Aesop's Fables

Room 15 have been doing art work on Aesop's fables and have been blending colours and using our crayons in different ways for different effects. We have also been using black colour flow which is a P.V.A glue based substance that dries to make our picture stand out and we have been working on doing a back ground that would make our picture look amazing.The type of colours we use to blend is EG red and white = pink
Take a look at some of the brilliant artists doing their pictures and the finished products.

Horse Riding-by NATASHA

Flying Fox-by Joel

Water Slide-by Riley

Water Slide-by Alexa

Term 2 Evaluation by Bailey,Dylan and Lachlan

Term 2 Evaluation by Jack Andrew and Sam

TERM 2 evaluation barrie Ethan Joel

Term 2 Evaluation by Bethany Anya Natasha.

Term 2 Evaluation

The class has looked at this term and evaluated different curriculum areas in which we have worked. Watch out for the different comments they are going to be making.

My Greatest Feat

Well we are 1 193 kilo metres into our journey hoping to get to 1600 kilo metres before the holidays. Along the way we have picked up lots of new information about South Africa and collected 15 All Whites who are walking with us.

Most of our pedometers have survived the journey. We are just competing with the bad weather to get more steps each day.

We have also been very interested to read a newspaper article about the Vuzuvela - Thousands of people wanted it banned from the soccer games.

The 'diski dance' is another way of showing support at the World Cup - you can log onto this and learn the steps of the diski dance on our blog.

My Greatest Feat - WEEK 3

Room 15 is making great strides to get to the stadium in time for the All White's first game. We have managed to pick up 3 more All Whites to join us on our journey and are learning lots of new information about South Africa along the way. The quizzes have been challenging. One of the questions was even answered form the reading text dancing Dragons is doing this week - 'How fast is fast?'

My Greatest Feat - WEEK 2

Well we have certainly made in roads into the map now and along the way we have been picking up many facts about South Africa.It has been fun to do the quiz questions as we walk. We now have three All Whites walking with us.

Hamish reading 'The Picnic Boat'

Grace reading 'Red Puppy'

Forest Lakes Waterslide

This is Mrs Trembath with a new ICT tool she learnt about today and having a practice with.

Waterslide at Camp on PhotoPeach

MY Greatest Feat - WEEK 1

After 5 days Room 15 has walked a total of 611 079 steps amounting to 253.5 kilometres. We can now actually see where we are going on the map.

Our pedometers seem to be doing some funny things - resetting themselves for one thing. So far none are broken, quite a feat in itself with all the running around and climbing that is done during the day.

We have even gone on a couple of extra walks to build up our total.

25 May - My Greatest Feat

Today Room 15 walked a total of 128 430 steps and 53.3 kilometres on their first day. Our average for today was 4888 per person. We all had fun with our pedometers, working out the best position to have them on us and being careful not to break them.
They do seem to have minds of their own though especially with the counting of steps!!!!!
Mrs Trembath is taking our daily totals and averaging them out which means she adds up our daily total and divides it by the number of people walking that day.

Tune in tomorrow to see if we can beat our first days total.

My Greatest Feat

Room 15 is beginning their virtual walk through South Africa today, escorting the All Whites to their historic FIFA World Cup kick off match on 15 June 2010.

By wearing their pedometers and counting steps daily Room 15 will enter their results onto www.mygreatestfeat.org With their combined steps they will unlock stages of the journey through South Africa, along the way learning about South Africa, the All Whites and FIFA World cup.

As active participants online and offline, Room 15 will keep you updated about their journey.

It's been a long wait for the All Whites - 1982 was the last year they made it to this special sporting event.

Their achievement is one that requires great courage, skill and strength - feat and we'll be using our feet to see how far we can get around South Africa on our virtual journey.

Camp Experiences

wooo!!!! Mr Whale explains to the group what they are up against in abseiling!! (Jack)

STRIKE. STRIKE as Grace nervously Bowls A HUGE Heavy bowling ball to the Ten little pins. (Bailey)

Splash!Logan suffer a big splash as he enter the muddy water. (Andrew)

Strike!!:Gage is about to and he might get a strike.(Lachlan)

Wet time: Trent going down the wet and slippery water slide into the freezing lake below.(Gage)

Fire:Ping goes the string, Nicholas fires the bow. That arrow skimmed the target. (Barrie)
Dizzy Dummy: Riley comes shooting down the flying fox, spinning round and round as she hurtles towards the tyre. {Sam & Mrs B.)
Thats cold: Sam hops into the freezing, cold pool and says to herself "That was a big mistake!!!" (Riley)
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Alister's journey:WOW!!! Look at Alister go down the awesome water slide and into the freezing cold lake.(P.S)

Awesome Water slide: Riley gets a brainfreeze going down the very high and fast water slide into the amazingly cold Lake.(Alexa)

Chilly time: Nathan has just survived coming out of freezing Lake Waitawa after braving the steep water slide. (Room 15)

Camp booklet: Quiet time!!!!! - writing their daily diary, remembering the challenges they had faced that day. (Mrs T.)

Water slide fun: "Hands on knees," was the last instruction Logan heard as he sped down the water slide to the chilly lake. (Mrs T.)

WALT: write an effective caption

SUCCESS CRITERIA:

*choose a camp photo

*write a specific sub heading

*write one expressive sentence that sums up the photo

*use habit of mind 'create and innovate' when summarising photo

*read the captions from the full page of photos that were in the Feilding Herald

Appreciation At Camp.

This wordle was created by Riley and Emma

Appreciation At Camp.

This Wordle was created by Andrew, Ethan and Joel

Appreciation At Camp.

This Wordle was created by Sam and Bethany

Appreciation

This wordle was made by Natasha,Lachlan and Hamish

Appreciation of Camp

This wordle was created by Dylan, Natalie, Katie and Grace.

Appreciation For Camp

Appreciation At Camp.

This wordle was created by Phoenix, Rosie and Michaela 

Physical Education

This wordle shows what we are working on in Physical Education so far this term as a class

Appreciation

WALT: recognise what we should appreciate

Success Criteria:
Use the 'Seven Servants'
Stop and Think
Appreciation - Before, During and After Camp at home and school


Create a Wordle to complete this task in your camp activity groups

Forest Lakes Camp

Last week Senior Stars went to Forest Lakes and these are our thoughts:

Anya - Forest Lake was like a home to me when I went there - it was the best camp ever.

Rosie - Forest Lakes was the best camp because it had lots of fun activities.

Natasha - Forest Lakes was so fun - it was like we were doing activities all the time and we also had a lot of food there.

Ethan - I think Forest Lakes is the best camp ever. The activites are the best. You can do them again. We need to go again.

Logan - Forest Lakes is the best camp ever because of the activities. I want to go again.

Joel-What I think at Forest lakes was a good camp and was the best.

Bailey-Forest Lakes was Great , all the activities are challenging and Awesome fun and wicked at the same time.

Dylan-at Forest Lakes my favorite activity was the mudslide and archery, it was really fun.

Grace- I enjoyed the mud slide the best. It rocked!

Hamish-I loved the horse-riding. My horse went very fast.

Jack-My favourite activity was the horses because I have never done it before.

Andrew - I was glad that I learnt how to ride the horses.

Nicholas - I like archery because i have not done it before.

Phoenix-Forest Lakes was the BEST! because i had no problems with any activity.

Sam -camp was the best camp i have ever been on. All the activities were AWESOME but the flying fox was the best of all.

Katie - Camp is the a very nice dream like I am at home with lots of things that we do not do at home.

Michaela-I think that camp was like a world that never lived before.

Natalie - I think camp was like a dream come true.

Riley - Forest Lakes was awesome it was the coolest camp ever.

Bethany - I loved the camp at Forest Lakes because the activities were fun.

Barrie - Forest Lakes was like a world of activities

Gage - I think camp was the best 3 days of my life

Emma - camp was the best camp ever. I really liked the water slide.

Technology - PROBLEM SOLVING

More finished pop-up cards

TECHNOLOGY - PROBLEM SOLVING

Here are more examples of pop-up cards we have been working on.

Problem Solving - Technology

The theme for Term 1 has been Problem Solving.
Room 15 decided to make pop-up cards. First they had to make a card that popped up - without instructions. Next they were given instructions and diagrams to follow and most said that was even harder to do. Then they had to design a specific pop-up card that was to be given away to someone. Next step was to make a mock-up of their real card and assess it according to the criteria they had set. Finally they got to make their 'real' card that was to be given away.

LOTS OF PROBLEM SOLVING, QUESTIONS, FRUSTRATIONS MISTAKES AND ULTIMATELY SUCCESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!