Aboriginal Art in Room 13

Hi we are Dylan and Olivia from Room 13. For art we are doing Aboriginal dot painting.

   

You might have some questions about Aboriginal dot painting, well, we are here to answer those for you!

Question: What is Aboriginal dot painting?

Answer: Aboriginal dot painting is the traditional way of painting that the Aboriginals in Australia used. They used bark and clay to make dots to tell stories.

Question: Where does Aboriginal dot painting come from?

Answer: Aboriginal dot painting is from

Australia.

Question: What did we use to create our Aboriginal dot paintings?

Answer: You need some cotton buds and paint.

Question: Why is Room 13 doing Aboriginal dot painting?

Answer: We are doing Aboriginal Dot painting because we watched this video that explained how the koala lost its tail.

Question: What was the story about how the koala lost its tail?

Answer: Koala and Tree Kangaroo were best friends until one day when there was a drought in Australia. Tree Kangaroo worked hard to find water by digging a big hole, however Koala did not help at all. When Tree Kangaroo found water in the hole, Koala jumped in and tried to drink it all! Tree Kangaroo was angry at Koala’s selfishness, so he pulled Koala out of the hole by his tail… and his tail came off! Now Koala has a short and stumpy tail. You can watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itszep0duwI

We looked at a lot of Australian animals drawn in the traditional Aboriginal way. We saw Koalas, lizards and kangaroos. This art inspired us to use our hands in our dot painting.

Room 13 loves doing Aboriginal dot painting because we dip the cotton buds into the paint and it is relaxing and a lot of fun.

Did you know Yendarra is an Aboriginal name??

Thank you for reading our Term 2 Week 9 blog post.

By Dylan and Olivia.

Learning in Room 15

Welcome to Room 15’s Blog Post.

We had a fun, action packed Term 1 in Room 15.

At Yendarra School we look after ourselves and others so that we can ‘be the best we can be.’ One way that we do this in Room 15 is with our Healthy Kai.

Look at our fantastic food pyramid and healthy lunches

Yum! Fruit, Yoghurt, grain bread sandwiches and water!

WALT- use pencil, pastel and dye to sketch, colour and dye our favourite animal with a Pasifika themed border. 

Our Inquiry topic for the end of term 1 and the beginning of term 2 is ‘The Zoo’. How good does our art look? We used two and three colours for our borders to create a greater effect.

In Room 15, we always do our best. That is why at the beginning of term two we set ‘Scroll Goals’^{This involved thinking about our progress, the levels that we were on and what we wanted to achieve in Literacy, Numeracy and how we want to show the school values this term.} 

^{We are all working hard so that we can achieve our goals!}

^{Being active is important to us. We loved having the opportunity to participate in soccer coaching.}

^{We learnt ball skills, how to trap, how to pass and how to dribble the ball while looking up.}

Money Matters in Room 15

Money Matters in Room 15

We started off learning about money by talking about what money is and why we need it. Here are some of our ideas:

• Money is what we use to buy things.
• Money is a  currency
• Everyone needs money
• Money is different in other countries

We talked about what New Zealand money looks like.

Money in New Zealand has changed. Mr Harris talked to us about when he was a child, New Zealand had a 5 cent piece...

Now, our money has changed again. Our lowest value is 10 cents. We have used resources off NZ maths to see the changes of money. Our notes have now changed. This is because of new security features to protect our money from criminals who try and print their own money.

Money also helps us with Numeracy.

Money helped us to partition numbers and understand place value.

We have done lots of interactive activities to help us learn:

The value of money

How to add and subtract amounts of money

How to make amounts of money

Giving change

Telling Time in Room 13!

Kia ora koutou katoa and thank you for reading Room 13’s first blog for Term 2!

Once a week we learn about 
Measurement and Time. 

In Week One we worked in our teams and made sand timers to measure one minute. 

Here are Diadre, Jayden, Saedeze and Melania to tell you more!

"We were learning about time. We put sugar in a cup with a hole in it. There was a blue cup that had sugar in. Also there was a little cup so we could scoop the sugar and pour the sugar into the white cup. We had a time and it was 1 minute and we nearly made it. We had to draw a line so we knew where to stop and pour."

By Diadre and Jayden.

Saedeze and I were counting how long it takes to pour sugar in 1 minute. We both got a marker and measured the sugar. What we used to put the sugar in the cups was a scooper and we put the sugar in a white cup. It had a hole in the bottom so when it was 1 minute we marked it.

By Saedeze and Melania

In week two we worked in our teams again, this time to work out what activities we could get done in one minute. 
Our goal was to get a solid understanding of how long a minute is. 
Here’s a recount of our learning from Apitanga, Marqez and Heavenly. 

On Friday my team and I were writing about how many times can we do sports in one minute. In the sports there was lunges, star jumps, burpees, shuttles and star drawing. I was working with Auga and Ja’vaan. Our prediction for lunges was 20. When we tested lunges in one minute the real result was 23. Our prediction for star jumps was 15 but when we tested the star jumps the real result 21. In addition when my team and I got to burpees our prediction was 19 but when we tried it the real result was 30 because Auga and Ja’vaan did the burpees really fast. Our prediction for shuttles was 18 but the real result was 27 again because Ja’vaan did it fast. Last of all was star drawing our prediction was 22 but our result was 25 because Auga did it fast. The star jumps, shuttles, burpees and lunges are what we Room 13 do for fitness. My favourite part of this session was working as a team and supporting each other. My team is Team 4. What really impressed my team and I is seeing Miss Swainston happy with us and Room 13. What my team liked about this session is getting to do a job. I like seeing my team and I have a smile and I’m proud of our work. What my team and I also liked about maths time was learning about time. I really enjoyed working as a team and my team feels the same way.

My team and I really liked learning about time.

By Apitanga

On Friday we had to see how many things we could do in one minute.

The things we had to do was star jumps, burpees, star drawings and two other things. We had to do the burpees outside because we didn’t want to make a loud stomping noise.

My team is team 2. Sitani was the timer. The timer is the person who counts the minutes.

If you don't now what is star drawing you're just drawing stars for one minute.

My favorite thing was burpees and star jumps.

By Marqez

What we were doing for maths was learning to do minutes and read the clock. We counted how many fitness things we could do in one minute. We did star jumps, star drawing, shuffles and we figured out how many times we could do them in one minute. We guessed 20, 50, 16, 40 and we each had a turn and we worked as a whānau. We worked as a team and it was fun and we were all trying our best. We were doing shuffles outside and we got tired! We all had a job and we all worked together.

By Heavenly.

Room 13's Amazing Learning!

WELCOME TO ROOM 13

We have been learning a lot of interesting things this term!

We were fortunate enough to have tennis and hockey coaches come through to teach us how to play both sports and learn new skills. Our lessons were every Wednesday for five weeks. 

Part of our inquiry learning this term focused around Animals and Easter. Room 13 read a book about Alley Cats. We enjoyed learning about the use of verbs in this book.

Our art focus this term was to use crayon and dye in our artwork. Here are examples of our artwork!

Below we have examples of our artwork based on Easter. We learnt about the importance of Easter before our Easter holiday. Each student designed their own Easter egg and cross patterns using crayon and dye. All designs were inspired by cultural patterns.

Easter Masterpiece!

In Room 21 we enjoyed learning about the significance of Easter. We chose special symbols from the Easter story to create our visual art projects this term. 

Enjoy our masterpieces!  

Nia

My cross represents Jesus and how he died for us and my heart shows how much I love Jesus. 

Narosah

My cross represents how Jesus sacrificed everything for us and died on the cross. Easter is important to me because I like spending time with my family. 

John-Paul

My Easter symbol is of the tomb and represents Jesus being resurrected. Easter is when our families get together to celebrate how Jesus sacrificed himself for us. 

Christina

I chose the tomb where Jesus was taken by Joseph. Easter is important to me because it’s a time for us to celebrate how Jesus helped us and died for our sins. 

Joshua

Easter is about how Jesus died for our sins. My art shows how Jesus looks after us every day. 

Christine

I adore and respect Jesus, my Lord because he has given us the chance for new beginnings. My symbol represents Palm Sunday and the start of Easter celebrations. 

Fiafia 2015

FIAFIA 2015

Dance is the hidden language of the soul and Yendarra School has recently experienced the love that can be shared through cultural song and dance.

This year we celebrated everything ‘grand’ at Yendarra by hosting our Fiafia event at the Otara Leisure Centre with an amazing number of special guests, families and musicians.

Our children were the super stars and shining stars that ignited a flame that would light up the hearts of many for a long time and this is their story….

On Wednesday 9th December 2015 from 12noon the senior students and teachers prepared Fiafia day at the Otara Rec Centre to celebrate the year and fill people’s hearts with happiness. I felt very proud of everyone who attended the Fiafia day. By: Nora

I really enjoyed performing at Fiafia because I liked representing my dad’s culture – Cook Island. I had fun making people smile and I enjoyed the opportunity to talk in front of a massive crowd. I hope the next generation of us make Fiafia even better than this year so all our parents and special guest feel happy to watch Yendarra perform again!. By: Shalah-Maye

We THANK OUR FAMILIES AND SCHOOL FAMILY

for joining us on our best day ever!