Balloons over Waikato

Here are a few pieces of writing we did about the "Balloons over Waikato" festival

Midnight balloons!
The flaming balloons going on and off like a piano,
the gust of wind moved in funky ways.
Colours like gems shining In the midnight skies,
waving glow sticks massive cubes.
Roaming side to side in the breeze.

Balloons
Shining in the night sky
Swaying in places unknown
It feels like it's the biggest thing in the sky

Balloons
Colours in the sky
Swirling dots of colour
High over the clouds
Spheres in the air
Pushing through the wind
Up over the buildings

Rocky Shore Trip

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We went on an exciting trip to Raglan to see the rocky shore and the animals that live there. We found crabs, seaweed (there is a neat seaweed called Neptune's Necklace), cushion and spiny starfish, barnacles, catseyes, seasnails, limpits and many more creatures. One of our favourite rocky shore friends was a sneaky Kina who was hiding in between two rocks.
We jumped from rock to rock searching for different kinds of creatures. We needed to lift rocks and look under them to find what we were looking for.
We had a nice day at the rocky shore, and we think it is an awesome place!

Our Self Portraits

We made self portraits of ourselves to get to know the people in our class better.
Before we could start our portraits, we practised drawing mouths, noses,
eyes and ears. We did this with a buddy.
The first thing we did was draw the round shape for our faces.
Next we drew light lines through our face (guide lines) so we
would know where to put the features of our face.
We added the features onto our faces. We made sure not to forget our hair and shoulders!
Then we used a sharpie to outline our portrait.
Now we were ready to pastel our picture! We used newspaper underneath to keep it smooth, and we made sure that we covered all the sneaky white bits!
Now that our person was finished, we needed to paint a background.
We used colours that stood out against the colour of our shirts. We thought about using hot and cold colours, depending on our tshirt.
We hope you like them!

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Welcome!

Hi everyone and welcome to Room 18's blog for 2012! Throughout the year we will be sharing lots of exciting things that are happening in our class.