Goodbye Year 4 - Welcome to Year 5

Goodbye from Miss Burne

Goodbye Pt England! Thank you for the good times kids, I will always remember my time with you. If you see me at Auckland Museum, make sure you stop and say hello. Thank you to all the amazing staff - you are truely inspirational people. Happy Holidays and good luck next year. Miss Burne x

Year 4's Prizegiving film

Waimaria's Term Four Animation

Omari's Toy Story

Violet Beauragarde by Rima

Rima has written a character description of Violet Beauregarde from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Derek the Dinosuar on School TV

In Room Ten the Zebras reading group have been experimenting with stop motion animation and some toys from our toy box. They have made the following movie in imovie  and have worked with Mr J on creating their own sound effects.  It was shown on School TV today What a clever bunch of children.


Remember to leave them a comment on their blog and tell them how many hands you see. It is a trick question.  First to leave a comment with the right answer wins a prize.

Year 4's Making their OWN blogs

We have been busy in Room Ten getting our year fours ready for Netbook classes next year. Next year the year 4's will become year 5's where they use their own blog for sharing their work with the world.

Toma and Paris have already shared their post on their own blogs, check them out and leave them a comment to encourage them to post more.
 

http://pesparisk.blogspot.co.nz/

http://pestomaa.blogspot.co.nz/

More year 4 blogs to follow soon.

Pt England Beach by Omari

The following is a story that Omari wrote for his writing test.

Charlie Bucket By PJ

The Huge Giant, by Adriel

Charlie Buket by Adam

We have been reading the story Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Adam has written a character description of Charlie to share with you.

Violet Beauregarde by Alizhay

Alizhay has recorded her first story in imovie to share on our blog. It is a character description of Violet from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Please leave her a comment.

Violet Beauregard by Amber

We have been reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as a class. Amber has written a character description of Violet Beauregard. She hopes you enjoy it and leave her lots of comments.

Venetia Writes About The Three Little Pigs

Alizhay's First Movie

Alizhay is new to Pt England. Welcome Alazhay!

She has made lot's of new friends and has been learning how to use the ipad to make movies.

This is the first movie she has made which shows a jumping bunny that we made as part of our inquiry topic.  Well done Alizhay, you are very clever.

Toys Alive by Elizabeth G

Elizabeth has made this animation in Hyperstudio and imovie. She has been experimenting with adding and making her own sound effects and using titles. Great job Elizabeth

Guy Fawkes By Alice

On a Monday there was a cold blue sky at night. When the star's shone bright blue my family and I lit firework's.


 Lifting up their brown hand's, my family pulled out fireworks from a box. Mum was so excited she jumped up with laughter, my sister jumped up too and danced around like a clown. The little children had sparkler's, it was fun to draw our names in the air.

The first firework was colourful, it was red, pink, green and blue, it exploded in the sky, “BOOM”! When that fireworks finished we got the second firework out,  it was could Zombie Dombie. My oldest brother held the long stick while my other brother lit the fireworks. It looked like a sparkling yellow star.


 As I  walked inside my house I heard a loud noise so I ran outside and I saw firework’s  popping out of a bottle. I screamed ‘Arggh’  because I was frightened.

My cousin’s ,Uncle’s and Auntie’s came to join the celebrations. That’s when it was extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra fun! My mum said in Samoan’’ok, well now that the children are here we have to give them sparkler’s’. We gave them sparkler’s than the adult’s did the big fireworks.  Soon it was all over and everyone went home. My mum said in Samoan’’ Goodbye’‘ and we went inside to sleep. As I pulled the covers up to my chin I imagined colourful, beautiful, sparking fireworks. I could not wait for next year.

Room Ten's Film Festival Movie

It is that time again...  the Manaiakalani film festival at Sylvia Park!

Room Ten set themselves a challenge this year to try new things with green screen and imovie.
A team of children have worked, problem solved on a regular basis to create the following movie. Our goal was to create an effect where a student (Suli) could be the head of a cartoon character.  Our main character finds himeself in a tricky situation, trapped in a colouring book. Our movie is not perfect, but we learnt a lot and we really enjoyed ourselves making it.

Well done to our actors, Suli, Alice, Lukis and Venetia.
A great job from our animators Waimaria, Adam, Paris, Zack, Adriel, Elizabeth, Toma.
Big thanks to our clever thinkers Dartanian, Taunese, Suli who helped with the problem solving and planned the script.

We hope you enjoy it! Please leave us a comment - we love your feedback.




check out some more movies from the film festival here

For topic we have been learning how to make toys that move.

We have been making a toy woodpecker which oscilates, which means it moves in a steady ryhthm.

Why not try and make one for yourself. It is lots of fun.