second year in Room 5. In my spare time I like playing sports-Netball Softball T-ball. My favourite food is Pizza. My favourite movies are Twilight and Pitch Perfect. Over the holidays I went to Mission Bay and Eastern Beach also we went to the swimming pools. In Room 5 I would like to finish my work in the time given.

All about me: Lavinia

Kia Ora my name is Lavinia.
I am 10 years old and my teacher is Miss Paton.
This is my first year in Room 5. In my spare time I like to hang out with my friends and playing on my netbook.
My favourite food is Butter Chicken
My favourite movie is Twilight and Pitch Perfect.
Over the holidays I went to the pools and went to go to see Rise of the guardians.
In Room five I would like to put lots of posts on my blog this year.

All about me: Ducati

Hi my name is Ducati. I am 10 years old and my teacher is Miss Paton. This is my second year in room 5. In my spare time I play on the Xbox 360 or watch TV. My favourite foods are chocolate, trifle, neapolitan ice cream, chocolate cake with chocolate chips and chocolate sprinkles, apple pie and white chocolate and nutella. My favourite movies are Catwoman, Scott Pilgrim vs the World, Batman begins, the Simpsons Movie, Ice Age 3, Wreck-it Ralph, Scary movie 4 and Tomb Raider the Cradle of life and Resident Evil Afterlife. Over the holidays I went to the Warehouse because my parents gave me and my sister Kapri a $50 gift card for Christmas. We went to the pools to cool down. In room 5 I would like to get work done and finish it within the set time this year.

All about me: Latham

Hi my name is Latham. I am 9 years old and my Teacher is Miss Paton.
This is my first year in room 5. In my spare time I like to play on the computer.
My favourite food is butter chicken. My favourite movie is Rambo.
During the holidays I went for a swim, watched TV and played.
In room 5 I would like to move up maths levels.

All about me: Oh S'mar

Hi my name is Ohsmar
I am 10 years old and my teacher is Miss Paton.
This is my second year in room 5. In my spare time I like to go on sumdog and math whizz.
My favourite foods are chips and nandos.
My favourite movie is Man of Steel.
Over the holidays I went to Mission Bay and had a swim. We had a picnic there. After we came back and I played with my friend  on his Playstation. We played online and we won. Then I went home and had a sleep.
In room five I would like to achieve these things: Moving up Reading levels, using full stops and capital letters correctly in my writing and to put more posts onto my blog.

All about me: Yvette

Hi my name is Yvette.
I am 9 years old and my teacher is Miss Paton.
This is my first year in room 5. In my spare time I like to read books and draw.
My favourite foods are chicken and ice cream.
My favourite movie is Twilight.
Over the holidays I went nearly everywhere in the North Island.
In room 5 I would like to learn all of my times tables.
I am a Yr 6 student in room 5 achieving for the best at everything.

All about me: Jharda'e

Kia ora my name is Jhardae

I am nine years old and my teacher is Miss Paton.

My favorite food is fettucini.

This is my first year in room 5.  

In my spare time I like to hang out with my friends.

My favorite movie is Daddys little girls.

over the Holidays I went to Rotorua, Whakatane and Tauranga.

In Room 5 I would like to pass all my tests.

All about me: John

Hi my name is John.

I am 9 years old and my teacher is Miss Paton

This is my first time in room 5 but second time with Miss Paton.

In my spare time I like playing touch with my brothers.

My favorite foods are fried bread,coco popsand sandwiches.

My favorite movies are rise of the Guardians and Pitch Perfect.

Over the holidays I have been over my cousins house.We played on the Xbox 360

and the PS3.In room 5 I would like to achieve in writing by proof reading my work. 

All about me: Thomas

Hi my name is Thomas.

I am 9 years old and my teacher is Miss Paton.

This is my first year in Room 5.

In my spare time I like to play soccer and hang out with my friends.

My favourite foods are prawns, lobster and steak.

My favourite movie is Ghost Rider.

Over the holidays I helped my grandparents move houses from Mangatawhiri to a retirement home in Tuakau until their new house is built.

In room 5 I would like to achieve multiplying and dividing negative numbers.

The class of 2013

Today was our first day at school for 2013. It was such a fun day getting to know each other. This year you will get to learn and know the new stars of Room 5. At the moment we have 33 students of Years 5 & 6. We have a Teacher Trainee called Miss Nichol who is from Canada.  We also have Miss Morris who will work in Room 5 when Miss Paton is at meetings. It's going to be a fun filled year.