Set And Props/Production

Hello,

For the past few weeks Kereru Class have been making set and props for our production that we are doing at the end of the year. The production is called ” Alice in Westland.” It is about two possums that meet a girl named Alice and they jump down a rabbit hole, the three end up in a random world, the world has colourful bushes, tweedle brothers, a gumboot festivel and a vicious queen.

Yesterday we had done a whole school production, I think it was about one hour long. All of the classes have chosen a song to dance to well we are changing around on stage. Kereru Class have been working really hard on set and props, we have made three bushes, one gumboot sign, and a lot of gumboots. Our production has got five scenes. We have a Sister, Dakota is playing that role. Caleb M is the Father and a Guard, Indi and Finnian are the possums, Kobe, Max A and Max M are the Tweedle Brothers, Loren is the Mad Hatter, Myron is the March Hare, Sophie is the Vicious Queen, Josh is the other Guard, Tara and Peyton are the Narrators and I am Alice. Our class doesn’t have long to finish everything. I am excited to perform it on the day. Thanks for reading this weeks blog post.

Who would you like to be in the production?

Do you think we will be able to Finish the set and props before the production or do you think we will we run out of time?

 

West Coast Athletics

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On Tuesday the 4th of November, 12 year 5/6 from Kaniere school when to Greymouth. We went there for West Coast Athletics, all of us had qualifyed in at least one event. In the morning we got ready to go in the car to Greymouth, I was in a car with Tara, Loren and MaxM. When we got there we sat down on the grass and waited for other schools to arrive. After most schools had arrived the orginiser of the event told us what event was first, It was the 800 meters. The event was delayed a bit because there were road works. I was in the 800, we lined up on the starting line. As we took of we all merged, I stayed in the front group of people. We had to do two laps of the 400 meter track. I came 1st, and my friend got 6th. I was really proud of myself. After everyone who had to run the long distance had finish we were in our next event. It was High Jump for the year 6 girls, I wasn’t good in this one. We got told the order we would go in, I made most of the jumps strait away, but then it got a bit higher and then I didn’t make it over, I got up to about 1.10 m high. Then I didn’t make it over and got out.I  for the 800m

Have you ever been to West coast Athletics?

 

Three Meter Egg Drop

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This week for STEM we are doing a three meter egg drop challange. We have to make something that will protect a egg if we drop it from three meters, but the egg has to be seen at all times so you can’t cover it fully like with cotten buds. You can get bonus points for creativity. My idea is a rocket with a window where you can put the egg, it will have a parashoot, heaps of colours and heaps of cotten buds.

This is what I have done so far.

What should I add to make it better?

Gymnastics Competion

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This weekend I am going to be doing a Gymnastics competion in Hokitika, we have to do four apparatus they are Beam, Bar, Volt and Floor. On Saturday me, Loren, Lucy and Oilvia are going to help out and do some just dances. The grade that I am in is Silver. I have to do a back hip circle on the Bar a handstand on the Beam a back walk over on Floor and a big run on the Volt. My favorite apparataust is Beam, Bar or Volt I don’t like floor but I don’t mind it.

Have you ever competed in a gymnastics competion?

Stand Up Protests NZ

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This week Kereru Class has been learning about desputes/protests in New Zealand in our reading time. We are doing this a lead up to a novel study. I am in a group with Sophie and Tara, we have decided to learn and read about the Waterfront Dispute. Every group has to fill out a slide with questions about what subuject/topic had been reading.

Other groups have been learning about Womans Suffrage Petition, Depression Riots and Ge- Free Marches, that is just some of them. Today we are prescenting them to the whole class so we have to of finished our slides.

Here are some facts about the Waterfront Dispute…

  • The Waterfront Dispute started on the 13th of February 1951 and ended 15th of July 1951
  • It lasted for 151 days
  • The bosses locked the Watersiders out, saying they weren’t allowed to work until the did what the bosses were telling them to do.
  • After the Dispute many men had trouble finding jobs because they had been involved in the protest.
  • The government sent Navy people to replace the waterfront workers.

What protest would you want to learn about?

Weaving Art

Good Morning,

Last term our whole class made some weaving art. Our weaving art is where we had to draw a design on a black piece of card with a art pencil, I drew one called Moana. After that we had to plan what colours we would use for our background and design. The next day we started to colour it with pastel, first we had to colour in our design with different shades of the same colour so we could bend them together, I used the colour blue and green. After we finished the background and the design we got a ruler and a craft knife and cut lines in the black paper so we could stick sticks in the cut lines. We had to make sure our lines were spaced out evenly. When we had our lines even we got some sticks and spaced them out evenly. It was a fun process.

What pattern would you like to draw?

This one is mine.                        This is everyone’s.

Basket Ball

Most of my class and I went to basketball on Tuesday the 22nd of August.In the morning me and my cousin Zara walked to the High School. Our first game was at 9:30 then 10:00 after that 11:00 the last was 12:00 but then we had semis and then the final.

There were three different schools there in total, there was Kaniere, St Marys and Hoki Primary. Tara,Dakota Sophie were in my team. We ended up getting into the semi finals and we were so close to get into the finals we just had to win that one game, then we won and we made it into the finals!!! Tara was off for the first 2 minutes then  it was me for the next 2, I took off Sophie and Sophie took Dakota off. We were down by 2 goals so we would have to make a great comeback, all of a sudden Tara put up a shot, it went in  the score was 2 1 to them I put up a shot that one went in the score was tyed  at 2 2, we only had one minute to go it was so close, we only had 10 secounds, then all of a sudden Sophie put up a shot it went round and round, it went in!!! it was 3 2 next the whissle blew and we won!!! It was so fun.

Would you want to do basket ball for the day?

West-A-Math!!!!!

On Wednesday the 6th of August Me, Sophie, Tara and Peyton did a math compition at westland High School. Last year Me, Sophie, Tara and Austin came 2nd, there was about 12 teams then. This year Me, Sophie, Tara and Peyton came 3rd out of about 15 teams. We left school at 10:00 o’clock and got there so we could watch the year 7’s. After we watched the year 7’s we were up. I was the runner and Sophie Tara and Peyton worked it out mostly. It was really fun!!!

 

Poutini And Waitiki Covers

The last few weeks we have been making a Poutini and Waitiki comic book. First Miss Lang read the story to us, then we had to write and draw the main things in the little chunk that Miss Lang read to us. Next we did colour, we had to in our pictures that we drew. The next day we did the same thing but on a different page. Today I have all most finished the front cover I just have to colour in the mountains and the sky. Once we are done we can bring them home.

 

What would you put on your front cover?

 

Snow Ball Writing

Afew weeks ago we did something called snow ball writing. It is where you write the begining to your story. Once you are done you scrunch your peace of paper up then through it to the frount of the room. After you are done that you pick a random peace of paper up then write their middle, you do that for the end too. This is what mine turned out to be…

 

 

“ Has everyone put their stuff in the bus?” Miss Lang shouted. The whole Kererū class was going to camp. As they left, Meia saw Indi and waved, Indi waved back. All of a sudden we stopped. There was a truck stuck in the mud. We couldn’t reverse because they closed the road behind us, then it started raining. 

 

Miss Lang the bus driver reversed the bus but then the bus fell through a hole in the ground and ended up in a grave. All of a sudden there was a zombie, Indi got a rock and threw it at the zombie and it fell dead. More zombies came but Max M and Max A had a shotgun and killed all the zombies, the bus escaped “ Yay!” All the people in the bus said with relief. After a bit the bus got stuck in the mud, everyone passed out because of the heat and died.

The End