Onomatopoeia Art

In class we are looking at poetic devises that make writing effective.  This week we studied onomatopoeia.
We listened to songs which contain onomatopoeia and watched old Batman and Robin videos. We learnt that onomatopoeia are words that sound like the objects they name or the sounds those objects make. We then looked at Pop Art by Roy Lichtenstein.  We used his style to create our onomatopoeia art.  Take a look at what we created.

Protest Songs

We are learning to understand how songs from different times have promoted human rights.
We worked in groups to analyse and interpret information about protest songs and the situations in which they were written.
We then developed a group presentation about our protest song to persuade the class of its importance.
Here are some of the PowerPoints we made to accompany our presentations.

Partner Poems

One of our reading rotation activities is to work in pairs to perform a poem.  One person sits on a chair with their hands behind their back and reads a peom.  The other person hids behind the reader and puts their hands through.  Their job is to do the actions of the poem.  Here are some that we performed.

DigiPoem

As part of our reading program we are creating visual representations of poems we have read and wrote.  Here are some that we made at school this week.  We would love to know what you think about them.
I'm a snake by Aura and Rhyanna
Poems by Banjo Patterson created by Reon
Untitled by Maddie and Ellie
Life is like a show By Brianna
The aliens have landed by Ken Nesbitt
I don't know what to do today By Sam
Class Gas by Jense
The Tale of Sonny by Findlay
Coppers by Findlay

How Do You Learn Best?

What are Multiple Intelligences?

It has been claimed by some researchers that our intelligence or ability to understand the world around us is complex. Some people are better at understanding some things than others.

Instead of having one intelligence it is claimed that we have several different intelligences. These are listed below:

Kinaesthetic - Body Smart Linguistic - Word Smart Logical - Number Smart Interpersonal - People Smart Intrapersonal - Myself Smart Musical - Music Smart Visual/Spatial - Picture Smart Naturalistic - Nature Smart

What special intelligences do you have? You can find out by answering a few simple questions

 Click on the link below to take the test.

Tell use your results as a comment.



Draw A Stickman

Game of the week.  Have a go at this fun game and watch your drawing come to life.

Protest Songs

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Are You A Good Sport?

Are you competitive? Is winning the most important thing? Or do you simply enjoy playing the game regardless of the final result? How you answer these questions might give you some insight into whether you’re a good sport or not.

What do you think about Luis Suarez actions? What do you think of his 10 match ban?

Room 8's Assembly

On Friday it was Room 8's turn to host the school assembly and a fantastic job they did too.  Many thanks to the following students who rose to the challenge.  Caley, Lucy and Kayla for writing an awesome script.  Anna aka The Joker and Rebekah for being super presenters  Lucy and Kayla for presenting the RISE awards and Logan and Luke for introducing The Super Sisters video - written and starring Maddie and Grace, featuring Fraser, Logan and Luke and filmed by Ellie.  Well done everyone for all your efforts for an awesome assembly which was enjoyed by all.

 

 

Waimea Intermediate Triathlon

Brainteaser of the Week

The Farmer and his Fruit.

A farmer in Australia owns a beautiful pear tree. He supplies fruit to a nearby grocery store. The store owner has called the farmer to see how much fruit is available for him to purchase.

The farmer knows that the main trunk has 24 branches. Each branch has 12 boughs and each bough has 6 twigs. Since each twig bears one piece of fruit, how many plums will the farmer be able to sell?

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