Art inspired by Warren Pohatu.

We have been reading Mokai Rangatira By Warren Pohatu.

We were really inspired by his beautiful pictures and stories about different animals.

So we made our own using sharpie, water paint, coloured pencils and pastels.

We had to shade, use contrasting colours and use the entire page.

Have a look at the results....

Alliteration By Oliver

Hi my name is Oliver and I'm going to show you how to do alliteration.
This is how you do it.

An armoured armadillo avoiding an angry alligator. See all those letters start with A but occasionally you have to use a little word such as and.
I will do other alliteration sentences.        
                                                                                                                                       
Diabolical dragons daintily devouring delicious delicacies.

RHINOS by Ethan & Wyatt

In the past there were many more kinds of  rhinos then there are today. Instead of just five species,there were hundreds of species.

This is the species of rhinos Wolly bum rhino/ marsh rhino/ big horn rhino/long nose rhino/ twin horned          rhino/ etruscan rhino.

                                        

                                    

    

Kutai

• About Kutai

Kutai have two different names : bivalves and as they are commonly known mussels.


100 million  years ago kutai were 1.5 meters long wow!  

Kutai shells are used for preparing harakeke for weaving. Kutai shells were also used for cutting hair.

• don't open kutai over shellfish bed  
• don't take more kutai than you need for one fest

How to make Kutai fritters

you will need:

1 cup of flour
1/2 teaspoon of baking powder
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1 egg
1/2 cup milk
15-20 kutai
oil and/or butter for frying
lemons  


        method

• Steam the kutai in a large pot until they open.throw away the ones that stay closed.       
• Remove the beards from the kutai. 
• Scoop the orange fish out from the open shell.
• Cut the fish into small chunks. 
• Sieve the dry ingredients into a bowl.
• Add the egg and milk and mix until smooth batter.
• Stir in the chopped kutai.

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• get an adult to help you heat the oil and/or butter in a frying pan.
• put spoon fulls of  mixture into the pan.
• cook until golden on each sides,turning once.
• serve with a wedge of lemon (and salad if you like.)

By Orla & Charlize

Spain by Orla

There is an Egyptian Temple in the Middle of Madrid.

The biggest cities are Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia. 

The population of Spain is over 4 million.

Flamenco dancing came from Spanish Gypsies. 

Spain By Theo

After the bull fighting the Matadors throw spears in the bulls neck :(

Bull fighting is a traditional sport in Spain.

There are a lot of festivals in Spain.

By Theo.

Spain By Ethan

There was a war that happened in 1939.  

After that General Franko ruled Spain.

The matadors kill the bulls after they fight.

By Ethan.

Ole'

Last night Room 15 took to the stage in their last performance of Alejandro.

I am so proud of all the children in Room 15.  They have been working so hard on researching Spain and learning the dances.

Thank you all the parents that took time out of their busy days and helped me make this item come alive!

Have a fabulous break!

^_^ Matua Bryan

Cinquain poems

Hey everyone!!!

We had a go at cinquain poems.

It was really tricky but take a listen and tell us what you think!

More Personification Poems

Come and listen to our Personification Poems.

Enjoy!

Personification Poems - WOW!

 Kia Ora kids,

Room 15 has been learning about Personification in poetry.

It's when you put human emotions and actions on things and objects.

Check out our poems!

We hope you enjoyed listening to our poems.

Jessie reads a poem!

Listen to Jessie read a poem!  Enjoy kids ^.^

ARTSTATION

Kia Ora Everyone!

Today Room 15 went to ARTSTATION!
We had so much fun.  We learnt about making cups and designing symbols to go on the front.   


Some of us did Spain and some were sports.

It was so great!  Thanks ARTSTATION!

Poem By Shaan

Listen to me read my poem...

My Poem By Sadie

Listen to me read my poem.

Written by......ME!!!

SEVEN DAYS IN VANUATU

SEVEN DAYS IN VANUATU!!!!!!!!!

                     

On Friday 17 August I went to Vanautu. It was a three hour and a half flight  but it was all worth it!

                                                                                                                                                                    

when we got there it was really hot and the air port was completely different to the ones that we have here.they don't have many shops and when you get on and off the plane it doesn't go straight in to the air port,it just gos down to the place planes lane on!!!

As soon as we got there we had lunch.the service was really bad and when we got our lunch 

TWO HOURS had passed!!!!!!!!!!

 when we got to our motel I got the best bed in the motel!!!It was really small and was kind of like a mini closet ,but no random person walking by could see my bed and anyone could easily see my sister,mum and dad.

when we were all un-packed we all went down to the pool,there were three huge pools and one little one.''B.T.W. the little pool was a spa!''When we were going back to our motel we saw a huge spider about this big....

                                                                                                                                     

Anyway a couple of days later on Sunday morning I had a new friend named Saky's pronounsed sa-key.

She is a really nice for a twelve year old.we started off chucking a ball to each-other and that's when we met three new friends....brook,phibee and monnie.Brooks 9,Phibes 8 and Monnies 10.

It was really windy there so the ball kepted flying out of the pool!It was really annoying because we had to keep getting out of the pool to get the ball!!

The next day we moved motel to one by the beach Saky and I started something new called crab hunting. We got millions of crabs and the biggest one we got was something around this big....

                                    

                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

and this is the size of the biggest crab I saw in Vanuatu and I'm telling you its HUGE!!!!