Room 7 superb artistic maths

Room 7 has been learning about transformations. We found out that these are part of Geometry and involves translation, rotation, reflection and enlargements. This has been our maths for the last couple of weeks. Mrs Hosie gave us a test to find out what we know about Geometry. Then she put us in groups and we learnt more about Rotational symmetry. We went onto a website which taught you lots of things about symmetry. If you want to go on and have a go, the link to the website is called Pacifica Patterns - Symmetry, it is on our class links to the right of our blog.  After we learnt  about transformations, we used our new knowledge to create new wrapping paper designs. We got asked to make wrapping paper since our art in the art exhibition was so good. First Mrs Hosie gave us an A3 piece of paper and then we made a koru design in our art books. Next we got to work tracing the koru design onto the piece of paper, translating, rotating, reflecting before we coloured them in and this is what they turned out like:

Back at Dad's resort!!!

 Hey room 7 It's me Lara and I've just left my cousins house and I'm back at Rimba my Dad's resort. I had so much fun, I went to the crocodile farm and saw a HUGE crocodile it was like five times bigger than me. Then we went to fly our kites at one of the most beautiful park I've been to, it was just like the one in Alice in Wonderland. When we all went home we watched three new movies Shrek 4, Karate Kid and Toy story 3. Well I've got to run I'll write to you soon.

Week 3 News

EXTRA! EXTRA!
Not long to go now until our Snow Day.  A notice will be coming home with amounts to be paid for our activities at the Rainbow ski field in Week 5 and this needs to be paid by the 13th August please.

Hope you are able to check out the websites on the link list as these give examples of the learning activities the students are taking part in to develop their understandings of various topics. 
Try out this  activity from the CSI Internet link 
Can you tell which of these sites has true information and which does not?   How do you know?

Google Gulp Drink
Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie

Leave a comment to let us know what you decided after viewing the two sites. I wonder whether you found out the same things that the students did?

Have a great week everyone.
Cheers
Mrs H

Lara's paintings

Hola guys it's Lara here and I have been learning lots of cool things like playing a traditional malay toy called a Gasing. It's like a spinning top but instead of using your hand you use string. I  learned how to
paint a cat because my aunty is a artist.
I also had a birthday party and got lots of presents from my auntes but my birthday isn't until the tenth of August it was so fun.

Well I've got to go to the crocodile farm now so I'll write to you soon 
P.S sorry I can't show you any photos my aunties laptop is VERY slow.

Lara and cousins!!!

Hey guys it's me again and I have left Dad's resort and have come to stay with my 4 cousins in Johor Bahru, . I guess your woundering what I've been up too, well the answer to  that is simple SHOPPING!!!  I'm just kidding. I've actually been to this really awesome midnight park and yes it's only open at midnight.
Sorry guys I've got to run I'll write to you soon.Lara

News and Home Tasks Term 3 Week 2

Have a great week everyone.

Regards

Teressa

Fun in the sun with Lara

Hey Guys, it's Lara here! I am having a great time in Malaysia at my Dad's resort. It's 30 degrees here, much more hotter than New Zealand!! and there are heaps more sandflies here!

I've been snorkelling, walking, rock climbing and learning awesome card tricks!

We have seen lizards, a deer and heaps of fish like Nemo, stone fish and lots of sting rays, not to mention the huge parrot fish.

Soon I am going over to see my rellies in Johor Bahru.

Check out the photos I've taken during my holiday!

Hello every one

I'm in Wales right know.I'll show you some photos from our trip so far.Guess were I've been.I've been to france and.......DISNEYLAND!!!

Welcome back!

I agree with Kelly on her first point (see the post below) - just when you are really getting into the swing of holidays, they end!
But, not sure about the tiredness.  Maybe you need to come to school to pep up and get re-energised?
I am looking forward to catching up with all the holiday goss this week.

If you would like to complete the Y chart on the computer, send me an email and I will send you the file.

Regards
Mrs H

The Holidays

Hey Rm 7,

My holidays have been great! I've had heaps of time to chill out with family this week, and of course a lot of fun with friends at my "TWILIGHT" birthday party last week!

There is a few bad points about the holidays which are: 1. They have to end, and 2. They make you feel exhausted! As evidence of the tiredness I have included some pics of last night when I fell into a sound sleep on top of my dog, Sam.

See you in school,

Kelly

2010 Art Exhibition - reflections

All the hype and excitement of the art exhibition is over - until the next one!  Time now, to reflect on what we learnt from the process we went through to produce work that we were proud of.
We all selected the art work that we were most proud of - hard choice for most of us - and inserted it into our reflections document.  Here is what Zarek had to say before he raced off to America.

Yay it's holiday time!!!

Finally some time to ourselves. Room 7 (and all NZ students) are on holiday for the next  two weeks. Even though it's the holidays, we're still hoping that Matheus, Owen (thanks for your first post Owen - hope you read our comment) and Lara will post on our blog to let us know what they are doing overseas.

Speech Reflections

We have been thinking about all the different things we have learnt as we worked on our speeches.  Kelly has used the fishbone organiser to note down her reflections.

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Mapua Magic on show

Hi room 7!

Hello everybody Its nice and warm over  here in England. Right now Im staying at my Aunties house in Billingshurst with my cousins Jack and Hannah.We are really tired!!!We Have been to Wellington, Sydney, and Bangkok. In Sydney we went to Taronga Zoo. There were so many animals like a Komodo Dragon,Salt water croc, Red panda, Kodiac Bear, Snow lepored, Hippo, Girafe, Zebra and lots of other animals and insects.Hope you are all ok.(P.s. I will try and get some photos on soon.)


From Owen

2010 Art Exhibition

The Mapua School Art Exhibition has been a big hit for Mapua School students, especially Room 7.

Room 7 is lucky to have had Maureen Ryan as our Art teacher and part time teacher when Mrs Hosie was travelling the world.
Maureen herself is an artist and has sold her art all around the world.  Room 7 has had a great time with her and has printed or sketched some wonderful art.

We hope you enjoy our exhibition.
We will post more photos of the exhibition soon.

Happy blogging

Room 7

Homework Free Zone!

After listening to a couple of speeches last week I have decided to listen to the appeal for no homework.
This term the class has given their best to ensure they are:

• developing sound habits of mind
• raising their achievement levels
• becoming all they can ...

Their speeches have demonstrated their ability to communicate with clarity and precision; their art shows their ability to think flexibly and creatively to try new media and designs; their group work for the Island Survivor activities show they are able to work interdependently; they are learning new maths concepts through applying prior knowledge and building on it to solve everyday problems involving multiplication and division. 

THESE STUDENTS DESERVE A BREAK!

I wish you all a very happy holiday chilling out with your families and friends for the next two weeks.

A special bon voyage to Owen and his family as they travel to Europe for the next five weeks.  We are all looking forward to seeing your photos on the blog Owen.

Speaking of students overseas - Matheus, what are you up to?  How about contacting us. We miss you.

Regards
Mrs H

The Room 7 whole school assembly on Friday was a success from the 'Gumboot' song to open through to the trip to Tane's Ark.  I was very proud of the way they all stepped up to the mark and turned on a professional performance - it was enjoyed by all.

Ripper Rugby News

On Tuesday 15 June, Year 5 and 6 in Rooms; 5, 9 and 7 went to the Motueka Ripper Rugby Tournament. The schools that we were competing against were; Riwaka, Parklands, Motueka South, Upper Moutere, Taperwera as well as the other Mapua teams.   The Mapua teams were; The Legends , The Marcos and The Stingrays. The weather was cold but the teams got through it and didn't let their school down!

The Legends played 7 games and the other two played 6. Why did The Legends team play 7 games? Because they won all six games and they got into the finals. Unfortunately they lost the finals and came second in the pool of teams.

It was a fantastic day!
 

Cross Country Championships

On Thursday the 11th June a bunch of Year 5, 6, 7 and 8's went to Rabbit Island to perform in an inter school cross country championship. There were about 12 schools competing for the top places and each school brought about 10 people so there was quite a lot of us there.

Mapua did really well.  We got 3 firsts, 3 seconds and 1 third place, so over all we did really well and we won the over all event.

The people that did really well got to go to the regional championships in Nelson on the 21 June.  Once again Mapua did really well coming third overall out of ...? schools.  Go Mapua!

If you get a good placing in that event, you can represent Nelson (and Mapua School) in the inter regionals that are either held in Nelson, Christchurch or Wellington.

These events were great fun and a brilliant way to get active. Everyone had a ball and I can't wait till next year to compete in the 2011 championship.

Reflecting on our learning

Complete a fishbone organiser to help you dig down and pinpoint what you have learnt about planning, writing and delivering an effective speech. Click on the detail / example words and add your reflections.  When you have finished save the fishbone as a web page and email it to me or print it off and bring it to school.

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