Geometry Wizards

At our assembly last week we shared some fantastic tutorial powerpoints that we had made about geometry.

Art

This term we are working towards an art exhibition. Currently we are looking at the French artist Henri Rousseau, and basing our own artworks on his jungle paintings. Below is one process we have used. Next week we will use a different medium to create artworks with a very New Zealand flavour, but still based on Rousseau's works.

Using the laptop to see Rousseau's jungle paintings, we "zoomed in" and did a sketch.

"Zooming in" even more, we created a chalk and pastel picture using our own colour palettes.....

We covered it with Indian ink and then washed it off again. The ink soaked into the chalk lines between the pastel, giving a lovely black background, and an interesting texture over the whole picture.

New Furniture

Today we were able to try out a new table which we may be buying as part of the refurbishment later in the year. What a novelty! These children are flat out doing maths problems this morning, and school hasn't even started yet!

The NUKES

Yesterday the Nukes came to play a concert at our school - what a wonderful show! The kids were spellbound and totally involved. Some of the class were involved in a workshop with the band too, and we learned some new chords and played one of the songs in the concert with the Nukes. Lucky!!
The Nukes are going to be at the Cabana tomorrow night (Friday) to launch their new album.
You will see in the photo that "Country Boy Ben" plays a tenor ukulele, Dave Parker plays a ukulele with a bass string on it, and Snapper plays a banjolele. Very cool! Everyone got their ukuleles autographed after the concert.



The concert



"Country Boy Ben" tutoring the group at the workshop

Ben giving some tips and techniques

Kapahaka

This week the Porritt Kapahaka groups (senior and junior) performed at the Team Tamatea festival, and they were awesome!! Congratulations to everyone who took part. Below are a couple of photos of the performance, and the Room 13 students who were involved.