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Art workshop.

Jane Lloyd came to school to do an art workshop with us. She showed us how to look at a picture really carefully and get the different parts in the right perspective. Here is a selection of the photos showing us at work. It was an hour of hard work and concentration but we all loved it.
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Our Assembly

In week 3 of this term, the Yr6’s in my class hosted an assembly. I was nervous and glad to do the hand prayer with Josh, Jac, Jacob and Ken. Ambros and Amy also had to do a prayer on Perseverance and we listened to Andrew and Braidey read from the Hebrews.
We also listened to a song called “The Climb,” by Miley Cyrus. I thought it was cool because we got to say a prayer in front of the school and organized an assembly with our class.
Dino

John Burland in concert

In term 3 of the school year all of the classes from MB1 to MB7 and St Peter Chanel School from Otaki gathered in Grace Hall to meet a man called John Burland. The teachers met him at one of their teachers’ conferences in Wellington and asked him if he could perform for us. He said that he would do a concert for us. The concert went on for about 1 hour and by the time he had finished it was time to go home. I thought about what I enjoyed the most… it was the songs and the reason that I enjoyed them was that the year 7-8 joined in and the actions were easy enough to do.
Josh

Maths Week

Last week was maths week and we went onto the maths week website and played some maths games. We had to get passwords and log on for ourselves. There were games and quizzes to play. My favourite game was splatter. You can even earn money to spend if you work really hard.
Ken

Technology this term

We have a great technology teacher this term in technology room 19. We are making a pencil case but it more interesting than a normal one. We had to have a partner, mine is Casey. One is the designer and the other is the stakeholder. The designer gets to design what ever the stakeholder wants it to look like. They decide how big and what fits in it. I am the designer and Casey wanted a bunk bed. Then we switched roles and she drew the design I wanted – a truck. We finished our designs and gave them to the teacher. I wonder what we will do next time.
Kathleen.

Last week some kids from MB2, MB3 and MB4 went to Artsplash at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington. We travelled by car and most people found it hard to get a car park. Once I got in I walked to gate 31 to meet up with the other people. I was getting nervous about how big the crowd was. As soon as we walked through the doors …… wow, the crowd was huge. We got ready to sing “Heal the world” by Michael Jackson. After most of the songs were finished, we had a cool guy on xylophone and drums. He was very talented. The conductor came back and told us with her hands to stand up. We sang “Alleluia”. I learned that the way to avoid being put off by the crowd was to really look at the conductor and pay attention. The next song was “Waterloo” and it was one of my favourite songs. It was a great experience to have.
Andrew

Yesterday a professional artist called Jane Lloyd came to our school. Some of us from our class were asked to help set up in Grace Hall. It took a while to put out the newspaper, papers and felt pens. But we had it done in time. The Yr 4, 5 and 6 groups went first because we were going to technology. When we got back it was our turn for the art.
The workshop was very hard but very, very awesome fun and interesting. At the end everyone’s work looked so different. Jane showed us how to dye her one so we can try that later. She was really cool and I think everyone in the school enjoyed have her come. She made it challenging by making us work and think faster.
Casey

This term we have been doing “Jump Jam”. It’s when you have some songs and have to learn some dance moves to go with them. Eugene has been working with us to learn them. He is very cool and energetic too. I love doing it because it’s a good way to do lots of exercise and its fun to do with other people. I also love the music. Some of us are going to Linton to a Jump Jam workshop and we are all very excited. We leave school at 11.00 and don’t get back until 3.30.
Esmay

Our Social Studies topic for the term.

At the beginning of the term our class started doing research on the Kapiti Coast. We were looking at the boundaries and we decided the Otaki River to the north and Paekakariki to the south would be the area we looked at.
We had to describe the area, then take our own street and describe that. We put the published copy on the wall with the map of the area. We had to find where our homes were and put a pin with our name on in the right place. That was quite hard for some of us.
We also talked to our parents about where they worked and they worked out of the Kapiti area. We asked them about why they chose to live here too. Some live here because they have their wider family here, some because they looked us up on the internet and liked what they saw. There were lots of reasons.
We know that lots of people travel to Wellington and to Palmerston North to work but they like to come back here in the evenings and weekends.
We are now starting to ask questions about the history of Kapiti. We know some of the streets are named after people who were important here. That’s our next challenge.
Tamara

Wow what a catch up!!!!!!!!!!!

We haven't been near the blog since the beginning of the term. Now we are writing reflections to catch up.You will see that we have been doing lots of cool stuff.