Room 21 Creative Authors

 Recently the authors from Room 21 were asked to contribute some writing for a new library display inspired by the wonderful story ‘Rainbow Fish’ by author Marcus Pfister. We decided to focus on the lessons to be learnt from this book as well as creating exciting similes.

Here are some similes from our creative authors;

Rainbow fish has scales that flash like the glimmering sun that rises each morning. He has scales that gleam like the diamonds in a queens crown. (Melevasi, year 6)

Rainbow fish zig-zag’s through the rocks like a racing car trying to win a race. His scales glitter like diamonds in the bright sunshine. (James, year 5)

He swims arrogantly like a king wandering through the halls of his palace. Rainbow fish has the confidence of an actor acting in a movie. (Gzeal, year 5)

Rainbow fish’s precious scales blaze brightly like a glittering shooting star shooting through the night sky. (Micah, year 6)

 We decided to create our own display in our classroom. The incredibly talented Keithaline illustrated the underwater scene as well as some characters from the story. She even used shining paua pieces to represent Rainbow fish’s precious scales.

This is the display in our classroom.

Next time you’re in the library, check out our writing for yourself!

Visual Art in Room 20

Our latest Visual Art focus has been on the artist Robyn Kahukiwa.  We looked at all her work and focussed on one of her portraits.  We looked at skills such as proportion, symmetry and shading.  First we planned our portraits by practising to draw faces, looking closely at proportion.  Then we completed them using crayon and dye.  After that we reworked features using pastel, lastly we added real feathers and the moko’s.  I really enjoyed drawing the moko because we studied different designs and created our own.  I learnt a lot of new skills drawing my portrait.  What do you think of our portraits?

Sila Hifo Room 20

Week 6 Attendance Results

Congratulations to the following classrooms for BEST ATTENDANCE.

Room 18 and Room 14 with 95%

Room 23 with 90%

Who will be the trophy winners for week 7?

Visual Art in Room 19

We learnt to paint and blend colours to capture the scenery of Flanders field and then describe the poppies that grow there by stretching sentences with the WH starters.

A delicate poppy drifts side to side with the powerful wind on a strong, stormy night in the amazing Flanders field to remind us of the great war where many suffered in 1915.

By Shalah-Maye Year 6

    

The tall, big and red poppies are swishing and swaying on a windy day in 

Gallipoli to tell us about the sacrifice of the soldiers from ANZAC.

By Lilo Year 6

The amazing poppies have blossomed and are swaying side to side during the afternoon on the top of the mountain because the wind is trying to blow them away.

By Fesui Year 5

Visual Art in Room 13

We have been learning about the famous New Zealand artist, Robyn Kahukiwa. We looked at lots of her artwork and we chose one piece to inspire our art.

We practiced drawing faces like this. Then we stopped and talked about the features and proportions of a face. It is important to get things the right size and in the right place! We used brown dye and black crayon. Then we created Maori inspired borders for our pieces of artwork, we learnt about koru’s and what they mean.

Our artwork is displayed in our classroom.

Here are four examples of our finished work.

The Tuli Family Say Thank You

We had the privilege of rowing in our ‘waka’ and touring the ‘pacific’ with a performance from the Tuli family in honour of their sister Sosiana.  We feel blessed that we could give a little during mufti-day to support Sosiana and were overwhelmed with the aroha extended back to us from the entire family.

MY RECOUNT

Watching the Tuli family during their performance made me feel excited.

First Mr Tuli performed a Tongan dance.

Second the Tuli family performed a Maulu’ulu from Samoa.

Finally Mr Tuli introduced all his family performers to us.

It was a fantastic show and I’m glad we gave to the family for mufti-day.

By Devon

MY RECOUNT

Watching the Tuli family performance under the fale made me feel so happy because their performance was done beautifully.

First Mr Tuli and his group performed an amazing Tongan performance that is only performed for royal people.

Then they performed a Samoan sasa and Fijian fan dance that was very upbeat and entertaining.

Thank you Tuli family for visiting and dancing for us, we are happy that Sosiana is doing well.

By Fesui

Week 5 Attendance Results

Congratulations to the following classrooms for achieving best attendance

Room 18 with 96%

Room 13 with 92%

Room 2 and Room 23 are tied for third place with 90%

 Who will be the winners for week 6?