Cartoon Art with Miss Smith

On Tuesdays after lunch, we go to Miss Smith's class to do cartooning. Today we learnt how to draw a cartoon monkey. After that we got to go onto youtube on the ipads and choose a bunny or a cartoon character like Spongebob to draw.

Our new website

How many Room 9 people can you spot in the new Sumner School video?

Dr Seuss Art

With our playground inquiry well under way, we have been using our green thinking hat to design our dream playground. Using this idea we have looked at the art work of Dr Seuss. We talked about the shapes used in his art work and have created our own crazy buildings and playgrounds using vivid and dye.

Here is a photo peach slide show of our work so far... Our Dr Seuss Art on PhotoPeach

Show not tell by Benji

My Show Not Tell on Storybird

The Antarctic Centre

Yesterday Room 9 went to the Antarctic Centre to meet Nick and Shackleton. We got to go because we won a competition by following Shackleton's blog of his trip to Antarctica. We got to meet Nick. He told us all about his trip with Shackleton Bear to Antarctica. He got chased by an angry sealion! We saw the little blue penguins. After that we went and saw a 4D movie. It was a bit scary. The seats moved when the boat bumped. When a sharp iceburg came towards us we got wet. Then we went on the Hauggland ride. The best bit was the mountain of terror and floating in the water. After lunch we went in the snow room. We had to wear special slippers on our feet so we didn't get the snow dirty. Thank you to Jane and Nick for taking us along to the Antarctic Centre! We had a fantastic day. Our Antarctic Centre Visit on PhotoPeach

Dr Seuss art

Room 9 has been doing Dr Seuss art recently. With curvy lines and 3D shapes with houses and buildings.So far we have drawn them and vivid them.We are going to use dark and light colors with dye.Dr Seuss loves stairs and crazy art.We have read a couple of books by Dr Seuss to get ideas.So far we have used Fox in socks,Oh the places you'll go and Oh the thinks you can think.

Drama

We have been doing drama with Mrs McKendry. We are learning how to do mime and do facial expressions. The other day when Mrs McKendry read to us about the Kiwi who lost its wings, Caite was the pukeko, Quinn and Stella were tui's, Sophie was an owl, and Zoe was a fantail. It was fantastic!

House Day

On Friday it was house day. All the children and teachers dressed up in their house colour. Even Mr Cameron.We did lots of games. We had a really fun day. We will make a photo peach of some photos next week.

By Alex, Charlie Benji, Ryan and Ben.



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Cross country

Last week we had cross country. We ran around St Lenards park three times!
We got puffed at the end. Everyone in room 9 did really well. Miss Dippie and Mrs Ngan were really proud of us. Sophie, Quinn, and Stella got in the top 10 for the year three girls. Makyh and Thom got in the top 10 for the year 4 boys.


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Dr Seuss art

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Show Not Tell

This week Mrs Ngan has been teaching us writing.  She showed us this cool website called Storybird where we can make our own books using images that they have on the site.  We had to choose an image and write a show not tell description about it.  Here is our first book. It is by James, Thom, Hannah, Ben, Jak, Guy and Sophie.

Show not Tell Book 1 on Storybird

Show not tell

We have been learning to write setting descriptions that show not tell the reader what we are writing about.

Here is one from Thom.

There is dirt whooshing into my eyes, kids screaming with laughter. A giant Eiffel Tower of rope above me. My face sweating, my tummy hungry.

Episode 3

Episode 3 of The Adventures of Skipper the Penguin is now up on Skipper Blog

skipperthepenguin.blogspot.co.nz

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Annah Mac's Visit to Sumner

Annah Mac came to Sumner School today because Jamie in Room 14 won a song writing competition. Her prize was for Annah Mac to perform her song. We liked the way she sung and played the guitar. We got to help her sing Girl in Stilettos.