Collage

I am learning to create a picture all about me - Bailey

A Cat Door for Percy

We are learning to read to the punctuation. Great reading Katie, it was easy to hear you.

A Cat Door for Percy

We are learning to read to the punctuation. Great expressive reading Joel!

Problem Solving

Homework Challenge

Margaret Mahy

Margaret Mahy - New Zealand author

We are learning to identify sentences with descriptive detail.

Success Criteria:
Read a Margaret Mahy story
Locate sentences with exciting or interesting adjectives, active verbs and perhaps even adverbs
Similes - does Margaret Mahy include these in her writing

Using Comic Life your task must include:
Title - Author
photo of an exciting event that happened in the story- use Photo Booth
At least 4 descriptive sentences you discovered when reading the story.
Save As - MM in a folder - You are to do this with a buddy

Once edited your completed work will be placed on our blog

School Swimming Sports

>The Senior Stars had their school swimming sports today and here are some thoughts from Room 15.

The thing that was interesting for me was going under the water for longer and not putting my feet down. Joel

The best thing at swimming was competing in all the racing with my friends. G.M

The best thing at swimming was when the teachers were competing against the children. Bailey

I did really well with the flutter board at our swimming sports. Grace

The hard bit is when you get in because you don't know how fast your opponents can swim. But the
best part was when we had back stroke because I won. R.M

My hard bit was when I had to go and do breast stroke. A.D

My hard bit was when I had to face faster swimmers than me. Bethany

I think my hands need to be a bit slower becuase Natalie

I think I needed to kick my legs a lot faster so that I get to the end faster. E.B

The hardest bit of swimming sports was when I did breaststroke with nerves. R.B

At swimming sports I got two 3rds and one 1st. DJ

I had fun even though I did not come first. LOGAN


I enjoyed helping the judge. Jack

At swimming sports I came 2nd place at backstoke. A.H

At swimming sports I came second to last place at freestyle. N.T

At swimming sports 1st 2nd 4th at swimming. k .t


At swimming sports my mum said I came 1st at backstroke. FS

At swimming sports I came 1st in breaststroke. E.J

At swimming sports I came 1st place in freestyle.M.K

Tukutuku panel

We are learning to: design a tukutuku panel which has meaning for Room 15
The designers of the four panels are very happy it is now complete. The whole class has been involved in some way with the completion of the panel. Two terms work!!!! It will now be placed somewhere in the school alongside the four others created by the rest of the Year 5/6 classes.
Fantastic - Ka mau te wehi.

Fire cat work

W.a.l.t: summarise a story.

Firecat Comic Life

W.A.L.T: summarise a story in key words.

Elf yourself Summer, Ruby and Bethany

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Elf Yourself!

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

By Rachel

W.A.L.T gather relevant information on an author of our choice

Pop Art Using Fotoflexor

Pop Art with a photo from our DARE fun day.

Where was these photos taken?

What do you think is happening in the photos?

Diamante Poems

We are learning to write diamante poems

Room 15 explored a couple of websites today. They are under Literacy on our blog site. We saw examples of diamante poems, looked at the structure of diamante poems and wrote some of our own. We couldn't put them on our blog so we have written some out. We hope you enjoy reading them.

Dance

Fun Challenging

Swinging Tapping Moving

Dean's a great teacher

Knocking Jumping Playing

Confusing Exciting

Elvis Medley

Long jump

far, long

running, puffing, exciting

run, run, run, jump-

flinging, flying, landing,

high, fast,

Jump

horse

cute fluffy

running jumping eating

horses are fun to play with

playing talking sleeping

funny happy

pony

Word Mosiacs

Ruby, Brayden , Summer and Mrs Trembath have been having a play with word mosiacs.

Word Mosiac

Mrs Trembath has been exploring some poetry and word image sites. She has been having fun. Look to see what else she comes up with this weekend.

See the word mosiac link under Literacy

Pop Art Task

Flax flower using cartoon and painted picture effects before selecting pop art.
Bridge using straight pop art effect

We are learning to use a range of effects to create a piece of pop art.

Go to the link (under Topic) on our blog for terrific tools and choose the programme Fotoflexer.

Click Watch a Demo and practice using one of the images - flower, bridge or girls.

Play with the effects then choose pop art to see what the final picture will look like. Remember this is your practice one.

Then choose a photo from our photo library - this will be the one you save.

Choose an effect - the last one you choose will be pop art.

Save - look on the screen for this word.

Give your picture a name and save in documents in your own folder.

Have fun - by the end of today's session you all want to have a piece of pop art saved in your folder.

Pop Art by Andy Warhol

As part of our Arts unit we are looking at the Rock n Roll music era and for visual art - Pop Art.

Pop Art used the imagery and techniques of advertising and popular culture icons for their subject matter. It reproduced everyday objects like soup cans, comic strips and advertisements.

Andy Warhol was a young artist in the 1950s. He produced artwork in many media including painting, photography, printmaking and film.