Ice Candles

Today we made Ice candles  as a class. This is our we made them: 

Step one- cut the top of your cartoon with scissors. Step two- rup oil around the 5 sides of the cartoon. Step three- put a white tall candle into the centre of the cartoon. Step four- fill the cartoon all the way to the top with ice. Well you're filling your cartoon you are melting old candles that can no longer be lit. Step five-  when your candles are finished melting pour them into your cartoon all the way to the top. Sep six- let is set. Step seven- in the morning we ripped open the cartoons to find big holes in the candles which water sprayed out of. The one we opened in my group had a smiley face.

November Reflection

 This is our November reflection this is everything we have done this month. We have reflected on our learning and what we have done. Have you ever done a reflection newsletter? I really enjoy this time because it is a time for me to reflect on my learning.

Artwork colouring book

 Today we had Mrs Torrie for cybersmart. I found it hard to color in the little pieces because the big  pieces would change colour.  I found it easy to pick the colours because I had a clear picture what I was going to do. Mohammed Melehi was the artist for the piece of digital art I recreated. Here is the link to art colouring book the site I used.

Here is the original piece of artwork:

                                                                                              Here is my version:

  

Spooky house

 In reading we had to make our own spooky house. We are learning how to infer. I found it hard to draw the outlines of the house because I wanted them to be straight. I found it easy to decorate the house and the ghost's in blood. Next time I would make the door blend with the background. 

We have been learning how to infer, it means to find a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning. In the story  the moving men said " Have we got the right house?"  The house had been for sale  for many years because weird things had happened in that house.

Parihaka

This past week we have been learning about Parihaka. In reading we have been collecting information about Parihaka. There were 8 different fact cards for us to read. Once we were finished we cut them out to make two albatross feathers. 

Here are my feathers,

Updated camp goals

 Last week we went on camp. We did high ropes, rope maze, flying fox, frisbee golf, laser tag, nerf wars, indoor rock climbing and last of all my fav slingshot paintball. I am proud of myself for achieving my goal, which was to make a new friend.  My new friend is Elena, make sure you check out her blog.

October reflection

 This is our October reflection this is everything we have done this month. We have reflected on our learning and what we have done. Have you ever done a reflection newsletter? I really enjoy this time because it is a time for me to reflect on my learning.

Letters of thanks

Last week we went on a wonderful camp and this week we were writing thank you letters to the people who came and the instructors at Tui Ridge. I wrote my letter to Dom who was one of instructors. instructors. He instructed us for the flying fox and sling shot paint ball.

Dear Dom,

I am writing to say thank you for instructing and teaching a bunch of my group activities. I had a lot of fun talking to you about your future and what you have been doing this past year.

Thank you so much for pushing me out of my comfort zone and making me take one step further than I thought I could do. I had so much fun doing all of the activities and learning how to do new activities. Personally I thought it was a great camp.                                                                                                          

Again thank you for supporting our camp,

Mā te wā

Francesca

Camp 2020

Last week we went on camp to Tui Ridge. My favourite activity was going to Paradise Valley Springs where we saw lots of different animals including lions. My favourite animals were the wallabies, one of them even  had a Joey in their pouch. I used tall tweets to make my gif.

Jungle law

In reading we are learning how to identify. I found it hard to work with a partner because we had different ideas. I found it easy to think of what fonts and how big I wanted the words.

Camp goals

 Today I set my camp goals because next week we are going to camp at Tui Ridge. I found it easy to to think of my social goal. I found it hard to think of how I could make a new friend. 

Keep our awa clean

 Today our class wrote a letter to the Gisborne Herald. It was about making our our clean and asking the council to come and load out our grass. I found it hard to think of ways why the council should come in mow the grass. I found it easy to put all my details in on the form.

Down by our school, Saint Marys Gisborne we have a Rerenga Awa.  We are a green gold enviro school. We would really like to grow more native trees down there so that we can try to increase the amount of native birds, insects and tiny creatures in the awa. But, to do this we need the black berry bushes cleared and the banks mowed by the council. Ever since we started planting trees the council has stopped mowing and spraying the black berry bush and grass. I think the council should do their part in keeping on top of their responsibilities so we can keep planting our awa clean. 

Apple tree dilemma

This week we have been reading a book called apple tree dilemma. It is about these two kids and they think that there there's an apple tree on the front of the house and that is true but when the grey kids moved in they started playing on it. they even started stealing the Apple when they were ready and ripe. I found it hard to find a character to compare Dad with. I found it easy to think of ways to describe Dad.

Pop art Collage

Today we learned how to use lunapic , I got in inspired by Andy Warhol I found it easy to make my pictures because all I had to do is take a self portrait then take that and put it on lunapic.  I found it hard to use the lunapic site because it had lots of filters and sketch 2 which is under art. First I took a photo of myself, went onto the lunapic website. Next I pressed upload, it will tell you to pick the photo that you would like to do. Then pick your filters or sketch 2. Next go to file then go down to save image, press save image as png and it will download your photo. This is my first attempt of doing it, it was amazing but a bit hard. I think you would really like to do this.

 

 

Francesca's Room 1 September Student Reflection Newsletter

 This is our September reflection this is everything we have done this month. We have reflected on our learning and what we have done. Have you ever done a reflection newsletter? I really enjoy this time because it is a time for me to reflect on my learning.

Speechs

We have been learning how to write speeches, my speech was about why more girls should play rugby and how much you will enjoy it. Have you done a speech before if so what was it about. I found it tricky to pick just one of my topics.

Our success criteria was to 

*use a rhetorical question

*use persuasive language

*use emotive language 

Frog comic

 For the past two weeks we have been making a comic strip about frogs, my partner was Logan. I did most of the writing and he did the decorating, my dad helped me do this task at home to catch up on it. This was a hard task to finish because it was a comic and because it was long. I found it easy to do most of the decorating on the slides.

August reflection

This is our August reflection this is everything we have done this month. We have reflected on our learning and what we have done. Have you ever done a reflection newsletter? I really enjoy this time because it is a time for me to reflect on my learning.

Tracey Tawhiao

We have been doing Tracey Tawhiao inspired artwork, it was a really tricky artwork piece of artwork

 First we had to find a piece of newspaper with words on it that meant something to us.

Then we picked a color to paint over the news paper but leaving the few words that you have picked unpainted. When painting leave lines between blocks, the blocks can be paragraphs.                      

Next we googled patterns from our culture and put them on our painted piece of news paper, you can color the patterns in and do them different colors.

If you do this piece of artwork and like it please let me know, I really enjoy the feedback and I will comment on yours.

Sacraments of initiation

Today we were learning about the Sacraments of initiation, we had include the 3 most important Sacraments the 3 sacraments were Baptism Confirmation and Eucharist. 

We had to write a Symbol and Ritual for all of them, this is mine: