Guarding the NZ Waters, the Royal New Zealand Navy

In the holidays I went to the Navy base. It was very cool because my name was on the memorial board. We also saw a boat in the dry dock which is a dock where they drain all the water out so they can fix the boat. It was a awesome expearience.

Questions

1. Do you know were Aucklands navy base is exactly? where?
2. Have you ever been there? would you like to go there? why?
3. What do you think the navy do for New Zealand?

(A.R)

A Very Special Guest

Last term a special guest visited Glamorgan School,his name was MAHI DRYSDALE!!!,Mahi Drysdale was a rower in the Olymics,and was very sick on the day of the race. He threw up after the race and even when he was sick he tried his hardst and got a bronze. Glamorgan School was very lucky to have him. Each class got to ask him one question,We were also lucky to see the bronze medal as well because he brought it to our school. It was so cool to see a famous rower up close. He was really really tall. We also gave him a present to say thank you for coming.

Here's a question to read and write back to:
Which sports person would you like to meet and why?

(G.A)

Glogster

Hi everyone, it's Mrs McGhie here. I hope you're all having a wonderful holiday so far. I thought I would upload the Glogster chart I made the other day and shared at school. Some of you have been lucky enough to use Glogster. I have emailed the EduGlogster people and they are busy organising a special student account for us to use so you can create your own Glogsters in a cyber-safe environment.
If you have a few spare moments I have a question to ask...
What ideas/suggestions do you have for ways that we could use Glogster in the classroom? Would it be a helpful digital tool or do you think it is unnecessary?
So far I have discovered that we can email a link to our Glogsters, we can embed them into our blogs and wikis and if you don't have any movie or sound parts then you can take a screenshot to create a jpeg image to use in VoiceThread, PhotoStory, Comic Life,etc.
Please add your ideas and suggestions to the comments section for this blog post. Have a fabulous holiday. Check our SchoolZone page tomorrow too because I have a couple more holiday tasks ready for you to do.

ancient china

This term we have been learning all about Ancient China.We searched about famous Chinese places and did a power point or Photo Story on 12 Chinese inventions.We got to read a two Chinese books - The Dragon Keeper and The Willow Patten. This term for art we did Chinese dragon umbrellas and dragon puppets. We did an explanation report about making paper and we presented the last Assembly for the term.


by(A.Y)

Fantastic Umbrellas!!

This term we have made some amazing artwork out of umbrellas. We had to do it in steps and these are the steps:
1. We had to paper mache' the umbrellas.
2. Then we had to paint the paper mache' with sky blue.
3. After that, we had to paint on dragons only with Green, Yellow and Red.
4. At last we had to add India Ink.
The India Ink made them look amazing! Now they are going up to the hall for the art festival.



By C.R

My Fantabulous term

This week our class checked out a really cool website of Google called " Google Sketchup". It is used to build 3D models like: houses, teddy bears and much more. We also started research on 12 greatest inventions they are
1. Compass
2. Ice-Cream
3. Indan ink
4. Gunpowder and Fireworks
5. Kites
6. Printing
7. Paper
8. Tea as a drink
9. Matches
10. Silk
11. Collapsible umbrellas
12. Wheelbarrows

Thank you for reading and hope you could try to do some of these

Bye!!

C.R

My AWESOME term!!

This term, our teacher showed us an awesome computer program called 'Google Sketchup.' On Google Sketchup, you can build things like houses, boats, and much more. For art, we did chalk drawings of cabbage trees. After we had finished doing the chalk, we started to colour our drawings in with pastel. When we had checked that there were no white spaces, we dyed our pictures with black dye. When our pictures had dried, they had a really cool effect. So thats pretty much what Rm 24 has been up to this term.

Bye!!

C.M.

Phenomenal Paintings

This term we are studing Ancient China our art has been done very nicely because our teacher Mrs M has shown us how to do a very good painting with layers like a base coat, a top coat and detail. We have done things to do with China have a guess...... Did you guess dragon? Then you are right we did do dragons. They are red, green, orange, pink, yellow and purple. We got to use a little bit of gold (A little bit) on the detail. I think our pictures are very bright and make the classroom look colourful
A.B.


(Finished pictures coming soon)

Explanations

This term we've been working on explanations. The first explanations were about how either crabs, starfish or octopus eat. I decided to do it on octopus because I did not know much about octopus how the octopus eat and I was curious. Here is my chart that I did for my explanation.
For those of you who don't know what an explanation is. An explanation is a type of writing where you can not put in your own opinion. You have to explain how something works. Now you know what an explanation is. Well bye for now.
A.D.B

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