Camp/Ski trip

We are looking for some fundraisers for our ski trip(August the 2nd) and our camp (week 9 of term 3.) So if you have any ideas for fundraising please tell Dave.

Room 2 Cybersafety Rules

Room2 thought that we should make some blog rules.

So we went to the drawing board and whipped some up.

Here they are:

No personal Details -last names

-addresses

-phone numbers

-email addresses

( First names only. )

Language and comments must be appropriate.

Photos may not be posted without the consent of the subject.

No downloaded videos

Posted by Finn.

Art day

On Thursday we had an Art day.
All day we did paintings and used pastels.
We made self portraits and some people drew each other.
It was really fun and we wish we could have an Art day every day because it was a great experience and we got to do lots of different things.
We did our drawings on coloured paper but on our paintings we had to use white paper.
We did landscapes as well as portraits.
Another thing we did was an abstract picture.
With our landscape pictures we did the sky first then, the things at the back and then we worked to the front.

Posted by Mary and Sally

Room One's Soccer Tournament

At the moment Room 1 are holding a soccer tournament.Every class can enter up to 2 teams.Our classes teams are called The Fairy Ballet Dancers and The Rugby Holden Motorbikes. The teams are split up into 4 groups of 3 and the winners of the group go into the semi finals blaa blaa blaa.Our class hasn't lost any games at all! it is fun to play soccer!

How Healthy is your Cereal ?

This week Room Two have been researching just how healthy cereals really are. We became interested when Lennard brought an article from The Press called 'Site Lifts Lid on Cereal Contents'.

Our main question is how healthy is your cereal but we have also been investigating how much sugar, fibre, fat, energy and salt is in it as well.

So far we have investigated 18 cereals and only one has been healthy and that is Weet-Bix. Three have been unhealthy they are Milo cereal, Light & Right and Crunchy Nut. The rest were moderately healthy. We had different ways of finding out how healthy cereals are, they are:

Fat: Low-less than 1.5 gms\100 gms Medium-1.5-5 gms\ 100 gms High- 5+ gms\100 gms

Sugar: Low 15 gms\100 gms Medium-15.1-30 gms\100 gms High-30+ gms\100 gms

Fibre: Low-less than 5 gms\100 gms Medium-5-10 gms\100 gms High-10+\100 gms

Salt: Low-less than 300 mgs\100 gms Medium-300-450 mgs\100 gms High-400+\100 gms

By Cassi, Sean and Josie.

Tivaevae

On the 16 of May my teacher Dave took our whole class to the Suter Art Gallery and Esther (a lady who works there) taught us how to make Tivaevae. Tivaevae is an art from the Cook Islands. Here was the process we went through to make them:

First we picked a square of coloured paper to be our background.
Then we picked another piece of coloured paper to be our leaves and we folded it four times.
Then we drew what shape we wanted our leaves to be and cut it out
After that we folded the paper out and glued it on to the background paper.
Next we picked some paper that was coloured on one side and sticky on the other side that was going to be the spine of our leaves.
Once we had cut the sticky paper into strips we put it on our leaves.
Our Tivaevae had to be symmetrical so next we got a template of a small flower and drew around it four times then cut them out.
Next we decided on a symmetrical place to put all the four flowers.
Then at last we glued them down then our Tivaevaes were finished.

They looked awesome individually but even better when we arranged them together. When we got back to school we made some more but they were more modern versions.

Technology Challenge

We are doing technology challenges this week for fun. So far we have done a newpaper world of wearable arts. Check out our pictures.