Commonwealth Games Day

On Wednesday Room 1 and 24 teamed up to represent 'ENGLAND' at our School Commonwealth Games Day. We had already met together a couple of times to organise wearing our team colours of red and white, to recite our team song 'Oh when the Saints' and to paint flags and banners. Team leaders, Emily and Ben were chosen and both classes were split into an A and B team.

At the opening ceremony we proudly chanted our way round the court and sung our team song loudly, then onto the competition. It was great fun participating in all the activities especially the tug of war and the obstacle course. As well as getting points for winning each event we were awarded points for demonstrating respect, manaakitanga and fun.

ENGLAND did extremely well in all areas and came 1st place so Miss Tuxford and Miss Lythgoe were very very proud of all the kids in Rooms 1 and 24.

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 9 Summary

The first week back at school after the earthquake has been busy as usual. It's been great to be back with friends sharing stories and experiences from the previous week. The majority of us were so lucky to escape with out any major damage to our home or its contents. But our thoughts are very much with Bridget and Harlen and their respective families who suffered a great deal of loss and damage in the quake and its nasty aftershocks. We hope life can return to normal for you as soon as possible.

We have practiced our earthquake drills and although many aftershocks took place during school this week it made us realise just how well built and safe our new classroom is, as we barely felt most of them.

Cole bought along his pet guinea pigs, Mohawk and Elvis. We were very happy to meet them but we don't think they shared the feelings! Elvis tried desperately to escape the circle of students keen to meet him! Thanks Cole, it great to see you learning how to take care of pets.

On Wednesday of Week 10 we will be taking part in the School wide Commonwealth games day. As part of this topic we did some sports silhouette art. We chose a sport from the Delhi Olympics website and copied it 4 times in a grid. Then coloured it in with pastels using bright contrasting colours. We are representing England for the school games day so please find all the red and white gear you have at home and come along dressed to get be a 'POM' for the day.

EARTHQUAKE

Hi Team 24

I have been thinking of you all such a lot over the last few days and wondering how you are. I hope that you and your families are ok and didn't suffer too much damage in the big quake. It has been a very scary time. My girls and I are fine, though rather nervous still! I just wish these after shocks would stop!

I have been into school and the classroom is fine, just chairs and books all over the floor but we have tidied it all up. The field is a bit of a mess! It will be nice to get back to school next week and see you all and try to get our lives back to normal.

Take care over the next few days and try to enjoy this extra time off! My girls and I are watching lots of DVDs and enjoying lots of board games and sleep overs in the lounge together!

Big hugs

Miss Lythgoe

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

Antarctica penguin clip

Check out this cute clip of the penguins in Antarctica......

Week 6 Summary

This week Josh managed to break his arm whilst doing some fancy moves on the bars. He is the second Rm 24 student to do this! Hope you are feeling better soon Josh.

Emily, Satori, Connor, Connor, Bridget and Te Iwa enjoyed 3 PE extension sessions with Mr McKenzie. We are looking forward to them teaching us the new frisbee game they learnt.

This week we have completed our calendar art - make sure you come and see it in the school office and place your orders for cards, calendars and diaries.

We have been working really hard on transferring our non fiction mammal reports into scripts for an oral report using ICT. Some of us have chosen to make a documentary style tv show and others are making imovies with voice overs. We are working in groups and hope to be finished next week so look out for these great pieces of work in our blog soon.

In art this week we completed some fantastic scrafitto work, drawing our head and shoulders first then using pastel to colour it. This was then covered in a thin coating of black paint. When it was dry we scratched the paint away using a pin, carefully ruling thin lines in various directions to reveal out faces. We are really proud of our work.

On Friday we took part in the coin trail for Daffodil day. Not many of us appear to have a great deal of yellow clothing but we were happy to contribute to such a great cause and after a quick discussion discovered that nearly all of us have had someone close to us affected by cancer. It was brilliant to hear later in the day that just over $700 was raised. It was awesome to see Satori and Connor performing their Jump Jam routine too, looking good boys!