My Puppet

My puppet The puppet I created is a random girl. She has extra accessories - a scarf and a small bag I made. She has a blue headband and dress. Her shirt is purple and goes up to her elbows. Her hair is black, but she has no face! I chose to do my image of a random girl because I wanted to create my own new character and not copy off another. It would also take more time to get the exact materials and shape them up. Many people did different characters - from WallE to dinosaurs and even Sonic, Iron man and Spiderman! Making the puppet’s limbs at first was very frustrating and annoying, because you had to wrap a piece of paper around a small metal wire, but it kept unravelling, over and over again, but, later on I found a cheat, so it became fun and easier. After I made the arms and legs, it was time to make the body and the head. My has 13 points of articulation. Everything is connected by wire, in the middle. But the hand and feet were made when I made the clothes. The best part was making the clothes (and accessories). There was a large selection of materials and different types of styles to use and shape. But the hair took me the longest. If I were to do it again I would do a character or another random girl or boy. Later this term, my puppet will in a movie, as a model called Veronica Vegas. She is a rich girl and can also act very well. She is secretly a spy, with her friend Clara Vonsmith, who is a famous ballet dancer.

My Puppet

My Puppet The small puppet I created is a character from a game called Prototype 2 and he is called Heller the mutant. I created my puppet for the reason of how much I enjoy this game, and how easy, but how outstanding, it looks. My puppet has has a whip for the left hand and a blade on his right hand. My puppet also has no nose or mouth. I started with all of Hellers limbs then his head and finally the hands and feet also the body after that. I have no hands on my puppet instead I have a whip and a blade. I had PVA it all then I put on abs and strips of armour. In the middle there is wire that have loops and hooks to attach all of the parts together then string it up. The best part was painting and putting it on display in the art gallery and seeing the final stage when it was finished. If I was to do it again I would change my character to Alex from Prototype 1 and put a sledge hammer in one hand he will also have no amour and lots of facial hair. Finally later this term my puppet will be in a movie as the super villian and co-starring Super bad guy. By: Ihiraia.

Creative Thinking Video!

The Sunnybrae Art Exhibit

By Ha Won “I can’t see!” said the children excitedly, as the teacher opened the door. As the class walked into the hall they were curious to see the range of artworks. A crowd of children were proudly examining their marionette puppets. The puppets were wearing clothes made from tissue paper, sparkling gems, leather and a variety of many things. There were many artworks in different shapes and sizes. They were colourful and in lots of different styles, like Piccasso’s artwork. A new class came in following their teachers like baby ducks happily waddling behind their mother. At the very end of the hall there were volcanoes erupting and waves crashing down. On a table by the display lay boxes with clay figures and models of different scenes like under the ocean, and in the city. After a while the teacher announced “It’s time to go.”. The children walked out after hoping to return again with their parents and that nobody would touch their artwork.

Jae Jung's voki

Ihiraia's voki

Zane's Voki

Cindy's Voki

Brodie's Voki

Piper's Voki

Grace's voki

Samuel's voki

Sarah's voki

Celine's Voki

Dean's Voki

Johnson's Voki

Current Events Term 2 Week 10

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Current Events - Term2 Week 9

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Cluster Sports Exchange - Rippa Rugby

Yay! Today is Friday and this means it’s Sports Exchange!

  Today is Sports Exchange and I’m going to play rippa Rugby! We went on a big bendy bus, when the rippa team got to St. Mary's we first got split into to groups I was in the Sunnybrae 1 team.

  Our first match was against St Marys 1 and we lost 4-3, when Sunybrae 2 finished their match  agaist St Marys 2 they said to have Sunnybrae 1 vs Sunnybrae 2, it was really close but Sunnybrae 1 won the match. sunnybrae‘s next match was going to be against Willowpark but we got changed to vs St Marys, we lost to them by 5 points! Sunnybrae 1’s next game was finaly against Willowpark and we beat them.

 At the end Sunnybrae 1 had 2 wins and 2 loses, Sunnybrae 2 had 3 wins and 1 loss.

By: Johnson

Cluster Sports Exchange - Netball

It was finally the day of Sports Exchange!

I woke up and quickly got dressed into my sport uniform and my netball skirt and shoved my breakfast down my throat. My mum drove me to school and I saw lots of students wearing there sports uniform, but some students weren’t because they were doing rugby.

When Mr Gordon finished calling the role,the netball girls and I walked to the AMI netball courts because it was not far away. When we got to the netball courts,we realised we were the first ones there.

We all put our bags onto the bleachers and waited for the other schools to arrive. I was in Team 1 and we played 6 games.

My team started playing and the first team was really good,but the second was even better, they were in the highest grade (grade 1). They were really good at shooting and passing. My position was WD (Wing Defence) and I noticed that I kept on stepping.

At the end, we lost all of our games , but it didn’t matter because we had fun.

By Cindy

Current Events Quiz - Term 2 Week 7

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Farewell Miss Mohon

Today is our Student Teacher, Miss Mohon’s last day with us. She has been in our class for five weeks. She has taught us for 7 days, full control, while Mr Gordon was supervising her work. She’s in her second year of training at Auckland University. We have worked on SMART Tasks, Reading, Writing and Maths activities with Miss Mohon. We have also played some of our  favourite fitness activities like 'Octopus' and 'Silent Ball' with Miss Mohon. We’ve made a card for Miss Mohon, to say goodbye and thank you teaching us. I wish good luck for her future.

From  Zane

Current Events Term 2 Wk7

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Current Events T2 Week 6

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Current Events - Term 2 Week 5

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Science Roadshow - Hover car!

Here is Summer on the hover car at the Science Roadshow. How does the hover car work?

Science Roadshow Video - Samuel

Here is Samuel at the Science Roadshow on Monday! What is this science exhibit about?

Current Events Quiz - Term 2 Week 4

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Current Events Term 2 Week 3

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SOLO Taxonomy Review!

Enjoy our review of the SOLO Taxonomy!

SOLO Movie - Prestructural

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SOLO Movie - Relational

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SOLO - Extended Abstract

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Current Events - Term 2 Week 2

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Fortunately and Unfortunately - My Holidays!

Fortunately and Unfortunately

My Holidays

By Sarah

Fortunately, the school holidays had started!

Unfortunately,  I had to take my sister to the movies and I could not stay to see the movie.

Fortunately, I didn’t get to see my sister for an hour or two(yay!).

Unfortunately, the day was almost over.

Fortunately, Celine came over to my house on the last Friday of the holidays.

Unfortunately, there was not much junk food to eat !!

Fortunately, we played on my laptop.

Unfortunately,  Celine had to go home.

Fortunately, I still got to carry on playing on my laptop.

Unfortunately, the holidays were over!

Fortunately, when I got to school I got to see all of my best friends!

Fortunately, Unfortunately - Our Soccer Session

Fortunately and Unfortunately

Our Soccer Session

By Ihiraia

Fortunately, we had an exciting soccer session.

Unfortunately, it was a cold soggy morning. 

Fortunately, we had the best instructor.

Unfortunately, we had the shortest time to do it in.

Fortunately, we played the best games ever. 

Unfortunately, I wasn’t a tagger of chief. 

Fortunately, we had a great time before the rain.

        

Current Events - Term 2 Week1

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Holiday Homework - Term 2 Starts Soon!

Remember that we are back to school next week.  How is your Holiday Homework going ? Have you completed your interviews? Remember to collect the information to help with your inquiry. Here is the homework sheet if you have misplaced it. Click to enlarge it.

RICE Movie

What do you think about our RICE movie?

Thank You - Auckland Transport and Bigfoot Adventures

Thank you Auckland Transport and Bigfoot Adventures. We enjoyed our cycle safety sessions. Click on image below to enlarge it!

Current Events

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My Window Poem

My Window Poem

I see the sun bright and hot in the sky. 

I see blue sky and white clouds all over the place. 

I see the crane carrying the cut tree to the truck.

I see the man inside the back of the truck.

I see the man cutting the tree with a chainsaw.

I see the wood chipper cutting up the tree limbs.

I see the big orange cones to keep the kids away.

I see the grass so dry and begging for water.

By: Ralph

My Window Poem

My Window Poem

I see the blue sky and a puff of cloud.

I see thick white clouds and a few green leaves and the tip of a crane.

I see a red crane carrying a piece of tree up, up, up.

I see a man working on the crane.

I see the three orange cones with tape so we know to stay away.

I see the dry grass on the ground and the concrete near our class.

By Abim

Swimming Sports Review

This week on Wednesday we went to Birkenhead swimming pool to do the swimming sport. I did the breaststroke and when I got in the pool I was suprised because I thought the water was cold but it was warm.  When I heard the loud sound I started to swim,at last I reached the other side. I was cold when I got out and the teacher gave me a stick and it said 3rd. I gave this to Mrs Bailey to get class points. 

After morning tea I  cheered for Tre as he was swimming a length of freestyle. At the end of the races we had free time in the pool. It was really fun!!! Then we had to get changed in the boys toilets. On the way back to school on the bus I sat with Henry. We were singing songs together. It was really fun!!! 

When we got back I was surprised Mrs Bailey said “ You have to give me $50.”  

I said, “Why?”.  Mrs Bailey said, “ Because you forgot your swimming togs and I brought them back to school for you.”.  Lucky she was only joking. After lunch I played cricket with Henry. It was the best day of my life!!!

BY Ralph  Room13

Swimming Sports

Swimming sports was fun.  I was in the finals for Freestyle. I felt happy because I came 3rd. I liked the teachers relay because they wore the funny outfits.

 by: Tre Room 13

Art with Mrs Smith

Mrs Smith comes to our class (Rm 13) every Thursday. She teaches us for the 

the whole day. The topic we are learning about is the Chinese New Year.

She told our class to trace a dragon from one of her pictures of them.

Then she told us to choose 3 colours of ribbon, put them together, and cut them together in small pieces and stick them onto the scales of the dragons body, so it would make shiny and have multicoloured scales. I started doing my dragon and the multicolured scales were very tricky to put on the dragon.

When I finally finished it, I was very proud of it.  I showed it to Mrs Smith and she said I could start cutting it out.

I like it when Mrs Smith teaches us art and I'm looking foward to her next art activity.

by: Cindy

Events for the Week - Week 3 Term 1

Today we held an election to choose our new school councillors. Piper and Brodie were elected to represent our class this year. A new student started our class this week and his name is Abim. He is from Indonesia. On Thursday did a art with Mrs Smith and we learnt about Chinese New Year. Today is also Ihiria’s birthday.                                                                           

by Jaejung

Thing I Love

Things I Love

By: Henry 

I love going to the skatepark.

I love going to the beach and doing some bombs.

I love sports.

I love going on boats.

I love scootering. 

I love to ride my cool scooter.

I love to do scootering tricks.

I love playing handball.

I love playing new games.

I love drawing pictures.

I love watching movies.

Swimming - Bring Your Togs

Great to see Room 13 students learning how to swim and they are also having fun at the same time! It is important that students remember their togs on our swim days (Monday, Wednesday and Thursday).

My First Day of School - Christina

My First Day of School

By: Christina

I see ...

I see the weather getting dark and darker.

I see my friends running up to me saying hello.

I see Hannah helping me doing the bell.

I feel ...

I feel happy coming to school and meeting my new teacher.

I feel sad looking at the weather -  raining.

I feel happy being a new Year 6 this year.

I taste...

I taste my own lunch and it tastes yum.

I taste fresh water from my drink bottle.

I wonder ...

I wonder what it is being a Year 6 year in Room 13.

I wonder if Mr Gordon will  be the greatest teacher this year.

I wonder if will be a citizenship award this year again.

Welcome Back Room 13 of 2013 !

Welcome back to Sunnybrae Room 13 class of 2013! Make sure that you are ready and organised with your stationery! Also bring your togs and towel as we will be swimming on the first day back to school. We will see you on Monday!