Naomi's advice on how to run

Firstly you look straight ahead. if you don't look ahead you will crash into the people who running beside you.

Secondly you have to bend your arms  if you don't bend your arms you will run slow like a big elephant.you should also bend your arms so you could run really fast when use are having a race.

Thirdly when you run you have to run on light feet and bend your arm at the same time so you could run fast like a cheetah .

Hope that helps.

From Naomi

Job Advertisements

We have been writing job advertisements in room 14 for all sorts of jobs. Here they are:

And here's Elizah's job ad for a cowboy!

Wheels and Crazy Hair Day.

Well done Jasmine (and Mum) for this amazing hairdo that rightly won a prize for craziest hair! It's a work of art!

Room 14's Super Mario animations.

This term we have been working towards making our own animated Super Mario sequence. We looked at a Super Mario game then created our own backgrounds on Hyperstudio. We then drew two Super Mario figures and copied them onto the backgrounds and played the slides through as a movie. Here are our finished movies:

Junior Kapa Haka: Matariki Performance

Ka Pai to all those involved with this wonderful performance, especially those from Room 14! You know who you are.

Harvesting harakeke.

Whaea Saf took us down to the creek where there is some beautiful harakeke growing by the stream. She sang a lovely karakia before telling us which strands of harakeke we could cut: Not the baby in the middle, nor its parents on either side, but the grandparents on the outside. After she'd cut some off, she showed us how to weave a star (which is what we'll be doing next week) and how to make a "clapper" which used to be given to kids to keep them busy while mum weaved. We carefully collected up the flax that had been cut and took it back to class.

Matariki: Weaving fish from card

We started our Matariki topic by reading the story about the 7 Fish of Matariki and then tried to weave our own fish out of cardboard strips as a practice run for weaving them out of harekeke (flax). It was pretty hard as our hands were a bit too small to for the strips - but we persevered and here are some of the results.