ROOM 4 CALENDAR ART # LOOKS AMAZING !!

Dear Parents, Whanau and Caregivers

Please be sure to put an order in for your child's calendar art.  We worked very hard on them and WOW they look great.  You can see the original in the office and place your order.  They range between $10 and $12 and help to raise money for Cloverlea school, too.

They are an ideal, affordable Christmas present for whanau or friends and look fantastic on the office or kitchen wall.  They come with a spiral binding and glossy artwork.

Here is a sample of some of them.  I've taken the names off for now so you can be super proud and impressed when you see which one belongs to your child.

We used different techniques to make the trees and branches.  We've been practicing painting without brushes, and used a painted collage technique to make the paper for the birds, which we then cut out.  We used a slightly different 'brush' to make the snow flakes, too.

Hockey Skills with Manawatu Hockey

We have been learning some very valuable Hockey skills to use on the field with a fantastic representative from Manawatu Hockey.  Here are a few snaps of us having a fun game where we can use some of what we've learnt.

CELEBRATING SUCCESS!! Go Room 4!

And having FUN!!

Year 5 & 6 Camp

Today the Ruahine Teaching Team went to visit the Makahika Camp site.  We wanted to make sure that all of our students will be comfortable there.  The staff there are fabulous.  I can really see that they all love their jobs very much; and who wouldn't? It's absolutely beautiful there and YES you will love it, too!

Here is a link to their website if you would like to have a look for yourself.  http://www.makahika.co.nz/schools/

I took some photos of my own so you can have a look before you go.

These first ones are of the lodge.

 

Here are the high ropes, Sam the dog (you will learn more about him) and the grounds.



There is a very well established bush camp with fire places and a river!!

More of the bush camp and the flying fox.  I can't wait to see your faces when we get there!!

Duffy Books & School raffle

Here we are with our Duffy Books!

We sure are a lucky bunch.  Another big thank you this time to the PTA and Duffy Books.

While Whaea Regina was visiting us to talk about Duffy books and herself, we asked her to draw the Camp Grocery Raffle.  We were thrilled that one of our families won the raffle. And even better was it was someone from Fantastic4!

Thank you Kids Can!!

How cool do we look in our new Kids Can Jackets?

Thank you Kids Can!!! 

Manawatu Digi Awards

The Digi Awards season has come around again and we've been out and about in the school grounds learning how we can take some interesting and 'artistic' photos.

There are 7 categories that students can enter this year:

• Photos
• Photo Essay (5 photos)
• Short film
• Animation
• Documentary
• Graphic design
• Other

Don't forget to check out the Manawatu Digi Awards Facebook page to get some inspiration for your own work and to check out the standard of the past winners work.  

Here's some useful suggestions to help us take some interesting photos at school.  

Don't forget it you want to do some digital work at home, you can share it with the class email address where we can add it to your file.  The work must be your own.  If you didn't make it or create it, you can't use it. 

Mrs Mullinger Teaches Geometry

Mrs Mullinger challenged Room 4 were to make some 3D shapes using paper nets.  However, a few very clever children found that they could model some 3D shapes using pipe cleaners.  I was working in the office but Mrs Mullinger was so impressed that she sent Caitlyn over to show me.