Room 27 Mixed Media Pop Art

Room 27 have been creating mixed media art this term. We looked at different types of Pop Art- the practice of using digital photographs and working with contrasting colours. These look very cool and brighten up our classroom. 

Check out our bright display! Miss Johnson printed four photos of the same size and we had to selected contrasting colours to make these pictures "POP". 

James worked very hard to make his pictures stand out, he used a mixture of hot and cold colours! 

Robots have taken over room 28!

This term, we are learning all about being solution seekers.  Solution seekers generate ideas and use their initiative to solve problems. One of our homework tasks in room 28 was to reuse things around the house that are not needed any more.  Pollution and rubbish is a huge problem in the world today, but the clever children and their families reused their household rubbish to make awesome robot friends! Check them out :D

This is Jonathan's robot and his name is Jake.  Jonathan's robot is a very clever design because it has a trolley attached to make it easy to move around.  Well done Jonathan! 

This is Aahil's robot.  Love his rubber leg! Very creative!

This is Lasina's robot.  She used water bottle lids to make cool eyes.

This is Lorenzo's awesome robot! 

This is Gemma and her robot.  Well done Gemma!

Great work Ayush! Awesome robot!

Check out this fantastic robot!  Well done Mahdiya!

Great design Lucas!

This is AJ's robot called Clown-bot.

Well done Tekken! Neat robot.

Check out the abs on this cool robot! Well done Dilan. 

Neat robot Anuraag!

Very creative Shepherd!

Wow! Great robot Fariza!

Check out this Iron Man robot! Well done Solomon.

This is the Achiever 300DX! Very creative Connor!

Looking good Aleena! Nice one!

Here is Jake again! We have been learning about 3D shapes.  How many 3D shapes can you see?

The robots are taking over room 28!

Our robot army!

Well done Room 28!


Thank you to all the families that helped their children complete this homework task.  We think all of the robots are AWESOME!

Group roles

Kia orana

Room 23 have been working hard at learning to take a role when working in a group, and to participate responsibly.  Here are some pictures of our class working together to generate ideas using lego. Everyone had to discuss and agree on what we would use the legos for before we made anything.  The photographer took pictures of each completed idea.  The recorder wrote what the idea was before we made it.  The summarizer had to explain to everyone how we made our decisions, and what we ended up with.  The connector had to work really hard to keep everyone on task, and make sure no one was left out.

Visit to Star Dome Observatory

On Wednesday the 24th of June, room 28 and room 27 went on the bus to Star Dome Observatory in One Tree Hill.  We had a fantastic time, and learnt loads of interesting facts about the different planets in our solar system.

Check out these photos of our trip: 

We knew that people cannot really hold the sun because it is much too hot, too big and too far away!

We talked about what causes day and night.  Sometimes the night sky is very bright so it looks blue.

We learnt that stars that do not twinkle are not starts at all! They are planets.  We learnt that Venus and Jupiter and Saturn are visible in the night sky at the moment.

Beautiful Matariki 

We learnt that astronauts have not been on any of the planets yet.  The furthest astronauts have been is the moon.

The educator showed us how the moon orbits the Earth.  It takes about a month to orbit the Earth.

The educator got three children to show how the moon orbits the Earth as the Earth orbits the sun.  It was very funny to watch.  Keep up moon!

We were shown an awesome video of a solar flare! This is when there are explosions on the sun. 

We had a look at the planets and dwarf planets in our solar system. 

Whoa! look at the size of that rocket!

We learnt that there have been other moon landings since Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.  We watched a funny video of astronauts having fun and singing on the moon. We also saw an astronaut fall over! It is tricky to walk on the moon.

Next we had a look at the fantastic displays and models.  We found out that some of our books back at school do not have up to date information.  

There were loads of great facts to read.

And loads to look at!

We loved the model of the solar system! It showed us the planets are different sizes.

Saturn!

Astronaut Finn!

Astronaut Solomon!

We lay back in the special chairs in the movie room and looked up at the huge screen on the ceiling.  We watched a movie about children who make a cardboard rocket, and with the help of their astronomy book, use their imagination to explore the planets in our solar system.  Next we looked at the moon and different star constellations in the night sky.  It was awesome! 

Finally, it was time for us to hop back on the bus.  We really enjoyed our trip to Star Dome!