And the Winners are...

After a very tough two days of work for our expert guest judges, Mrs Buckley (Principal, Wairere School) and Mrs Currie (Assistant Principal, Matamata Intermediate), the results are in.

Thank you to all the wonderful children in Room One for your amazing hard work on this daunting but rewards and fun new experience. Every single one of you should be bursting at the seems with pride in what you have achieved.

Also, thank you to our judges for taking time out of your extremely busy schedules to come and be a part of our very first Reading Fair.

The Fish of Maui

Room One was very lucky today to have Room Five come and spend the day working with us.
One of the things we did was listen to the Maori legend "The Fish of Maui".  In small groups we had to retell a section of the story by creating a story board panel including crayon and dying a picture.

Working co-operatively in a group can be challenging; we discovered that the most effective groups talked kindly to each other and often and they made sure everyone had very specific jobs to do.

Gorgeous Spring Art

Check out our amazing Daffodil Art and the Awesome artists themselves!

Daffodil Day

Our school celebrated Daffodil Day with a coin drive and face painting.
Here are a few snapped by some of the students:

Room One has made some stunning daffodils which we are looking forward to sharing at Assembly next week so make sure you pop along and see it.

The beginning of our Pop Art adventure

We started an art project today which will demonstrate some of our maths knowledge once we're finished. To get started we needed portraits of ourselves choosing either a silly or sensible face.

Can you guess which option was more popular?

Getting started with Pop Art

Hatupatu and the Bird Woman

With the help of the talented Room Five and Mrs Jacobsen we retold the legend of Hatupatu and the Bird Woman. This was one of the Maori legends that we saw at the Kahurangi Dance Theatre and it was fun to retell it in yet another way.

What do you think of our artwork?

Hatupatu and the Bird Woman from Katreena Daniels on Vimeo.

Kahurangi Dance Theatre

Today we went to the most amazing Maori Dance Theatre.
The show was spectacular and very professional. They told us some traditional maori legends using voice, singing, poi, dance, string, rakau, taiaha, etc.

If you want to find out more about them you can visit their website by clicking on the link below:
Kahurangi Dance Theatre

Finished Art

Awesome Artists

Friday was an "Art Attack" day across the school. We all had an amazing time and thanks to Mrs Jacobsen's fabulous wealth of knowledge we developed a great skill-set and produced some absolutely amazing finished pieces.

W.a.l.t:
Observe, sketch and shade "still life" objects.

Clever and Colourful Bird

In Room One we love it when people bring interesting news to share with us.
Look at the amazing masterpiece that Joshua and his mum created.