play comes to pompallier

On Thursday the 6th of September The NZ playhouse performed at pompallier catholic school, it was a play mixed between little red riding hood and robin hood.  In my opinion the play was funny and awesome.  Other people thought the same and other people didn't like it as much. The NZ playhouse have performed plays all around NZ and Australia.

word of the day

This week me and my class have been doing word of the day.

  The five words Mrs Cutler gave us were: Abundant, Petite, Trinket, Roam and Tenacious

. We had to write the definition, a synonym, an antonym, a part of speech and put it in a sentence for example:

Petite:

Definition:
(Of a woman) attractively small and dainty
(Of a normal object) small

Synonyms:
Minuscule, Micro, Tiny,

Antonyms:
Colossal, Gigantic, Humongous, Ginormous,

Part of speech:
Adjective

Put it in a sentence:
Why are ants so petite?

Sandra Silberzweig

Sandra Silberzweig was born in the 1960's and raised in Toronto Canada.

We were inspired by here awesome art so my teacher decided that my class would attempt to make our own portrait based on Sandra's art.

to make the art we used Indian ink to outline the pencil,

second we colored it in with soft pastel chalk, and then we had to go over the Indian ink with more Indian ink.

Clay art

A few weeks ago me and my class made air clay sculptures to represent our family. some made kiwis, taniwhas, ferns, hearts and some other really cool designs. I made a kiwi because my whole family are New Zealanders. It got quite messy and mucky but it was fine. they dried after a few days, some of the clay art broke, my kiwis legs came off. I think my whole class enjoyed.

Have you ever made air dry clay art?

What I have learnt.

I have learnt ALL of my basic facts and squares/ square roots. I now know my times tables from 1 to 12, same with my divides, same with my squares and squares roots. I now know tricks for your time tables, I also know tricks for my divides. I know some strategy's. Some of the strategy's are new to me. The strategy's make math easier. 

first NZ national government election.

On the 30th November 1949 the first national government election was led by Peter Fraser, was defeated by Sidney Holland's national party after 14 years in office. The result heralded a long period of national domination.