The Masked Parade

Last Friday night we went to the masked parade and it was fantastic.

We saw lots of fantastic masks and there were lots of people there.

We won the best school out of lots of school and so we got a prize!!!!

When we were walking around town there were lots of people watching us.

Everyone was clapping, laughing and cheering.

We were singing and doing the actions to the song Nga Iwi E and we were walking in a circle.

Everyone looked awesome, fantastic and cool.

Our class and R1 and R16 was the forest and our Maori name was Tane Mahuta.

By Siao-wei, Nia and Alexis.

Have a look at some photos!

Tawhirimatea, God of the Wind

Mr. Witty and Kate in their masks

Tangaroa, God of the Sea

Tane Mahuta, God of the Forest

Tane Mahuta Masks

Tane Mahuta Masks

Tane Mahuta Masks - Siao-Wei and Lucy

Liam and his Dad

Making Masks

We made the masks for the masked parade by cutting cereal boxes and painted them. Mr Witty's one looked hilarious on him. His eye holes were to thin for him. Kate's one looked hilarious too. She had the same as the classes but with circles. We were the god of the forest and the Maori name is Tane Mahuta. Room 1's mask was the same god as Room 6's but it had green ferns on the top. Room 6 had flax instead.

By Mady, Krystal, and Matthew

Using iPads

USING THE IPADS

On Tuesday we used the black, purple and red IPADS. The download we used was puppet pals. There were tons of characters like zombies, princesses, animals and evil monsters. You can choose lots of different scenes like meadows and scary castles and the white house and dark forests. How you use puppet pals is you make a story with different characters in different scenes. We loved it and some were so funny.          

Mondrian Art

Mondrian Art                          

On Tuesday Mr. Witty taught us Mondrian art. It had all the primary colours like red, yellow And blue. And also black and white. You need a ruler and a piece of paper. We draw squares and rectangles. We will stick on pieces of black paper after the paint dries.

The name of the artist is Piet Mondrian. What I think about Piet's art is he is really creative, because it has all the primary colours.  I also think Piet is clever because instead of painting on papers  he paints houses and  cars. I think its awesome.

By Mackenzie and Shontay

Cirque Du Room 6

Two weeks ago we had a circus. It was fun. There were lots of acts. There were clowns, pyramids and jokers.

Before we performed our circus on Friday we spent the week learning about the circus with Kate and Mr. Witty. With Mr. Witty we did skipping, hula hooping, and clowns. With Kate we did juggling and balancing. We watched videos and practised ourselves.

Then on Friday we had costumes and makeup and we all performed in the Room 6 Circus. Look at the photos.

By Carlee and Nia

Suter Art Gallery Visit

Wow, what a wonderful day we had at the art gallery on Wednesday! We saw big hairy masks with sharp teeth and flax bags. We also saw a picture of Mima. He was a warrior. We also made masks out  of paper. They were awesome and one of them had a tounge!

The reason we went to the Suter art gallery was to learn all about art from the Torres Strait. The Torres Strait is inbetween Australia and Papua New Guinea.

Have a look at some of our great photos from our trip!

By Ashley, Alexis and Jasmin

Ashley loves to make masks!

Thanks to all the parent helpers!

Look at our masks from the Torres Strait!

Thanks Suter Art Gallery :D

We look ferocious just like our masks!

Death-breaking dragon

One time we went to Rhythm Interactive. And there was this guy that didn't talk at all until the end. He was on the stage and played the big big drum, and we had little drums.

The drums sounded like thunder pounding on the roof. Heaps of people were having so much fun. People's hands were getting sore from playing the drums so the guy on the stage showed us a way to make our hands better. 

The guy also showed us high and low voices for each group of people.

By Sky and Jonty

              

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OK 1,2,3, goooo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sky (that's me) and my best friend Nia

OOOO look whats going on there! Look everyone, WOW!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, hi levi! Look - weird right! Levi, Levi stop smashing the drum!!!

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