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Nga Tangi o te Tangata

Room 14 visited the Suter Art Gallery to view Robin Slow's paintings and to learn how this clever artist obtained the colours and ideas for his paintings. Robin lives in Golden Bay and his art works represent the ideas and music of the people of Te Tau Ihu o te Waka a Maui (the top of the South Island).

Trinity and Ashley are intrigued by the art works. They were looking for an artistically interpreted musical instrument within the painting.

We sat and listened to Esther tell us a legend and to listen to specially chosen waiata representing the wider Nelson area. The waiata and music was performed beautifully by local musicians. We have a copy of the book of art works and a CD of the music and waiata at school.

The entrance to the gallery was arranged like the entrance to a wharenui (meeting house). We took off our shoes before entering.

Yes, there's the musical intrument in that painting! Well spotted girls!

George and Christine discuss this symbolic work of art.

Max, Callum and Leo are hard at work sketching one of the works of art.

Shayden is thoughtfully composing his sketch.

Well done Josh and Nic - your concentration, understanding and art work is a credit to you!

Della and her group of boys are really focused on their sketches.

Natasha, Ford and Ryan are enjoying the experience.

Bianca, Aimee and Paige are fascinated by the choice of painting they have decided to sketch.

Leo is creating his own version from the legend of Kupe and Te Puoho te wheke, as retold by Eshter. Great ideas Leo!

Word Processing

Room 14 children are word processing their stories using the Alpha Smart computers. They are learning to use correct fingering as for touch typing.







George is puzzling over the letters. Sometimes it's hard to understand that the upper case letter shown on the keyboard is really a lower case letter when it's used without the Shift key.







Joshua, Devon and Anne are concentrating really hard on getting it right, they're doing a great job!








Good boy Nic, you are developing really good fingering skills!











Paige said, "I feel just like a real office lady!" And she looks just like one too! Amazing concentration and aptitude for a little Year 2 child.




Well done Jackson, your word processing is getting quite fast now, and congratulations on your efforts at using the correct fingering.

Another amazing little typist! Good one Trinity -you typed a very long story and concentrated for a long time! Looking good.






Liam is showing perfect fingering skills and concentration!

Well done Leo and Callum, you're trying really hard.

Term 1, 2007

THE FUTURE STARTS NOW !

Welcome to the Room 14 Blog site. It's been a beautiful,
long summer term. Room 14 children have been involved
in many different exciting learning opportunities. All are blossoming in the room 14 environment. Our academic and curriculum topics are being well covered, with noticeable improvements being acknowledged and rewarded. Only tall poppies are grown in Room 14 - this golden photo may be of tall daisies because Lesley's garden doesn't grow poppies, however the same sentiment is meant!

Early in the term one of the highlights was the Pool Party Picnic we shared with our buddy class Room 1. The weather was perfect and the company enjoyable. Since then all children in Room 14 have enjoyed a full swimming season - hardly a day has gone by without us having at least one swim. The culmination of all the swimming lessons was our Swimming Carnival.

Excitement was high while we were waiting for the carnival to start.

All is calm as we wait to get into the water safely.

Now we're ready to show the parents our awesome swimming skills!

In the Arts we have already had one field trip to the Suter Art Gallery to study Portraits.

So this week, as a follow up, we are painting our own self portraits. We've mixed paints to find a match with our skin colour, hair colour and eyes. We've looked in the mirror and tried to draw our own face shape. The portraits are looking great - almost as good as photographs!

Here are some photos of Room 14 children hard at work painting their self portraits.

Liam's portrait is amazingly like him!

Grace, this is a fabulous image of you!

Ryan's portrait is full of character, super job!


Ann, you look beautiful! Fantastic art work!

COME INTO ROOM 14 AND SEE MORE OF OUR FABULOUS PORTRAITS ON DISPLAY ON THE CLASSROOM WALLS. YOU WILL BE IMPRESSED!