Corbans Art Visit

Today Room 9 and Room 8 visited the Corbans Art Centre as part of our Celebrations unit. It was a hands on session where we were able to produce a piece of art that contained three media. The inspiration for our works came from the Pacific art commonly known as Tapa. Joy began the session by showing us some very import tapa that belonged to her family. From there we went downstairs to the work shop and began the process.
We began by brainstorming ideas about our recent two week school holiday. From that we selected four aspects to tranfer into symbols which would then be included in our piece.
It was all over far too quickly. We had a great time and learnt alot by working throught the art process.
Room 9-Your Mission: Please post comments related to the following aspects
*what facts you learnt about Tapa
*what media we used to create our art. (There was three).
*things you enjoyed about the art.
*new learning about any aspect of the day.

PS Don't forget that Joy will be reading your comments so please let her know how much you learnt from her teaching today.

Mid Year Report Survey

This is a little bit of homework for the parents. Here is a quick link to the report survey as mentioned in the notice that came home today. If you see this message show your caregivers so they can complete this online.
Report Survey

Words Instead of 'Said'.

As part of writing today we focused on dialogue. We are learning about dialogue because myths and legends often have dialogue to help paint a better picture of the characters involved.
While we were looking at some examples of dialogue we found some words that are more descriptive than "said".Here is a list of words we thought we'd use instead.
Please add some more to the list by posting them.

Matariki

Yesterday we spent the day learning about Matariki.If you are lucky enough to see Matariki in the sky, please post a comment and tell us what you saw, when you saw it, and where you looked to find it.
During the day we watched the following videos. There were three videos. They are one of the Maori Myths behind Matariki, and the same as the book we read in class.
Click on the links to watch:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Can you remember the title of the story we read in class? Post your answer.

MAKING KITES....


The pictures below are of Room 9s Matariki Kites.

Can you remember why kites are related to the Matariki celebration? Please post your answer.

2010 FIFA World Cup-Soccer.

In Room 9 we are keeping track of the scores and results of the games played during the World Cup. If you watch a game, or know the result, please write the teams and the scores that they got so we can add them to the chart.
Please write your posts like this: New Zealand 1 vs Slovakia 1.

Blend of the Week: SM

During reading today, Leo and Mele wrote lots of words that begin with the SM blend. Can you think of any others. You may add prefixes and suffixes to make new words using the words you see.

Chunk of the Week: AKE

Your task is to post any other words that aren't in this photo, that contains this weeks chunk.
Remember that you are allowed to add prefixes,sufixes, join two words to make a compound word to any words you do see here in the photo.