The Colour Wheel

Yesterday room 9 had to finish some art.  It was of a colour wheel.  A colour wheel is when you mix colours and you make dark blue or dark purple.  To make a colour wheel you need some primary colours.  They are red, blue and yellow.  We painted it and we chose a shape.  I chose a wiggly shape.  I also got to choose my background.  I chose pink paper.  We used vivd.  For the outside, we mixed a lot of colours.  We mixed yellow and red to make orange, and yellow and red to make green.  My favourite colour is pink and purple. 

By Mackenzie 

Maori Haka Stirs Powerful Emotions - By Wesley

KAPA HAKA

Last week on Wednesday, all the Kapa Haka kids went into the hall to have a final dress rehearsal for the real performance.  In the heall they tried their best.  As the girls were twirling and twirling the pois at the back, the boys sand loud and strong.  As they were finishing off the song all the boys stamped their way to the front to do the haka.  Tai was standing in front of all the boys.  Tai and all the strong boys stomped hard on the ground.  As the boys were stomping on the ground, Tai started the song, then all the boys slapped themselves like they’ve never done it before.  When the boys were singing  the song to the haka, most of the boys had red faces.  All the boys had a powerful emotion because of their strong moves.  At the end of the performance I was so proud of them that I had to clap like someone going mad. 

By Wesley

Colour Wheel Art

Kapa Haka Dress Rehearsal - By Victoria

KAPA HAKA DRESS REHEARSAL

As I sat down on the carpet to watch something in the hall, I was extremely excited to watch the dress rehearsal of the Kapa Haka.  I couldn’t stand it any more.  It started and I was so, so excited.  The girls were so pretty in their blue dresses.  The boys were really loud when they did the haka and I couldn’t really hear the girls singing.  They swapped places and I didn’t know what they were doing.  They got into their places and boys were in front and the girls were at the very back against the chairs.  The boys were screaming across the room.  I nearly had to put my hands over my ears.  Their moves were big and really strong. 

Stars on Stage - by Shanaye

I stepped outside and waited for the bus.  I was thinking about when the bus was going to be here.  I had make-up on that made my eyes itchy.  “Yay,” I said, “the bus is here.”  I slowly went on the bus.  I was shivering.  Okay I’m at the Regent Theatre.  “Oh no!  I can’t see my mum.  Oh there she is.  Now I’m on.  Yay”, I said.  Okay it is my turn.  I was embarrassed.  Time for the other group to come on.  Now everybody comes on.  Done.  “Mum!  Mum!” I said.  “Oh,” mum said.  There you are.  Then we went home.

Kapa Haka Performance

Kapa Haka - Polyfest Dunedin 2011 on PhotoPeach

Kapa Haka by Kayla

Going to the hall, I do not know what is going on.  I saw people in costumes, now I know it’s… Kapa Haka.  I started to smile.  I saw the dance and I thought that I should have done Kapa Haka too.  I got out of that moment of thinking about being in Kapa Haka.  When Kapa Haka was done I was proud.  Then walking out, I remembered back to last year and when I was doing it.  Then I said to myself, “I’ll do it next year.”  I now know that Kapa Haka is so much fun to people that are in it, and by their faces that they were very, very happy with what they did.  I think they did too because I loved what they did. 

Kapa Haka by Mackenzie

Last Friday was Kapa Haka, the real performance.  I was so excited when I walked on stage.  I saw heaps of people.  I saw my Mum and Dad.  I started to sing and dance.  A shiver crept up my spine.  I felt so nervous I nearly fell off the stage.  I swung my poi up and down.  I got hit in the head.

Can you write the funniest caption for this one?

I was surfing around on the net and found this hilarious picture.  I'm sure some one can think of a funny caption to go with this photo!  Just post a comment and at the end of the week we will review them in class and vote on who came up with the funniest one.

Kakariki by Katie

A long time ago, in the bush there were two birds, Kaka and Kakariki.  Kaka was jealous of Kakariki’s twinkling red feathers.  “If only I had Kakariki’s feathers,” grumbled Kaka.  Kaka’s feathers were a grotesque brown colour.  All the birds longed to have Kakariki’s feathers.  Kakariki wasn’t a show off but he often saw eyes gazing at him and day dreaming that they had hid feathers.  Kaka had an evil plan to get Kakariki’s feathers wash over him.  “Now,” he said slyly, “where is that Kakariki?”  Searching for Kakariki was easy, he just had to look for a flashing red blur flapping in the sky.  He soon caught up with Kakariki.  “You know everyone dislikes your feathers,” exclaimed Kaka.  “Really?” cried Kakariki.  “As a matter of fact they hate your feathers,” lied Kaka.  “What should I do?” wailed Kakariki.  “Well… you could take all your feathers off,” whistled Kaka happily.  “Where should I put them?” asked Kakariki.  “Tell you what, if you give me your feathers I’ll hide them under my wings where no one will see them,” Kaka sang.  “Thank you, oh thank you,” cried Kakariki and he happily gave away his feathers.  He then hid in the bush for he was naked.  Kaka tucked away Kakariki’s feathers and flapped off to find the other birds.  When he found them he lifted his wings showing the shiny red feathers that lay within.  “Hey look at me, I’m so beautiful,” twittered Kaka.  “Wow,” tweeted the other birds, “they’re beautiful”.  “Aren’t they just?” sang Kaka walking away.  “Hey those are my feathers,” cried Kakariki.  “You gave them to me,” whistled Kaka strutting away.  “But you lied,” said Kakariki, “you were just jealous of me.”  “Whatever,” mumbled Kaka flying away.  “Oh well,” sighed Kakariki, “at least I’ll grow the red feathers back again.”  But Kakariki was wrong.  He grew jade green feathers.  Kakariki liked these feathers but nothing could replace his beautiful red feathers.  Even now when you see him he’s still singing, “Kaka, give me back my feathers!”

Dancing at Its Best - Sparkles, Glitter and Glamour!

Stars on Stage 2011 on PhotoPeach

Stars on Stage Photos

Stars on Stage 2011 on PhotoPeach

1920's Dance Through to 2011 - What a Week!

Wow - what a week we have had at school this week!  We began by having two days off due to the snow and then with Stars on Stage on at the Regent Theatre in town next week, we have had lots of extra practices and rehearsals.  Today we put on our dress rehearsal for the whole school to watch and they were suitably impressed.  A number of room 9 children comprise the 97 dancers who perform dance from the 1920's flapper style, 1970's psychedelic hippie era, to modern day crumping!  It was a wonderful spectacular to watch and both the dancing and the costumes were fabulous.  Keep your eyes on our blog to see some photos posted up in the next day or so.

SNOW DAYS!

Glitter Graphics

If you live in Dunedin you will know that we are now on our second day off school due to snow.  While it's very exciting, I'm sure some of the class are beginning to wonder what they can do today.  If you are getting bored, why not try clicking on the following links and having a play at making up your own narrative.  These two links are great and fairly easy to use.  If you are able to, copy the html code and email it to me (rwood@stclair.school.nz) and I will publish it on our blog.

http://www.storyjumper.com/

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=story+bird&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Another fun website for writing is Pic Lit.  This is where you can write a caption, phrase, word or poem to go with super cool photos.

http://piclits.com/compose_dragdrop.aspx

Have fun writing and fingers crossed I will see you all tomorrow.

Mrs Wood :)

Kakariki by Maddie

A long time ago there were two birds who lived in the trees and bushes of New Zealand.  Their names were Kaka and Kakariki.  Kaka had dull, dusty, old, brown feathers but Kakariki had beautiful bright red feathers.  Kaka was jealous of his beautiful feathers so Kaka played a trick on Kakariki.  Kaka said to Kakariki that everyone was laughing at his feathers but they weren’t.   Kaka said, “here give the feathers to me.  I will hide them under my wings.”  “Okay,” said Kakariki and he gave them to Kaka.  So then he started to show off the feathers but Kakariki said to himself, “he tricked me.”  So Kakariki felt gloomy and he went off to the bushes and he grew some green feathers.  He did not feel special anymore.  He wanted his red feathers back but it was too late.  

Kakariki by Oliver

A long time ago there were two parts.  Their names were Kaka and Kakariki.  Kaka had dusty brown feathers and Kakariki had shiny red feathers.  One day, Kaka started to tease Kakariki about his feathers because he was jealous.  Kaka started to tease Kakariki so much that Kakariki thought that his feathers were ugly and he said, “where can I hide my feathers?”  Kaka said, “ I’ll hide them under my wings.”  Then Kakariki gave his feathers to Kaka to hide under his wings.  Kakariki then flew featherlessly into a clump of bushes and hid while Kaka started to show off his feathers.  Immediately Kakariki regretted it.  Some weeks later, Kakariki grew some green feathers and if you find Kakariki now, he will have green feathers.  

Kakariki by Ben

A long time ago in the bush there were two parrots named Kaka and Kakariki.  Kakariki was teary because he thought his feathers were ugly but there weren’t ugly, they were beautiful red feathers.  On the other hand, Kaka had brown, dusty and dull feathers.  Then Kaka tricked Kakariki and said, “everybody is laughing at you.” And then said, “your feathers are horrible.  I will have them and then I will hide them under my wings and then no one will notice.”  Kakariki went away feeling glum that he had know feathers any more.  Next he grew some brand new few green feathers but he still wished he had his red feathers back.  

Kakariki - by Alex

*We are learning to write a 'narrative' and read a Maori legend that explained the colour of the Kaka parrot's feathers under his wings.  We then had a go at re-writing it in our own words.  We have learnt heaps about the features of a successful narrative.  Alex has got lots of these in his story...

Long ago in the bus there was a bird named Kakariki.  He had red feathers.  He liked them a lot and he showed off his feathers to the other birds.  Kaka, another bird in the bush, was jealous of Kakariki’s feathers because he had dusty brown feathers.  So Kaka tricked Kakariki into thinking that the other birds hated the red feathers on Kakariki’s body.  Kakariki believed Kaka and asked how to get them off.  “Ah,: said Kaia, “I will hide them under my wings so nobody will see them.”  “Thank you Kaka,” said Kakariki.  “What would I do without you?” said Kakariki.  So Kakariki gave Kaka the feathers and Kaka hid them under his wings.  Kakariki scuttled into the bus.. As he did, he peeked out of the bush and saw Kaka showing off his feathers.  Later bright green feathers replaced the red feathers but Kakariki still said to Kaka, “Kaka give back my feathers!” Still today, he flies through the bush chanting, “Kaka give back my feathers!”  But still he doesn’t have them. 

CREATIVE CAPTION CHALLENGE - Look at these funny pets!

Ms Kerr at school sent me some funny pet photos and I thought it would be fun to see who could come up with the funniest caption to go with it.  Post a comment with your caption and at the end of the week we will have a vote to choose the funniest one.

                                                                    Photo A

                                                          
                                                                        Photo B

Can you guess what this image is?

I found this picture and wondered if you can work out what it is?  A wee hint... it is magnified and is something we eat.  Post your comment and I will let you know at the end of the week just what it is.