Seeing Ourselves!

Today Room 13 went to the Corbans Art Centre to learn about portrait painting. We meet Joy and Ann-Sophie who taught us about sketching and painting self-portraits. We learnt about painting a 'Bust' self-portrait, a bust portrait is a portrait from your head to your shoulders. We really enjoyed going and found it to be a lot of fun.

We learnt....
- that your face is more than just one colour
- how to blend colors
- how to use smiley faces and two tear drops to draw a nose
- that our face is an egg shape, not a circle, square or an oval
- how to draw eyes using smiley faces and eyelashes
- how to paint
- that we need to take our time and enjoy the art
- how to sketch using charcoal
All in all we learnt how to do better portraits of ourselves.

WATCH US GROW!

In Room 13 this year lots of our learning will be based around the big idea of 'GROWTH'. We have discussed different ways that we will grow and ways we want to grow.

Here are some of our ideas....

Our maths knowledge will grow
Our bodies will grow and get bigger
Our brain will grow from things we will learn
Science knowledge will grow
Hopefully our energy levels will grow
Our Art skills will grow
Our word banks will grow
We will be able to read bigger words
We will grow more brave as the year goes on to experience challenging things.

Please join us on our blog page throughout the year and see how our growth is coming along

How to Digest Food

Things you will need:
                                                                        
Blood  Apple  Toilet   Money
Shop   Small Intestine   Large Intestine
Tongue   Esophagus   Rectum
Anus   Mouth   Teeth

Steps:

Step1.Buy a Apple from the Shop

Step2. Put the Apple in Mouth and chew with teeth then role the mushed up apple into a Ball with  Tongue

Step3.Swallow the Apple then Squeeze it down the Esophagus untill it reaches the St

Step 4.Mix acid with Apple so it will Breakup then send the rest to the Small Intestine

Step 5.Squeeze the nutrients from the Apple into the Blood with Tiny holes on the Small Intestine then Send the rest to the Large Intestine.

Step 6.Use the Large Intestine to take water from the Waste {which used to be an apple}then empty the rest to the rectum

Step 7.Get the Rectum to take some more Water then tell the Anus to open up so the waste can get out


Evaluation:
If you get this right you will have sent the Apple from the Super Market to the Toilet then out to sea.

By Malachi

Trip to the Art Gallery

On Thursday 16th of August Room 11 and Room 13 went to the Art Gallery because we were learning about diffrent dance performances. Some of the dancers were dancing to the picture and responding to them.After we looked at all the dancers we were able to make our own dance with Sarah and Jipena. My snap shot of the day was when Nami was standing in the middle of our flower dance and everyone else was the petals. I liked this because it looked really good. My favourite performance that I saw was 'Secret' because the girl whispered a random sentence in our ear. In my dance performance I enjoyed making Maddy into a statue because it was fun and she found it hard to balance. I learnt that you can make a dance from looking at anything.

Why We Shouldn't Do Homework!

Room 13 is learning how to write an exposition (persuasive text) this is my one it is about why homework is bad for you!

People say homework is a waist of time I agree because you already have six hours of school, people have sports on after school plus homework is a waist of my time.

Firstly homework is bad because you have six hours of school. At home is your only break from work because the next morning you have to go to school again.

Secondly sometimes people have sports on then they have to do extra home work the next day which courses a lot of stress.

Lastly homework is a waist of time you learn enough at school you could be at the pools or on the couch watching television but instead you have to do more homework.

Katy perry dosen't do homework neither does Justin Beiber so why should we?

By Caitlin

First Day Term 3

The 16 of july was the first day of term 3 I was really excited about seeing all my friends and my teacher in the first block. When we started working Uala started talking to us about '100%' he said we should finish our work on time and to the best of our ability. On the second block we went to the library and we had to get and SSR book (reading book) and a book with some facts that will help us with our speech. In the third block we made SMART goals. SMART stands for Specific Measurable Achievable Realistic and Timely. We had to make an academic goal and a personal goal. My academic goal was to get better at at my spelling by practicing at home by the end of week 5 and my personal goal is to practice Karate three times a week till the end of week five. I had a really great day


By Anisah

Tasman Horse Rides

On Tuesday I had to get up really early because I was going Horse riding. We had to meet to the mini van at 8.10am so Gay could take us there, she was the lady who picks us up and drops us off. When we got there we grabbed our helmets and got on our Horses. I was on a horse called Ngati and another girl in my group, Ruby was on a horse called Whisper. First we did an hour of bare back riding that was fun. Then we did an hour of jumps and saddle riding and lastly we did an hour and a half's trek through the farm. I enjoyed doing jumps because they were really high and I liked everything else because they were all fun and exiting.


By Scarlett