A Sunflower Show

A Sunflower Show Animation - by Selena and Jaidyn



Arts Alive Performance

On Monday the 20th of September, Syndicate 2 did an Arts Alive performance.

First Room 6 did an interesting dance all about magic playdough. When the kids were not looking it would jump off the big table.

Then room 5 went and did a cool play about The Three Little Pigs.

Last was our class, Room 4, we did two ribbon dances. Our first dance was not that good. Our next dance was really good, it looked amazing. We did lots of circles and moving with our ribbons and bodies.

By Waima and Laura

Ka Kite Winter

Ka Kite (Goodbye) Winter!

Ka Kite warm hot chocolate (Laura)
Ka Kite cold weather (Jaidyn)
Ka Kite bad storms (Caleb)
And freezing dangerous wind (Waima)

Haere Ra fun playing inside (Ryan)
Haere Ra mud all around (Cory)
Haere ra hot fires (Natasha)
And fun cool games (Tauryn)

Kia Ora tweeting, singing birds (Emily)
Kia Ora beautiful butterflies (Campbell)
Kia Ora baby lambs and bugs (Selena)
And buzzing bees (Jack B)

Haere Mai bright leaves (Shardia)
Haere Mai extraordinary, happy flowers (Aidan)
Haere Mai growing grass (James)
And blossom trees starting to grow (Emily)

Inquiry: Interviewing the Printmaker

IToday John from the Auckland Print Studio came to our school.

He came to show us prints and teach us about printmaking. He does lots of prints of extinct birds on rocks. This is called lithography. He likes doing printing because drawing and with printing he can can make lots of pictures.

We wrote some questions to ask John. Here are some of the answers:

How do you make your printings better and do you make mistakes?

John does make mistakes. When he makes a mistake he keeps on going and tries to get it finished. Each time he makes a mistake he thinks about how to make it better - Aidan and Tauryn

When did you start printing and what is your favourite type of printing?

John was 18 when he first started printing. His favourite type of printing is lithography - Ryan and Selena

When do you do your art?

John mainly does his art at night time because he is working with other people during the day. During the day he is teaching at university - Luke and Jaidyn

Where do you do your printing and who do you it with?

John does his printing his studio. He does it with another person called his assistant. Sometimes he also helps classes or other people to print - Emily and Cory

What do you use to do your printing?

• a roller - Shardia
• some rocks from different countries like Germany and America - Campbell
• a machine to put pressure on his art - Ryan
• ink for the colour - Jaidyn
• paper - Waima

What is the size of the biggest print you have ever done?
John's biggest print is 1.2metres long! - Caleb

We thought John's artwork looked cool. He sometimes makes up his own pretend birds from two different birds. It sometimes takes him a long time to do his prints. John can mix together colours to make lots of new colours.

Here is a video you can watch to learn about the process of lithography:

Cross Country Running!

Last Tuesday we had the School Cross Country.
We have been training a lot and trying to run really fast.

First we sat in lines in our year groups. There was a year 2 girls and a year 2 boys line. The Year 0/1 girls ran first, then the boys. Next it was our turn... some of us had our hearts pumping really fast. Some of us were really nervous.

The year 2 girls ran first. Room 4 got some great placings:

• 2nd - Natasha
• 3rd - Laura
• 4th - Lexie
• 5th - Waima

Then the year 2 boys raced. Here are some of our best results:

• 3rd - Ryan
• 6th - Jack D
• 7th - Aidan
• 8th - Gil
• 10th - Jaidyn

After the race we felt proud of ourselves but we were really puffed. It was so great to have lots of our parents and aunties come and watch us. We were very happy!

Shared writing by Room 4

Amazing Space Artwork Pt 2

Here are the rest of our amazing space artworks.
Enjoy :)


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Good questions about Mars

We have been learning to ask good questions.
The questions are going to help us learn more about our Inquiry topic "There's no Place like Home"
Today we looked at this picture from Mars.

First we asked:
"What is that?"

"Why is that there?"

"What colour is that?"

We tried to find the answer using these questions BUT we couldn't.
We didn't have the words "face" or "Mars".

To ask a good question you have to have a Seven Servant question starter + a keyword.

The Seven Servant question starters are:

• How
• Where
• Why
• When
• Who
• Which
• What

Then we changed our questions to:
"What is the face on Mars made out of?"
"Why is the face on Mars?"
"What colour is the face on Mars?"

Answers we found out are:

• The face on Mars is made out of rock/stone (Tauryn)
• The face is on Mars because it made itself - it happened naturally (Lexie)
• The face on Mars is goldish redish and orangeish. (Jaidyn)
• The face is black and white in the photos because the satelite took the photo in black and white (Ryan)

Space Poems

We are learning how to present space poems.

At the end of the term we are having a poem recital. We have been learning different space poems and working hard to recite them with expression and to read them clearly. We don't want it to sound like we are robots reading!

Take a listen to us reading the poem "Space" and let us know what you think of our presentation!

Book Character Parade

On Friday (when it was also Natasha and Cory's birthday) our school had a book character parade. We all dressed up in our favourite book character costumes and got to parade around in front of the whole school.

Room 4 dressed up as lots of amazing characters! We had Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, The White Witch, Hannah Montana, Batman, Thomas the Tank Engine, Zac Power, "The Tiger who came to tea" a skeleton, a robber from Cops and Robbers and a cowboy. Rachel dressed up as Cat in the Hat.

Emily, who was dressed as a robber from Cops and Robbers, was the winner from Room 4, she won some new books!

"It was fun at the book parade because I was dressed up as Batman" - Caleb
"It was excellent at the book character parade" - Lexie
"It was fun because heaps of people were dressed up" - Jaidyn
"People looked cool in their costumes" - Campbell
"I was Thomas the Tank Engine" - Jack D