Room 8 is Great! WVS 2011

Art Trail

2011-11-28T10:45:00.000-08:00

MYA AND ALEAH ARE DECIDING WHAT POU WE WILL DO BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY WONDERFUL POUS. WE DID THE TWISTY 0NE BECAUSE IT TOOK US TO A PLACE WE NEvER BEEN BEFORE.

IT STARTED OFF WITH A BIG BURNING HEART . THE BODY LOOKED LIKE YUM lollies “MMMM” WE SAID. WE GOT HEAPS OF COMPLIMENTS FROM MORGAN . FINALLY WE MARCHED ACROSS THE BRIDGE .

BY MYA AND ALEAH

I saw a korean pou down at the library. And then we drawed the korean pou. by Mate

The mural

We went to the art trail.Next we went to the mural and we had to choose our favourite painting on the wall. I choose the first painting. By Aorangi

29/11/11 art mural

On monday room 8 went to the art trail that started at the library . The marching was tiring. It was along a long job. I thought it was funny when Tumai got his hand stuck in a bird trap at Te Warihi’s workshop.

by Mya K

I am standing by the tiki. It was fun.

By Toko.

The eel trap. everyone was playing on it. some people was climbing the top of it and mya t was high as and everyone did the same as her but some people stayed down. by Rina .

Our Place, Our Art

2011-11-19T14:28:00.000-08:00

What is art? What is special about art in Northland? How do people do art? How do they learn it? Are we artists?

These are some questions we are wondering about. We are lucky enough to have many artists visiting us this term, sharing their work and talking to us.

Jess Foote.

On Thursday Jess Foote showed us her painting and Jess Foote said “you can pass it on”. It was amazing. Oh and the painting of the girl it was big. And she put on it a necklace and a ring. We got to ask her questions it was fun. She said lots of things and then Jess Foote had to go but Mya said something and Jess Foote went home. by Aleah.

21/11/11

Aaron Hoskins.

On monday Aaron Hoskins showed us his art/sculpture/carving.I took photos of his art and I loved it .my favourite part was when we sang to him. by Mya Kereopa.

21/11/11.

Aaron’s art and carving

On Monday Room 8 had a visitor.

His name was Aaron Hoskins

He was a carver and a artist.

He showed us his carving

and his art then we said some

questions. Mya T said the most

questions.Finally we went to put
his carving and art pictures away.

BY CAMERON.

Te Warihi Hetaraka

Te warihi Hetaraka came to the theatre to show his work.He showed as a Big carving first and then a little weapon. Next a Tokotoko a walking stick and then we asked questions. Lastly we sang to him and Skylah thanked him. We went to class.My best pat was singing to him.

by Aorangi

Doug Arneil.
LAST WEEK DOUG VISITED THE MIDDLE SYNDIKATE . WE ALL LINED UP . AS SOON AS I SAW DOUG’S WIFE’S ART IT WAS LIKE A DREAM BECAUSE THERE WERE SO MANY WOMEN. I THOUGHT IT WAS ABOUT ENJOYING LIFE . WE ASKED SOME QUESTIONS. SAM ASKED THE BEST ONES. ROOM 8 WAS SO PROUD. IT WAS TIME FOR ME TO BE KAEA. I LED THE SONG I STARTED NERVOUSLY. “THAT WAS VERY LOUD” I SAID. AND SKYLA SAID A BIG THANKYOU AND WE CLAPPED.

BY MYA TURNER

mrs absolum has done one painting that was a key. she could not

do that much more painting because she has only painted at some

places and she might paint at whau valley school and she

might do heaps more of painting.

by Boston

We are developing "tokotoko" or talking sticks to represent the local legend of Reitu and Reipai.

Mrs E

How to print

What you need

Story for ideas, polystyrene meat tray’s, paper, pencil, a bag to hold your work, newspaper, felt pen, ink, rollers, a5 paper

what you do

Read the story
Try and do maori patterns
Then draw the characters
Cut out the characters
Put the characters on paper
Use a felt pen to copy your plan.
Ink your printing block.
put paper on the block and press with a roller
pull off your print

by Vaneezja

Sports coaching

2011-11-19T14:14:00.000-08:00

In Term 4 we are enjoying some coaching for cricket, AFL (Austalian Football League), and hockey.

2011-10-03T21:02:00.001-07:00

Our Place, Our History

2011-09-17T21:20:00.000-07:00

At the muesem school we got punished and did work on our desks. with chork and pencils. it was fun when we went there becase it was only pretend.

by tarliah.

20.9.11

Finally! We’re going to make scones. Dhylin and I are partners. First pepo said” to put the flour in the bowl. Then she gave us some butter. She gave everyone one piece. We all crushed it. We made it disappaer. After that people pot milk in it. Then we wrote our name on two pieces of paper and people cooked it.

By Cameron.

On wendsday we went to the museum .I got to the play room. Clash dang it was a racket . I played on stilts. Miss E was grat . An adult halped me. I played egg and spoon race. I got a turn at the can and been bag.It was difficult . Then I played the marbal,s. I got ten pont,s I got one penelt penelt point and I wone.It was fun.

by Mya K

Yay it was our turn to p lay with the toys.We went on the stilts.I was struggling to do it.I played the throwing game.Next i threw the ball yees! i got all the cans down.I had to set them up for the next person.Then i played with the holahoops.It was the big one it was green.

By Tayla

The musem trip

When all of us went on the train. It was fun. we went through the dark

forest. The train went ford and backwes. It was fantastk time there.

by Luther

Rippa Rugby World Cup Champions

2011-08-09T20:47:00.000-07:00

The game started . My heart was beating like a cheetah running . I quickly ran in the massive hole. Rivez helpfully got a score . Yay! We won!

By Mya Turner (member of our winning Rippa team.)

Our school is on cloud 9 after our wonderful win yesterday at the national rippa rugby tournament in Auckland. We’re hoping the All Blacks will copy us and win their world cup too!

Roadside Planting

2011-07-08T22:35:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Room6 and 8 went to plant up the road. We only picked up 3 plants. After we picked 3 plants we all went up the road!

My partner was Skylah. When we were there we tickled their roots. Then we put them in a hole. We put in the fertiliser to make the

plants to grow big and then we went back to school.

By Josephine

Let me tell you about yesterday.

We went to plant the plants into the holes.

How did we plant them? We put the dirt around the plants but we saw 2 men from the roadworks. They helped us. my Buddy was helping me dig the hole.

By Rina

Ka pai, te kumara!

2011-06-30T02:47:00.000-07:00

On friday we went to the minda room

to cook my group’s kumara dish. latesha and mya k.and cor’z and aleah. our group name was terrific taosty kumara. we got to taste our food. it was nise. our group stuff was parsley broccoli onyan taost.

I loved it.

by Latesha

Tayla and Charles C made chocolate kumara pudding.

pudding kumara

On Friday Charles C and I made a tasty kumara pudding at school.

first we got a bowl an cut a banana an put it into the bowl. next we put chocolate sauce on the pudding. then we put butter in and mixed it . lastly we mashed it up.. it looked tasty.

we tasted the pudding. It was sloppy in my mouth but

it tasted like a banana split

it was deiicious.

By Tayla.

on friday our group was kiyara luther and sam and I. We chopped the tomtao in half and I put tomato in the bowl. kiyara put her herbs in too. luther cracked his egg. sam put his onyins in.

mrs e put our kumara dish in the microwave. Mya T

On Friday our group Charles Pourewa ,Cameron , Dhylin, Josephine and I made a scrumptious kumara dish at school.

Tuskany

Kumara

you can put almost anything in.

If you put anything in it wouldn’t taste very

nice but if you think hard about it, it will taste fine.

Marcela

I am picking up a cup of kumara out of the big pot. by Rina

Rippa

2011-04-18T02:25:00.000-07:00

At rugby I won two games. It was so hot that I needed to put some cold ice on me.

when I had lunch I drunk some of my drink.when I had to go to rugby I was happy.

when I had the ball I saw a boy coming so i dogged him.so when I got puffed I jogged.

by Dhylin.

Swimming sports

2011-04-18T01:57:00.000-07:00

Swimming

I had my togs and I

changed in to them.

We got in to groups.

I was in nikau. room 8 got the most

lids until room6 got even more.

by Charles P

Read Your Heart Out

2011-04-05T12:07:00.000-07:00

Making a splash

2011-04-05T12:00:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we had a small mini swim. We splash areode in the pool.

by Latesha

Music

2011-04-05T11:56:00.000-07:00

I played on the instruments.by mate

The xylophone is meeuzacall. I like playing on IT . by Sam

Growing Sunflowers

2011-04-04T21:22:00.000-07:00

We startedwith seeds to make them grow bigger
sun flowers.

SUN FLOWERS GROW AND GROW IN THE GARDIN.

BY SAM

WOW!

Once i got to the sun flow forest we started to jump on the soil.
by Marcela

The sun flowers have got big yellow petals and they got big heart leafs.
By Tuskany

First Trip- first stories

2011-03-04T10:52:00.000-08:00

Off we go! A big thanks to our helpers Maree, Sila and Nicky.

We went to the mangrove trip ms Botting showed as some mangrove. and we got down on our knees and it smelled like farts. We saw some crabs. ther were lot of hols what the crab been doing in the mangrove place. ther were big crabs and littel crab too. ms botting said to us bee so quiet so we can see crabs. it was amasing on the mangrove trip it was so fun that we enjoyed it a lot.
by Liteesha

Mangroves are salty like seawater. I was holding the pictures.

by Charles C

Broughton is cool.

by Cor'z

Some mangroves have flowers. by Rina.

Getting Started

2011-02-28T18:57:00.000-08:00

Here we go- our class blog for 2011! Watch this space for Room 8 news!