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

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 Cricket Champs

We are so proud of our 3 amazing cricketers, Te Iwa, Emily and Bridget. At last weeks finals the girls contributed to the teams superb win against Cotswold. Becoming the Canterbury Primary School Champs for 2010 was outstanding enough but as part of their reward/prize the girls spent yesterday afternoon training with 4 members of the NZ White Ferns. They were also joined by Serena and Camilla from What Now TV and were filmed during the training session.

The girls came back to school buzzing today with lots of stories to share and plenty of Milo goodies to show! We can't wait to see you all on What Now this weekend!!

Congratulations to you 3 and the rest of the team. Awesome effort!

 

Girls Cricket

Yesterday the girls cricket team played in the quarter finals against Burwood. The score was 114-17 to St Albans! What a hiding! They now move through to the semi finals tomorrow. Check out the photos of our Room 23 cricket stars - Te Iwa, Bridget and Emily.

Swimming Champs

Our Swimming Champs! Satori, Emily, Alex, Jayde, Olivia, Te Iwa and Connor proudly show off their certificates from the recent Senior Swimming Sports held at Jellie Park. Awesome effort you guys, we are proud of you!