Serious Artwork..

This term we have been doing some serious artwork and they have turned out great.
These are the steps we got told to do them in:
* get a piece of brown paper
* Then get some chalk
* After that we drew with the chalk a New Zealand native tree or plant
* Then we got 3 different shades of pastels and we blended them all together to make a cool picture
*After that we smudged it with our fingers
* Then we got some black dye and put all over the picture
* The 2nd to last step was to get some news paper and put the picture in side fold it in half and rub it with your hands 1 2 1 2 side ways
* The last and final step is to take the picture out and then leave it to dry on your desk or table
Hopefully then after you have followed these steps correctly your picture will come out with silver out lines. That is how we made these fantastic pictures.
C.R

THE BEST TRIP EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We just had the best trip ever Guess Where
You got it Tiritiri Matangi. We took a People fery of to the Island.Then We went up Blue Bottle Trail it only took 1-2 hours. On the walk we saw LOADS of New Zealand Native Birds and Plants. At the top we had lunch during lunch I saw a Saddleback Wood Pigeon and lots more. After lunch we walked back on Kauri track.Kauri track took 2-3 hours to walk on. We are studying about Wild New Zealand. At the moment we are doing New Zeland Native bird Reports. The birds are Pukeko, Tui, Kea, Kakapo,Weka and many more.

NZ Robin

This is my report

The Pukeko Diary
Intro
The pukeko is a special New Zealand bird Pukekos are common all over New Zealand.

Habitat
This Magnificent creature cane live in Australia and New Zealand. The like in quite swampy areas. Also they are often seen by motoways and roads. They are not at all scared of Trucks, Cars, Airplanes and Trains that is why they often get hit.

Diet
The Pukekos diet is quite a lot they eat Snails, Insects, Eggs of ground birds, Fish, Leaves, Seeds, Frogs and as a treat they have Duckling. Pukekos catchtheir prey by standing very still for a minute they race foward and catch it. Their prey can't usually run away because Pukekos have long thin legs so they can run very fast.

Life Cycle
The Pukekos Hatch from a reddy creamish coloured egg. The Mother Pukeko lay between 4-8 eggs! When the chicks are born they are a dark black colour. The chicks are more awere of stoats than their mothers. After about 2-4 years they have fully grown. They become an adult Pukeko.
AGEB

The Hard Cross Country

It has been a very long term this term. We have just had Cross Country and been to interschools our school came a big 2ND over all. One of my friends ran in the 9 year old she came another big 3RD out of all the 9 year olds.At our school the 9 and 10 year olds had to do 3 LAPS of our WHOLE School.The year 1s where SO SO lucky they only had to do 1 Lap of our FIELD not our school our field.
AGEB

Collaboration

Hi everyone,
just sharing a VoiceThread project we collaborated on with Mr Kirkpatrick's class in Manchester to write cinquians about the pictures on Mr Kirkpatrick's VoiceThread. We didn't know what cinquains were when Mrs McGhie first showed the VoiceThread to us. She told us there were 3 different types, some were trickier then others. We decided it would be best if we followed the format used by Mr Kirkpatrick's class. It was really neat to be able to take part in a written language activity with a class across the other side of the world.