NZ ART

Over the last few weeks Room13 has been doing New Zealand seaside art, based on the artist, Sarah C.

Our Inspiration by New Zealand Artist  Sarah C.

 

 

We have been doing step by step instructions in pencil, then we went over that in vivid, making sure we rubbed out the guidelines. After that we painted each segment separately, waiting for each section to dry before we started the next part, this was so the colours didn’t mix.

Don’t they look amazing!

By Pasa, Humo and Anna
 

plants, Battle of Omarunui and Otatara Pa

Seed Diary
6^th March

We planted some seeds. Every one picked which seeds they wanted. We read the Mitre 10 booklet on planting seeds. We filled our container with seed raising mix. We placed the seed in the soil then we cover it with soil. Gently watered it and waited for them to grow.

  

15^th March

Over the last 9 days we have been watching our little seedlings sprout. The sunflowers have grown the most but the little lettuce and silver beet seeds have grown lots too. We are all looking forward to seeing them fully grown.

By Kimberley & Shirley  

 Topic

Battle at Omarunui

In 1866, 130 Hauhau Rebels fought 200 British and Ngati Kahungunu allies at Omarunui. (Omarunui is about 10 kilometres from Napier on the Tutaekuri River.)

Hauhau built a temporary pa and were defeated by Ngati Kahungunu and the British militia (fighting force) resulting in 21 dead, 30 wounded and 58 prisoners.

We made little figures out of cardboard and attached them to an ice block stick. We made lots of Maori warriors and some British fighters. A stage was made and we acted it out the battle using our figures.

The backdrop is now hung on the wall with the figures so you can act out the scene.

 

By Humo and Nick.

 

Otatara Pa Fact Wheel

First we got to read an article on Otatara Pa and identified the main parts. When we had decided on the most important facts Mrs Colliss gave us a wheel of either four or eight sections, there were the places for the facts. We wrote our facts carefully in the sections and then placed the brown cover on top. The brown sheet of paper had the title on it and our name. We then numbered the facts in maori.

We used a split pin so you can turn it around and see the different facts. Each group selected one that was going to be photocopied and put on the wall. The others are put in our books. They look really cool and it was a fun way to share information about Otatara Pa.

By Caleb and Ethan

Swim Safe

Swim Safe

Today we had Fiona from Swim Safe come and do some dry land swimming activities with us. Lucky we didn't have to get into the pool because it has been cold!

Check us out in our swim caps!

Stretched Streamline

By Ethan, Sam, Shohei, Anthony and Caleb

We had to make streamline arms and stretch as far as we could, we had to try and touch the sky and walk in a line around the pool.

Legs and Arms up

By Seth, Bryce, Humo and Nick.

We were learning to develop our tummy muscles by lying flat and putting our legs and arms up, this will help our streamline swimming.

Bottoms off the ground

By Tommy, Te Ahu, Liam, Kairon and Pasa.

What we did first was lay on our back then we lifted our bottoms off the ground. We had to keep them off the ground for 25 seconds, you could tell it was working our muscles because it hurt.

Forward and Backwards Arms

By Kairon and Anthony

We were trying to swing both arms in opposite ways. This was getting us to practice both backstroke and freestyle arms at the same time, plus test our coordination. It was hard!

Breaststroke Arms

By Kayla, Chloe, Justis, Tahlia and Isabel

Today we were practising our breaststroke arms on dry land. We did our arms into our chest to make an arm arrow and shot our arms out. After we did the arms we started practicing our legs

Breaststroke Legs

By Kimberley, Isabelle, Anna, Shirley and Micayela.

We were learning to correctly do breaststroke legs, first we had to put our legs up and our feet flat in the air, then we turned out our feet and made a circle that brought our feet down to the ground again, then we started again and did it a few more times.

Week 5

Gardening

Since we last wrote the blog a few things have happened in our garden.

Caleb, Karion, Nick, Bryce, Chloe and Isabel worked with Isabel’s mum to put fertiliser and sheep pallets (smarty tablets) on our garden, this was to help make the garden ready for the plants.

After watering the gardens heaps it was time to plant some of the plants that Isabel and Kimberley had been out to buy.

Shohei, Te Ahu, Nikita and Isabel with our amazing parent helper Isabel’s mum,  planted some vegies in our garden. Kids in the middles and juniors have also planted the other gardens.

We have received lots of bits and pieces from families in our class, seeds, sprinklers, containers and more. Thank you to all these wonderful people.

The ZingBokashi’s have arrived and we will begin using them soon.

The worm farm has been cleaned out and we are waiting for the worms to arrive then we can start                                                       feeding them.

What’s in the box?

In literacy we are learning to describe objects and write descriptions.

We brought something from home that we could put in our stationery box. In pairs we then had to write descriptive clues so the reader could try and guess what is inside the box. The clues were to get more and more obvious as you read on. The writing is on the outside of the box, and then the reader can open the box and inside is the object that was described. They look really cool and we are looking forward to testing them out on other classes. 

Census

Today is Census day in New Zealand, so today the seniors carried out their own census. We watched a clip from the breakfast show which told us why the census is so important.

Here are some facts we learnt about the census.

· It is the first census in 7 years (the last one wasn’t held due to the Christchurch Earthquake).

· Everyone in NZ must fill in the census forms, either online or in the booklets.

· The census helps work out where the government spends money on things like, health, education and transport.

We worked in partners to complete a booklet full of different questions. Examples of the questions are:

· Age in years

· What is your height?

· What is your popliteal length? (This is when you sit on a chair and measure from behind your knee to the ground!)

· What is the main way you get to school?

· What is your favourite school subject?

Today all we had to do is collect the data, later in the term we will enter the data onto the website.www.censusatschool.org.nz

Once we have done this we will be able to look at all the data and make comments about the treads, just like NZ statistics will do for the real census.

  

Creating a book on the iPad

We made a book on our iPad using the app Book Creator. Each person had to choose one of the 3R’s that was the most important to them. They then had to write a description of why it was the most important to them. We had to take a photo of ourselves and insert this into the page. The next step, and the hardest, was recording ourselves saying what we had written. Each person had their own page, which came together to make a book. Hopefully we can share this soon.

By Tommy, Kimberley, Micayela and Liam

 Ratburger

We are reading the book Ratburger by David Walliams. This is the same author as the book Gangsta Granny and Mr Stink that Room 13 read last year.

This book is about Zoe who loses her pet hamster and finds a baby rat which she smuggles to school. She gets suspended. This is as far as we have gotten. We have made some great connections, especially text to text because there are lots of similarities to the other David Walliams books we have read.