Our Trees

Hi, everyone! Today we have been learning about our trees. We made poems. We would like to share some of them to you:

Barky, sharp, crackly
Brown as a chocolate milkshake
Holey as holey cheese

Reminds me of a windstorm

The tree is like a banana being peeled.

Spikey, bumpy, round

Brown as a piece of cardboard.

Bumpy as the bottom of shoes

Reminds me of a small piece of bark.

The trunk is still as a waterfall flowing down.

Hi there everyone.

We haven't put a blog up for a few weeks because there's been so much going on in Room 7. So... here goes......
We've been

• working on our school production....
• painting pictures......
• doing lots of basic fact practise
• lots of skipping - getting ready for the "jump off" tomorrow.....
• the field is really muddy and the boys have been getting really messy at lunchtime.....
• talking about where we feel close to God.....
• sharing about our treasures.......
• we painted pictures of our family treasures...
• writing recounts about our school production......

.... so you can see that we've all been working really hard.....

We would like to share our art work with you.
We were talking about sacraments. A sacrament is an experience of God in our life. Five students in our class participated in the Parish sacramental programme this year. Matt, Ciara, Caitlin, Brian, Toby, Josh, Anya, Cameron and Daniel made their First Holy Communion a couple of weeks ago. They had worked really hard to prepare for this and it was a pretty special occasion for their families.

Anyway, our pictures show the special places we feel the presence of God - and if you click on the link you can watch our powerpoint.

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Here's the link to our powerpoint presentation. If you click on the link you will be able to see all the paintings and captions up close. Tell us what you think of them!
THIS LINK ISN'T WORKING AT PRESENT..... SO WE'LL TRY TO FIX IT TOMORROW

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I'm experimenting with voice files .... We took the little yellow microphone to the pool and talked about what we had experienced in their lesson that day. listen to our comments!

We've been doing Green Homework this term. Each week we choose one special thing to do with a member of our family. It's fun to do different things for homework - some people have learned to cook, play a new sport or just have fun at the park together.

This term we are learning about pirates and treasure. There was lots of information about pirates on the internet and you tube. Caitlin has learned that they did some pretty horrible things to people. We found out that they ate biscuits with worms in them and Robert did some research about why people got scurvy. We've found out lots about the different types of guns and swords they used: like a cutless or a blunderbuss. Josh has learned that there are pirates still alive today.



Today is New Zealand Poetry Day so we decided we would all find or write poems about pirates and share them with you on our blog.

• Teah's poem


• Johniel's poem


• Ana's poem


• Robert's poem


• Sabina's poem


• Jasmine's poem


• Keller's poem


• Cameron's poem


• Brian's poem


• Caitlin's poem


• Daniel's poem


• Ciara's poem


• Shirley's poem


• Maddy's poem


• Anton's poem


• Josh's poem


• Christian's poem


• James F's poem


• Anya's poem


• Shannen's poem

Our teacher has to find out how to link to the poems and then we'll be able to share them with you!

Our School Art Exhibition

On the Wednesday 1st of July, St Francis Xavier School is going to have an art exhibition for you to see our artwork. It'll be on from 4 PM - 6 PM. Room 7 will be doing Camborne Walkway, Kakahu Cloaks and Monet paintings. Some people in the school will be selling the artwork. There will be pizza, music and more...

We made our cloaks on Term 1. We cut out feather shapes, made a plait and made a border of a Maori pattern. We started Term 2 with Outdoor Education Week. We went to the Camborne Walkway. We sketched some things that we might have wanted to paint and we learned how to sketch a reflection on water. We learned how to do brush strokes and mix colours. We went to the Monet and Impressionists exhibition at Te Papa. We looked at some of Monet's paintings and some by other artists. Later that week, we worked on a canvas that shows a Camborne Walkway or one of the Monet's or the other impressionists painting. We did a bridge painting by Monet. We painted the background then ripped up tiny pieces to make a mosaic collage bridge. We gave our pictures titles that described the paintings. I named my cloak Mountains to Sea because it had colours like mountains and sea. I named my canvas The Two Boat Houses and my bridge Blue Bridge.


At "I See Red", an exhibition from Pataka, we saw a lot of red paintings. We found out that there are many names for red, paintings tell us a story, red was a very expensive colour and it can make people hungry. After that, we created frames for our paintings by shaping pieces of paper, scrunching, twisting, bending and folding paper along the cardboard. All of our frames were shiny and gold like the ones we saw at Te Papa. We spray painted them with metallic gold and bronze. They looked like the frames were actually made out of metal and we think they look awesome.

You should come here to see our wonderful artwork. You should buy a painting to help us fundraise to get technology, school supplies and more learning equipment. You will be entertained there and you can have fun too.

Book Week at St Francis Xavier School

This week for Book Week we have special people coming to our school. They were coming to read to us. We have met some people from Parliament some authors some school principals and Anton's grandma!

Hon Peter Dunne snuggled into his chair and read "The house at Pooh Corner", to us. He brought the same book he used to read when he was a little boy. He got us to do the "tiddly pom" bit.
Queen Betty (Anton's grandma) put lots of expression into her reading. It looked like she thought it was really interesting. She has lots of books at home and she told us we were really good readers!
Hon Phil Goff read the Little Yellow Digger and the Whale. It sounded like he was picturing it in his mind and he was trying to get us to picture it in our minds too. He looked pretty nervous but he concentrated really hard on the words.
Hon Annette King had a wicked sense of humour. She used funny books and interesting voices.
Mr Aitken wore a tie with Winnie the Pooh on it.
Hon Winnie Laban said that her favourite author was AA Milne and when she was a little girl her friends used to call her Winnie the Pooh!
Mr Lucas had a scratchy voice but he read us a book about bats in the library. It was kind of spooky.

We have lots more books to read so we'll update you later in the week.
Bye for now...
Room 7