room 5 in action

science roadshow

How do planes stay in the air?

Flatten your hand, angle it up a little, and very carefully hold it outside the window of a moving car, you'll feel a force pushing it upwards. The force is lift and it keeps planes in the air.

When you hold your hand out of the car window, it pushes the flowing air down. So the air pushes back up with on equal and opposite force. Your hand is also pushing forward, and that's matched by an equal and opposite force pushing it back that is drag.

The power to generate lift comes from a plane's engines. Jet engines suck in masses of air and squirt it out the back, pushing the plane forwards. The forwards motion makes air travel.

So next time you go on a plane look it the wing. You can see the wind coming up on top and you might appreciate how flight works....

As sore as falling out a tree

The boiling sun beamed down on the bullets whistling past my ears, and bright fluro
colours across my mats tops. as bullets flew like birds diving at their top speed. Occasionally you could here a loud OW! then a whistle blew it was all over.

As hot as a angry sun

The sun was beaming on the happy families. It was at the Mapua Wharf. You can hear kids yelling like they are on fear factor. Looking it the small slimy fish, then my big brother pushes me into a school of fish. But suddenly the rain comes and there is now more fun!

Radical report writing

This term our focus for writing is reports. It needs to have a good title that tells
the reader what the topic is about.The first paragraph needs to be an introduction to the topic, and the last paragraph needs to be a conclusion to our reports.
Our reports are about things that move which is also our main focus in topic.We have to write two pages on our report,one about how it works and another page about what it is.

flying high with spinners

On wednesday room 5 made spinners out of a skewer,a piece of a cork,hot glue and a piece of plastic. First we got one third of a cork and put it near the end of the skewer,then we got the piece of plastic which we could cut any shape we liked and put it above the cork and then we hot glue gunned the piece of plastic on. Then you put the skewer in the palm of your hand and you move one hand backwards and one hand forwards and the spinner spins out of your hand up into the air.

This Term !!!

This term we made balloon powered race cars my one was awesome because it is red. It went roughly 1 and a half meters. The hardest bit was making the weals so they don't have much friction. In our school garden we have Monarch butterfly caterpillar's there are heaps all over the place. soon some will turn into Chrysalis then butterfly's.

Kapahaka fun day:)

On Wednesday week four the Mapua schools kapahaka group went to the Memorial hall for Kapahaka fun day. When we got there Parklands school welcomed us with a powhiri. Whea Aroha and Whea Jane did a Karanga to say thank you to Parklands. All the schools were great and everyone loved the uniforms thanks to Barbra and Glenis, and a big thanks to Whea Aroha.

Report writing in room 5

Yippee!Science road show here we come! The senior syndicate were just starting their science adventure. We got to see a slide show and got talked to about science then we had a idea of how forces worked. As soon as the slide show had finished there was a mad rush to try out the science experiments. After trying as many as we could we sat back down for another slide show. At the end they exploded bubbles. Then it was time to go. Back at school we had to tell our teacher what we had learnt. The things that were mentioned were:if you have a force going one way there will always be a equal force going the other way and that how balloon powered cars work. It`s the same with a rocket.

Hip Hop Dancing

It all started on the last day of term 3.

Ten minutes after the bell rang we started hip hop
after we went to the old mill walk way.
We sang mapua e and had free sausages then we walked back to school.

Science in Term 4

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

the car of 5

Last Monday we made some balloon powered race cars and the winning car was the gold car which was Dylan's and Cameron's and Alfie's. The car won the speed race and the longest distance race. Mac and Jake one the best looking car and everyone participated in the making of the car. My car didn't work because my buddy glued the wheels on the the sticks so it wouldn't move. Daniel and Peter's car won the cross country competition and their car didn't even fall oven when they went down the steps. Our room versed room 9 in a competition to see whose car was the fastest and our room won. The competition was Cameron's 's car verses Kinsey's car. Cameron's car was made out of a kebab stick some ice block sticks four milk bottle tops some sticky tape and some hot glue to keep the wheels together some card board, straws and things from a fire work paper to make it look really cool and vivid to colour it in. These are the thing you need to get to make the car of 5.

Balloon powered race cars

Last week room 5 and room 9 made balloon powered race cars.They had to move at least 5 meters and have at least 3 wheels. Me and Jayden's car was instantly disqualified because it only had two wheels. The fastest cars from room 5 and room 9 were picked and they had a race and room 5's car won.

Hiwi the Kiwi

On Thursday at 9:00am Mapua School walked down to the church for the Hiwi the Kiwi fishing presentation. It was about fish for the future and water safety. The Ministral sung songs and asked questions. Jayden got chosen to go up onto the stage and said that he wasn't wearing a life jacket so he only got a poster. Zane got a cap and a poster but I didn't get chosen to go up onto the stage.

Similes

This week, we've been learning about "similes". Similes are where you describe
something with something else like "The water was as dark as space" With Mrs Higgins, we had to write a paragraph with three similes. This is mine:
As dark as a night sky

As the water lapped the edge of the glass, th e fish swam as quick as a cheetah. The water looked freezing. It was so murky. The rock looked so sharp, if you touched it would cut you in a flash. The whole scene looked as dark as a night sky.

The day had finally come the deadly winter sports a combination of:soccer,netball,rugby and hockey(the best and the one that I was in). After about half of an hour of a bus talking non stop the hokey team was dropped off at the mot high school all of the hockey people scattered everywhere on the 850 meter filed. At the starting of our game I scored two goals and Cullen scored a few and i scored the most goals Each game was 15 minutes long. Tupperware was the hardest team and at first we Drew with them but at the end we won!!!!!And at the end we Mapua won the whole thing and then we went home.:)

Winter 7 aside tournament

On Thursday the 16th of September Mapua years 5,6,7 and 8 left for Motueka to play a variety of sports. On the bus the teams were seated and nervous while the time ticked down to the tournament. The soccer team I was in walked off the bus and got ready to play. Our team organizer was Ben Price's dad Andy. Our team got a Quick briefing from the man who ran the tournament then we went on to the field to play our first game at 10:00. Our first game we won 8 nil and rushed to tell the scorer the score. We hoped for a good challenge but were disappointed as won our second game in a row. We walked through the game scoring 65 goals with no goals scored against us, We had a lunch break and were told we made the finals. Our team were happy that we made it into the finals and were disappointed that we didn't get a very hard game. I was the captain of the team and was excited that we made it to the finals. As we walked onto the field our team was feeling nervous and we felt like it would be a hard game. Little did we know that we would win 12-0. At the end of the day we waited and waited for the bus and told other Mapua students how we went. The netball and hockey also won their tournament. The Mapua School probably won overall.

Writing storys

In my Class Room , Room 5 we have been doing story writing.

My story's about a girl named Coraline who really doesn't like her life she thinks it's boring and she really wants to be a pop star.

One night when she is just going to go on a boring trip with the Stevens family , she sees a shooting star she wishes to be a pop star in the morning she wakes up to a pop star life but when she realises how important her life really is to her.

Then she wishes on a wishing star and goes back to her real life and is really happy and not bored.

Reading in room 5!

In room 5 we have been reading novels that are by Gary Paulson, Paul Jennings and Jack London. The novel that is by Gary Paulson is called Hatchet and it is about a boy who crashed a plane in the woods and has to survive. The novel by Paul Jennings is called The Gizmo and it is about a boy who steals a Gizmo and then tries to get rid of the Gizmo but it keeps coming back in his pocket. The novel by Jack London is called The Call of the Wild and it is about a dog called Buck who keeps on getting hurt by a dog called Spitz and one day Buck pays Spitz back and then Spitz runs away. We also have to complete activity sheets to make sure we understand what we have been reading.