Our Art - Who we are, our whanau and what's important in nature

In week one and week two, Room 9 created artworks with symbols to represent: who they are, where they are from, who makes up their whanau and what's important to them.  They linked these to nature, patterns and colours. 

Here are a few of our videos on our artworks.  Come visit Room 9 to see them on display.

Artwork and voice over by Bede:
Link to Bede's artwork video

Artwork and voice over by Bronson:
Link to Bronson's artwork video

Artwork and voice over by Reuben Woodhead:
Reuben's artwork video

Artwork and voice over by Taiora:

Artwork and voice over by Lillian:
A link to Lillian's artwork video

Artwork and voice over by Gabrielle:

A Link to Gabrielle's artwork video

Artwork and voice over by Zahn:

A Link to Zahn's artwork video

More to come soon....

This week in science: rolling marbles

This week we investigated rolling marbles.  Our focus was to ask questions we can investigate. We used a graphic organiser to focus us on what we saw, what we thought was happening and what we wondered.  

Firstly, we rolled a marble on plastic 10 times and put stickers when the marble ended.  We measured  our results. We observed and came up with some ideas as to why the marbles went differing distances. We then wondered all about marbles, and gravity, and speed, and... Loads of other things.  

Next, we're going to turn our wonderings into questions we can investigate. We'll then explore marbles again and try and answer our questions.  

Here's some photos of our science on Monday.

Holograms

This week we made and investigated holograms.  We made plastic rhombus pyramids and projected videos from the ipad onto them.  The videos were specially designed to make a hologram.  

We had a lot of wonderings about how these worked.  On Wednesday and Thursday, we played around with the holograms some more.  We tried to answer some of our questions by making the plastic template in different sizes, shapes and angles.  We are in the process of making videos, books and publishing our writing.  Here's a few photos of us working and some writing.

Welcome to 2016

Welcome to 2016!!  I am so excited about this year. Please check out this blog; have a look around.  We will be using this blog regularly.  It's where we'll showcase what we're up to.  It would be a great idea to sign up to the RSS feed or the " Follow Us by Email" link on the sidebar. 

I look forward to sharing Room 9 adventures with you.
Mrs Young