Room 11 2014

Meet an Olinguito

Congratulations to Thomas Mooney who has just had an article published on the website kiwikidsnews

Read on to find out how Tom did this…

 

Meet an Olinguito

 

Over the last few weeks a selected group of kids have been doing some extension homework. We had to do a few different things including:

v Listen to Iris's Ukulele and then write a paragraph about it.

v Write an article for the kiwikidsnews website.

v Write a letter to the editor.

I wrote my article for the website on Olinguitos. If you want to you can look at it using the hyperlink I put on.

I found a few mistakes in it when it got posted.

It took me a very long time to do my draft, probably about 4 days. I did it 2 weeks ago but it only got published last night! I forgot to put in both a title and a picture but the editor was good and he put them both in for me. The other people in the group are ready for theirs to be published but they haven’t sent them in yet. Nand’s is about the Seddon earthquake,  Zoe’s is about the White Island eruption. Isabella’s is about the casualties of the Cairo museum robbery and Kiki’s  is about a dog saving a cat with its  blood.

 

By Thomas Mooney

Egyptian Day

Egyptian Day

To conclude our learning on Ancient Egypt we had an awesome Egyptian Day. We all dressed up like Egyptians, mummies, and slaves – even the teachers

We also got to taste some Egyptian foods like prunes, hummus (semi Egyptian), grapes, marshmallows and banana chips – we were surprised by how tasty the prunes were.

All classes in the senior school rotated to rooms 11, 12, 13, and 14.

In room 11 we rotated to room 12 first and had an awesome time

with Mrs.King.

First we had an awesome time playing around with

the javelin! (At least we didn’t cut off our heads!:)

Then also played lots of games of tug-of-war!!!

Then in Room 13 we made some bracelets that were made out of

Cardboard. Egyptians used these with a powerful amulet in the

middle. After that room11 went to room14 and made some amazing

Egyptian bookmarks!!! At the end of the day all classes had a game

of tug-of-war!!!

DID YOU KNOW THAT THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS USED TO PLAY TUG OF WAR AS A GAME TO WORK OUT WHICH TRIBE WAS THE STRONGEST.

 

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Gifted and Talented Education

G.A.T.E. With Mrs Devine

ECOLOGY

A small group of year three and four students from rooms 7, 8, 9, 10 & 11 have been selected for G.A.T.E. (Gifted And Talented Education) with Mrs Devine. We are doing ecology, it is about nature and things that lived and lives.

The first thing we did was building our own terraquas. Terraquas are miniature gardens that you can make out of:

· 1.5 litre bottle · Permanent marker · Scissors · Screw driver · Plants · Soil or potting mix · Water · Wick, thick string or rope · Stones or pebbles (optional )

The week after that we adjusted them slightly, because our previous ones had been killed by the intense heat. We had to put in new plants, change the water and put them outside. They worked a lot better in their new ``habitat’’.

We put our terraquas by the trees by the parking lot. We had to make nest by putting shells or bark bunched by the bottom. We had to bring them inside and outside two times basically every day and Mrs Devine will take them home in the weekends.

Two weeks ago we planted some radish seeds in two trays .the first tray had tap water in it and the 2^nd had soda water in it. That was the last exciting thing we did so far but next week we are going to do an all-day science day.

Watch this space for more scientific discoveries!!

BY THOMAS AND KIKI.

Ecology

matariki art with rei hendry

Painting with Rei Hendry

Today we were very lucky, we had the amazing Rei Hendry in our school.

MATARIKI ART

Here is a link that you can follow to hear a retelling of the Seven Stars of Matariki.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKL6V69RLxo&safe=active

Once we were organised and Rei had talked to us about techinque.

 we were ready to start.

First we folded our paper into 3 parts

Next we painted a block letter M in the middle coloumn.

Then we tracked a night star across the sky in the top column.

After that we had to draw 2 or 3 lines in the third column to represent land and sea.

We then used blue paint for the sky and the sea, that balances out the picture by having blue at the top and the bottom. Then we had to paint the hills green (the pictures are really beginning to take shape now)

After that we had to blend red and yellow to make a sunrise pattern in the middle column.

Lastly we will have to paint 7 stars to represent the 7 stars of Matariki.

Quotes from some of the kids:

I enjoyed learning new techniques – Declan

I liked how we learnt how to hold our brushes properly – Ruby

We loved having a real artist in the classroom not just a teacher – Logan

It was good being taught to paint properly –Kaleb

I love painting, we should do more of it – Isabella

I loved learning from a real artist and learning the proper words for our equipment like palette – Ninabelle

I found it challenging to control my paintbrush but I stuck at it and now I like my piece of art – Thornley

We got to do painting instead of Scribe Time - Sasha

 

Monday 18^th March

Bryant House Visit

On Monday Room 11 went to Bryant House. Bryant House is a resthome in Taradale. We went and shared a piece of our writing and asked questions about their lives so we could write a brief biograpghy on that person.We each had a partner and we were also paired up with a resident.

Our Quotes

I enjoyed that we got to learn from older people who have lots to share – Nand

Our visit was great because they told us facts about Taradale that we didn’t know – Logan

I liked how they told us how the world was back in the olden days – Ashley

I like how the old people have lots of memories – Amber

I liked how they shared their lives with us –Mir

The old men were funny because they were a bit cheeky – Cassie

We got to laugh together so that was great –Stefani

 

We are looking forward to going back and sharing their biographies with them.

We all felt really proud of ourselves.

Photos will be posted soon, Miss Mills just needs to work out how to take them from outlook and insert into our blog. :-)

 

 

 

Rainbow Fish Art

The Rainbow Fish is an award-winning book about a beautiful fish who finds friendship and happiness when he learns to share. The book is best known for its morals about the value of being an individual and for the distinctive shiny foil scales of the Rainbow Fish.

We listened to the audio book on you tube first, it is told by the famous actor Ernest Borgnine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9mryuEKkKc&safe=active

Here is how we did our art.

1.First we did a draft in our drawing books and Miss Mills showed us how to add the fins and tail. We then drew on our scales and eyes.

2.Then we drew our pencil outline onto cartridge paper and drew over it with vivid.

3.Next we coloured our scales with pastel then we put tin foil on some scales and glitter on others.

4.The last step was to dye the background blue.

Our art work looks amazing. We are going to put them on our classroom windows to show everyone how amazing and vibrant  we are.

By Te Ao