Trip to The Hole in the Rock.

We saw lots of dolphins and even a baby. A fantastic day to end the school year.

Super Ninja Bunnies with all their power and might. Christmas Parade 2015 won by Paihia School

SNB.... We HEAR the SNBs will be hopping around tomorrow.....

Way of Life by Ezra

Three small fish are swimming in the deep sea. A shady shark appears and gobbles up one of the fish. Luckily the other fish escape.

Bunnies on a Wintery Day by Ocean

The bunnies were having fun frolicking in the snow. The old man hang glider, who didn't like bunnies, swooped down and one by one grabbed the bunnies in his claw.

Super Spider Teleporter

Super Spider crawled around the garden and teleported himself to the high mountain. A tourist was taking a photo of the mountain. Nasty Super Spider photo bombed the picture.

Animal Jam Mount Shiver Disaster by Mia

Snowy lives in an icy cave in the mountains. He thinks he is safe until a pack of wolves appear when he is sliding in the ice. Luckily the leader of the pack is a kind Arctic Wolf and he encourages the wolves to leave Snowy alone.

Our first animations with Google Slides

Sarah - The Hungry Wolf

Today I have learnt how to use google slides to create an animation. First I thought about my story, then I found my background. I found my characters and put them on the first slide. Then I had to copy and paste that p slide and move the characters a little bit. I kept doing this until the wolf ate the bunny! I am now working on the writing the story from the point of view of the wolf.

Jasmine - Spiders Web

  

Reitu - Leap Frog

Jared - Nemo Finds a Friend

 

Zac - Under the Sea

Vaseline Saucer and Novelty Vegetable Animals

Lots of creating with flowers and vegetables in Room 6.

Paihia School Pet Day

Tainui - German shepherd/Husky/Blue heeler cross . Kellen's dog is a winner.

Learn, create , share. What fun!

More weaving harakeke. In the end we created a bunch of Ocean Pearls for Moana and Tom.

Weaving with harakeke

Deep concentration as we weave our Ocean Pearl flowers. Thank you so much Moana and Tom.

Moana Rita Ocean Pearls Weaving

Room 6 was lucky to learn how to weave ocean pearl flowers from harakeke. Ezra's mum Moana and her partner Tom, patiently taught everyone to 'split and tear ' then 'weave back and down' until everyone had created their unique flower . Adhering to the kaupapa , each student gave their first flower to Moana. These flowers will be treated and then will become a koha for the people who attend workshops on the Paihia Village Green . From there, the flowers will travel the world and the cycle of Moana Rita Ocean Pearls will continue.

Lego Friends Singing Disaster Part 2 by Mia and Zoe

Lego Friends Singing Disaster Part 1 by Zoe and Mia. Self directed learning.

Fun with The Girls. More self directed learning by Sarah Blackman

Maui and Tieke by Saffyre....Self directed learning at home

Maui and The Giant Fish by Ezra and Zac

After reflection we have improved our video

Maui and the Giant Fish by Ezra and Zac

This first attempt is quite short so we want to try again and add more detail.

The Kiwi and the Cat by Kiriwai and Tarjzon

Kiwi poked predator cat so cat ran away and hid. Kiwi's egg rolled around but it hatched safely.

Maui and the Giant Fish by Jared and Mitchell

Maui hid in the waka and went fishing. He punched himself on the nose and used his blood for bait. As soon as he had thrown his magic jawbone, he felt a big tug. He pulled and pulled until a giant fish came to the surface. It became the North Island of New Zealand according to the legend.

The Snail Race in Insectopia by Cilla, Matthew, Gyanne, Zoe and Sarah

Alien Destruction by Emily and Zac.

My sister and I experimented at home with animation. Using my lego and other toys we created this video. However, we know that next time we need to start with a basic story that has a beginning, middle and end. It was fun anyway

Kiwis for Kiwis - An Animation by Jesse, TK and Tarquinn

Ethan and Will's Animation - Car Aliens - The Full Movie

Wynter-Rose - Lego Friends Episode 1

I have been learning how to create animations at school. Today I got to bring my chromebook home so I decided to create an animation at home. I got a bit bored at home so I stared at my lego and I decided I would just start playing with it. I remembered I had my chromebook so I decided to make an animation. The story begins with a family and their horse. They are cooking chicken while the horse is outside. The next day they go out for pizza and when they come home they go to sleep. When they wake up they go to the cafe and get a piece of cake and when they return to their home they are sad to find their horse has been run over. Watch out for Episode 2.... Wynter-Rose

Kaikohekohe Digital Learning Symposium. Zoe, Mia and Will sharing their learning about making videos with animation.

Native Kiwi by Saffyre .Room 6 has been learning to use poetry devices like alliteration, simile, hyperbole, personification, metaphor and onomatopoeia.

Kiwi

Kiwi dashing here and there,

Sliding through the forest floor,

Crunching crickets,mantis munching,beetle battling,

Kiwi peeks through the darkness

and damp of the tangled ferns,

Night covers the forest like a blanket,

Then turns to day as fast as putting frosting on a cake

Crack!crack! Kiwi’s egg is breaking!

Baby kiwi pops out and searches for its dad.

Goodnight kiwi!!!

By Saffyre.H

  

Alien Kid ShakeOut by Will, Zoe and Mia

We have been learning about how to use Stop Motion Animation and WeVideo to create stories.  We have made this animation especially to share at our Kaikohekohe Digital Learning Symposium at Northland College.  We will be sharing our animation with other students as well as teaching them how to use the apps to create their  own animations.  We have also written a step by step guide as part of our procedural writing.  We are very excited to be going to the Symposium and sharing our learning.  Thanks to Tania, our fantastic Manaiakalani Outreach Facilitator.

History of the World Cup. Scotland v All Blacks.

A short animated video by Zoe, Mia and Zac. They have since reflected on this version and have ideas for creating an improved video.

ShakeOut. DROP. COVER. HOLD. Room 6

Today Paihia School participated in the national earthquake drill ( New Zealand ShakeOut ) to ensure that we will be better prepared to survive and recover from a damaging earthquake.

Max's First Car Trip by Reitu

This is Reitu's first attempt at video animation.

The White Kiwi by Zoe, Mia and Ocean.

Zoe, Mia and Ocean started by writing a simple storyboard with a beginning, middle and end. They then used Stop Motion and We Video to animate a video. This is their effort after they had reflected on their learning.

Kiwi's Lost Egg by Saffyre and Zac

Saffyre and Zac reflected on their learning and made changes to their animation. Here is the improved version

Kiwis for Kiwi. They live on.

As part of Save the Kiwi month of October, Room 6 has been reading about kiwis and their characteristics. Wynter- Rose and Jasmine wrote a simple story about kiwis and then used Stop Motion and We Video to create a video with animation.

First attempt at animation by Saffyre and Mia

The chicken destroyed the blob monsters by sitting on them. The nasty blob monsters threw the poor chicken in the rubbish.

Stop Motion Animation

With the help of ICT facilitators, Chris and Tania, Room 6 had great fun learning how to animate stories. We added effects and sound and can't wait to improve our skills in future learning.

Shirley's blobbie man.

Shirley learnt with Room 6 to create and add animation.

Lesane and Kanye - The Car Race Animation

Today we learnt how to use Stop Motion Animation on our chromebooks. We made our characters out of playdough and lego. We made a background black and made a road and a tunnel out of coloured paper. We discovered how to use animation and stuff. Then we put our video into WeVideo and added our sound effects and title.

Rugby World Cup

Ezra has researched countries that are playing in the Rugby World Cup. He has added links (using thinglink) to the draw. There are team photos, training photos and a photo of the world cup.

Kandinsky Circles

Room 6 has been learning about an artist called Wassily Kandinsky.
We created some art work with concentric circles using hot and cold colours in pastels. We are going to experiment with water colours too.

Quality Blog Comments

:Room 6 has been learning how to make quality blog comments. First, we read comments on various blogs and discussed what makes quality blog comments. After that, we watched a video which explained the characteristics of quality blog comments. While watching the video, we used the app VideoNot.es to make our own notes. Here are Sarah's notes... "commenting is a great way to tell the author of blogs how well they have done\commenting is fun and interesting\always try to be positive\don't put too many exclamation marks\always put a question at the end of your comment and dont forget the question mark\make a connection to what they have written\be careful with humour and make sure your comment is helpful\always reread your comments to make sure you did not make a mistake\be careful about what you post because it is where everybody can see it\whatever you post is permanent\ comments on blogs

Paihia Year 5 Netball Team. They played hard and practised well. Sarah Blackman won Player of the Year. Saffyre Harper was voted The Most Improved Player. Congratulations to the whole team.

Future Paihia Ferns Netball Team in the making. Paihia Year 5 netball team.

The girls practised well and played hard. Sarah Blackman won Player of the Year and Saffyre won The Most Improved Player. Congratulations to all the team and Thank you to Tarjzon's mum for her coaching and support.

Sum dog Northland Maths Competition

Room 6 came 3rd overall in the Northland Maths Competition.
Ezra came 10th and Zac was 11th in the Student Leaderboard while others made it into the top 50 group. Well done Room 6!

Literacy Day

Congratulations to Zoe , who won first prize for her book review in Diorama form. The Curse of Crumbly Castle is one of the stories from Stories for 8 Year Olds by Kate Sheppard.

Literacy Day

Congratulations to Sarah who won first prize for her amazing 3D book review of James and the
Giant Peach by Roald Dahl. The papier mâché peach looked good enough to eat!

Literacy Day. Well known author, Stacy Gregg, explains how she researched the Siena Palio to help write her latest book.

Two room 6 winners. Zac as a Roman character from a non fiction book and Kellen for his pop up book.

Room 6 learning and creating for Literacy Day

By Legacy and Kiriwai

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