Poems

We have been learning about different kinds of poems. We wrote acrostic and cinquain poems about our learning. 

LEARNING                                         

Listening carefully                                

Enjoyment                                             

Arguing with manners                           

Respect each others ideas                      

Never give up                                        

Independent learning or collaboratively

Negotiating                                             

Give it a go!                                            

Poet Zack                                    

WRITING  

Working hard

Re-reading    

Ideas              

Tell stories     

Imagination   

Non-fiction    

Great authors  

Poet Sienna

SCIENCE

 Scientist           

Code-breaking

Inventing        

Experiment     

Never give up 

Chemicals        

Evolving          

Poet Joseph        

LEARNING

Learning collaboratively    

Enjoying learning               

Amazing work                    

Risk-taking                         

Never give up                      

Inside, outside, everywhere

Never rush                           

Go back to make changes     

Poet Tyler

MARCHING                         

Miss Stacey                            

Actions                                   

Ranks                                      

Cheering                                  

Hold a position-hands gripped

Include everybody                   

Need to count                            

Girls love to march                    

Poet Ashley

LEARNING      

   Lots of thinking            

Ears                            

Arguing with manners

Risk                            

Never give up              

Independently learning

New Learning              

Growing knowledge     

Poet Jordan

ART                           

Artist                           

Really focused            

Trying new techniques

Poet Jessica    

MATHS                          

Making mistakes             

Always makes maths fun

Team work                       

Helping each other          

Subtraction                      

Poet Coopa             

WRITING

Non-fiction, imaginative

Concentrating, sharing, creating

Hooking in the reader

Writing

Poet Caitlin

MATHS

Challenging, exciting

Trying, learning, getting

Arguing with manners

Maths

Poet Blair     

ART
Messy, colourful
Creating, painting, splashing
Display so people can enjoy
Art

Poet Jack B

Rotation

We have been learning about rotation. Rotation means turn. 

We have been practising to visualise where shapes move to.

The shapes stay the same size and the shape just move around.

Here are some of our patterns we created by rotating shapes

Georgina

Bailee

Joseph

Jack W

Janice

Zack

Riley

Ashley

Holly

Blake

Tyler

Coopa

Art Exhibition

Zack sharing the story of his composition

 We are so proud of the art we have created in Room 1617.

We wrote letters to the Hastings Art Gallery and the artist that inspired our art work, Jacob Scott. We were privileged to have these special people visit The Parkvale Art Exhibition with Room 1617 children explained how all our art tells a unique story of 'Us'.

Jasmine sharing her art

Niamh sharing her story

Coopa and Holly welcoming Jacob Scott to our
Art Exhibition

James appreciating the art

Writing messages in the visitors book

Marcus sharing his art
with Jacob Scott

Jack W sharing his story with Mr G

Sam sharing his story with Jacob Scott

Angus telling his story

Joseph explaining the story of our art

Charlotte sharing our learning journey with Jacob Scott

Jacob Scott wrote this amazing message in the visitors book to the children of Room 1617

Mrs Ramsay and Mrs H were so proud of how the Room 1617 Superheroes explained their learning and how important their story was. 

Here are some of the letters we wrote

31 August 2015

Dear Elham

Do you want to come to our art exhibition? It is at 8am in the morning until 5pm at night. On Tuesday and Wednesday and on Thursday and on Friday in September. On the 15th of September to the 18^th it will open up.I enjoyed going around Hastings to find bits of art but not just any kind of art . My favourite was the water fountain because it is made by Jacob Scott he is the best artist of all. He makes art that tells stories. We are making a composition  and there is lots of weaving on it.There is clay and pictures and flax on my piece) of art. Please come to our art exhibition

From Jack W

Dear Elham

We are holding an art exhibition at Parkvale School between Tuesday the 15 September and Friday the 18 September. 8am each morning it opens until 5pm at night it closes.

We have been learning about Jacob Scott. All of his art tells a story and all his art made of metal.

We are making art about ourselves. It is made out of clay, paint, paper and flax and all our relations on it.

I liked the fish trap on display because it was made of shells and because what ever direction you looked at you always see something  different. The fish trap told the story of how the Kiribati people catch their fish.

Can you come pretty please with a hot chocolate with marshmallows on top.  

Yours sincerely

James 

13 August 2015

Dear Elham

Hello my name is Katie. We are having a Art Exhibition on the 15 of September and it closes on the of 18th September.We are learning about weaving and Maori symbols. Our art tells a story too. We are learning to use clay and paint and harakeke to tell a story. Chris Charteris made the fish trap it looked like a sting ray made out of shells. I like it because it can keep fish fresh.It is special because it tells a story about how people feed themselves. Please come to our art Exhibition.

Yours sincerely

Katie 

31 August 2015

Dear Elham

We are going to have an art exhibition and we want to know if you can come. Our Art exhibition  is on Tuesday the 15 of September to Friday the 18 of September . Our exhibition opens at 8am and concludes at 5pm.

My favourite part at your exhibition is the spider by Chris Charteris because it looks impossible to make and how it tells the Kiribati legend of how Earth was made. Thank you for showing us around the gallery.

We learnt  about Jacob Scott and how his art tells a story .We told the story of us  with our art. Our art has some of our own symbols and designs . Our shapes are  made out of air dry clay .We Placed our art on harakeke (flax ) which we weaved .It is hard to weave especially when you have not practiced for a long time .Our WALT (We are learning to) was to have a unique composition in our art. We made our own designs and some Maori symbols. We really want you to come and see our art.

Yours sincerely

Mac 

31 August 2015

Dear Elham

On Tuesday 15 September to Friday 18 September we are going to have a art exhibition! It will be open 8am to 5pm daily. Its on Howard Street Hastings at Parkvale School in our hall.

At the gallery my favourite piece of art was Te Ma the Fish Trap made by Chris Charteris because when the fish swim inside the trap the trap shuts right away.

I loved going on the art trail trip and please come to the art exhibition at our school to see our art.

Room 1617 have been learning about Jacob Scott’s work. We hope to see you at the art exhibition. We have been making some harakeke mats and some flax flowers and we are also making some Maori shapes to put onto our woven mats with unique pieces of art that tell my story.

Yours sincerely

Louisa 

31 August 2015

Dear Elham

Parkvale School is planning an art exhibition at the school hall between Tuesday 15 September and Friday 18 September. It will be open from 8am each morning until 5pm at night.

Chris Charteris art inspired me. My favourite piece of art was the fish net because the shape was exquisite.

I remembered the fish trap was to catch fish. They would nibble, nibble, nibble right through the front of the centre of the huge fish net.

Our class joined 3 pieces of art together to make a unique composition about ourselves. Our class got really untidy while we were weaving our background with real flax!

We would be really, really, really, really happy if you could come to our art exhibition to see our wonderful art.

From Christina 

Art Exhibition

Come to The Parkvale School Art Exhibition 'Visual Art Inspired by Artists of Aotearoa' We are so proud of our art and how we told 'The Story of Us'.

Compositions from tracey hill on Vimeo.

All the children of Parkvale School have created a special piece of art. Make it a family outing to the exhibition. It is open before school, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, this week and until 6pm each night.

Harakeke

We have been learning about harakeke

We have been learning to weave and Cortney (Naomi's Mum) taught us how to make putiputi. We have been challenged but it has brought out the best in us. We supported each other, showed appreciation and were very determined. 

Weaving on PhotoPeach

1. Look on some of our individual blogs to find out how to weave.

A big thank you to Cortney and Miss Sampson for giving up their time to help us with our weaving. 

Reducing Rubbish

After visiting the Landfill it has made us really think about the amount of rubbish we create everyday. 

Manauka Hub gave us a challenge of having a rubbish free lunchbox. Lots of  us took on the challenge. Here are some of the rubbish free lunchboxes from Room 1617.

We have made reusable sandwich wraps so we can create less rubbish in our lunchbox everyday.

Here are the steps if you want to make your own sandwich wrap. You can wrap other food in it too. Jessica has a sandwich wrap and a biscuit wrap.

First you choose the fabric you want to make your sandwich wrap from. 

Wow, we had so many to choose from.

Next you choose a shape for your sandwich wrap. We decided on a rectangle. Then you draw around the template.

 After that you use special scissors called pinking shears to cut out the fabric. The pinking shears are special because they stop  the fabric from fraying. We found out how tricky it is to cut fabric. 

Next you need to sprinkle grated beeswax on to the fabric.

(The adults had to grate the beeswax because that was really hard).

The beeswax smells delicious like honey but does not taste that good!

 After that you put it in the oven and wait patiently for the beeswax to melt.

You need to wait for a little while for the beeswax to dry and then you have your very own reusable sandwich wrap.

To test out our sandwich wraps we made sandwiches and guess what? They worked really well and the superheroes can wrap their own sandwiches really easily.

Even though the sandwich wraps smell like the beeswax they do not make our food taste any different. If the sandwich wrap gets dirty we can just wipe them clean with a cloth.

Thank you so much to all the parents who came in to help us make our sandwich wraps. We appreciate you giving up your time. 

Lunch time. Yummy! 

The challenge is for Room 1617 to use their sandwich wraps over and over again to reduce the amount of rubbish in their lunchbox. 

We are not only saving the environment but also money. We will not need to buy as much gladwrap.