Thursday, July 29, 2010

Awesome Origami by D5

Our Fantastic Friday

Today is Friday and we have spent the day Singing, meeting new people and mapping out Asia.  Every Friday morning after homework check we always sing a few songs from our Waiata book.  Today we had two visitors from the hearing impared class Holly and Malcom.  They will be spending more time with us from now on.  This afternoon we mapped Asia and the countries that are part of Asia. 

The best part of our week was when we designed our own New Zealand flag and writing our speeches.

Have a good weekend

Jarod and Gretchen  (D5 Students)

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

O for Awesome Origami!

As part of our study on Asia we had a go at the traditional Japanese art of Origami.  


Fact - Origami (折り紙?, from ori meaning "folding", and kami meaning "paper") is the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding, which started in the 17th century AD and was popularized in the mid-1900s


It was an intense process that involved alot of folding, questioning and frustration but we got there in the end!!!

Monday, July 26, 2010

Our New Blog

Firstly, welcome to our blog!  We were so impressed by Ms Lepou and Ms Mac's amazing class blogs that we decided to start our own.  On our blog we will be posting stuff we have written, made and studied as well as completing reviews of books, poems and songs we love.  We hope you enjoy it,  D5