David Kemp (Artist) Interview

This afternoon David Kemp (a local artist & sculptor) came to talk to Rooms 1, 2 & 3 about mask making.

Since he was our EXPERT we had prepared 4 questions each to ask him. We wanted to find out more about making masks, where to get the materials and how to join things together.


At the end of the question time David showed us how to paper machie and how to make a frame for our masks with a headband. It was really useful and we have come away with lots of ideas for our masks that we will be making for the Nelson Masked Parade in October.

Current Events Thursday - New Money!

Today was Current Events Thursday for Room One!
Robbie and Lauryn were our news reporters.
They had gathered a newspaper article from the Nelson Mail about the new 10, 20 and 50c coins.

We wrote some fantastic reports on the new coins. Here are some of them!

We are having new money. The college boys were excited because they wanted to use the new money. They went to the dairy and they went to the fountain in Nelson and they dropped their old money in. They said “rust in peace”.
By Theo

On the first of August all the people are swapping old coins for our new ones. They are 10c, 20c and 50c. All of the old coins people are throwing into the yellow and purple fountain and saying “rust in peace”.
By Lauryn

College boys are swapping their money.
(You can use your old money until the end of August)
Some new shops wont take the new money.
By Nicholas

Make sure when you are next in our classroom that you check out our new Current Events book in our Library Corner. It looks like this and we will be adding to it each week!

Room One's Sport Afternoon

This afternoon Room One had sport with the rest of the Junior Syndicate.

First we were with Miss Hough doing rugby skills and then we were with Ms Quint doing basketball skills.

We had a lot of fun practising our Large Ball Skills.

Check out the action!

Lune Poems

Today we wrote LUNE poems with Miss Trayes.

A lune poem is a special poem that has 3 words on the first line, 5 words on the second line and 3 words on the last line. I wrote two lune poems, one was about the beach and one was about rain.
By Tullamore


Cute little lambs
I love my little lamb
You're my favourite!
By Kelly

Rain drops dripping
Jump in the puddles, jump
I'm loving it!
By Tullamore

I love writing
At school playing on the bars
I like reading
By Hannah

I love water
The water is lovely water
I love the beach!
By Robbie

I love starfish
The oh so beautiful starfish
Starfish Starfish Starfish
By Atorea

Introducing Flat Jack!

Room One has had SO many Flat People visiting this year! We have also really been enjoying seeing what our Flat People have been doing when they have been on their adventures!

Flat Jack is the latest Flat Person who is visiting us. Maia is looking after him. Flat Jack is from Hewett Primary School in South Australia.

Last week Maia and Sophie introduced Flat Jack to two important people in our school.
They are Mr Gully (our Principal) and Denise (our Office Manager)

Here are the photos that Maia and Sophie took of Flat Jack meeting Mr Gully & Denise!



Well done Maia and Sophie - you are learning to take fantastic shots with the digital camera!

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Blend of the Week - Week Three

This week our Blend of the Week was "th".

We counted SO MANY "th" blends in our Big Book of the Week: Thunder Mountain!!!

We also thought of LOTS and LOTS of "th" words and words that have "th" in them like:

birthday

thump

thought

thirteen

thursday

thick

their

thousand

For our blend activity we made a THEATRE and THEATRE PUPPETS!!
They are so great! We can use them to pretend we are putting on a play in the theatre!

Kia Kaha - Day Four

Today we had our last session with Mr T for Kia Kaha!

First we played a game. We all sat in a circle and there were cards on the floor. Mr T chose a girl and then a boy to pick a card. They had to read it out loud and Mr T asked the them what they would do in that situation. We had to talk about good choices we would make if someone punched you; if you feel like kicking someone; if someone stole your lunch money and if someone offered you their lunch. Room One had lots of ideas for good choices they could make.

Then Mr T read us some stories, they were all about helping and making good choices.

By Sophie

We finished the session by making a HELPING TREE.
Each person had to write their name and the name of people who could help us on the apple.
We then coloured the apple and glued it onto our Helping Tree.

Some of the people we discussed that we could go to if we need help were:

Mum

Dad

Mrs B

Miss Trayes

Brother

Sister

Mr Gully

Denise

Friends

We have learnt lots in Kia Kaha, THANK YOU Mr T.

Kia Kaha - Stay Stong, Walk Tall

Kia Kaha - Day Three

Today in Kia Kaha with Mr T we learnt about behaviour & making good choices.

We learnt that it is easier if you tell the truth all the time and not blame other children. We need to take responsibility for our actions and tell the teacher or our parents the truth if we do something bad or wrong. Parents and teachers will usually find out the truth and they will be angry that you lied to them and you will get told off!

By Kalani

Room One Art Exhibition

Room One is on show!!

Our Term 2 fish prints are currently on display on in the Mapua School Library.

Please come and view our great prints in our Art Exhibition whenever you are nearby and leave your comments on this post!

Kia Kaha - Day Two

Today Mr T (the Police Education Officer) came again to take Room One for Kia Kaha.

He read us a story about some children that were being mean to a girl. In the story the girl told the teacher and the mean children got in trouble. She was brave and she asked for help.
We learnt that it is important not to be mean to others, and if if people are being mean to you; you can tell your class teacher or the teacher on duty... even if the mean person tells you that you're NOT to tell anyone!

By Asriel

Kia Kaha - Day One

This week Room One is doing Kia Kaha with Mr Tonkin.
He is a police Education Officer.
Kia Kaha means Stay Strong
Today we looked at similarities and differences between people. We realised that everyone is different and it is a GREAT thing!

Mt T read us a story called "Happy Spring". It was all about children in the classroom. Some children were sharing and being good friends and other children didn't share.

At the end of the session we got to redesign the colour scheme for a police car!

We look forwards to seeing Mr T tomorrow!

Maori Language Week

This week Room One and other New Zealanders have been celebrating Maori Language Week!

Each day we have had a Maori Quiz & Miss Trayes got to decide who the winners were.


The winners of the quiz each day were:

Monday:

Tuesday: Tait

Wednesday:

Thursday: Maia

Friday: Tiana

We have been revising our Maori colours too! Check out the link to the right of this page to practice your colours in Maori!=====>

On Thursday Kalani and Sophie were our Current Events Reporters. They both brought in the same article - it was about Maori Language week as well!

On Friday we used our knoweldge of Maori colours to make a GIANT shared picture. It is beautiful and we worked SO well together!

Blend of the Week - Week Two

This week (Week Two) our Blend of the Week was "sw".

We thought of lots of "sw" words like:

swan

swim

sweat

swish

swell

swamp

swoop

swirl

swarm

sword

To celebrate our learning we made a "SWAN MASK" for our Blend of the Week Activity.

Check back soon to see some of Room One wearing their Swan Masks!

Pacific Inspired Artwork

Last week on Wednesday we were meant to have sport but it RAINED!

So instead we did some Pacific inspired artwork with Miss Trayes using crayon & dye.

We had to remember all we had learnt about repeating patterns last year and think of lots of great ideas to put on our pages.


Tait has written a great recount of how they made them:

Shapes Gone Wild - By Tait

First I had to think about what I was going to do.

Then I had to draw my picture in pencil.

Next I went over the lines in crayon. I chose black, blue and green.

Last I dyed mine. I dyed it violet.


Have a look at how some of them turned out. They are BEAUTIFUL!

Apricot Fudge - Sharing Time!

We all worked SO hard on Friday in our companies making, packaging and marketing our apricot fudge.

Here are some of the finished products!







What a good job all of Room One did, working together as a company!
Our fudge was yummy and we ALL enjoyed eating it!

Apricot Fudge!

Today we formed COMPANIES and were going to MAKE, PACKAGE and MARKET some Apricot Fudge!

Some students were the creators (they made the product)





















Some were in charge of packaging



Some were the marketers (they made posters and pamphlets to helps sell the fudge)







Check back soon for photos and reports!

Feelings Poems

This week we had a great Poem of the Week called "Feelings"

Since we are going to be learning about poetry we decided to use our poem of the week to help us write OUR OWN feelings poems!

FIRST we brainstormed feeling words, THEN we talked about the structure the poem had to follow. The structure was:
When I feel _______
I feel _______
Like a ________
or a ________

Have a read to see some of what we wrote for our feelings poems.


When I am happy
I feel excited
Like a dog waiting at the top of the driveway
Or Gus when I come home.
By Theo


When I am mad
I feel white hot
Like an erupting volcano
Or an explosion.
By Tait


When I am jealous
I feel very, very mean
Like a mad and hungry lion
or being hurt really, really badly.
By Tiana


When I am sad
I feel chilly and blue
When I am happy
I hope you do too
I feel yellow like a dandelion.
By Atorea.

Fun with Apple's Photo Booth

This morning some children got to take their photos in quite a unique photo booth!
Miss Trayes has a great new programme on her BRAND NEW apple laptop!
It is called PHOTO BOOTH!
Here are some of the photos we took of ourselves!
Prepare to laugh!!!!!

The First Day of Term Three

Monday 17th of May was our first day back at school after having TWO weeks of holidays.

Mrs Boyd wanted to find out all the amazing things we had been doing so she asked us to put on our thinking caps!

We used the alphabet thinking key to "Alphabet our Holidays"

We had to think of words that described our holiday and they had to start with each letter of the alphabet.

We found the letters j, x, q and y challenging and we had to think very hard... and creatively to fill the box with a word that related to our holidays.

Here are pictures of some of our work.