Fabulous Faces

Check out our Fabulous Faces using crayon and dye. We were learning to show tone of skin colour in our drawings. We noticed there were many different shades to our face and we tried to identify these with different coloured crayons. We then used dye to make our faces fabulous!!

What do you think?

Goal Setting - Mindmapping style

This week we have been setting goals to direct our learning for the term. We used a mindmapping structure to form our goals and state what strategies we will use to achieve them.
Before we started we discussed a set of criteria to follow when creating a mindmap. This is what we came up with:

* Our branches needed to look 'organic' i.e they needed to look like tree branches.
* Each branch needed to be the length of the writing.
* Each branch needed to be coloured differently.
* We needed to make our sentences short, using keywords.
* We needed to allow space to add to our mind map at the end of the term.
* We needed to add pictures to support our ideas.

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The Treaty!

What a great start to the year! On the first week of school we have discussed the qualities of a successful classroom. From this we have made at set of guidelines we wish to follow for the rest of the year. We have all agreed to follow these expectation to ensure every can be the best they can be!!

Welcome to 2011!!

Wow it's 2011!! I hope you all had a fantastic holiday, out and about enjoying the sun. School starts this Wednesday so make sure you are all ready to work hard and get stuck into a busy term. Room 13 is looking the best it has ever been - new carpet, new blinds and a great looking teacher!!

See you Wednesday!

Mantle of the Expert: NZ Documentary Designs: Day Four

Check out the latest post on the Mantle of the Expect Blog. Rose, Kieran and Rupert sound like they are having a fantastic time with Mrs Gain every Wednesday. Well done!

Mantle of the Expert: NZ Documentary Designs: Day Four: "This morning we received a letter from Margaret Ellis, Cyril’s younger sister. A Letter from Margaret Ellis She agreed to come in and be ..."