Our amazing Purple Cake Day song competition winners :)

We felt very privledged today to have Emily Sanson-Rejouis from Purple Cake Day and Dan Tipping from More FM to come into Room 5 today to present Madi, Jaani and Alesha with their winning prize money of $250. They have also been made embassadors for Purple Cake Day for their efforts. Two other groups were awarded 'highly commended' for their efforts also :) Click on the title above to hear the song

Recipes for our tasty meals

Our Nepalese Feast

WOW what a GREAT day we had today. Room 5 took over the science lab and made a feast fit for a King :)

On the menu today - thanks to our Purple Cake Day info pack was Dhal, Vegetable Curry and Momos. I will upload the recipes for these delicious meals soon :)

Whenua Iti

Attached are some great photos from our very exciting day out at Whenua Iti

Narratives

Room 5 are learning about narrative's. Narratives are made up stories e.g little red riding hood, 3 little pigs and Goldilocks and the 3 bears. When you write a narrative you need to include an orientation, a complication, a sequence of events, resolution and a moral [optional].To keep the reader reading, you need to use descriptive language. You also need a plot, a setting and some characters. When you write a narrative you need to use punctuation and paragraphs. If you plan to write a perfect narrative, you need to include all of these things.

From Anton & Thomas room 5

Whenua Iti

Whenua Iti

Whenua Iti was really scary but really fun. There was one thing that was really horrible and that was the high ropes. We were all secured on a rope and harness (not at the same time) and we climbed up this ladder and up a pole. There were 2 places you could start but I'll type about the 1 I started on. Now, trying to start something scary, thats bad. But when your starting on these 10m high wobbly platforms held up by these skinny little wires, thats when I started to panic. It took a while but I made the first jump. It was really truly horrible when I did because when I landed on it I slipped. I was fine though. The next jump took a little less time, and after that I stopped looking and just went for it. The platforms started getting closer after that and soon I was on the giant log. That bit was easy as it wasn't wobbling like the platforms. I walked to the end of the log and back into the middle so I could come down. Another bit that worried quite a few people. It's not every day you get asked to slide off a 10m high log. I now realise why people kiss the ground!

By Alesha Neame