Tip Top Factory Tour

In the holidays I went to the tip top factory were they make all the ice cream. I went with Ella my au pair, my Mum, Sienna, Zara and Mikayla 3 sisters. I went on wednesday the 1st of may 2013. We saw all the machines the lady also asked the men that were walking past if they had taken any ice cream because otherwise they would destroy the whole pack. Did you know that they make at least 1000 meltdowns in 1 second. We saw them all getting packed up. After that we went and watched a movie on cameras around the factory and had a free ice cream. I had a hokey pokey meltdown ice cream, yum yum. I felt really excited before hand and then had an awesome time.

The Mud Run

On sunday I went to a mud run. A mud run is when there
is three races a short, medium and long I only did the short
race. Me my mum my brother and my sister and two of
my sisters friends. We all had to tape our shoes on. I lined
up for the short race and GO!!!! I tried to run. I ran with my
mum but then...OH NO I got stuck I had to call my mum.
I had mud all over I got up and got to the finish I went to
the fire mens hose to wash of then I lined up to get a little
bag of goodies. I had fun and felt tired.

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