The Three Sisters. A Legend from Australia.

Keeping with this Term's focus of Our Story, Our Culture, we have been looking at different cultures.  This week Mrs Smith showed us a video of The Three Sisters.  A Legend from Australia.  After we watched the story, there was discussion about where The Three Sisters are in Australia.  This lead to further discussion about Aboriginal art.  This style of art is largely made up of dots.  Many of the dots within the painting symbolise places, people and objects.  These paintings tell the story of The Three Sisters legend through the eyes of Room 11 artists.  Enjoy!

Self Portraits

Room 11artists worked hard on their pencil sketched self portraits.
Our focus was *size...using our paper space effectively.
                        *placement...where the features of our face go.
                        * detail...eyes, lips and hair details
Well done Room 11.  I'm proud of your work and you all look gorgeous!

Tri Kids Day 3

Tri Kids Day 2

Tri Kids Day 1

This week Room 11 experienced how it would feel to do a triathlon...swim, bike, run!  It was so much fun. :)

Culture Day!

Welcome to Room 11, 2015!

A very warm welcome to Room 11. 

This Term our focus is "My Story, My Culture".  

We are sharing about where our families have come from and how we communicate stories about our cultures and experiences to others.  We will also look at how other Cultures have passed on their cultural stories through art, dance and telling stories; myths and legends.

Watch this space to see how our learning journey develops.

Merry Christmas!!

Hi Everyone! 

Just a last blog entry for 2014 to wish you all a very happy, blessed Christmas break!!

I have thoroughly enjoyed my Room 15 class this year and am looking forward to lots of R & R over the next month!!  Yippee!!

I wanted to finish by posting letters to Jesus and Santa that some children made using Pic Collage.

Enjoy :)

Love from Mrs Webber and her Stars!  :)

Photosynth Panorama

Room 15's whakatauki promoting team work when facing challenges!

Reotahi Snorkelling Trip

Today we had our trip to Reotahi's Marine Reserve. The weather wasn't on our side unfortunately so only group 1 got to go snorkelling. The Marine Reserve is a fabulous place for a family day trip over summer so if you didn't get to snorkel today, make a date to check it out this summer! Thank you to all parents who were able to come and help with the wild, wet adventure! Reotahi Marine Reserve on PhotoPeach

Know Water

Teresa from Know Water came into our class to educate us about fresh water on earth.  It was very interesting.  With this new knowledge we are challenged to think more carefully before we turn on the tap and as to what we put down the sink!
Did you know?!

70% of earth’s surface is water.

2% of water on earth is ice

97% of water is saltwater

1% is fresh water, most is locked underground.

0.03% of the earth's fresh water is above ground in the form of fresh rivers and streams.

Kate, Lily and Estie hold water representing the water on earth.

We brainstormed on what we put into the water

Spot the clean, fresh water!

How can we save water?

*Only use what you need.

*Wash hands in a bucket.

*Turn off the tap when you’re brushing teeth.

*Use eco products (environmentally friendly).

*Have quick showers.

*Raise money to help get fresh water outlets to communities who don’t have fresh water.

Immersion Week

We started this term with challenging activites to stimulate our experiences and ideas relating to challenge.  For 3 lunchtimes, activities were set up for us to challenge ourselves.  These activities included chess, balancing boards, handstands, juggling, shooting hoops, skipping, hoola hoops and crazy catching.  It was fun AND challenging!

 

Term 4 Challenge!

This term is all about CHALLENGE!

Enduring Understandings:

*Challenges are a part of life and the way that they are faced helps to shape people’s lives in the future.

*Over time people have faced challenges for the mission of the church.

Essential Questions:

*How could I respond to a challenge?

*How could challenges impact on communities?

*Whatever helps people to face challenges?

Happy Father's Day!

Celebrating our Dad's with 'Dad Joke' ties! 

 We hope all you Dad's had a lovely Father's Day!

Dad Jokes on PhotoPeach

Rap-unzel!

In Week 7 we enjoyed seeing a performance called Rap-unzel.  The show was very funny with great acting that kept us all interested and entertained!  

Enjoy this slideshow as a sample of the scenes we enjoyed. :)
Rap-unzel Performance on PhotoPeach

Heroic Wordles

Today we had a productive computer session on the Wordle programme in our ICT suite.  Using our brainstormed words that describe heroes and heroines, we created really effective word displays.
                            Check out these creations! 

Superheroes

Following our Superhero dress up day... We have created new and improved backgrounds during lessons in the ICT suite.  

Check out these Superheroes!!  

Well done Room 15 heroes.  

You look amazing!

Term 3, 2014

This term our concept is...

Heros and Heroines

Our Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions are...

The last of Enquiry sharing.

Kayley shares her water filter inquiry

Kayley filtered that dirty water to clean!  We couldn't believe our eyes.  What a great filter!

Sophia shared her inquiry focusing on how a candle needs oxygen to burn.  If you put a jar over a candle surrounded by water, the water gets sucked up and the flame goes out.
Very interesting, Sophia.

Dom and Sariah show the class how different colours mixed together create new colours.
Awesome work, Dom!

Riley shares his poster about the floating ping pong balls :).

Boston looked at how a ping pong ball can float.  The changes in air pressure pushing against each other cause the ball to float in the air stream of a hair dryer.

 Boston gives us a demo with the his helper, Daniel.

Damien shares with us his poster showing the changing states of water.

Manny changed the colour of a foam ball from white to multi-coloured. 

Caleb shared his poster showing how crystals are formed.

Lily shares her poster showing her inquiry into what happens to lollies frozen in water.   They looked great frozen in ice but didn't taste so great after they had defrosted!  A wee bit soggy...
Thanks, Lily!

Room 15 are composers!

This term our art focus has been music.
We learnt how to play 'Twinkle twinkle little star'.  

Room 15's next challenge was experimenting with composing their own little tunes on the glockenspiels.

Great effort everyone!  

Watch out for these budding musicians in the future!