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

Our Mihi

As part of our Maori Language programme we have learnt a basic mihi and presented it to the class. While we struggled with a few of the correct pronouciations we did a pretty awesome job overall. Here are a selection of the students who were brave enough to be filmed for the blog.

Our City Uncovered trip

On the 3rd of May our class went into the city for our Big Day Out Scavenger hunt.

Our groups each had a parent helper.

We all enjoyed Our City Uncovered trip, it was a great experience.

For most of us it was the first or second time looking at all the beautiful buildings.

We started off at the Provincial Building with our teacher for the day, Ben. He got us thinking about the role of the City Council. Then we went exploring our wonderful city. At each stop we had to listen to some information and talk about the building or site that we were at. Some of these places were, the Art Centre, the Bridge of Remembrance, Victoria Square, the Cathedral, Antigua boat shed and Rhododendron Island.

After lunch we spent the afternoon designing a city of our own. In groups we had to think about key aspects of a city such as water supply, sewage, electricity, emergency services etc and we could also add some exciting things of our own such as theme parks, museums and movie theatres.

Sadly after our trip we had to go back to school.

Thank you for all the very helpful volunteer parents and all the people who helped organise our trip.

You can see some photos of our day here......

By Rosie

School Swimming

Jackson and Sam enjoying FREETIME after swimming

lots of lengths!
Josh D has an impressive noodle style
Josh R shows us how to swim breaststroke
Dominic, Connor N and Bridget all set to

race in Backstroke

Satori - our champion swimmer!