What is the best part of you?

In ruma rua we have been learning how to write a poem using rhyming, short sharp sentences and writing using lines. We had a look at the book The Best Part of Me by Wendy Ewald, where children talk about their bodies using pictures and words. We thought about the things we love doing and what parts of our body we use to do these things. We hope you enjoy reading through our creative poems.

Have you ever done weaving?

For Mother's Day this year we wanted to create something special for our incredible Mums, Aunties, Grandmothers and other female figures in our lives. We were learning how to weave using a needle and thread because it is important for us to be able use our fine motor skills. 

Did you celebrate Holy Thursday?

What a fun Holy Thursday we all had today! Everyone learnt about the history and symbolism of hot cross buns and Easter eggs. They helped to bake a huge delicious hot cross bun in a bread maker and we shared it with one another like Jesus did with his disciples at the last supper.

Below is Jason's collage from our special day. 

Stunning watercolor whales

Over the past few weeks ruma rua have been learning about the legend of the seven whales that make up the hills near Wairoa. They have explored using water colours by blending, dabbing to take away, layering with paint and adding finer detail using sharpie. Ka pai boys and girls!

Happy Saint Patrick's Day

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day everyone. Today we celebrated this feast day by attending Mass. We have also been learning all about Patrick and why he became such a memorable and significant saint.

Here is Hannah's fabulous St Patrick's Day poster

Does your school have a wheels day?

 Wheels day afternoon! I heard many students say this was, ‘The best Monday EVER!’

We are learning how to sketch by observing

 Today we started practicing observational sketches of our whales

Tomorrow we will start adding water colour!

Super Ruma Rua

Wow! Ruma rua really are super learners! They have been learning about what good learners do and they cannot wait for you to be able to come back into class to check out their super skills using Google Drawings!

Our Enviroschools Waka

 Ruma rua in their Enviroschools Waka. We are on a journey to intergrate the five guiding principles in all learning and
action we undertake.

Kia ora world! We a Ruma Rua at Saint Mary's Catholic School Gisborne.

Kia ora, bula, Nǐ hǎo, bonjour, malo e lelei, talofa lava, hola, kon'nichiwa. We are ruma rua, a class of year 5/6 students at Saint Mary's Catholic School Gisborne. Our class blog is a place where you can find whole class topics we have been learning about and examples of our fantastic mahi. If you would like to check out our personal blogs, please scroll down and look on the right hand side. We love reading your positive, thoughtful, helpful blog comments and we also love responding, so please have a read and leave a comment. Happy blogging. Ma te wa, ruma rua.