BMX Cycling by Jonson

The Olympic event I have chosen is Bmx cycling. You have to cycle fast to come first. You also have to stay in front of the race so you can win the gold medal!

 
BMX cycling was started in the1960's in California.

BMX first appeared in the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008. A man called Latvias Maris Strombergs won the first BMX olympics race.

You need a BMX bike if you are going to ride on the tracks, and you have to have protective clothing. It might be handy to have a helmet for your head!

If you want to win your bike has to be light so it can go quite fast. You need to know how to do bunny hops so you can have a better view when you get to a ramp. It is also important to be smart and know were the tracks are!

London Olympics 2012 by Quasia

This year the Summer Olympics is going to be hosted in London,England. The opening ceremony is going held on July the 27th. There also will be are closing ceremony in August the 12th this year.
The Korero for the London Olympics is "Inspire a generation".

Olympic Themed Cupcakes

Here is a video tutorial of how to make Chocolate Cupcakes. The recipe makes 12-15 cupcakes, if you want to make a cake just double the ingredients!

To decorate your cupcakes cover with white icing and add five M&M's that represent each ring of the Olympic Flag!

Chocolate Cupcakes - Makes 12-15 Cupcakes

Ingredients:

1 cup flour
1 cup sugar
¼ cup cocoa powder
2 teaspoons baking powder
A pinch of salt (optional)

1 egg
½ cup milk
¼  cup oil
½ cup hot water (if you can't use hot cold water is fine)

Method:

1. Preheat your oven to 180C.
2. In a large bowl, sift the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
3. Add the egg, milk, oil and vanilla essence and beat with a fork for about two minutes.
4. Add the boiling water and mix until combined.
5. Pour the batter evenly into the cases, around ¾ full.
6. Cook in the oven for 10-15.
7. Let the cupcakes cool completely before covering with icing.

Easy Vanilla Icing

1 cup of icing sugar
2 tablespoons of butter or margarine, softened
1 tablespoon  of milk
1/2 teaspoon of vanilla essence

Combine ingredients in a small bowl and mix with a fork until smooth and fluffy.

I hope you enjoy my recipe!

Happy baking,

Miss Ouano :)

Olympic Rings Mosaic by Lesieli

Mosaics can be images you create with small pieces of coloured cardboard, glitter, or other materials. Some Mosaics are usually made by small pieces of glass or coloured stone. Today in Room 17 we made a Mosaic out of Cardboard, glitter, materials and paper.

The image we had to do were The Olympic Rings. The reason why we did this was because our Inquiry is about The London Olympics 2012.

After all our pieces were finished and we put it together and it became the Five Rings of the Olympic Games. There was one piece missing and that was part of the green as you can see.


Overall, I had a great time creating our mosaic! Doesn't it look fantastic?

Term Two Reflection by Faafetai

Multimedia/ICT:
This term I have learnt how to make an IMovie by myself.

I have been making a Pop Art face and and making some animations.

What I haven’t done so well in Multimedia is not putting my work on my IMovie.

Next term I will improve putting my work on my IMovie.

Maths:
This term I have learnt my strategies with my teacher and decades with tens.

I have been good at counting back in tens and adding tens.

What I haven't done so well in Maths is not adding ones but I add the tens.

What I will improve next term is to write in my Maths book properly and not rush.

Reading:
This term I have learnt how to read books and complete my work in time.

I have been going up to the next level of my reading age and doing well with my reading comprehension.

The thing that I have not done so well in reading this term is not finishing off my work don’t do the answers of my reading sheet.

Next term I will improve my reading by finishing off my work and making sure I listen to my teacher when we are working together.

Miss Ouano's Birthday by Rave

Not Long after free time our teacher said to me and my friend “Could you Please go and get the GIANT Cupcake out of my car? ". Me and my friend replied “Okay”, so then we went to the carpark. When we got there we found her car and we saw the GIANT Cupcake! It had blue icing with hearts and stars sprinkles. 

When we got back to class we had a shared lunch. There were lots of chips and biscuits on the table, it was filled with goodies! In our class there are 30 children, so everybody had to bring some food. Some people bought biscuits and chips, I bought Jelly and Biscuits.

When me and my friend finished putting the goodies on the table we sat down and gave out the plates and napkins. After we finished handing out our teacher Miss Ouano cut the GIANT cupcake and asked us to come up to the table. She handed out some pieces to people. Meanwhile other people were lining up to get some food from the goodie table.

People lined up one by one and chose their food. After they went up to the table, more and more people went to go get their food. My class sat down on the mat and ate. We could go get more food if we wanted to and we could get more cake. After we ate there was a big mess so some people stayed and help my teacher clean up.

I hope next term we can have another shared lunch and bring more food. I hope it will be my teachers birthday again and we can have another GIANT Cupcake! It was yummy!

Roy Lichtenstein Presentation by Cezar

Quasia's Pop Art

Hi this is my movie I made showing a time lapse of my face. I hope you enjoy it!!

Clay Workshop Presentation by Peh So

I hope you like my Clay Workshop Presentation.

Gallery of Fine Art by Siutaka

This morning we went to the art gallery. I saw lots of cool art. I felt excited because it was my first time going in the art gallery, all of the art was excellent! When I got to the front of the hall I saw more fantastic art.

I saw my classmates artwork, it looked fantastic. I saw lots of good art work in the hall, there were lots of different types.                                                                        
                                                                                    My favorite

art work was by Taniela from room 15, he did lots of good bright colors in his painting.

I felt happy that I went to the art gallery because it was my first time. I hope we go there again and see all the beautiful artwork.

Youth Town by Korobeau

Did you know last week When I got to school I was so excited because Room 14 was going to Youth Town? When the second bell went I ran to class to go to the hall. At the hall we got into our groups and hopped on the bus.

When we got there all of us were happy to get in. Miss Ouano lead us to the room that we make clay ornaments in. The instructor was showing us how to make the ornaments then we started with the clay.

We were happy with our work that we made when were were all done. Then time was up, we all said bye because it was time to move on and get ready for the next thing. We got ready to swim.


I thought Youth Town was cool and exciting because we got to make clay and to swim in a heated pool. I hope next time we get to go there again!

My Pop Art Movie By Christian

I made a Pop Art animation of myself. I used the same colours just like Andy Warhol did.  I hope you enjoy my movie.

Spider Facts by Peh So

I have made a presentation all about spiders for my reading. I used my journal and a website to find information for my presentation. I hope you like it.

The Evil Tohunga by Damien

The seven whales went out to find food for them.

The evil Tohunga wanted them to get some news.

One of the whales was resting all day.

Seven whales turned into mountains.

Swimming by Lesieli

Filled with anticipation, we walked to the pools. I was really thrilled that we went cause I am kind of like a water freak. Like most people say 'First one in last one out'. I am always the first one in and I am always the last on out.  

Starring longley at the pool I wanted to dive in. "Slip in now girls” the Instructor said. My Feet slipped into the pool like a dolphin’s tail. Lying on my back my feet were kicking, the water was warm and relaxing around my body. As we slipped into the pool I dived like a dolphin. Coming up from the water our eyes were stinging red. We blinked away the burn.

In my group we did big strokes and kicking underwater it was really exhausting. Then we had to do three laps of the pool without stopping. If we did stop they cant mark us off. We went one by one without no stopping and when we finished our legs were numb. It was really weird because it felt like we didn’t have any legs.

My final feelings on swimming is that I need to get better at doing 'frog legs'. When i get better it will be Superb! I still need to get better at things and learn new skills. By the end of the year I will be a good swimmer.

My Dinosaur by Cowan

Last Tuesday we drew a dinosaur. It is a Tyrannosaurus.

It was cool drawing the Tyrannosaurus but I found it hard.

I helped to paint the background.

Andy Warhol's Style of Art by Nikki

Did you know a man called Andy warhol was a very good artist. He made a film about a man that was sleeping for six hours, that's why it was called 'SLEEP. Andy warhol did Pop Art and he did it in America where all the popular people lived. Andy painted Marilyn monroe who was an actress in movies. Andy also did pop art of the famous boxer Muhammed Ali.

The main reason why Andy Warhol is famous is because he was on of the first people to do POP ART. No one can do better pop art then him.Andy warhol’s POP ART is very famous and nearly everyone  knows how famous his art is. He takes photographs of celebrities and then he does pop art over it. If you do not know what POP ART is, pop art is when Andy Warhol does art of popular brands, popular people, and popular food and drinks.



Warhol’s art looks real and when he was doing his art he was using bold outlines and bright colours. In Andy Warhol’s art he inverted his colors. Andy Warhol used Silk Screening for some of his artwork. When Andy Warhol was doing his art he was doing it with concentration that's why his art looks real. His art is wonderful because when he did his pictures of Marilyn Monroe he made her eyes sparkle.



I like that Andy Warhol uses bold outlines and he uses detail. I think that Andy warhol would have loved creating art!

Andy Warhol's Pop Art by Jonson

There was an american artist, and his name was and Andy Warhol. He calls his art pop art.

He also painted and screen printed over photos of celebrities (famous people) like Marilyn Monroe and Mohammed Ali.

Andy Warhol  is so famous. His style of art is pop art. Pop art means popular art. Andy Warhol is so popular he draws things popular, like celebrities.

Did you know that Andy got shot three times by angry lady in 1968? He still survived. Warhol always draws simple strong shapes and then he screen prints it. He uses bright colours for his paintings. He made very popular paintings every time he painted. He uses a screen printer when he does his prints.

Overall, I think that was amazing what Andy Warhol has done in his life. He has done an excellent job. Andy Warhol is very popular, famous and so fantastic!

Paul's Last Day at Pt. England :(

Room 14 and Miss Ouano were very sad that it was Paul's Last day at Pt. England. Paul and his family are lucky enough to move across the ditch to Sydney, Australia!

Paul has been an outstanding member of our class! He is responsible, caring, always doing the right thing and always there to lend a helping hand!

We hope you enjoy your new school. We will miss you Paul! Love from Room 14! :)

Vision Boards - Directed by Lesieli