Interview on contract week

Contract week has been awesome, but my favourite thing was the milk art because myself and Lachlan's art looked quite cool. It is quite good because you can do work whenever you want or the order you want. When we have a teacher lesson we get called up or we are given a time. By Ryan and Jayden

 

He Mihi- my mihi

In class we have been creating and recording our Mihis for Te Reo Maori. we were working on simple Mihis towards the start of the term, and getting more detailed and personal as the term was coming to an end. my Mihi includes

-an introduction

-my mountain (maunga)

-my river  (awa)

-my town (kainga)

-my tribe (iwi)

-my mother (taku mama)

-my father (taku papa)

-my older brother(taku tungane)

-my older sister(taku tuakana)

-my school(kura)

-myself(au)

-and an ending.

enjoy!

 

 

Nicoles Mihi

During our Te Reo sessions we had to turn our simple mihi into our complex mihi, we had to add our siblings, iwi [tribes], and our waka [canoe] then we had to record them and upload them to youtube.

Maori/English Mihi

We had to write down our full mihi in maori and in English then record it with an I pad saying it in maori and English. we had to find how to say our brothers and sisters in maori.

leon's Mihi

In room7 we had to write our own mihi and record it. I think I did well but how do you think I went with pronouncing my Te Reo.

Bens Mihi

in room7 we have been learning our mihis. we had to learn them in te-reo and English and then do a video like this one down the bottom for our assessment.can you guys please juge me on my mouri language.i think I went well on my pronounciation.

Courtneys Fantatic mihi

Courtney's Fantastic Mihi

This term we have been learning a lot about Maori. To stay with the topic we had to make our own mihi which is a Maori way to talk about your self and in your mihi it had to have our hello, river, mountain, town, mother, father, brothers or sisters and ourselves and a goodbye in Maori with a English translation. I hope you like my mihi and can you please give me some good feedback? cheers

Denzyl's farming movie

I made the pictures and clips fit in to a farming parody of Katy Perry's roar song. I had a lot of fun making it and so did my dad. Enjoy

Home work and contract days

      

For the last two weeks room 7 has got a homework grid which has 4 compulsory tasks and 12 optional tasks, you have to choose at least three. I'm really liking this grid first Things first I love the fact that each week it's something different and you get to have a choice on certain tasks! At the moment I'm really stuck on the science task you have to do a flow chart that shows the process you used to explore the activation of yeast. OMG I'm not very good at science so I'm so stuck I don't even know how to do a flow chart and the task is confusing. But as you know I love homework!! also in class we have been having contract days which is where you have certain tasks you have to do but you can choose what ever order you like unless your not working well! This is very fun it makes me get on task, so I know what I have to finish so you have to use your self motivation but people are taking it for relaxing days " miss isn't watching what I'm doing so I'll just do something off task" But other than that I'm enjoying the last months of school they are really FUN! Please comment and give your feedback of what you think! Thanks!! 😎

Homework at home

This is part of our homework for week eight. At the top of that pile there is a homework grid, you have 4 compulsory tasks to do like certain maths, English, science and reading. You also have to do at least 3 optional tasks, mine are, maths which create 3 maths problems for the class, art, create some really cool artwork that represents room 7 to go in the class and all about me bag, fill a bag with 4 things that you can use to tell the Class about yourself. All of this homework has to be done in 5 days otherwise each time it's late in 20% of your score is taken away!! Also we have to be kind to someone like making a letter or baking or telling them face to face how special they are or just making them feel special and doing it to someone we don't usually talk to. This may be a lot but it's actually not I may sound like a nerd here but I love homework hahahhaha.

Genius hour room 7

In room 7 we have something called genius hour where we have to find a question that we have to answer a question that we came up with we only have an hour every few days to try answer it. Mine is how tall of a tower could be made using all of the Lego bricks in the world. Our learning intentions were to find a question that will take longer than one Google search to answers that's why we have more than one genius hour.

Jayden's NZ is green art work

We made a poem about the colour that represents NZ to us I chose green because of all the bush and grass flats and pounamu, greenstone I've finished my poem and just completed my art work. I like my artwork it looks very effective effective I dyed sand to try and make it green it turned out okay.i used plants and other greenery for most of it. If I could have some comments please on what you think of my art.

Cameron's homework project

For the last 8 weeks room 7 has been doing a homework project each .For my homework project I decided to do 4 connections that made my whole connection. For one of my four things I did footrot flats. Footrot flats connects to my New Zealand because it reminds me of my Dads dog. For my second thing i did koru the koru connects to my New Zealand because it is a culture symbol.The third thing was the red band gumboots. The gumboots connect to my New Zealand because my Dad wears them every day. The last but not least thing I did was Taranaki. Taranaki is my connection because it has beautiful scenery just like the amazing New Zealand. The hardest thing I had to do was to get the boxes detailed.

Nz is green

Well in room 7 the past week or so we have been creating a New Zealand artwork that represents what colour New Zealand means to us. My colour I choose was green because New Zealand is such a clean green country with barely any rubbish or litter lying around, and it's dense bushes and forests. Our focus was to make abstract representations of New Zealand using one colour. The art works include the elements of texture, value and contrast.

By keeva

Nz is green

Room 7 has been making cool blending colour art. We had to start off with planing then that showed me what to do. I used grass leaves and of course paint. I made a hart that shows me my love for others and myself. We started blank peace of blank card then blended the paint to creat cool pattern. After that we stuck on all the leaves and grass to make a hart shape.

        

Bella's Tree Art.

Room 7 have recently been working on some maths art which we have to finish when we finish our work early and some time to spare. Firstly, draw a circle in the middle of the page using a compass. Then we had to draw lines both horizontally and vertically. Then finally we had to draw the tree. On the inside of the circle, we had to colour in the squares with warm colours and on the outside of the circle, we had to colour in the squares with cool colours, leaving the tree blank. This is mine. I have yet to colour in the squares with cool and hot colours and black in ALL the lines.

 

Tree art

Room 7 have been working on tree art. First we drew a circle in the middle of the page with a compass then we drew the grid lines. We coulored in the background with cool coulors and on the inside of the circle we coulored it in warm coulors then vivid in the lines on the tree. 

New Zealand is poem

Tall green native tree

Very hard not to see

The soft moss made in the trough

Makes you sneeze and cough

Green silage bales

Repel,big thick hail

Tall stalky green grass 

Chewed down by cattle as they pass

The lime green leaves

Floating in the breeze

The big fat chubby hog

Rolling round in the muddy bog

Can I please have constructive feedback 

NZ art

Room7, have been doing art about what we think the colour NZ is to us. We had to show texture, contrast, and the value of the colour. First we had to write a poem about our colour. This is my poem. 

The green silage wrap 

that helped get wrapped by a helpful chap 

The trees of the forestry 

under natures authority 

The greenstone of the freeland 

also known as New Zealand 

The dark green grassy field 

covers the dirt like a shield 

The big green Kea 

sits in view of a sightseer 

Grass green dairy flats 

be nice to the cows or you might get pats

And this is mine and Ryan's artwork 

NZ is green artwork

In room 7 we are making a piece of artwork that represents New Zealand is green. I chose green because nearly everything is green in NZ. This my artwork down the bottom finished. I got all the bush, leaves and the green rocks from home and painted the background. I hot glued and PVA glued everything on the bit of paper and we had to show texture, contrast and the value of the colour and right down the bottom is cyrus's artwork

NZ Art

In room 7 we had to make a paces of NZ art to show what NZ means to us. So I put churched up leaves as the grass, the tops of the leaves as sheep, and a hole leave as the farmer, the middle of the leaves as birds and grass as the cloud.

Room 7 homework project

Over the past 6 weeks room 7 have been working on a product that represents New Zealand to us. We could use construction, photography, iMovie, cooking, drawing/painting, soundscape or advertisement to represent our connection. We had to record our progress in our process diary. Every time we worked on it we had to take photos and in a paragraph we had to tell them what we worked on.

JOSHUA'S AIR NZ SAFTY VIDEO

As an extension for my homework I did an air NZ safety video. I am really happy on how it turned out but there is one thing I would change. The thing I would change would be to make the aeroplane mood part in my video to be portrait.
 I would like comments on what I could do better and what you enjoyed about it.
Hope you enjoyed it.

JOSHUA'S HOME WORK PROJECT

In room7 we had to do a homework project on what New Zealand means to me.

I chose to make a air New Zealand plane for my homework project.

Air New Zealand connects to my New Zealand because my family goes on air New Zealand when we go on holiday. We also had to reflect, and do a diary entry every time we carried on with our project. 

In the photo above is my finished project. The hardest part on it was to get the right shape of that air craft.

Courtneys new zealand recording poem

This term we have been learning a lot about poems, our focus for this activity was to make our poem that represents New Zealand and has one colour, mine is black and also it had to have rhyming words, visual affect, music affect and saying our poem amongst the background music. We made our own music on garage band we did a lot of experimenting through out the task. I think this was a awesome activity using technology. hope you like it

New Zealand is artwork

Lately room 7 have been working on a art and English assessment. We have done a what is white (Ma) poem, New Zealand is poem,texture with paper and line representation in artwork. With our line artwork we could use any materials that represented white to us. We had to plan our New Zealand artwork and show how we were going to show it and how we were going to show contrast. We had to pick a colour that represented New Zealand to us. Then we had to write a rhyming poem about that colour. Once we had written the poem we planned how we we were going to present our colour. We had to use contrast from dark to light. This is Cyrus's in progress.

New Zealand colour poem recording

The learning intention for the poem was to represent new Zealand through a colour. Once I completed it Miss Boatswain asked since we are living in the technology age to make a soundscape and record myself saying my poem on garageband. Could I have feedback on the background music please.

 

 

Jack's Tree art

Lately room 7 has been making awesome colouring in artwork with trees. At first we had to draw a circle then lines both horizontal and vertical then the tree. The branches had to be in the circle. I yet have to colour inside the circle. We were using warm and cold colours.

                                     

New Zealand is...poem

In class we have been writing poems about New Zealand. Our focus was to describe New Zealand creatively through one colour and include rhyme. First we had to pick a colour that we think represents our wonderful country the most, I picked green as my colour because green reminds me of New Zealand's rolling hills and dense bush. Then we had to pick six things that were the same colour that we had chosen beforehand. I am up to publishing my poem so it's still a work in progress, but this is how it goes:

New Zealand is...

Leaves flittering in the breeze,

Covering all the tops of the trees.

Farms are dotted everywhere,

From top to bottom and here to there.

Soft green moss on the forest floor,

Keep on walking, you're bound to see more.

Bush surrounds everything,

And homes the birds that love to sing.

The rolling hills everywhere,

Makes the tourists want to stop and stare.

Please tell me what you think and I need some suggestions on what to draw on my published copy.

By Tylah.

Jayden working on his nz is poem

Learning intension is describe NZ creatively through one colour and include rhyme.

I chose green because of all the grass,bush and NZ is well known for greenstone.

My next step would be to read it through again to check for spelling mistakes that I've missed and to not miss out words.In between sentences.the part I like about it is the block letter heading and the fern at the bottom.

Essay planning

Our focus is to respond persuasively to the essay topic "100% pure New Zealand everyday a different journey" -stating and explaining your position. - Gathering facts and giving examples. - Linking back to the statement throughout the essay. - Using persuasive words and phrase and discuss the following elements like historical, geographical, culture, adventure, Natuarl phenomena and any extra. At the moment this is my plan I have found alot of interesting facts! If you would like you can give me some more facts or feed back my favourite fact at the moment is if you want a fullfil a once in a lifetime ambition, over Queenstown promises to leave you gasping with happiness and grinning from ear to ear and do awesome jet boating!  So hopefully I get some comments 

Planning of %100 pure New Zealand essay.

In room 7 we are starting to write essays about %100 pure New Zealand- everyday a different journey. Before we start writing our essay we have to plan it to ensure we are on the right track and have the right ideas. Also to have a clear idea on what our main topics are going to be and have 5-7 supporting sentences. The 5 compulsory paragraphs we have to do are historical, geographical, cultural, natural phenomena and adventure, and any other paragraphs we would like to include.  Also our introduction and conclusion giving us a total of 7+ paragraphs. FOCUS- use the structure of a 5 paragraph essay    (although will be longer) learning intention- respond persuasively to the essay topic

-stating and explaining your position.

-gathering facts and giving examples.

-linking back to the statement throughout the essay.

-using persuasive words and phrases.

By keeva

Room 7 Homework task.

At the start of the term we had a home work task to create someting that we are connected to in New Zealand. Some people are going to bake something, film something and some even construct an item. I'm going to create a paper mashe volcano that will explode with baking soda and vinegar. The learning intention is to justify our conection to New Zealand through writing, the five senses, research as well as creating a product. We did this through a process diary.

Artwork feedback

I need some feedback on my artwork to improve it.the focus for the artwork was to make abstract representations of New Zealand using one colour only.the artwork also has to include the art elements, texture, value and contrast.my colour is black constructive feedback only.