Fabulous Character Costumes

As part of Book Week Room O (and the rest of MSS) had the opportunity to dress up and impersonate their favourite book character. In usual Room O fashion the students went all out and turned up with impressive costumes, props and in-character personalities. Well done!

Kitchener Park Wetland Field Trip

Here we are on a visit to Kitchener Park as part of our unit on wetlands. We did lots of interesting activities, learnt new information and had a fantastic time! The activities shown in the pictures are invertebrate catching and identification, water quality assessments, water temperature measurement, water clarity measuring, algae identification and talks to the students by Gavin Scott, the parks custodian. Thank you to the parents for all your help and to Gavin Scott for his part in our field trip. 

Enviro Day

ENVIRO DAY

A few weeks ago we had Enviro Day. We had a lot of work cut out for us. First we got straight into the bird competition, four kids from are class and one creative parent (Thank you Mr Morritt) got selected to enter the competition from are class. First we made the body for it, with three buckets.  Then we created feathers, legs, beak, and extra details for our Tui. When we were finishing it, another group was picked to make kiwifruit and banana sorbet (it was meant to be ice-cream…)(Mrs Reay, Thank you for helping).The rest of the class was split into two groups. One group, headed into the garden doing weeding and de-heading, while the other group went to pick up rubbish. After that we did an activity which we did using recycled provided materials, after watching a video about wind turbines.

Then when the bird sculpture had been finished, we all went to see what it looked like. In the afternoon we played a range of exciting enviro games. At the end of the day we were tired out, but had lots of fun!!!!!!

By Cassidy and Hannah

MOTHERS DAY CARDS

A couple of weeks ago Room O decided to make some mothers day cards. We used coloured paper, pens, printed pictures off goggle images and, well, our own hands!!, Mr Ward took a picture of all our Mothers day cards. It may of took a really long time but at the end of the day we gave them to our mums and they absolutely loved them!!

by Kyle.

Bird Artwork

A few weeks ago a lovely lady came to teach the senior team how to draw a shag.        

We followed a process. First we drew the out line of the shag, then we added the wings. Next we added more detail to the shag, then colour, then the background to our excellent shags. We had a fantastic time.

 By Dylan

NZ, My Country and Me Animation

For two weeks Room O worked on a stop motion animation using Lego and making models of landmarks using paper, tape, & glue. A stop animation is an animation by moving figures a little at a time then taking a picture, moving the figure, etc, etc. Each picture is 0.125 seconds so we needed 8 images to make up one second of animation. The class worked in groups of four on it. Then two people narrated the scenes on Movie Maker.

By Ray

Crazy Hat Day

crazy hat day

I walk in the school. Something felt different. I saw a hat and another and another etc etc. I remembered that it was crazy hat day at school.

I forgot my hat! L

There were small hats, big hat, colourful hats and hand made hats but I didn't have a hat noooooooooooooo XP

In the end I became happy because Jaxin gave me a hat for the day J

           

By Keaton, with input from Connor        

Athletics Day 2013

Here are photos of our MSS Athletics Day. The weather was fantastic and we had plenty of sunshine. The athletes had a superb day and modeled sportsmanship and determination. We have some incredible athletes at MSS!!!
Mr Ward with the outstanding help of Media Mob Member Sophie.