Women's Suffrage in Room 5

In Room 5 we learnt about Women's Suffrage and how it impacted women and men in New Zealand. We discovered that New Zealand was the first to allow women the right to vote. Kate Sheppard played a huge role and is largely celebrated in New Zealand. Below is Josaia's blog about Kate Sheppard and how her story influenced him. Watch the video below to understand some of the work Kate Sheppard did to help create equality for the future generations.

We have watched a clip about women suffrage and how Kate Sheppard stood up for women. Kate Shepard is very famous now she on the 10 dollar on 1 dollar  but she should had been on way more because it takes a lot of  courage to do what she did. I think every one equally in gods eye but that my option

Click here to see Monique's activities on Kate Sheppard

Click here to see Paula's activities on Kate Sheppard

Refresh Your Senses - Room 5's mindfulness

 In room 5 at St Pius X we have been learning to understand our senses and how our mind works through the work of mindfulness. Everyday after lunch we partake in mindfulness to help us reset and refocus after lunch times. Sometimes during the day we can have things not go our way or as we had planned. Mindfulness helps us to remember that we can always turn our attitudes and actions around for the better.

We have learnt many techniques about calming and refreshing our minds for example controlling our breathing by tracing our hand with our finger. We have also learnt that it is o.k for our minds to wander off and we now know how to bring ourselves back on track. 

What do you to refresh your senses and yourself if you've had a bad moment?

Refresh your sense slide brought to you by Arvay. To see more from her check out her blog here!

How persuasive can you be? A blog by Beata

  Have you had to do persuasive writing to someone ? 

What was it about ?

Check out Beata's blog here!

Aurora's learning: Fraction Lesson 5 finding the fraction of a whole number

   Fraction Lesson 5 finding the fraction of a whole number

WALT:find and calculate a fraction of a whole number.

How did i find it? Easy I  used fraction for this because fraction was kind of make it easy for me to use.

To see more from Aurora CLICK HERE!

Kindness is Renewable

In room 5 we discussed and created our own slides about what it means to us. We want to tell you about ways in which we show kindness by giving back to others in our family, our school and our community. Follow the links to read some of our individual blogs.
Read Zenith's Blog about Kindness Here!
Read Josaia's Blog here!
Read Nasili's blog about what kindness means to him!

Sign Language Week

Each May, Deaf Aotearoa runs New Zealand Sign Language Week, celebrating one of New Zealand’s official languages. NZSL Week raises awareness of New Zealand’s Deaf community and provides a platform for Deaf people to proudly promote their language and culture.

In our classroom, as part of our reading activities, we practice our spelling words in sign. It is difficult at times but lots of fun. Can you guess what words we are spelling out without listening to the sound first?

Mothers Day

Last Friday we had a special assembly to celebrate Mary, Mother of Jesus and of course our dear Mums! We spent some time at our school statue of Mary to send her our prayers to thank her and help our mothers.

We then created our poems, letters and cards for our mums, aunties, nanas and the other important women in our lives. Here are some letters and poems to our mums.

K - Kind to me even when I mess up

E - Encouraging me to do my best

T - Too beautiful for the rest of the world

E - Everyone gets jealous because they're not as pretty as          

you and as loving as her

R - Really fun and awesome

A - Always Kind, fair and caring

By Iverson

Tupua, Josaia and Iverson making their cards for Mother's Day

Dear Mum,

I am grateful that you are my mum and that God gave me you. Thank you for being a kind Mum to me. You are so beautiful your eyes shine like gold like mine. You have a loving heart and I love you and you love me. Thank you for always looking out for me. Thank you for taking me to so many beautiful places. I am grateful that I have food and a lovely house because of you and dad. I am so happy that I have you in my life and thank you for looking after me and dropping me off to school and picking me up I will always love you. XOXO May God bless you

Love from: Kamaea Naden

What did you do to celebrate your mum?

Sailing at Okahu Bay

A big thank you to St Johns Rotary who sponsored our day out with yachting New Zealand

                                                                                  On Tuesday the 7th of May Room 5 headed to Okahu Bay to learn how to sail! We meet our instructors from Yachting New Zealand, Danika, Justin and Steven. With our wet suits and life jackets on we were given a few instructions on water safety and the important features of the boats (rudder and sail) and it was time to jump on the water! To read more about our awesome day out go to our personal blogs! 

The boys jumping in their wee P-class yacht

Paula and Justin making sure class are sailing the right way!

Mindfulness in Room 5

For our Re-build initiative at St Pius X we have been looking at how to rebuild ourselves. A huge part of that has been practising mindfulness. For us mindfulness is about being present, reconnecting with ourselves, our peers and Papatūānuku as well as helping us to self regulate and be grateful for what good we have around us every day.

It takes a lot of practice but every day we are improving and enjoying our time to sit and reflect for a few moments every day.

We created a Mindfulness slide to help others understand what it is we are hoping to achieve. There are also some fun mindfulness videos that have helped us so far!

Some of our classmates prefer to sit up others prefer to lie down.

We keep our hands on our stomachs to help us focus on our breathing. It is like blowing up a balloon.

Smart Learners

In term 1 we were working hard to make sure we are the best smart learners we can be! This Term (Term 2) we are learning about and exploring our DIGITAL FOOTPRINT.

Some tips for being smart learners are:

1. Hold your netbook with two hands
2. Post positive comments and blogs 
3. Keep personal information private

To read more about how to be Smart learners check out our individual blogs!

Quad Blogging

During our cyber smart lesson we decided to see what our buddy class was up to. We were organised into groups and given different blog posts to comment on.  We then commented on four different aspects of our buddy classes blogs.

Quad blogging!

We enjoyed our quad blogging session!

2019 Eastern Rippa Rugby Challenge Cup!

On Thursday 11th April 10 pupils from Room 5 participated in the Eastern Challenge Rippa Rugby tournament at Dunkirk Park.

We practiced most days during PE or at lunch times. Our first game we were a bit nervous but as the day went on we improved. We played 5 games and won 3. It was a really fun day out for those who went! We look forward to attending more local tournaments in term 2!

"Everyone back and defend!"

Warm up time with Josh

Dereon on our School Rebuild!

REBUILD

Rebuild is when it's a new year you could change your language, and recharge your mindset. You also become more mature and set a good example of what little kids should be doing. Rebuild also means changing our school and our community.

HERE'S OUR REBUILD ;)

For more interesting posts from Dereon have a look here!