Easter!!!

Happy Easter everybody!

Hope you enjoy the holiday!

From Lucy :)

Technicraft

For Technicraft I am doing ICT. At ICT we update, our blogs, take photos and post them on our blog, and heaps of other cool stuff. So far I have put 2 posts on ( including this one) and made my self the really cool voki. We have had only 2 lessons but I am looking forward to more.

Today I took some photos of what I do at lunchtime and here they are. My friend in the photo is Annie Brodie, someone in my Technicraft group and who I play with at lunchtime.

Lex Benson Cooper Art

This Term, for our art, we have been studying Lex Benson Cooper. He is an famous New Zealand artist.

We painted a picture that was like something he would create. This is how we made them:

First we printed of some eigthties wallpaper and chose the one we wanted..Then we painted over them with the colors we wanted. We looked at the shading and texture to get it just right. To paint the Still Life, we traced what we saw, not what we thought we saw on a piece of nice paper. We then traced it onto the painting so we didn't have to rub out the outline if we drew it wrong. Then we painted the shape. We had to be really careful to bring out the shape and make it 3-D. When the painting was finished, we thought up a good name for it. I called mine, A Burst of Flame.

Here is my finished product.

The Arrival

Today we went to Wellington.

First we went to the film archive. We watched a DVD about New Zealand History. It contained things like old kiwi adds, clips about famous people (Kate Sheppard, Whina Cooper) and much more. After this we went to the park to have some lunch and a play. Then we went to the St James Theatre to watch The Arrival. We had to wait a while for the show to start but is didn't matter! THe show was amazinng! The backgrounds were sort of sketched and the other props were just as beautiful!The actors were amazing and all in all the show was fantastic. Some parts I didn't get/ were hard to understand but it was still cool.

I reccomend it to anyone over 10, especially immagrants!

The Arrival

On Friday the 12th of March, Years 7 and 8 are going to The Arrival By Shaun Tan. The Arrival is a sophisticated picture book with beautiful pictures. It follows the life of several characters as they leave their homes and journey to places unknown. It ties in nicely with our Standing Strong unit. At school we are writing sentences to describe every picture and it is very hard! It is part of The Wellington Arts festival.

We also will be traveling to the National Archives to view archive footage of Parihaka and famous kiwi pioneers.

Zone

On Tuesday, Muritai set off for the southern zone at huia pool. I came 3rd in the 2 lengths freestyle and 3rd in the 1 length freestyle.

Muritai did really well against the other schools.

Swimming Sports 2010

Today we did swimming sports. There were 5 heats.1 length Freestyle, 1 length Backstroke,1 length Breathstroke,1 length Butterfly and 2 lengths Freestyle. I participated in 2 lengths freestyle, 1 length freestyle and 1 length breathstroke. I came 1st in my heat for breath stroke and 3rd in the final. For the 2 freestyle's I came 4th. Room 23 came 2nd in the Class Relay and Sanson came 2nd in the House Relay. On Tuesday I'm going to the zone.