Montana WOW Awards Show

Wearable Arts in Room 7

We turned the ordinary into the extraordinary by making our own wearable arts. This week we've been working on making things last longer by recycling them into something new.

First we planned out what we're going to make and how we would make it. We thought about what we could make- and Theo made a series of sketches that really drew our attention. The lightbulbs all went on and everyone was turned onto Theo's ideas because they showed us what we could do! We thought WOW!

Now it's time to MAKE the outfits. We're doing papier mache, painting, stapling, ripping, attaching, cutting and creating. We're using cardboard, bubble wrap, silwer bubble paper, newspaper, plastic bags, aluminium foil.... anything that's had a previous use as something else and is now recycled. Soon we'll be showing our costumes in the St Francis Xavier Wearable Arts Festival. Make sure you're there to see our WOWABLE show!

Take a look at the New Zealand WOW Wearable Arts above.

This is what the Room 7 WOWABLE WORKROOM looks like!

OUR MADONNA Our pictures of Mary celebrate Mary’s Assumption (our school mass on 15 August). Our pictures of Mary show a Maori Mary. In some of our pictures her dress was tapa cloth and others had kowhaiwhai patterns. There were two different pictures which we used to get the size of her head and body right. In the paintings she looks like a Maori mother holding Jesus. Her clothes have Maori patterns and she’s wearing pounamu tiki and earings. These paintings were done by a New Zealand painter called Julia Lynch. MADONNA is a famous title for Mary and lots of famous paintings and sculptures have been named MADONNA. One of Julia Lynch’s paintings is called Southern Madonna. They’re really beautiful and they remind us that Mary is peaceful, graceful, caring and kind. Check back on Monday to see photos of our paintings.

What room7 is doing this week

Water Safety

The whole of St Francis Xavier school went to Tawa swimming pool. Everyone took turns at swimming but some people didn't go swimming because their parents are worried that they could be sick or they don't like to swim. People in diffrent groups learnt different kind of strokes like catterpiller,breast strocke,freestyle and backstroke.People also learn't how to float. Room7 had swimming interviews on how they are doing in their swimming. You need to know how to swim when there is a flood, tsunami or if you fall off a boat. We also used life jacket's to keep safe.

Hi
It's time to go swimming again!
Listen to our Room 7 swimmer from 2009.




Oops... that wasn't about swimming at all.
Watch this space!

At the Orchestra

At the orchestra we listened to fantastic music that was from the 1600's to the 1900's. The beautiful music was played at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington.

Musical instruments played music from great movies, shows and a long time ago. There was a funny person who gave the conductor a wig and a stick.... because that's what conductors sometimes did in France in the 1600's. Monteverdi was using a big, thick bamboo stick to conduct the orchestra when he he wacked the stick on his foot. He didn't go to the hospital straight away...and ten weeks later he died of blood poisoning!!! The trumpet played the Indiana Jones music.

Dylan liked the Mozart music best. Thomas liked the Bethoven bit. The ballet bit was good too. Xavier thought he looked like a ballerina man. We heard lots of new instruments. We learned some new ways of clapping too. So have fun conducting your orchestra... but make sure you don't whack your foot too!!!