A Sunflower Show

A Sunflower Show Animation - by Selena and Jaidyn



We are growing healthy sunflowers

This term, in Room 4 we are growing dwarf sunflowers.

First we chose a pot. You had the choice of terracotta or green. Then we decorated the pots using colourful contact like you cover your books with.

After we had done that we put soil in the pots. Then we got given two seeds. We put the seeds in and covered them with soil.

Next we watered our sunflower seeds. We are watching them closely. We are hoping they grow soon!

We hope that they grow up to be healthy plants. Yellow and brown is the colours of a sunflower.

By Selena & Lexie.

Equinox

23rd of September 2010 it is equinox day. It is when day and night are of equal length and only occurs once a year. It is today.

By Selena

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:

Amazing Space Artwork

Room 4 have finally finished their amazing space artwork that we've all been working on for weeks and weeks!

To complete our artwork we:

• researched in space books
• planned our artwork in our sketching books
• sketched our artwork in pencil
• coloured in pastel - checking we were using the correct colours
• outlined in white pastel
• added glitter
• posed for digital photos
• glued on our digital photos

Check out the amazing results below...

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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!

Our special visitor

Last week Room 4 had a special visitor. His name was Geronimo Stilton. He was a mouse.
He came to Waiuku because he is a famous book character and we were having a book fair.
We got to have photos with Geronimo. We also got a special stamp on our hands from him. It had his name on it. Geronomo was a bit scared of us, he was very shy. We found out that Geronimo liked cheese. When we said "cheese" when the photo was taken he sniffed us!

"I thought Geronimo was fun!' - Selena
"I though that Geronomo was funny because when we sais cheese he would sniff us" - Lexie
"Geronimo was funny because he sniffed us" - Caleb
"Geronomo was soft and he liked cuddling his tail" - Tauryn
"I thought Geronimo was confortable to hug" - Charlotte