Fundraiser Update

Hi All,

So far Room 5's amazing original art has raised $159.50.  Thanks so much for all those who have bid :-)  We still have 7 more paintings to put up for auction ....once Mrs MBs Trade Me account is topped up!  Tomorrow we will be listing Bethany, Grason, Salani and Cameron's wonderful pieces.

Also a reminder tomorrow (Friday) is Gold Star PJ,Popcorn, Wheels and Games Day! If you are a Gold Star (everyone this week!! yay!)   wear your PJ's bring a game from home, wheels and a helmet if you want to have a spin on the court 

and Mrs MB will provide the popcorn.  Here are some photos from our last Gold Star PJ Day.

Gold Star Celebration Treat & Christchurch Art Fundraiser...

For the Gold Star treat we graphed what we wanted  to do for gold stars and the favourite is pj and popcorn day (and wheels if you have some and are really keen) . So if you're a gold star be sure to wear your pjs 2 moro (Tues 14 /3) Mrs M B will bring the popcorn.  If you bring your wheels remember to bring your helmet as well.

from Bella

Christchurch Earthquake Art Fundraiser

Room 5 has put into action their brilliant idea of raising money for the people of Christchurch by creating original art about the quake and putting it on Trade Me for auction.  All money recieved will be given to an aid agency (Salvation Army or Red Cross)  to help where we can.

Today the following childrens art has been put up on Trade Me 

                                                    

Natasha - Bricks Bouncing Like Madness    Start price $5.50

Jayden - A Terrified Day   Start price $ 2.00

Reyana -  Shattering Earth  Start price $8.00

Lynley - The Angry Earth Start price $ 8.00

 

We have the POWER!

We have the POWER to make a difference!  We have the power ...

• to learn
• to choose our own pathways
• to make our own decisions
• to help others 

Jayden

We have been brainstorming ways we can help the people of Canterbury.  Last Friday our whole school dressed in red and black and brought lots of items that we hope will be useful.  This week we have been busy putting into action one of the ideas we brainstormed as a class to do some earthquake pictures to auction to raise money.  We are thinking we might put some of them on Trade Me to see how much money we can raise.  Here are some of our response art to the earthquake...

                                                             Grason 

Lynley

Natasha

Keep an eye out for more art.  Next week we will be creating abstract art based on colours / moods - smooth and calm verses chaotic and rough.

Focus Groups...

Check out our new pages on the tab above!  

  We have formed focus groups for action projects about things that matter to us.  We have the POWER to make a difference!  Our first projects are based around last weeks RESPECT value of taking care of our environment.  Each team took a focus area to make a difference to and will continue to look after and develop it over the year.

Welcome to the Room 5 Revamped Blog!
This has been a project that was inspired by feedback we received at our Parent / Teacher Night...  

The children and I have been discussing  who our blog is for?  who uses it? and for what reasons?  We found out that many of us don't look at the blog again after we have posted our learning up! Over the last week we've been checking in with a few  blogs from other schools - looking at their layouts and what sort of info is posted up on them.
As a class we have decided to have a change of look and make our blog more 'user friendly' and informative.  
 

The 'look' and layout may change again and new things will be added as we trial out first attempt and reflect on how it looks and how it is going.  

Let us know what you think! 

Room 5 2011

On Tuesday we had our photos taken. We printed out our face and we cut it in half. What we did was out of the halves we had to choose what one we wanted to use for drawing. We looked at which side had the most light and dark.Before we did the other half of our face we had to explore with some charcoal to see how it smudges and how we can show the light and the dark.The next step was to get a bit of paper and glue our half face on the piece of paper then we drew the other half of the face.
Taylor and Reyana would like to show you their pictures try to find out who it is.
We put waht we wonder and hope will happen this year. We have started to share our ideas of what we want to have in our class and have started drawing up plans.
By Reyana and Taylor & Mrs MB

Otakou Marae Visit

Room 5 & 6 are off to the Otakou Marae on Thursday December 9.  We were interested to  find out 'how is a marae is built?' 'What do the different carvings mean?' 'How do you do carvings?' and 'what happens on a marae?'  Some of us also wanted to find out how to do weaving with flax.

When you go to a marae you need to be welcomed on - this ceremony is called a powhiri.  We have been finding out about the different parts of a powhiri and what order you need to do them in.  We have found out there are rules 'protocol' to follow when you go to a marae.

As part of the powhiri we are the manuhiri -the visitors.  We have been practising waiata - songs that can be sung to support our speaker when he makes his whaikorero.

Two waiata we will be singing on Thursday...

TE AROHA

Te Aroha  - the love

Te Whakapono - the faith

Te rangimarie - the peace

tatou tatou e - be with us all

E TORU NGA MEA

E toru nga mea

Nga mea nu nui

E ki ana

Te paipera

Whakapono

Tumanako

Ko te mea nui

Ko te aroha

Translation:

There are three things

 very important things

as stated in the bible

Hope, faith, and the greatest thing - charity / love