I am very happy to have reached week 8 of term 4. This means I have only 2 more weeks of being year 6. There is a lot that I am grateful for.
I only joined Otahuhu this year, actually this term. I have new friends and learned new things in this school. Please look at my reflection here to learn about what I have enjoyed and what I look forward to in 2024.
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Let’s go surfing now! Last month Room 8 went on an excursion to the Aotea Surfing Club. We had a great time learning the basics of surfing, paddling and water safety.
Some of us were a little nervous in the open space of the ocean however, we had so many wonderful teachers there to support us. It didn’t take long for us to see that we were in a very safe place and that we would get all the help we needed.
Thank you to the Aotea Surfing Club for a great day of learning. These days are so important as all the things we learned we couldn’t have learnt in the classroom. A great big thank you too to our staff who came along to look after us!
MMP is the voting system we use in New Zealand. It stands for ‘Mixed Member Proportional’. We use MMP to choose who represents us in Parliament.
Each person gets a vote for a candidate and a vote for a party.
Today we looked at Panmure and Otahuhu Electorate and this is what we found.
I found this very helpful to understand what my parents voted for in the weekend. If you don’t know already National Party won most seats in parliament. For our electorate we have Jenny Salesa from Labour representing our community.
We’ve worked very hard this term with Mrs Dollie and Mrs Tele’a so it was time to have some plain old fun drawing some Monster Mates. We had a lot of giggles as we drew using shapes, curves and lines in Google Draw.
Our next step for this is to write a profile for our Monster Mates.
These Monster Mates have been drawn by Rowletta, a budding artist of Room 8.
We would like to wish everyone a happy holiday. See you in term 3!
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Studying our faces and the shapes we find there was the first part of our session today. We learned about how we can create shapes, close them for colour and more. The eyedropper tool was really helpful as it led us to selecting a colour that was close to the colour of our actual skin! At one stage we had to change from lines to shapes as it got a little tricky for some of us. We hope you will enjoy looking over our graphics here including a set of flowers that was the extension of this activity in google draw.
We have had a lot of fun using google draw to draw our very own faces. A combination of curve lines, shapes and colour helped us to create these images.
Have you tried to use google draw for any other artwork? Please leave us a comment to give us some more ideas on what we could use google draw for.
Meitaki maata!