Room 6 learned how to design simple pixel art this week! We transformed Google Sheets into a 10×10 grid of square “pixels” and used the Fill color tool to bring our designs to life, proving that even a limited number of colored squares can create amazing images, like our Space Invader.
Today we used Google draw to create a mosaic piece of art. We used the polyline tool to create the pieces, gradient colours to make the light and dark shades. I was challenging to fit all the pieces, but a lot of fun.
Room 6 has been investigating the koru art of Reuben Paterson and designing their own koru representing their own unique whanau.
Today’s lesson, we focused on the scenery—the Locations, Props. We noted key elements like the cardboard TARDIS (a prop) and the backgrounds, such as the swirling time vortex and the futuristic control room (the locations). These visuals are import for showing where and when the adventure takes place.
This term we have been focusing on Measurement and on Wednesday it was a beautiful day outside and so our experimenting with water and measurement took place. We set up three water stations and got into groups. We measured using small amounts of water (5ml in a syringe and teaspoon, 15ml in a tablespoon, 250ml in a cup) and counted how many ml in larger containers. It was fun counting the number of cups in a bucket and also our massive pot we had.
Today we learnt about online media, and if we know if it’s real or fake. One way to tell is to look closely at the images. We learnt how to take a photo on our chromebook, upload it to Remove Bg and insert it onto a Google Draw.
Today, we learnt that Media is made or constructed. The creator can choose what they share. Room 6 are creators of Media, we can choose what we share on our blogs. We learnt how to download our Google draw as a JPG file.
Today we learnt about Media. Media is all around us. We use it everyday. Media can entertain, inform and persuade. In room 6 we mainly use media to entertain us. One skill we learnt was to embed a slide onto our blog.
Mission Day
Last week all the classes had an ”athon” where we, in Room 6, had to learn our Times Tables and do as well as we could because we got sponsors for our annual fundraiser. We did our Mathathon and our results were very good. On Friday, the 5th September we celebrated Mission Day at School. Each year the classes decide on how we will raise money for the Holy Angels Orphanage in India. We decided to organise fishing games. We had prizes and timed the children when they came to fish for 50c for 30 seconds. We went around the other classes’ stalls too. The Room 8’s did great games and Room 7 sold amazing food. We hope we raise lots of money for the children at Holy Angels.
First Holy Communion and Confirmation:
Last Sunday five children from our class received the Sacraments od First Communion and Confirmation. Before we got to the Church we felt nervous but also very excited. We dressed in special clothes and arrived early to meet Bishop Steve Lowe who was waiting at the church door. He placed his hands on our heads and said that the Holy Spirit was going to be a part of our lives and would work through us to help bring peace and service to others. We also received the body and blood of Jesus for the very first time. Afterwards we had a special party with the parish in the hall. We all felt important.
This term we have been learning about Dinosaurs – when they lived, the different types that roamed the earth, what they ate and why they became extinct. We all prepared presentations to share with the class. We didn’r feel nervous because we all know one another really well. We gave feedback to one another too. It was fun. Then last week during Maths, we looked at the Brachiosaurus, because it was one of the largest Dinosaurs of all. It was actually 21m long and we decided to enlarge our dinosaur from the page to actually 21m outside on the court. Wow!!! it took us ages to measure all the 1m squares needed to draw the dinosaurs but we did it. We couldn’t believe actually how large it would have been and we all decided we would not have enjoyed living at that time!!!! At the end we also added a Velociraptor which was only 1m tall and 2m long. You can see it in the last photo here:
To end off the term we are all going to Swimming for eight lessons at CLM pool. We go in the bus and we are having great fun learning how to stay safe around water. Summer will be here soon and these are important skills for us to know.
From Room 6, we wish everyone a happy and safe holiday time with whanau and friends. See you next term.
Today, we explored what were quality blog comments. We looked to see if they had a greeting, and something positive about what the author has shared. We also checked to see if they had a thoughtful and helpful comments too. Having a buddy also helps when we discuss what we are learning. One skill we used was moving the labels and flipping them too.