Sea Turtles - Paper slide videos

We have been making some paper slide videos explaining the life cycle of a sea turtle. Here are our creations.
 

Virtue Rap

This week we choose the virtue we wanted to work on. In groups we created raps to help everyone remember what the virtue was and how to demonstrate the virtue. Here are two of our raps created using the app Smule. One is on patience and the other on Tact.

Point View comes to Visit

Respect

By Ava

By Joe

By Tate

Matter Jigsaw

Ag Day

Calendar Art

This year for our calendar art we created geometric paintings. We were hoping to use the same technique as we did with our paper plate artwork but it was going to be difficult to pull tape of cartridge paper. So we decided to draw our lines on first, then paint our blocks of colour. Lastly we used insulation tape to make the black, white, blue or red lines on our artwork. They look great hanging up in our classroom and even better copied (in a reduced size) for our calendar art. 

Speech Finals

 
Congratulations to Holly, Aimee and Mckenzie for representing the Kauri team at the school speech finals.

All three girls did a wonderful job.

Aimee and Mckenzie are going to represent Clevedon at the Rehu Tai competition next term with their flash talk and poem.

Emotion Poems

Along with our colour poems we have been writing we wrote emotion poems too. We talked about what the emotion looked like, felt like, sounded like, smelt like, tasted like and what particular colour represented that emotion.

For example;
Blue = sad
Pink = embarrassed, love
Red = anger
Black = fear

Here are some of our poems.

Colour Poetry

We have been writing poetry this week. We started with colour poems looking at what the specific colour is in the world followed by what we think it looks, feels, tastes, smells, and sounds like.  Here are some of our poems that we have written.

Firewise

This term we have been learning about firewise. Today firefighter Matt came to talk to us.

Points from his talk:

• Smoke is fire.
• Get down, get low, get out!
• Firefighters need special gear before fighting a fire.
• If there is a fire we need to shout fire, fire, fire!
• We need a safe meeting place to meet all your family and to ring 111.
• Smoke alarms give us a warning after 4 sec.
• We should have a smoke alarm in every bedroom, hallway and lounge.

Poetry: Just Because

Poetry

This week we have been writing poetry. We have written 'Just because' poems and 'I am ' poems.  Here is an example of both:

By Holly

By Tate

Geometric Art

This week we have been looking at geometric art in preparation for our calendar art.  First we looked at lots of examples. Then we used paper plates, masking tape and paint to create our own geometric design. The masking tape was used to create the white lines between the blocks of colour. It was fun and our artwork looks fantastic!

The three steps - a plain plate, added masking tape, paint then we removed the tape to reveal our artwork.

Our pieces of art:

Trade Aid talk

Today we listened to a talk about Trade aid and how they help people around the world sell the goods and crafts they make. Trade Aid is there to help people in poverty make a better life for them and the children.

These girls created a role play about a poor family who made baskets and sold them to Trade Aid to get more money.

Basketball

Cross Country 2015

Today we had cross country. It was a successful day for some of room 7. We were lucky the rain held away for the year 4 and year 5 races. The year 6 and 7s were not so lucky.

Here are our top results:
Year 4 girls - Nina - 3rd.
Year 4 boys - Rory 7th,  Oscar 9th, Hayden 10th and Austen 11th.

Year 5 girls - Katherine 1st, Taleia 2nd, Ava 3rd,  Mila 5th, Aimee 8th and  Holly 9th.
Year 5 boys - Nicholas 1st, Charlie 6th, Tate 7th and Ryder 11th.

Well done to all of room 7 for participating in cross country and putting in a lot of effort!

Buddy Visit

On Thursday 25th June our class went to Point View School along with Room 8. We went to visit our buddy classes. While we were there we

• went on a tour of the school
• interviewed our buddy
• participated in Jump Jam with the Middle School
• performed our Sasa for the Middle School
• created a piece of artwork for Matariki
• made a slide show with our buddy 
• read with our buddies

We ended the day with group photos and a play on their senior playground. We had lots of fun and it was great to meet our buddies for the first time. We hope our buddies can come and visit us in term 3 or 4.

Here are some photos of our day.

Sasa

On Thursday we visited out buddies at Point View School. While we were there we performed our Sasa (Samoan dance) to the Middle School.

The haunted old sugar factory

The haunted old sugar factory

The haunted old sugar factory is rotting rusty and disgusting.

It's got a flickering light and smells horrible, like smoke, blood, dust and obviously sugar .

I anxiously open the door eeeeeeewwwwwwww! Blood is oozing from the wall. Yuck! What's that smell burning? The smell leads me upstairs. I heard crumbling and scratching. "You are going to die". Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

I crept through the door. I wanted to leave but something was holding me back. All I could hear was the floorboards creaking each step I took. I heard the door slam. BANG! Trapped.......

The next day I found myself on the floor. There was a puddle of blood. My finger it was GONE!

I knew there was someone here and now I am going to find out just who......

By Mila