Animation Fun!!!!

During this term we are going to use animation in our learning. 
Have a look at this cool example of Morph.
 I have got some playdough so that you will be able to create your own animation about an incident that  happened in the holidays.
START thinking and come with some ideas.
See you Monday.

Orkut Scrap Toys

The cry of the Taniwha

Our class has been focusing on Des Hunt books and our whole class is currently reading "The cry of the Taniwha" which is a book about a boy called Matt who gets involved in a mystery that will change his life forever! We have to read the book up to the specified chapter and then complete the activities linked to the chapter. Our whole class is loving this book and it's cool to all be able to talk about the book we are reading We are all aiming to have the book read by the end of the holidays.

Hail storm

Lately Ashhurst has been experiencing major storms and yesterday we had a HUGE hail storm! Fortunately Abi had enough time to grab the camera and take a few good shots!

The hail storm on PhotoPeach:

She also took an awesome video:

Jelly mountain A.B.C key

In our class we use thinkers keys. Here is one of the keys; The alphabet key, about Jelly mountain that our class wrote:
Anxious: Jessie and Jason felt anxious when Shaun crashed with the Tuatara
Believe it or not Jason discovered a way to the top of Jelly Mountain
Capturing the Tuatara was difficult for Shaun because there were a lot of them
Defeating Shaun was hard for Jessie and Jason
Enough D.N.A in shakey the Tuatara's tail
Furious: Shaun Morris was furious when he got caught
Getting proof to show Jason's dad was almost impossible!
Huia statue contained the map
Individually the tuatara were contained in large crates
Jessie and Jason getting into trouble
Knowing the path to Jelly Mountain
Living in Mariah's life would have been difficult and frightening
Missing Tuatara found in crates on Jelly mountain
Navigating to Jelly Mountain was a difficult task
On top of Jelly mountain the last Tuataras were found
Parents having false accusations
Questioning Shaun's false intentions
Rats were suspected to be in the holes
Scientists wanted to clone the Tuatara
Tuatara's were close to extinction
Under Jelly mountain there is a mall entrance
Violent Shaun lashes out at Jason
Wild ride after Shaun on Jason's dad's quad
X-treme challenges for Jason and Jessie
Young adults uncovering mysteries
Zooming after Shaun and the Tuatara

Myspace Generators & Toys

Using Instructions to make Balloon Dogs on PhotoPeach

Making Truffles on PhotoPeach

OUR TENNIS TOURNAMENT on PhotoPeach

Wharite Tennis Tournament

For the last four Mondays Jared has been taking each of our classes for a half hour tennis lesson, it has been great fun and we have learnt new skills.
On Monday, Wharite travelled into the Palmerston North Tennis Club for our Tennis Tournament.
 Once we got there we were split into our classes and had our own tournament. The winner of our class competition was Blake. WELL DONE!
Blake then went onto compete against the other class' winners.
It was a great experience to be able to play against so many people and on the big courts as well.
Thank-you Jared for organising it.
Thank-you to the parents who took transport.

WATCH OUT WIMBLEDON

Procedures

Tells how to make or do something

A procedure has:

Goals This says what is to be done.

MAtERIALS At the beginning list any materials you will need to achieve your goal. Written in the order they will be used.

Method The method is a series of detailed steps which are numbered to tell the

reader what to do in the order they are to do them.

We have learnt about procedures by reading and following a lot of instructions. Two of

these were making balloon dogs and making truffles.

It was fun! Check out the photos!

The Truffles were yummy!!! Here is the recipe...... try it out!

                        
                         Truffles

                      50gms Butter
                      50 grams icing sugar

                     1/4 cup sultanas

                     1/2 cup coconut

                    1 dsp cocoa

    Melt butter.Add to icing sugar, cocoa, sultanas and 1/4 cup of coconut.
    Mix.

    Roll into balls and dip into the rest of the coconut

Des hunt

This term we have been doing a novel study on books Des Hunt has written. As a class we have been reading Jelly mountain. The story is about a boy named Jason and his twin sister Jesse. Jason finds a diary written by Maria who lived on his farm in World War 2. He finds a map to a supposedly unreachable mountain and he finds so many surprising things! Shawn Morris crash lands onto the farm and the trouble begins. The race to save the Tuatara is on.

You can design a tee shirt for one of your favorite characters here: