Reading and Art

We thought that we would tell you about our reading for the week.We have been learning about NZ. Did you know Captain Cook made 3 voyages around the world. Also Able Tasman was the first person to see NZ. We have been using atlases to find places in NZ named after Able Tasman and Captain Cook. It has been fun to find out so many facts.

Our Art has been ongoing for the last 2 / 3 weeks. Some of us have finished and they look stunning. Some of us are three quarters of the way there. They are hard work but they are worth the effort. Enjoy the photos.

By: Michael and Paige.

Cinquain Poems and Pod Casts

Pod Casts are fun. They are recordings of your voice made on the programme Garage Band using the Apple computers. We had a photo of our holiday and we had to record our holiday story and import them into itunes. This was the best time, as it is lots of fun. These are saved on our USB sticks, please ask us to play them for you.

Hello! Room 2 have been doing some cinquain poems lately.
These little poems consist of 4 lines. The first line is the title,which is 1 word, the second line describes the topic in 2 words, the third line expresses an action that the topic can do using 3 words, and the final line is a synonym of the title. Writing these was fun. We got to choose our own topic. These are the cinquain poems Bill and Nathan wrote.

BMW
Shiny,sleek
Powering down street
Roaring on the motorway
BMWs
By Bill

Drums
Very loud
Playing to beat
The beat is exciting
Drumming
By Nathan

Portrait collages

Our wonderful teacher in training, Miss Coffer is teaching us about drawing and collageing. First we drew sketchlines to help us know where to put the eyes,nose,ears,eyebrows and mouth. Then we had to pick our colours to collage with. We had to be careful not to go over the vivid lines. The amazing Miss Coffer is in her last year of teachers training.It was brilliant of her to come up with this amazing idea. She has helped us so much with our artwork. When we have finished, it will look amazing and our parents can come in and see it on the wall. By: Riley and Jess.

The Human Knot

 

In Room two we are building our teamwork and trust. We played a game called The human knot. We were in groups of 8 and stood in a circle. We put our hands in the middle and held on to another persons hand. The other rule was you could not hold on to the hands of the people next to you. Then we had to try to unknot ourselves by steping over and under peoples arms. It was rather complicated but we managed it in the end. Everyone seemed to be having a great time. Enjoy the photos. From Jethro and Bailey.