Long Jumping!!

We have been preparing for our upcoming Athletics day. Today was long jump. Check out some skillful jumping styles. . . . . . .

ICT Presentations

This term we have worked so hard researching our chosen mammals and writing reports then producing an imovie or video clip with the information we discovered. It has been a great process and we all learnt so much - lots about mammals, lots about time management and team work and most of all lots of ICT skills.

Check out a couple of our finished presentations.......

This imovie presentation was made by Connor N and Tom

This imovie was put together by Satori, Jordyn, Jackson, Emily and Te Iwa

This video documentary was made and presented by Olivia, Aimee and Bridget

Week 7 Summary - Tie Dye

CHECK OUT OUR AMAZING PILLOWCASES

During Week 7 we have been doing tie-dye with pillow cases and painting on fabric as part of our Antarctica study.

The first step is choosing which design of tie dye you want to do.

We all chose our designs, some scrunching their pillowcase up and some making circles or using pegs to make stripes.

Aimee used a fan fold and pegs to end up with a striped tie dye

Te Iwa tied lots of little circles

Next we had to choose an Antarctica animal, a penguin or a whale to paint onto a small piece of calico fabric.

Jordyn paints her penguin

Ben adds some background detail to his penguin picture

Then we put our designs in the blue dye and waited for the dye to soak in.

Emily gives the dye a stir to ensure it covers everyone's pillowcases evenly

Hanging the pillow cases out on our balcony to dry

When the pillowcases had dried we needed to iron them and also the fabric painted picutres needed to be ironed for 2 minutes to seal the paint. Our animal paintings were then sewed on with the help of Miss Lythgoe's Mum and Ben's Mum.

Jackson enjoyed ironing so much he wants to do all the ironing at home Mum!

Connor is another keen contender for weekly ironing duties!

Trish helped Heke complete his pillowcase by sewing the whale painting on

Josh waits patiently as Kate sews on his painting

Here are some examples:

Aimee's,Emily's and Renee's Tie-dye

Heke's Tie-Dye

Written by Connor N

Week 5 Summary

We have had a busy week in Rm 24. Most of us have now completed our written mammal reports on the laptops and these are displayed in the classroom. We are now working on presenting this new knowledge orally in the form of an imovie or video.

On Tuesday we were meant to have our run-athon but the weather was so bad it was postponed till Thursday. We all ran really well and have raised lots of money to bring the cost of camp down.

We have continued to work on our penguins made from plastic bottles. We have finished painting them and stuck on the eyes and beaks etc

We were really disappointed that our final day of winter sport at Hagley park was cancelled but it has been a good week working on our reports and penguins

Written by Renee

Computer Tricks!

We have been learning to 'Green screen' and use 'Instant Alpha' on the laptops. This is fantastic tool that allows you to put yourself in a picture of any background you wish. It is easy to use and we found it a lot of fun. Our first attempts were to put ourselves in a scene from the country we have been researching for this terms Inquiry projects. Check out a couple or examples....

Aimee discovers the beautiful beaches in Fiji

Corben outside a Mexican School

Satori checks out a stunning waterfall in Iceland

Josh R up close and personal with the zebras in Kenya