Advertisers in the making!

Over the last few weeks the children have been working in small teams to design new packaging and an advertising poster for their scroggin.   They used 'Comic Life' to design their posters and  'Sketch Up' which allowed them to design and create a 3d image.  The children had to think carefully about the shape of the box they wanted and also the  design  and advertising features to try and captivate their target audience.   Would you buy their product?

Rocking Ripper Rugby

As Room 9 stepped onto the lime green grass we felt lightning flash up our spines with excitement because we were about to have a new session with Ginny.

First we had to stand on the Tigers line.  Here are the names of the other lines:

1.  Rooster's line
2.  Warrier's line
3.  Shark's line

First we played rip the tag.  We were all running like MAD!  We had to try and get as many tags as we could off each other before Ginny blew the whistle.   We played two more rounds then we sadly went back to class.

Day 2

It's our second day at doing ripper rugby.  We played this game where we had to run with a ball and someone had to try and rip both of our tags off before we scored a touch down.  It was really tricky to try and run with the ball without getting your tags taken off!  But apart from that it was really fun!  Then we played 'rip the tag' again.  But sadly we had to say goodbye to Ginny, we can't wait for her to come back again so we can play a full game of ripper rugby.  We all had a really enjoyable time.

By Julia, Kiijahna and Qwenton

Room 9's Adventures in Ross Creek

On the 1st of June our class went to Ross Creek.  It was our second time here.  As we stepped into Ross Creek we saw so many barky trees, it looked like we were in Wonderland!  As we smelt musty, dusty, soily earthy dirt surrounding the trees we felt overjoyed.

Next we heard the chit chat of children's voices saying "how exciting it was to be here again."  We heard bellbirds chirping like mixed up bird sounds of the world.  We saw trees that had woody vines twirling around like hydro-slides.

Soon we arrived at the Reservoir that was metres below us.  With the help of a lake, the Reservoir supplies Dunedin's water supply.  We also saw little smurf mushrooms, they were so cute.  The Reservoir was cool but not very big, that is why the lake also helps to supply water to Dunedin.

Next we were given a nice surprise because we were off to Woodhaugh Gardens.  As we stepped out of Ross Creek our legs were so tired but we could still just survive walking without collapsing!  

Finally we arrived, we ate lunch and had a play. Our friend Ruby, found an awesome bird's nest in amongst the trees.  There was this really cool whizzing whirling flying fox which was awesome!  There was also a seesaw that you could stand up on but our favourite was the whizzing whirling flying fox!

Ross Creek was so much fun that we all want to go back another day!

By Harriet, Elisa and Thomas

Autumn in Room 9

We have tried to capture autumn by using our five senses.  Please enjoy reading some of the children's beautiful poetry about "Autumn".

Autumn

Sad wet grass was sodden like ice.

Big raindrops fall on me.

I see green and brown leaves

Wobbling on the branches.

Wind pushing in my hair like mum

Putting her hands in my hair.

                               Dylan Allum (7 years)

Autumn

 Cold winter breeze on my face

Shivering like icicles in a freezer,

Ginormous old trees

Blowing in the strong wind,

While the leaves float to the ground.

Big trees rustling on the roof

Like possums zigzagging.

Rotting leaves stuck into the ground,

Tasting warm marshmallows in my mouth.

                                        Isaac McConachie (7 years)

Autumn

Cold icy dreamy wind blowing in my face,

I see coloured red leaves lying on the ground;

Waiting to be stomped in.

Wind rustling, whistling,

Moving like an earthquake

I taste warm pumpkin soup,

I smell fresh minty air.

                          Amanda Dissanayake (7 years)

Autumn

Whirling, twirling wind

Sends shivers down my spine

Like eating frosty cold ice cream,

Bronze brown leaves

Wiggling and jiggling

Falling from trees,

Smelly smoke rising

From small black holes of chimneys,

Rustling bustling leaves from the no longer sea green bushes

Nice hot chocolate

Spreading sweetness and warmth

To my frosty cold mouth

                             Julia Worthington (7 years)

Autumn

Glorious, gorgeous coloured leaves

Red, yellow, orange, green and brown,

Looking like patterned wings of a butterfly,

Old stinky chimney’s choking out smoke,

The cold breeze nearly lifting me off my feet,

As I‘m crunching on top of the leaves.

                                      Honour Birks (7 years)

How we made our Artwork!

I know we have already left autumn for the year but I thought I would share with you all some of the wonderful artwork the children have created.  This art took a lot longer than expected but it was well worth the wait.

The children have completed this artwork in stages.  First of all they spent a few sessions making observational drawings of different types of autumn leaves. They were looking carefully at the detail and patterns on the leaves.

The children then spent a session using autumn coloured waxed crayons to completely colour in an A3 page (they definitely built up a few extra arm muscles with the pressing heavily of the crayons on this one!).

Next the children painted their artwork completely black with using a mixture of black powdered paint, dishwashing liquid and water.

Finally the children etched into their artwork their amazing leaves, focussing on the different patterns.  They left a black outline around the leaves then spent quite a while scratching off the rest of the black paint to bring through the autumn colours.  Here are the finished pieces of work.