Pastel Silhouette Art

This is our Silhouette Artwork.

We watched a 5 minute craft video of the different types of ways to create magical pastel art and we got inspired to give it a go ourselves. We soon realised it wasn’t easy but the results were definitely worth the sore fingers we encountered as we blended the colour using tissue paper to create the beautiful backgrounds. 

Hope you enjoyed our finished masterpieces.

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Our Finished Aboriginal Art

LEARN  - about Aboriginals and their history and the significance of their paintings

CREATE - our own aboriginal art with an animal in the middle using dots

SHARE - created a video with everyone's aboriginal art and sharing it with the world!

ENJOY!

Zentangle Art

This term the focus is ART!
Room 13 love to do Art and to be very honest there are numerous talented students who can just sit there and do Art the whole day. 

This google slide are images of our Zentangle ART

Never Give up

Never Give up is the name of this film created by Team Unicorns. 

It is their take on how you should persevere through challenges especially through physical activities like training and even dance. 

Aboriginal Art

This term our Senior syndicate decided to do something new! Our focus for the term is Art, so we have taken different art forms and decided to teach our class for 4 sessions and then take on the next class until we have taught all 3 classes. 

I have chosen to do Visual Art and to teach my class about Aboriginal dot art. 

We learnt about the history of this incredible art and we tried our own aswell. 

Here are some of the finished products.

Term 4

Welcome back to another yet WONDERFUL TERM! 

It is the last term where I will be with my minions but we will make it one to remember! 

Some things to look forward to this term:

Positive Message

Room 13's Positive Message! 

 We used google draw as a tool to help us be creative with how we present it as well! 

 We used the art of poem/rhyme to help us write a short positive message! 

These are a few of the groups that presented last week about their Astronomy area of study! 

We had the following groups:

• MOONS
• SUN
• STARS
• PLANETS
• GALAXIES
• COMETS
• GASES

A lot of learning took place and it was great to see my students lead their own learning! 

Boxing Sessions = KiwiSport

This term our Kiwi-Sport was Boxing! 

We had so much fun learned this art form! 

3 things we took away from Boxing are:

RESPECT
DISCIPLINE
SAFETY

Here are some pictures from the session. ENJOY! 

Digital Dig 2019

For Cybersmart this week, Room 13 was faced with a challenge to put their digital skills to the test and see how many activities they could complete in 35 minutes. 

I am sharing Liston's Digital Dig (Group 1) and what they were able to get through

Sosefina's DIgital Dig (Group 2)



 Tiana's Digital Dig (Group 3)

Inferencing Task Cards

One of my activities for Reading was "Inferencing Task Cards" where the students had to read a description and based on it, they had to inference the hidden messages within the text. 

It was a fun activity where they had to insert an image of the answer which showed their creativity! 

Here is one of my students who have completed their Inferencing Task Card. 

Camera Shots/Angles Activity

Another yet CREATIVE film prep activity where the students were in groups and showing us examples of the camera shots we just learnt. 

The class then voted on which showed the shots the best and winners did an awesome job! 

Astronomy

From now on in Science, we are studying Astronomy. The class has been split into groups of 3 and their names consist of the areas in Astronomy which are: Sun, Moon, Stars, Planets, Comets, Gas, & Galaxies. 

On the left are some of the activities we need to complete in our groups!

We get points based on our

• Teamwork
• Respect towards one another 
• Participation
• Contribution
• Encouragement

On the left, I have chosen to post GROUP PLANETs Brochure activity. I really like the way they incorporated the Earths colours and the creativity is visible! 

Introduction to camera shots

Yesterday my whole class was split into pairs where their task was to take a photo of the list that was provided and be creative with their camera shots. They were given 20 minutes to go on a Photo Scavenger hunt. 

The results are AMAZING and HILARiOUS!!

Science Exhibition - Room 13

Room 13's Science Exhibition 

WELCOME! 

Room 13 has been learning about "States of matter", which are "Solid, Liquid & Gas".

From this new learning, we were then put into groups of 4, and we had to find an experiment (student choice) that aligns with the theme, "Solid, Liquid & Gas" (or the process from each state to the next) Our final result with our tri-folds. just SPEECHLESS!
#Proud Teacher

Though there were a lot of failures with some of the experiment, we had fun giving it ago. We will also attempt our experiments after evaluating our current result to identify what we need to do to be more successful!

Here are just some of the images from today

Kiwi can session

Kiwi can session

Here are a few flicks from our Kiwi-Can session where we learn the importance of values through the act of games and activities. We have two Kiwi-Can teachers "Miss Tuia & Mr Matt". 

They are awesome teachers who believe in what they teach and Room 13 really enjoy these sessions. 

Glen Taylor School Kapa haka

Last term on the last week of school, the GTS Kapa haka group performed at Stonefields School. It was such an amazing experience. I had the privilege to attend the programme "Matariki Hui" and I was blown away by the beautiful performances that the students put their heart and soul into. 

Here are some photos from that day. 

States of Matter

Science 101

I stepped out of my comfort zone yesterday and taught Science, "States of Matter". Though I was nervous it was fun for me but a bonus was it was fun for the students. Here are a few flicks from the session.

Thank you for viewing

Camp Performances

Here is a google slide filled with some of the groups that went to camp performing their items or their chant. 

Sit back and enjoy!

Some art using tools from Google Drawing

I taught the class this week, how to trace over images from google and re-creating them on Google drawing using LINE tools.

The results are incredible. 

We had so much fun with this and can see how useful this is in the future when students are using images, they can just create their own version of the image

Highlight, Lowlight, & Something I miss from CAMP 2019

This is a google drawing portraying the memories from our Year 7 & 8 camp in Week 5 

Kawa of Care Rule #2

This week we had a new focus, and Room 13 really enjoys our Brain breaks so the Kawa of Care rule we decided to focus on is this one: 

Kawa of care

Kawa of Care Reminders 

Today we went through the Kawa of Care to remind us of the Expectations and Responsibilities of having a Chromebook. So we went through 5 of the responsibilities and the students had to choose one of them to put on a google drawing. The instruction was to use one of the rules that they felt they keep forgetting or neglecting. 

I also did one with them. 

Art Exhibition flics

The Art Exhibition was something new this year and when we had our chance to go into the Hall to gaze upon the School's art pieces we were amazed!! 

Here are some of the flics from our favourite pieces and just embracing the art and talent in the School. 

Art Exhibition SAMOAN performing costume

Room 13 have been working hard on our Art Exhibition pieces. 

CREATIVITY is our theme this year so we decided to do ART around our cultural festival theme and plan, learn, sketch and finally make our versions of tradtional costumes. 

GROUP ONE: Lenitah, Tayja & Te Morehu decided they will wanted to make a Samoan traditional clothing

RESULTS are MIND BLOWING !!!! 

CELEBRATING END OF HOUSE CAPTAIN SPEECHES

ROOM 13 HAD THEIR SHARE OF HOUSE CAPTAIN SPEECHES. WE HAD 8 INCREDIBLE INDIVIDUALS WHO HAD THE COURAGE AND CONFIDENCE TO STAND BEFORE THE CLASS AND CONVINCE THEM WHY THEY WOULD MAKE AN INCREDIBLE LEADER!!

THIS IS OUR PHOTO AT THE END OF THE SPEECHES!

IT SEEMS LIKE A HAPPY CLASS TO ME LOL

Welcome to 2019

Hey there Whanau,
Welcome to 2019.

My name is Mrs Fonua and I am the Teacher of the beautiful Room 13. 

I have a wonderful multi-cultural class this year and it just sets a vibrant culture. We have looked at our School Values and Vision and we try our best to live and breathe these important values in and outside of our class. It is Week 4 already and as we are heading towards assessment this week, I know that our students will show Excellence in the results :)

#WATCHTHISSPACE