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April the 18th is a date that must not be missed. Why? because on that day, Fiafia will be held in the school hall. It will have all kids from rooms 1-22 dancing, doing cultural things, doing acts, and even uni-cycling!

We are all practising hard, really, really, really hard. This is because on the 18th of April everyone in rooms 1-22 will be participating in Fiafia. This will be the biggest event in the whole of G.I!! Put the date in your diary now!

Fiafia, which is on April 18th, is the biggest event in G.I. There will be a whole lot of events ranging from unicycling, cultural events, and very cool acts. That day is important, so be there!

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Life Is A Highway - music Video by Yr6 Students

A Yr6 Interpretation of Jason Morz - You're Mine

Thinking Hats Reflection on Netbooks 2012

At Pt England school everyone from year 5 to 8 know about netbooks.

Having a netbook makes everyone's learning a lot faster. We don’t just work at school, we can also continue on our work at home and on the weekends too.

Sharing our work is now a lot easier with our blogs and netbook. We can share our anything with the world. Sometimes they even give us ideas of how we can improve our work.

Something not so good about the netbooks is that it is quite hard to draw. Also many people think that the screens are too small and I agree.

One thing that the netbook should have is a movie editor. It would be good to have one so that we could make movies at home and at school without going on the Imacs. It should also have a mouse so that we can draw things quicker and easier.
Kaycee

Somebody I Used to Know - Manaiakalani Film Festival

Gloria and her friends Lisia and Isara  watched the very clever music video of the Gotye song Somebody That I used to Know, and thought they could produce their own version.

This movie is completely done by these year 6 children.

This is the process they went through:
research different music videos and discuss concepts
plan and practise body and fabric painting,
learn lyrics, practise singing and record their voices
story board action and acting
film many takes
match their audio to the film
cleverly edit the movie (this was Gloria's masterpiece)

What very clever, confident and connected learners!

Olympic Water Polo - by Wyatt

Olympic Gymnastics - by Gloria

Here is an animation I made to show what Artistic Gymnastics is. Hope you like it!!

Olympic Rowing - by Jorja

For the last 2 - 3 weeks Room 17 have been given 

a sport in the Olympic Games to animate.  The sport I was given to animate was rowing .  Hopefully you enjoy it!!
Jorja

Medley Swimming Relay

Included in the Olympics is a very popular sport and that is the Medley Relay. In this relay swimming is only involved. Four different strokes for four different people makes up this exciting team sport. 
 Swimming as fast as you can beating your opponents is the aim of the event.  When you are swimming you have to do the right strokes and the right turns. This relay also  has strict rules, and strict referees. 
 All  athletes included in the Medley relay wear a type of suit called jons. This suit prevents drag. A pair of goggles the swimmer wears keeps the water  and chlorine out of their eyes and the swimming cap also helps keep the swimmers hair out of the way.  
The talents and skills needed for the medley relay is strength and stamina. Exercise is very important to do if you are a contestant in this sport. Swimming is about techniques and is also about mental psychology.  
Overall I think that the medley relay would be fun to do. I also think that this sport is for very fit people.  Athletes who compete in this event must be very very fit in order to compete.
Jorja

Olympic Symbols

This image is curtesy of explow.com

Baron Pierre De Coubertin invented the Olympic symbol and also the flag. All the rings are interlocking. Did you know that the rings are these colours because every flag had at least 1 of them?


The Olympic flag has 5 rings which are on a white background. At the opening ceremony the flag is hoisted up the pole. It shall stay there the whole time of the games, but when the games end it is brought down at the closing ceremony.

This image is curtesy of alarabiya.net

Do you know what the motto is for the Olympic Games? It has 3 words and 2 of them start with ‘s’. It is swifter, higher, stronger. The motto encourages the competitors to do their very best, but the most important thing is not to win, but to take part.


The flame is one of the best known features of the Olympic games and it is also a memory of the origins. It can only be lit by the sun's rays in Olympia, Greece. Then by relay it gets carried from Olympia to the host city.


On the first day of the Olympic Games the flame is carried into the stadium. It is then transferred from the torch to the cauldron where it stays for the whole of the games. It is extinguished on the final day of the Olympics.
Kaycee

Taeshell critiques Starry Starry Night

This painting was painted by the famous Vincent Van Gogh. He painted Starry starry night in the year 1889, one year after he painted Sunflowers. He is a very talented artist.

Blue is the main color for this painting, but the colour that stands out and makes it hopeful is yellow. Shining gold stars stand out from the blue exaggerated sky. The contrast makes it very cool, that's when it's bright up the top, then dark down the bottom.

There are different kind of objects. Like the cypress tree, and a church. There is also a small and peaceful village, shiny gold stars, swirly wind, and a bright crescent moon.

Can you guess what two objects stand out on the foreground? Well, it’s the cypress tree and the church. This is because they both are pointy. These two things balance out the painting.

Starry Starry Night is one of my favourite Vincent Van Gogh paintings. It surely looks better then, his other painting Sunflowers.

Pt England Korero by Tyla-Marie

  This a movie I produced using imovie and garageband. I made it about a Point.England korero. Watch it to find out what one it is. Hope you enjoy my movie.

Camp

“Yes It’s CAMP!!!!”I shouted to myself. Did you know that from years 5 to 8 classes they have their own camp at Point England School. It’s starts mostly every year and mostly at the start of the term. It’s my turn and I am a year 6 so I will get the opportunity to be a leader

What I was most looking forward to at camp was the Get Lost.In kayaking I came second place in rowing   but not far behind. At last Get lost I was nearly first place I really enjoyed it because once you play you get an adrenalin rush and you race so fast to get all 10 tasks done. Kayaking was cool because I fell into the sea and out of my kayak. Then we had a bombing competition off the groin aka it's a large and kind of long rock.

. The Funniest moment at camp was when Francis,my friend hit a rubbish bin!!! It occurred because our camp teacher told us that who ever can do the goofiest walk all the way to their tent will get some points. Then Francis pulled my shoulders down and then we went past the bin and “wack!!!”.

 My Mum and Dad came down to help with the dinner and my Grandpa (Pop) and my cousins came down to see me every night!!! I can’t believe that he took time off to see me...

My goal was to be a very well and organised camp leader. In the end I thought that I was good but could do a bit better at arriving to the events. I loveee camp because it gets me away from my annoying sister!!! That’s what I like about camp and plus, it was only $60 dollars!!! For two nights and three days that was the best and I mean best camp I’ve ever been to.
Wyatt

Fiji and South Africa

I have been researching about 2 countries. Fiji and South Africa. I have included there climate, where in the world is it and many more. Check my movie out. I hope you enjoy!!!

New Zealand Haka

I've animated the New Zealand Haka

The Origin of the Haka

This is the whole movie of how the haka started. I didn't just do this myself. We got into groups and each person did a part. I hope you enjoy our ( Myself, Litia, Brooklyn, Rita, Chante) movie.

A Christmas Carol

I have been reading a book called a Christmas Coral written by Charles Dickens. And this is a great book to read. It will be podcasted on KPE soon.

Maths Strategy - Compensation

In our maths group our teacher Miss Garden did a poster just like this one, but with equal addition. It was to help us how to do it. I did the same but with Compensation, making it fair.

It is one of the maths strategies we know how to use.

Duffy's search For the Pohutukawa Seed

I have been reaeding a book called Duffy's search for the pohtukawa seed.
If you click on this link it will take you to my podcast on kpe. http://kpetv.blogspot.com/.

Extreme Makeover Courtyard Edition

This week my class Room 17 get to redesign our own courtyard because, right now our courtyard doesn't really look like a normal place to play in. We get into pairs which makes it even better. I am in a team with Rita.

This is my team's forst design. We might modify it later as we get more information.

Me and Rita have chosen to add a Basketball hoop. We have chosen this because we want more kids to play in our courtyard. The second thing we have add was a garden. We like gardens because it looks beautiful and sometimes it smells nice. We think that planting flowers makes our courtyard more beautiful and might even bring more people to our courtyard.Picnic tables. We need picnic tables because on our deck we have prickles that sometimes go on your bum. We think that if we have picnic tables that no more prickles would came on our bum anymore.

I think we need a basketball hoop, Plant and Picnic table. This helps us to get more people to think that our courtyard is a cool place to play in. Basketball hoops is fun to play, Plants look pretty and picnic tables have no prickles

We were all like builders, we find out most of the prices off our ideas. Some of my ideas were found on trade me. Some off us even emailed the place to see if no one has bought it. One off the things me and my partner did was emailing Mr Jacobson. At the end I hope it goes out wonderful.