This Week's Update

This is the start of our Spanish language. It covers greetings and replies.

This week we have been a bit busy and done some art work in our class - artworks which are bright and colourful, some with warm colours and some with cool colours. They are all up on the wall and look fantastic!

This is a list of our rights and responsibilities in Huia 1.

This is our treaty which is an agreement between all the members of our class.

This is what part of our back wall looks like. It has our NZ flag, The Treaty of Waitangi and our class treaty.

For our Poutama work some groups are mixed with other classes for Science in the food technology room, making wooden frames for hard materials and making a carry bag in soft materials. For our technology group we are learning about "What makes a good photo?" Once a group of students has got our teacher's permission they go out of class with a camera and take some interesting photos. Students learn how to use macro and how to zoom out and in with some of the cameras.

Some of the things that make a good photo are:

• close up - of faces, butterflies, patterns etc
• rule of thirds - features on intersections and horizons on lines
  
• contrast - of colours, near and far, young and old, hard and soft
• emotion
• humour
• action
• story
• perspective

That's some of the features we learnt that makes a good picture.

Here are some of the pictures we took:

We are also learning about The 2010 Winter Olympics games held in Vancouver, Canada. All Intermediate classes have been doing a project about it.

We have been practising playing the ukulele which is a small guitar with only cuatro strings. We are starting to play a song named "Somewhere Over The Rainbow."

We are developing in our ukulele lessons.