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We made Ice cream

In room 4 we have been learning about emulsions and since ice cream is the worlds most popular emulsion is ice cream we got to make ice cream! We were in groups of four and we had a competition for the best ice cream and my group won, in ours we put Oreos, sprinkles and chocolate chips. Some even said it tasted better than store bought ice cream. It's really fun and easy to do and the recipe is there so you should try it.

Kitchen Chemistry

Our topic at PCS at the moment is kitchen chemistry. Room 4 has been learning about emulsions which is when two substances are immiscible or they don't mix an emulsion is when one of the two substances are bubbles in the other such as if you mix water and oil. Do you know what the worlds most common emulsion is?

We're back from Camp!

We're back from Camp! We had so much fun in raglan over the three days we were there. We were all in groups an did 7 activities. There was Rock Climbing, Flying Fox, BMX Biking, Archery, Low Ropes, Confidence Course and Air Rifles. On the first night we had a campfire and did a burma trail in the forest, the second night we had a concert where we had to come up with an item and perform it in front of everybody, later we played spotlight. Every body enjoyed it heaps.

We're back from Camp!

We're back from Camp! We had so much fun in raglan over the three days we were there. We were all in groups an did 7 activities. There was Rock Climbing, Flying Fox, BMX Biking, Archery, Low Ropes, Confidence Course and Air Rifles. On the first night we had a campfire and did a burma trail in the forest, the second night we had a concert where we had to come up with an item and perform it in front of everybody, later we played spotlight. Every body enjoyed it heaps.

Performance photos

Yesterday we had Grandparents day at PCS to celebrate our Grandparents and to showcase our work. We kick off with an assembly made up of performances from our cultural group, a word from our principal and some writing about our Grandparents created by students. Here are some pictures of the groups performing-Kapa Haka, Pacifica, Students sharing writing, Dance group, Singing and Jump Jam.

We made Soap!

Yesterday a lady called Shannon came in to teach us how to make soap for our craft market. At first we were going to make it the dangerous way with a ll the ingredients from scratch and if you put the ingredients in the wrong way around it explodes. So Shannon taught us how to make soap the safe way. We made chocolate scented soap and it was purple. When we took it out of the mold everyone was so excited because it was really shiny and it smelled amazing.

How to make a paper folded box

We have been learning about packaging for our craft market that's coming up and we found how to do one without cutting or gluing. We have been practicing them and this is how you make one.

Buy our Cookbook

In Room 4 we have made a cookbook for our topic and to fundraise for our camp at the end of the year. We each had a favourite recipe that we typed up and shared to Mrs P. It took us a long time to edit and publish it. We had to work out all the costings to see what price we had to sell them for to make a worthwhile profit. The Cookbook is selling for $13.95 discount price. It has over 25 recipes and there is Tasty treats, Delicious drinks, Lavish lunches and Satisfying sweets. There is also a contents page, Authors page, index and vocabulary page. PLEASE HELP US FUNDRAISE!

Cross Country

Cross Country on PhotoPeach What a busy week we have had. We had whole school Cross Country and our school olympics. Here are some photos from Cross Country held on Thursday 18th August. We will post photos from our Olympics shortly.

Supina's Holiday Challenges

These holidays we were challenged to complete seven challenges, one of which was to go 3 days without technology. This was (in my opinion) the hardest, but surprisingly I wouldn't mind doing it again. Anyways whoever completed all the challenges would name our new fish, and it was...... ME! I named them Bob and Eve. Anyways I hope you enjoy, and please comment and we'll be sure to reply. Anyways...............ENJOY!!!

Holiday Challenge

Right girls and boys here is some fun activities and competition for you to do in the holidays. Please share to Mrs Paniora. You could get together with your friends, or family. The one who does all of the challenges can name our new fish. Created by Noah, Supina, Jason, Amie, Lucy & Zac

Reading activities

This week in reading we have been learning about what happens to your heart when you exercise. We had lots of different activities to do like make a documentary or do a scavenger hunt. First you had to watch a video about what happens to your heart when you exercise then one about a documentary.

Kahoot

We have created kahoots which are interactive quizzes about what we have learnt in reading. Someone must make the kahoot then put their device where everyone who is playing. Then the people type in the game code and select a nickname for themselves. Then the person that made the kahoot presses start once everyone is in. Then questions come up on screen and the players have to press the correct shape or colour. There is a leader board so it usually gets pretty competitive and it is lots of fun.

Play dough

Playdough - Kizoa Video Editor - Movie Maker

In room 4 we made play dough for our stop motion videos for topic. First we had to watch a video with recipe. Then we had to make a slide presentation with the ingredients and method in our own words. We then had to find the prices on the countdown website and figure out how much it would cost to make play dough. After that we put the method into our own words, and finally we got to make play dough according to the presentation we made. Enjoy the movie.

A warrior player visited room 4!

Jazz Tevaga from the warriors visited us last week. Jazz told us why and how he got into rugby league. We played dodge ball with him in the auditorium and after that we all surrounded him with things to sign and chrome books to take selfies with.

Sign Language Week

We have been learning sign language for NZSL week. Together as a class we came up with all the signs that we had learnt from the game Sign Ninja. Then we got into groups and used the words that we already knew to write a story and we learnt the words in between that make the story make sense. We practiced our lines and made videos to show our learning. Here is some group's work.

Group writing - if I were A soldier

We followed the model "If I were a storm" and wrote as if we were a soldier because lately we have been doing lots of work around ANZAC.

Holiday Activity

I hope everyone is enjoying their holidays.  As we head into the 2nd week I have a small challenge for you.  Who is up for it?  I will send you all an email as well. To make this infographic I used an app called piktochart.  Here is the link  .  Hope to see some posts. Mrs P

Time Management

Our presentation is about time management and what it looks like. We have made this checklist to remind ourselves how to manage our time effectively. Do you manage your time effectively on a device? or complete all your tasks within a time frame?

Google maps

We have been learning to use google maps, in maths. Google information gives us the time it would take with all different kinds of transport, the directions or route, it gives you street views, the fastest time and it does the same thing for the rest of the world. I have an activity for you to do at the end, it will be lots of fun. I would love lots of feed back. Amie

Hello bloggers

We got this idea from Vicki @ Hay Park School and wanted to do this to introduce ourselves so thank you. This is us in our learning space ready to learn and have fun. It's all you need to know about the room 4 learners. We welcome bloggers into the world of room 4 and look forward to commenting.

Student's Pepeha

This term the students have been learning to say their Pepeha in Maori.  Enjoy!

Cyclone Winston

We have been learning about Cyclone Winston because we had a mufti day last Friday. This is what we learnt about Cyclone Winston. Fariha & Biqi

Dakota

This is an audio recording of Dakota reading a news report off Sonshine online.  She read the news report several times and discovered that she got better at reading it the more times she read.  This is why repeated reading is important.

Welcome to our new class for 2016

We have kicked the year off with taking photos of our favourite places at PCS. For the first 5 weeks we are Setting Up For Success and getting to know each other.