We are very lucky in Room 9 to have been given some free tickets to tomorrow night's rugby match between the Bay of Plenty Steamers and Canterbury. We have tickets for free admission for adults and children. The catch is... you need to click 'Add Comment' and explain why YOU and an adult you know, should get some tickets. We will give them out tomorrow to the students with the best answers. Make sure you tell your parents, and you are sure that you can go.
We all entered a Mäori Week competition last term, with our legends of Ihenga, and our fabulous pictures. Today, Room 9 were very pleased to learn that Neila had won first prize with her entry. Neila's entry was chosen from hundreds of other entries by children throughout New Zealand, in the Year 3 and 4 age group. We are very, very proud of her. Neila's legend and painting have been published in a book with the winners from all categories. How wonderful! What a great result!!!
We were very lucky on Wednesday to take part in an hour long Rhythm Interactive drumming session at school. What a lot of fun. Johnny, who ran the session did not talk for most of it, so the children had to learn to follow his cues, sign language and song, to know when and how to play their drums. The underlying message from the session is "actions speak louder than words" and how true that is. All of the children were easily able to follow the directions provided they concentrated and focused on him. A great session with a great message that can be applied to all areas in life! Over the last week, we have been working on our art for the Calendar pictures. We have once again used the 'sgraffito' effect to create pictures of our families. You can have the opportunity to preview the art, so that you know what you would be purchasing. Not all the children are finished, but here are the completed artworks... We have been learning about the correct place names for places in our district. We know the legends for how Rotoiti, Rotorua and Ngongotaha were named by the great chief Ihenga. We recently entered a local competition by retelling those legends and creating a matching piece of artwork. The method we used is 'Sgraffito' and the pictures depict Te-Rotorua-nui-a-Kahumatamomoe, Ngongotaha Maunga, and Te-Rotoiti-kite-a-Ihenga. This week, Barry Vincent, one of the Baytrust Rescue Helicopter pilots came to school to be presented with the cheque for the money we had raised in our art exhibition. We raised more than $1100, an effort we are pleased with. The Baytrust is a community organisation that relies on the goodwill of the community to keep running. We're proud to have been able to help. The Middle Team held their art exhibition on Tuesday and Wednesday this week and what a successful exhibition it was! Our combined amount raised, is just over $1000! We are very proud that we have raised this money for the BayTrust Rescue Helicopter Service. They do a great job here in the Rotorua area, relying on sponsors and the goodwill of the community to keep the trust operating. We are pleased that as part of the community, we have been able to do our part. We have 'Paid it Forward'. Look how our class presented our helicopter paintings... they look fabulous! We need to sell our art in order to raise money for the Baytrust Rescue Helicopter, so we've made persuasive posters. We've learnt that we don't need to have a lot of writing on our posters, but what we do have must be succinct, and to the point. We've also learnt that an attractive poster is more likely to get attention, than one that is not. Images related to the topic, help to catch attention too. Here are our persuasive posters, designed to help the reader to understand WHY they need to buy our art, and to persuade them (you) to do so. We hope you do feel persuaded to come along and buy up a great piece of artwork! We have finished our art for the art exhibition, the Middle Team are holding this Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon, to raise money for the Baytrust Rescue Helicopter. We were inspired by artist Clarry Neame, who uses the technique 'pointillism' in his paintings. He uses an artist's knife to scrap and dot art onto his work. We loved his paintings and decided to give his techniques a go ourselves. We started by using a regular paintbrush and painting our entire piece of paper. Next, we used very stiff cardboard strips to scrape white paint across the paper, side to side. This gave the effect of clouds. Once that was dry, we used pencil to outline our helicopters. We used cotton buds to dab the paint on our helicopters, working initially with six colours and mixing any other colours that we wanted to work with. We built up our layers to give a solid effect. Today we framed our pictures, gave them a title and signed them. We love the end result, they look fantastic. We're learning about copyright at the moment, particularly related to the ownership of images. So we decided to copyright our images before putting them on our websites. We've used the 'Clear Watermark' app on our iPad to do this. Here are our copyrighted images for you preview before our exhibition. Clarry Neame, an artist based at Hunter's Winery in Blenheim, has been our inspiration for our art. Click the link below to check out his amazing art.
Our school puts together a television show every fortnight for School Assembly. Being a digital class, we are responsible for filming one segment. We've decided to present a news story on Wacky News in the news. This guarantees we will have high interest from our audience. Our first episode was screened on Tuesday and we are pretty proud of it. The children are responsible for choosing a story, preparing and submitting a script. The first ones with a well-prepared piece of news get to film. Watch an episode of OOTV... |
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