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

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.

Beginnings and Endings

Hi Room 24

I thought you might like to try this out. Since we learnt about this last term I thought you might like to practise creating interesting beginnings and endings for stories. Leave a comment on our blog to tell me what you thought of the activity or to leave tips and suggestions for others.
From Mrs Mc

what we have been up to.

The last few weeks we have been in the Discovery Centre making ads about ourselves on Movie Maker,Power Point and Photo Story. Most of us chose Power Point. When we were finished the teacher showed the whole class everybodys ad. While we were watching, Mrs McGhie was assessing us. A few people didn't get to show theirs because they were not finished or they hadn't done somthing. A few weeks after we had assembly. 3 people were presenters, one each from Rm 24, Rm 22 and Rm 23. At the end of the assembly we did a rap about being in team five, that someone in our class made up. After assembly when everyone had left, we went back to our class and did oral presentations. We had interviewed a partner and we were presenting them in front of the whole class. Some people thought it was really embarrassing. While we were presenting our partner the teacher was assesing us on voice projection, eye contact and stuff like that. Meanwhile, we have finished the "Misery Guts" book we started to read. We had to do a last activity about it like a film strip or board game and heaps of other stuff. Nearly everyone did the board game. We have also been doing something called Nga Mihi wich is kind of like "Advertising Me" but slightly different. In the time we had with it we had to draw a picture of what you look like, we also had to copy our house and write where we live inside our drawn house, where you came from, what airline you flew here in,what river and also what mountain was near us in our country. We have also been learning about the sixteen Habits of Mind here are some of them:
Creating,Imagining and Innovation,
Taking responsibile risks,
Persisting,
Managing Impulsivity,
Remainig open to continuous learning
and Thinking flexibily.
Bye for now!!!!
By G.A.