Animoto

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We learnt how to make an Animoto slideshow today.

Arty Farty Stuff

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Look at us! We are real artists! We are holding an Art Exhibition today. You are all welcome to visit. Please leave a comment about our art. We would love to hear what you think of our art.

Amazing Art

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Art Exploration in Room 6

In Room 6 we have been learning about 3 different elements in art; Line, Space and Colour.

Line: We explored the different types of line we could create with different tools. We then focused on Ben Heine, a Belgian artist, and created a "Pencil versus Camera" art piece. Look closely at what our imaginations could see in the photo. Check how we connected the drawing to the photo.

Space: We learnt about positive and negative space. We directed the person in our photo, created the background and took the photo. We then downloaded the photo and edited it. The shadow is our positive space and the light is the negative space. Do you think you can work out how we made our image?

Colour: We looked at Tone. We had to create a colour version of a black and white photo using light, middle and dark tones.

Ruby Bay Image: We visited the beach and spent time sketching main parts of the view we could see. In class, we were able to choose the tool we used to create our masterpiece. We thought about Line, Space and Colour. We tried very hard to use different techniques to create our image.

Maths Games

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Magic maths in Room 6. We love it sooooooo much.

Creative and Flexible Thinking

Whaea Aroha challenged us to create our own maths games using the materials we have in class. This was fun. We came up with a lot of different games, practising different maths skills like, multiplicationa dn division, adding and subtracting, patterns, memory recall, shapes in geometry,...

We had to work together to think creatively and flexibly. We learnt a lot.

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People Smart Art

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Some people in the Middle Syndicate were part of the People Smart Art group. They made scenes from "Where the Wild Things Are"

Go Green Room 4

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Room 4 visited us today and told us how they are going to keep the school clean. They have Rubbish Monitors and they have chosed to pick up any rubbish around the school in their lunch times. We thought this was soooooooo cool, so we decided to make them badges to show who they are. We like the cool idea and we love that Room 4 are doing something about it too. Go Room 4

Beach Art

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Our masterpiece for the Art Exhibition is based on the view we see of Ruby Bay. We sketched ideas in our Art books and then returned to class to create our final art piece. Come to Room 6 and view our masterpieces.

Smarties

Smarties is about your smarts

I`ve been doing Music Smart. We first draw what we think the music is about, the music was called "The Hall of the Mountin King." Then when we are all done we paint it
with black, white and grey. Sophie

I am in Self Smart. We painted about our dreams. My dream is about traveling the world. We are sharing our art and we did them with dye. It is so much fun. Sylvie

Room 6 Blog!!!!!!

Room 6 has the best,craziest Blog,YEAH!!!!!!!!


Milly & Georgina think it is SO cool!(100 out of 100)

It's the best,It's the best,Room 6 blog,Is the BEST.

By Milly and Georgina.

Tim's thought of the week

We have been doing a lot of art for a few weeks and we like doing it.I feel good.

Tim

White Out

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We wanted to support the All Whites on Tuesday, so we had a White Out Day at school. Everyone dressed up in white. There was a big football match too. I watched the game from up high in a tree. Whaea A did a header. Wow! Whaea A you are really good at soccer. The teachers won the game. Room 6 won the White Out Award for wearing the most white. It was a great day. I had a lot of fun and the All Whites drew with Slovakia. Cool!

By Fergus

World Cup Football at Mapua

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It was a big day. The staff and Year 7 versus Year 8. We had photographers high in the trees (otherwise known as Ethan and Marco). The supporters were screaming on the sideline. The game was on.
The ball was getting kicked all over the place. Nikau had control, passed the ball to Sam who took a shot, but Whaea A saved the goal and booted it away. Storm came back with a deadly shot and scored. 1-0 to Year 8.

Mrs Bibby-Smith put in a mean header, Mrs Stephens and Mrs Barnes had powereful boots and Whaea A juggled the ball skillfully. The staff quickly returned with a Big Mac special, Mr.Clearwater kicked it from the corner and Mr.Mac headed it in! 1-1

The second half was almost over when Mr.Mac booted it from halfway and it sky rocketed over everyone and landed in the goal. 2-1 to the Staff and Year 7.

The final whistle blew. The game was over. The champs; the Staff and Year 7. Well done everyone!

Arts Rotation

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Aren't we lucky we get to have a programme called Smarties. We get to use our different "smarts" to create art. The smarts are word, math, music, visual, body, people,and nature smart.

I am doing puzzle art because I am maths smart. We are making koru designs from broken up tiles. It is a mosaic.

I am music smart. We listen to music and we draw what we think the music is about, how it makes us feel. Jamie

We are nature smart. Carol teaches us how to weave flax to make flowers. Rebecca, Venka

We are visual smart. We are creating art with a Kiwiana theme. Marco, Fergus

I am self smart. We are creating art about our dreams. Tim

I am word smart. We have written a poem about colour and then put it onto a canvas. George.

I am body smart. We have to take photos using our body in different positions, like getting low and getting high. Reece


I am people smart. We are making a model of where the Wild Things live together. Max and Phoebe


We would like to thank all the teachers and parents for giving up their time to help us learn.

By Hamish, Marco, Tim and Fergus

Maths

For maths this week we have been measuring lots of different things like the art bench and our decks and lots of other things. We have been throwing paper planes. Our buddies and us figured out a way to measure how far our paper planes went. I used my feet to measure, my buddy guessed how long meters were and used steps. The day after that we realised that what we measured with was not accurate. Then we measured with rulers and our results were different because you could get the exact distance from the rulers.

by Ethan

Measuring Maths

We have been learning about measuring accurately. We have been using measuring tools like rulers. We are using millimeters, centimeters and meters.

I learnt...
you need to mark from the first centimeter line on the ruler. Rebecca
a centimeter is bigger than a millimeter. Milly
you need to measure from a starting point. Max
you need to decide the starting point and stand at that point when throwing the plane so you can measure accurately. Georgina
you can measure long distances with a ruler by making marks and using the ruler again. Jamie
that if you want to measure accurately, mm,cm,m are the most accurate units. George
that it is easier to measure a long distance with 2 rulers. Sasha
you need to mark the plane landing by the part that is closest to the line you throw from because we need to all have the same way of measuring. Chloe
you always need to write mm or cm or m to show the correct distance. Ethan
a cm is bigger than a mm. Reece
to keep my foot beha=ind the line because that would measure more accurately. Hamish
you can 300cm if you have 3m. Venka
you can write 132cm as 1.32m Izaak
some things are harder to measure, like the couch because it has curved edges. Benjamin
you have to measure from the 0cm line not the end of the ruler. Tim
you can mark and reuse the ruler to measure longer distances. Marco
1.56m means 1m and 56cm Rebecca
that if you want to measure the distance between places on a map you can use the scale. Sasha
that a scalw is a line that has marks that show cm and how far the cm is worth, like 10,000km for 1cm. Fergus

Tones of Room 6

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We have learnt about light, middle and dark tones. Look at our wonderful art.

Thanks PTA

The playground is an awesome place to play in. Thanks to the PTA for getting it up.

Room 6's awesome measuring

We have been learning about measuring. First we made a speedy paper-plane. Next we threw our smart planes and marked where it landed. Then we chose a way of measuring accurately without a ruler. Some people used dictionaries, feet, hands, bodies, cars,...
We learned there is only one way of measuring accurately which is using a ruler. We can measure in mm, cm and m.

I loved the way we measured in a fun way and learnt lots too. Venka
It was fun to fly the planes across the court. Milly

Venka, Milly

Tim's dad got an award...

Guess what happend! Tim's dad had a special award from the Queen.

My dad got a Serving Member of St.John Award. He is an ambulance officer, he teaches others about First Aid and he works on the resucue helicopter.

My dad gets to bring the work car home sometimes. Once we got to look in the ambulance.

I am proud of my dad because he takes people to hospital.

Tim

George`s new solution for Measuing

George came up with a solution for measuring. You know how measuring with feet, books,
sticks is not an accurate way of measuring. Now that problem is solved! With this new
strategy you can measure anything!

Intructions:
1: Measure your foot using a ruler.
2: Measure the object with your foot.
3: Multiply the number of feet by length of your foot.
4: Remember to write cm in your answer.

Example:
My foot is 20cm long. Gf=20cm
Room 6 is 36 George feet wide.

How wide is Room 6?

Gf=20cm
so 36Gf = 36 x 20

30 + 30 = 60
6+6 = 12
60+10+2 = 72

so the answer is 720cm

so 36f=720cm

So Room 6 is 720cm wide or 7.20m wide.

George, Jamie, Travis

Kath Bee

This week started with a splash! Kath Bee came to Mapua School. She sang "Dragons under my bed" and played along with her guitar. Also she made a SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH sign that if we were loud she would show it and we would be quiet. She gave balloon dogs to people who were dancing really amazing and stood out. Then she got some people to say "hello" in diffren't launguges like... shalom, ola, bula, tena koe, konnichi wa. At the end she gave one of her CD's, drum roll please bang, bang, bang, crash... to Callum for answering a question correctly. You could get one of her CD's and t-shirts.

Thank you Kath Bee for visiting our school. P.S If you see Maisy somewhere thank her because her mum organizsed Kath Bee coming to our school.

By Rebecca, Brooke and Sasha.

Wikid!

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Run, run, run, as fast as you can...

Crazy Adult Cross Country

The adults race was funny because Nigel, one of the adults, gave Juliana, a mum, a piggyback ride around the adult race. But then Nigel dropped her. Mr Clearwater was trying to beat them. It was just so funny and my step dad, Dave, bet all of them. He came first!

I love Room 6 because....

Hello world! Tim here, I get to do the blog this week with a little bit of help from Lorraine. I'm teaching her what to do because she's never done this before!

We had cross country on Monday. The weather was kind of rainy and cloudy. All the year 3 boys ran together. Mt Taylor called us on the loudspeaker and we went to the start line. Mrs Pilcher warmed us up. Mr T said "on your marks, get set, GO" and we ran off. We had to run round the track twice. I got puffed out and I sprinted to the end. My Mum and my class were cheering for me. My sister Anja and my baby brother Max came to watch me race. At the end I felt happy.


Room 6 is the best class in Mapua School because the kids are happy and we always work hard. I got the "YOU ROCK" award on Tuesday for my art.

We have got a new playground. It is fun to play on. It moved over to beside room 9. It used to be beside room 7. My favourite thing is the climbing chain.

As part of our Art topic we made some artwork inspired by Ben Heine. Our challenge was to use our imagination to create a line drawing of something that we see in the photo, that isn't there. They came out AMAZING!!!! Come and see them next time you are passing!

Have a great week, I gotta go!!

Timothy

My new baby sister

I love my little baby sister, she is so cute. When she sleeps she makes funny noises. My baby sister was born last week on Thursday 27 May. I want her to be called Scarlett, but Mum and Dave will pick her name.

This is a photo of my little sister at the school cross country.

Scale Map of Royal Pigland

Our challenge was to make a scale map of all the settings from "The Three Little Pigs".

Step 1: List all the places you want on the map.
Step 2: Create a scale. We decided 1cm=100m We used meters because kilometers are too far for Pigs to walk and the wolf wouldn't bother if they lived too far away.
Step 3: Use our ruler to measure the pathways between places.
Step 4: Add the places in.
Step 5: Share out maps.

This is actually maths because there is measuring in it. Georgina
I liked making the scale and measuring the distance in between the places. Travis
I liked how we got to use our imaginations and maths together. I liked creating and using the scale for a real thing. Ethan
I liked that you could just draw anything on there that you want. I liked doing the scale. I liked the thinking. Sasha

We are H.O.T (Higher Order Thinkers- refer to Blooms Taxonomy Link)because we were creating, improving, planning, designing, inventing, predicting, synthesising (putting all we know together) ...