Snagit Reflections by Elisha

Athens and I made a snagit video and published it to our blog. We answered the questions that Miss Ginders and Mrs Buchanan made up.

Easter eggs and bunny hops

Room 9 and Room 10 enjoyed some eggsellent eggsercise this morning! After an egg and spoon relay, our teams hopped to it and helped each other through some rabbit holes.

H is also for hard work!

Drum roll please ...

What an amazing achievement Athens and Meana!  You both earned an A grade for homework every week during the whole of 2014!

A proud moment for you both.

H is for homework!

Congratulations to those hard-working students who received

A-grade homework certificates for Term 4:

Timote Junior, Suliasi, Athens, Alicia, Meana, Sione and Jack Daniel (not pictured).

Prize-giving 2014

Congratulations to everyone on their achievements this year!   Year 5 Academic Excellence: Athens
Year 4-6 Principal's Trophy: Meana
Year 4-6 Most Helpful Student: Suliasi
Year 4-6 Sports Award (1): Sione
Room 10 Best All Round Student: Athens
Room 10 Most Improved Student: Jack Daniel
Room 10 Best Work Presentation: Athens

At the desk wash ...

We had some good clean fun

since our work has been done.

It is now our turn

to move on as we learn.

What an inspiring year, everyone!

Out of this world!

These are some of the places we would like to visit, or some of the sports stars we think we shall be ...

Everybody was surfing ...

To start building up our skills so we're ready to make a movie for next year's film festival, it was time to practise using the "freehand" lasso tool in Pixlr.  To make this task more challenging, we had to lasso our whole body and transport it to an image of a sporting stadium or event.

  Athens was surfing.  Aloha!

We hope to have some more sporting events to share next week.

A festival of film

Such excitement attending our first ever Manaiakalani Film Festival at Sylvia Park this morning!  Sitting in our luxurious "Extreme" seats, we watched films about the last apple, learning at school, a lonely dragon, battling penguins and GoPro sporting action.  Check out all of the movies at: https://sites.google.com/a/ptengland.school.nz/film-festival-2011/view-films/2014.

Our tapa treasures

Using what we know about patterns and colours of traditional tapa, we have created some of our own tapa artwork using crayon and dye.

Our Pasifika Images

Check out our slideshow of Pixlr images about Pasifika culture.  We have learnt about the different drawing tools in Pixlr and how to save and share our images.

Digital Art

Today we were learning how to create some digital art using Pixlr on the Chromebooks.

Smiles of success

The smiles say it all!  This term's A-grade homework certificates.

Congratulations Athens, Meana and Sione.

Talking the talk!

Some pictures sharing the achievements of all the speakers at yesterday's speech finals.  You can all be very proud of yourselves!

Azonto, Azonto

Skipping, stepping, slapping, clapping ... we danced our way very quickly around the Commonwealth showing our moves and skills to family and whanau visitors this afternoon. If you'd like to see the video, please come and watch in our classroom ... Now watch me do my Azonto, Azonto, Azonto ...

Waving the Commonwealth flags ...

Building on the skills we learnt yesterday, we each created the flag of a Commonwealth country in a Google drawing by inserting shapes and changing the colours.  Which countries are represented here?

Cross-country 2014

Thank you, Nelly, for creating our audio.

Reading about photographs

The blue reading group experimented taking photographs and filming with our tablet after they had discussed a School Journal article about Kiwi photographer, Adrian Heke. Adrian taught himself how to use his first camera and has since taken photographs in war zones, as well as capturing sporting action shots for some School Journal articles.  There must have been a lot of photographers at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow to capture all of that sporting action.   

Getting ready for cross-country

Our fitness is improving as we practise for cross-country by running every day. 

Our class photographers

Such excitement!  Room 10 now has its own tablet.  Saane and Meana did a fabulous job testing out the tablet's camera while we finished off our writing.