A beautiful morning here in Pounawea. We are getting ready for our nature walk. Lots of adventures await us today.
Wednesday, 22 March 2017
Tuesday, 21 March 2017
Camp Pounawea!
Here we are on the confidence course. We are having a great time so far on camp and look forward to our adventures tomorrow.
Friday, 3 March 2017
Crazy Room 7
The long awaited crazy class photos! As a class we posed so beautifully for a whole class photo - but..we had to have a couple of crazy ones!
Pastel Koru
We have been exploring blending colours using pastels. As a class we discussed the colour wheel and colour families then we chose 3 colours to practice with. We blended dark to light, being careful to blend the edges of the colours together.
We learnt about koru and looked at how NZ artist Reuben Patterson incorporated them into this artworks. In his glittery patterned artworks he used limited colours and repeated patterns.
After having some practice with drawing a koru shape we created our final koru's. We carefully created black outlines using creative paint and left them to dry. When our koru were ready we chose our 3 final pastel colours and coloured them in.
To display our koru Mrs Jackson arranged them together, each koru is connected - supporting or growing from another. This symbolises our class - we are all connected and if we help support each other we all will learn and grow.
We learnt about koru and looked at how NZ artist Reuben Patterson incorporated them into this artworks. In his glittery patterned artworks he used limited colours and repeated patterns.
After having some practice with drawing a koru shape we created our final koru's. We carefully created black outlines using creative paint and left them to dry. When our koru were ready we chose our 3 final pastel colours and coloured them in.
To display our koru Mrs Jackson arranged them together, each koru is connected - supporting or growing from another. This symbolises our class - we are all connected and if we help support each other we all will learn and grow.
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| Hartley and Mitchell carefully colouring their koru |
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| Dylan and Lucas making careful colour choices |
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| Sophie and Shelby working on their creations |
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| Emilee and Braydon chose blue and green |
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| Jakob and Austen carefully blending |
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| Mia, Brodie and Archie - lots of blue here! |
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| Lily and Kanisha - beautiful koru shapes |
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| Our class koru... |
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| Supporting each other and growing together... |
Thursday, 16 February 2017
Welcome To Room 7 2017!!
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| Room 7 2017 |
We have so much to look forward to this year, including Camp Pounawea in week 8 of this term! We are going to have an amazing time.
We hope you enjoy visiting our classroom blog to keep up with all our wonderful learning and adventures this year.
Friday, 18 November 2016
Earthquake Poems
This week we have been learning about earthquakes. We all feel very sorry for the people up in Kaikoura and in other places that have been damaged by the earthquakes this week. As a class we have been keeping an eye on the news and discussing all the important facts.
We had lots of questions about earthquake and have begun some research around this topic. Part of our learning was also to create word lists of words we associate with earthquakes. We created see/feel/hear charts, a verb chart and an onomatopoeia chart. During writing we used these charts to help inspire and support our poetry writing.
Here are some of our earthquake poems:
Midnight Earthquake
Babies moaning,
people crawling to safety - it's hell in the city.
Glass is exploding, sirens are calling.
People run out of their houses,
many tripping, many falling - no where to run.
All trapped, all silent like rats being cornered by a cat.
Bash!
The houses shatter - there will be no city anymore.
By Tessa
Earthquake
Boom, crash!
In fright I stare at my home city falling in front of me.
Buildings collapse and go down as fast as lightning.
I'm on my knees now, barely able to stand.
Watching buildings falling and hear the frightening screams
of the young and the old.
Shattering glass - its like a war.
I feel pain in my legs and hands,
only to see blood gushing out.
I yell for help but no one can hear me.
All of a sudden the ground starts to crack - it gets wider and wider.
I run for help.
In the morning people come out and ask if you are alright.
By Angus
We had lots of questions about earthquake and have begun some research around this topic. Part of our learning was also to create word lists of words we associate with earthquakes. We created see/feel/hear charts, a verb chart and an onomatopoeia chart. During writing we used these charts to help inspire and support our poetry writing.
Here are some of our earthquake poems:
Midnight Earthquake
Babies moaning,
people crawling to safety - it's hell in the city.
Glass is exploding, sirens are calling.
People run out of their houses,
many tripping, many falling - no where to run.
All trapped, all silent like rats being cornered by a cat.
Bash!
The houses shatter - there will be no city anymore.
By Tessa
Earthquake
Boom, crash!
In fright I stare at my home city falling in front of me.
Buildings collapse and go down as fast as lightning.
I'm on my knees now, barely able to stand.
Watching buildings falling and hear the frightening screams
of the young and the old.
Shattering glass - its like a war.
I feel pain in my legs and hands,
only to see blood gushing out.
I yell for help but no one can hear me.
All of a sudden the ground starts to crack - it gets wider and wider.
I run for help.
In the morning people come out and ask if you are alright.
By Angus
Friday, 28 October 2016
DK Site
As part of our inquiry learning we have been exploring a website that is linked to the book we are using. There is so much great information on this site that many students have asked that I put the link on the class blog. So here it is! I think that it is fantastic that so many students continue on their learning at home - its great to have a curious mind!!
DK Find Out!!
DK Find Out!!
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