Our inquiry museum trip

Last Friday we packed up our bags and headed off to the museum. Our inquiry focus for the term is on Ancient Wonders and all the questions we have around ancient civilisations, buildings and culture. We were fortunate enough to visit the classroom at the museum and have a special lesson. In our lesson we used our inquisitive minds to find out information about different ancient civilisations. We were able to look at artefacts from these civilisations and examine them. There were some incredible objects with very interesting backgrounds and reasons for their usage. The museum trip definitely sparked some great inquiry focussed discussion.

A special thank you to all our great parents who offered to help and those that came along. It definitely wouldn't have been such a fun trip without you all.

Thomas D: I like how we were presenting information about our Gods and what they were doing.

Dominic: I really loved the mummy at the museum. I like how they found all the interesting artefacts. The Ancient Egyptians thought that if their pets died and they mummified them they would meet them in the after life.

Olivia: I liked all the quizzes. There was a Buddha meditating as an artefact in one of the glass cabinets.

Zac: We had to get ancient artefacts and had to figure out what they were.

Fraser: We got given a puzzle. It was actually a Viking's toilet seat.

Morgan G: There was an artefact that was the end of a staff. I think it came from Ancient Egypt. I never knew staff were real because they are usually magical.

See if you can spot anyone you know in all the photos Miss B took.

Our assembly item

Our class worked really hard on our assembly item. We decided to focus our assembly item on writing.

We have been working hard on perfecting our persuasive writing. We hope you can learn some tricks to help you with your persuasive writing.

 We had two wonderful students write each side of our debate in our item.
Bria Cottton wrote the 'FOR' side. 
Holly Barker wrote the 'AGAINST' side. 

Cross country

On Monday we had our senior school cross country. Room 4 has many avid runners and were excited about the cross country. Many of Room 4 are a  part of the VAS running club. Everyone tried their best and made Miss Bridgland proud.

Many of our class made the top ten places.
Year 5 girls:
2nd-Lucy
3rd- Kate
7th- Tyler
8th- Zoe

Year 5 boys:
2nd: Morgan T
3rd: Thomas B
5th: Dominic
6th: Thomas D
7th: Zac

Maths week

It has been Maths week here at VAS. We have been working hard on our maths knowledge. Miss Bridgman has sent us problems everyday to test our maths skills. We had a great time.

Here's what some of Room 4 have to say about maths week:

Bria- I liked doing the problems everyday and it tested my knowledge a lot more.

Morgan T -  I liked the maths trail because it was fun. There were hard questions and it was fun to work them out.

Kate - I like being challenged. I had fun doing the maths trail. It was exciting to be finding maths all around our school.

Thomas B -  I liked the maths trail because it was fun. I enjoyed doing all the different things. We got to do maths by running around the field.

Charlie - My favourite problem was working out how much the names of all the teachers in the senior syndicate were worth.  It took me ages to work them out.

Photos from our trip to the Mind Lab

We were lucky enough to go to the Mind Lab and do some fantastic inquiry exploring with magnets. We mined iron out of sand from Piha. We made our own electromagnets and we even made pharoah fluid.

Mind lab trip

This is a slideshow made by Flynn O'Shannessey, George Baker and Thomas Delmas about our visit to the Mind Lab. 

Kia ora everyone!

Welcome to Room 4's blog. Here are four quick facts all about us!

1. We are a year 5 class at Victoria Avenue School in Auckland. Our class is filled with 30 enthusiastic, sporty, fun, competitive, caring students who love learning. We are all very different but together we are awesome. 
2. Our teacher is Miss Bridgland. She loves sports, reading and learning as well. Harry Potter is her favourite book series. 
3. There are loads of things we love about our school. We have a big field to play football, touch and capture the flag on. The library is another place we enjoy to relax and read. You can always find Room 4 students using the table tennis tables and the handball squares. We have chrome books in our class which we all love to use as much as we can. 
4. We are very excited to start this blog and can't wait to share our learning with everyone. Please feel free to comment and we will write back. 

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From Miss Bridgland and Room 4