Warm Fuzzy?

The warm fuzzie club.

Introducing the warm fuzzie club.

In our class we have been learning how to make a REAL booster statements so we made the warm fuzzie club. We get to put up our warm fuzzy if we say something positive to someone else. Our reward is we feel good inside for making someone else feel good. 

We have a warm fuzzie board and everyday our warm fuzzie police record the people's names. 

So far we have had a lot of people giving warm fuzzies. 

Feel free to pop in and get all warm and fuzzie too!

By Phoenix 
with help from Andrea

Wordle

What is a wordle?  A wordle is another way of organising ideas and words into a word cloud. Wordle choose the layout and you can adapt it, but it cannot be made into pre-froemd shapes like Tagxedo. 
Wordle also makes words bigger if they appear more than once. We discovered that this was a good way to see what words help define a topic. It also showed us that a lot of us had the same ideas about celebrations. 

For example, when we did a wordle for celebrations, using the same words we did for Tagxedo, certain words were BIGGER!  We decided that this meant that these words were more important in our brainstorm about celebrations. What do you think?
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 If you want to make a Wordle of your own, click the link below:



http://www.wordle.net

Celebrations Using Tagxedo

We have been learning about celebrations. Today we listed all the celebrations we could think of. We also wrote our four favorite celebrations, but first we brainstormed and used different web based programs to display our learning.
Molly

First we used tagxedo. Tagxedo makes word clouds. It can organise your words into shapes. We chose shapes that reflected our Celebrations unit.

Here they are:

  A tagxedo in the shape of a pumpkin for the Celebration of Hallowe'en.













Tagxedo in the shape of Cupid for the Celebration of love - Valentine's Day.


If you want to make one of your own, click here:
http://www.tagxedo.com

MAKING AN ATHLETICS MOVIE

On November the 1st room 14 made a movie on imovie.There was quite a few FUNNY poses.James and Ellah took the films on an ipad 2.It took us a long time and allot of effort but it was eventually done.The race has about 8 FUNNY poses.I hope Andrea puts the video on Room 14s blog.

By Harry

On your mark...get set...go!

Today we did our athletics practice. We have 2 weeks until our athletics day. After we did our run we reflected on our performance.

Here are our list of positives and things to work on. We are going to do this again tomorrow and see if we can improve on the list.

Room 14

Our PE Athletics Practise

Positives:
None of us had a big fuss if we came last
There were no false starts.
We all tried our hardest.
We all competed.
Everybody tried.
We ran our hardest.
We weren't silly during on you mark get set and go
We all remembered each step
 Did it correctly
We got organised into our age groups by ourselves.
We all had our toes behind the line.

Things we need to work on:
Sometimes we wriggled during "get set"
We need to run in our own lanes
When we are running we need to focus straight ahead
Not tripping anybody up
Working as a team
Celebrate in a nice way!
Don 't rub it in it in someone's face.
Keep your hands off the track when others are running.

Oww, my Appendix !

Why do we need our appendix??????? Anyway I don't have my appendix anymore so I don't have to worry about a thing. On the first day of school, term 4,  I found myself in the hospital with appendicitis's AHHH. It was so frightening.  But I did it anyway I went into hospital at 6 o, clock and I was in theatre at 11 o, clock. It all happened so quickly I had no time to even think about it. I am so glad its over.

Ellah 

A mysterious mystery letter!

On spooky Wednesday the 31st, also Halloween, Room 14 received a very mysterious message from three tricky, but ghostly people. They named themselves the secret pumpkin gang so we suspect that they obviously don't want us to know their names. Very mysterious. Hmmm? It has a card with a black glittery tree, pumpkins hanging from it and lights hanging from it with sticky jewels as lights. We are  trying to find out who wrote this ghostly letter. All we know is it says this: Dear room 14 and Andrea, have a frightfully good time! And a ghostly treat! from the pumpkin gang. So its a big mystery. Oh,and Andrea is our most   wonderful teacher ever. If you wrote the message please tell us by writing a comment. Kate, Bryan and Andrea all received one. Kate and Bryan are teachers too. By Amy:)                       

Halloween

Halloween

In five days it is the 31st of October do you know why that date is so special??

It's halloween!
Let's go trick or treating together. Yay we get CANDY!!!!
Remember to get your scarey costume ready! Ahhh! BOOOO!
BY:  Livana and Violet.

1 .we took our photo using effects on photo booth.
2 . we imported it to iphoto.
3 . then went to kid pix and import it.
4 . then we decorated it and put it on the blog .

Christmas

Felix:I like Christmas because I get presents and see my Nana and Papa.

Oliver: I like Christmas because I get to spend time with my family, and have fun and I always get to do what I like.

We made our picture by:
1.Took our picture using effects in Photo Booth.
2.Then imported it to iphoto.
3.In kid pix we imported the photo and decorated it by drawing our own pictures.

By Oliver,Felix 

Phoenix's calendar

On Tuesday I made a picture of Steve (from Minecraft) holding a Tiki. 

When Minecraft and Maori get together.

By Phoenix

I wonder....

In Room 14 we have been experimenting with different ways of learning.  We created an "I wonder" wall where we just wonder about things. We will try to answer some of them but we talked about how some questions may never have answers.

We were inspired to wonder after listening to Will i AM's new song, Reach for the Stars, that was broadcast live from Mars. Yes. We said Mars, as in the red planet, as in outer space.
We did a Venn diagram to compare us and Will i AM and we discovered we have a lot of the same qualities. Will i AM never stopped wondering about things and now his music was the first ever sent from outer space.

Have you ever wondered about anything? Share them with us.

Enjoy the movie. It was our first try at using the green screen.

I wonder from Kowhai Kiwi Bloggers on Vimeo.

Native Canadian Artist

Andy Everson is a famous canadian artist. Room14 has been looking at his art work and we got to try recreate them on KidPix. Andy Everson is a Native Canadian. Andy Everson lives in Comox, Canada. He does lots of soft edges and a lot of symmetry. Andy Everson normally paints paintings of nature and sometimes he can surprise you in many ways, like he uses his art style and puts it into modern symbols like the apple from the imac.

Ellah

Andy Everson

Andy Everson is a famous Canadian artist. He is a person who is interested in native designs he is also interested in their history. Andy Everson lives in Canada in Comox and that's where he does his paintings. He sees hills and water and he starts to paint but it has to be about nature and how it moves and how nature lives. He shows in his pictures movement of the creatures in his pictures. Andy has inspired me to follow my dreams of being a artist. By Kahma    

      

Andy Everson

Andy Everson is one of the famous artists in Canada. He makes really cool drawings. All of his drawings mean something. He is one of my favourite artists ever. Andy Everson lives in Comox in Canada. He makes all sorts of things. Sometimes he has a bear and makes designs on them. One of my favourite drawings that he made is a Canadian goose. Andy Everson means alot to Canada because he is famous drawer in Canada.If you had seen his pictures you would be amazed.

Romy

Haiku

WALT write original haiku using the 5,7,5 syllable format. It was hard to find words that fit and make sense, but we are happy with our work.

Eli, Oliver and Romy

Haiku from Kowhai Kiwi Bloggers on Vimeo.

Andy Everson

Andy paints really well and he is a great  drawer. He is careful with his art and and he use shapes, light colours and he tries and tries his best.

by Ina.

Andy Everson

 Andy Everson is an amazing Canadian artist he has done lots of paintings. He lives in Comox. sometimes he does modern art and native art. I did 'Breath' in kid pix.

By Jack

andy Everson

I think Andy Everson is very good at art. We chose one of his pictures to draw. this is mine.  
by Jake 

Andy Everson

I think Andy's art is amazing because there is so much detail and patterns and he is so good in it. I think he's a great artist.


by James

Andy Everson.

Andy Everson is AMAZING at native art.

He makes any type of modern art in to canadian art. He does ovals in his art and that's what makes it unique.
Yesterday we did some art on Kidpix. I did wave dancer.

By Violet.

Andy Everson

This term we are learning and drawing Andy Everson artwork! He does AMAZING artwork.
His style is native Canadian artwork. This week we have been doing his pictures on KidPix.
The one I chose was called Wave Dancer this is what mine looks like.
By Me Felix E

Andy Everson

Andy Everson is a great artist. He is awesome!
He does squares in his pictures. I find his work inspiring.
Andy is also a Native  dancer in Canada.
by George

Andy Everson

Andy Everson is awesome!
He puts Native patterns in modern pictures like
the apple symbol for Imac. He does symmetrical  
patterns.You can sometimes see faces
in his artwork. I find his artwork 
inspiring!
By Anouska.

Andy Everson

Andy Everson is a Canadian Artist. He does drawing and panting. He use is curves rectangle.
His work is very symmetrical. You can sometimes see faces in his artwork. Andy Everson is a amazing Canadian Artist.
Hannah

Native Canadian Art

We have been learning about Canada and the last week we have been looking at one of Andrea's favourite artists, Andy Everson. She met him when she went to Comox (in Canada) 3 years ago. He is a dancer and an artist and works hard to keep his culture alive.

We really like how he mixes his traditional art with modern items in society as well.

We made a movie of our Kid Pix art. WALT try to draw an accurate rendition of one of Andy's work and also choose the correct tools for the desired effect.

Enjoy!

Andy Everson from Kowhai Kiwi Bloggers on Vimeo.

Introducing our Note Club

Our school has a Note Club where students, who are learning a new instrument, practise note reading and playing in a band at a beginners pace. Our music teacher Ros takes the group on Wednesday mornings.

Here is their first public performance at the Kowhai Team Assembly.

Enjoy and watch this space...these kids are rocking it!

Note Club from Kowhai Kiwi Bloggers on Vimeo.

Respect

This week our school focus is to be respectful to the people we play and work with. We discussed this in class and we decided to use the Alphabet Key to come up with qualities and words that we can use to show respect.

Let's see what you think !

Accepting Belonging Compliments Discussing Excellence Focussed Giving Helpful Including Joining Kindness Listening Manners Negotiate Open-minded Positivity Quiet Reminding Sensible Teaching Understanding Values Whispering volume level eXtraordinary Yes Zealous

And there you have it. An alphabetic guide to being respectful in Room 14 and Grey Lynn School.

By Room 14

Rapports de livres canadiens

Just in case you don't read or understand French, the tittle above says, Canadian Book Reports.

French is the other official language of Canada and students at school learn to speak and read French from their first day of school! 

N'est-ce pas merveilleux? (Isn't that wonderful?) 

Enjoy the latest book reports.

Salle 14

Book Reports from Canadian Authors from Kowhai Kiwi Bloggers on Vimeo.

A little piece of Canada, eh!

Listen and watch these choice book reports by some of Room 14s eager readers !

Enjoy!
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We love Canadian Books! from Kowhai Kiwi Bloggers on Vimeo.

Read all About it!

If you feel like reading any of these books, we will be happy to lend them to you. Or, you can get them from your local library.

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Book Reviews from Kowhai Kiwi Bloggers on Vimeo.

We love Canadian Books

Here are the latest installments of our Canadian book reviews.

Enjoy the classes interpretations and lovely artwork as well.

Leave us some comments because  WE LOVE COMMENTS!

 Room 14
Canadian Book Reviews 1 from Kowhai Kiwi Bloggers on Vimeo.

I, Anouska

I Anouska
Funny, creative, smart, sporty
Sibling of Letisha
Daughter of Rebecca and Ross
Lover of animals, chocolate and sport.
Who feels happy, silly and creative.
Who needs my family, water and music.
Who fears the dark, blood and vampires.
Who would like to see Taylor Swift, Canada and Candy land.
Resident of England.
I am me.

Anouska

Taken using the Stretch special effect on Photo Booth

Art Station

On Tuesday me and my class (Room 14) went to the Art Station. We got to make cups (trophy's). We got to use a symbol from Canada as the emblem on our trophy. Enjoy our movie.
Phoenix


Art Station Trip from Kowhai Kiwi Bloggers on Vimeo.

I, George

I, George

Happy,funny,curious,cheeky

Sibling of Nathan and Sene

Lover of burgers, chocolate and chips.

Who needs food, music and video games.

Who fears living with a lion, tarantulas and zombies.

Who would like to see Disneyland, and my brain.

Am a resident of Samoa and Grey Lynn.

I am me. 

I, Leo

I, Leo 

Small, athletic, honest and a bookworm 

Son of Nick and Nicci 

lover of my family, books and soccer                                                 

Who feels happy sad and joyful 

Who needs family and soccer 

Who fears spiders, dying and scary movies  

Who would like to see Disney Land, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Flight of the Conchords 

Am a resident of New Zealand

I am me

Beavers and Moose (poem)

A poem inspired by sculpting a Canadian symbol into clay at the Art Station.

Beavers, beavers can hit leavers 
With their tails and they send mail. 
Moose, moose 
Chocolate mousse 
The enemies of the goose.

By Molly

Cucumber the guinea pig.

Yesterday I got a guinea pig her name is....CUCUMBER!!!
She is six weeks old and is very cute.
The cat is far to interested in her and she lives in the bath!
Now I have three vegetables Pickles, Raddish and Cucumber how cute!
I love all of them so much.


by Violet.

MineCraft in PaperCraft!

In the weekend I made minecraft in PAPER CRAFT! The website was called http://minecraftpapercraft.com/. 
You can get stuff like blocks, items, characters, mobs and there are also specials and minis. Also you can get stuff like blocks and mobs from the Aether,and even mobs from the Mo' Creatures mod!  Oh, and I forgot to tell you! There are minecraft backgrounds (which is not paper craft).

Give it a try !

By Felix

Cute baby photos

2 Weeks ago my Dad and my baby brother Wilder went to the Amazing travelling photo booth in the DEPARTMENT store and went in there and got their photos taken. I like Wilder's expression in the picture.

Jack

Edmonton oilers

The Edmonton oilers are one of the hockey team. They have won 5 Stanley cups! They have to keep on adding silver to the Stanley cup so its hard for the players to lift it up. There was two famous hockey players Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier . The team is called the Oilers because the province Alberta that the Oilers are from, main resource is oil.

by Molly

Seeing Sally Rippin

On Friday me and Violet went to Room 16 to see the Author of Billy B Brown,who is Sally Rippin.The year 1 2 3 and 4 were there.She told us about what she was like when she was young.
Hopefully Sally Rippin turns out being one of the best authors.
I don't know so many authors so I don't know what they are like?
But at the moment my favourite author is Sally Rippin.
She really just lives in Melbourne (Australia.) She read one Billy B Brown book which isn't even in shops.
The book she read was Billy B Brown and the loose tooth.That book was awesome.
Aki is the Illustrator of Sally Rippin.
By Romy

Meeting Sally Rippin.

On Friday the 24th of August me and Romy went to room 16 to see Sally Rippin the author of Billy b brown and Hey Jack.
She told us all about her, and her family. I think she is one of the best authors ever!! 
I wish I could see Sally's home in Australia must be full of typing stuff, wow. It was great seeing her I bet you would feel the same way as me. She's the best!

Violet

We now have Voicemail!

Do your hands ever get tired from all that typing? Well, have we got a deal for you?  You can now click the button on the side of our blog and record a message! It will be sent to our email account and Andrea will upload them for us to listen to. 

So why not give your tired fingers a break and leave us a message!

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My Star Poem

A shiny piece of gold.
In the middle of the night.
Brightly luminescent.
Small glowing shapes.
Felix E

       Stars.

Star Poem

A sparkling ornament in the sky
Up above the world so high
like five triangles and a diamond in the sky.

By Felix W

I'm a star

I shine in the sky, I guide the under, guess...I'M A STAR.

by Phoenix

Twinkling Gem.

Twinkling gem at night hoping,
Bright lights floating past my window 
in the jet black night.
My guardian.
By Anouska!

Sparkles in the sky

Pointing in all ways showing only light 
Granting wishes during the night 
Floating next to the moon.
In the dark night.

BY OLIVER.

Glowing Stars

A yellow star  floating like a boat 
and people wishing for stuff 
like triangles on the side of the star.               

Nasoni                                                                    

Sparkly Night

Sparkly tiny night
Far away, staring at my eyes
Soaring in the sky
silver little friend in the night.

Josh

Glowing Star

They are up so high they go boo!!!  

And then reform 

There are billions they're connected

But so far apart.

James

Glittering Wonder

Sparkling, glowing wonder in the sky
Shining so bright you can hardly believe your eyes
What a twinkling surprise.

Alice