Monday, 13 October 2008

Competition for the best

I think that the Greens for the goverment party would be the best choice because they don't have everything good about them but the good things about them would be the best choice. The Greens are going to try to save the enviroment to help everyone. I thnk one of the worst ones are John Key because he just makes the bills go up up up UP and i just wouldn't vote for him. I am not sure for any others because i haven't heard about them , but i know Helen Clark.
Questions
Who would you vote for and why?
Do you know any of them personly?

L.H

Welcome to the World!


OZ

On the 8th of October, I was the luckiest girl ever because I got up and close with the Auckland Zoo's newest baby tiger cubs! They were all girls and two of them were twins. Oz, the dad, was so proud to be a dad for once! Milecka the mum was so stressed and thats how the Zoo keepers found out she was pregnant.When I was there, she was shut out because it was too dangerous to go in there with her too!After, I go to bottle feed one cub while the Zoo keepers fed the other two. It was such a good experince to be with them and that I was the first one to see them up and close!

Question: Have you ever been up close with any tigers? Did you enjoy it?

C.R

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)

Wednesday, 1 October 2008

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.

Friday, 26 September 2008

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)

Thursday, 18 September 2008

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

Friday, 29 August 2008

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)