dragon attack

Today Paerata school had a visitor.His name was Bruce Potter.He is an illustrator.He drew a dragon that looked so realistic.                                                          


by Tui                                                                

The dragon

My favourite part that i like his writing and his one paper that was cool when i do it

learning how to illustrate

Friday 23 November.                  Quinn

This morning in Room 1,  Bruce Potter an illustrator came in to teach us how to illustrate pictures.He even drew a picture of a goblin going as fast as he can in a car with a dragon chasing him.


this is that picture I talked about.^:D

Bruce potter

Bruce potter came to paerata school so we could see what he can dolike what an illutrator could do. So maybe another person would like to be an illustratorwhen they grow up they might want to be one when they are a little bit older. I think bruce potter was born to be an illustrator and maybe an artist. The end by. Waimaria.

The illustrator

This morning in room I Bruce potter came in to talk with us about being an illustrator. The entire school was there. He sang a song about Kaha the kea. He drew a picture of a dragon chasing a goblin.

Ants

Bruce Potter's visit to Paerata School

On Friday the 23rd of November Bruce potter came to Paerata school to tell us about his job.  The first thing he showed us was Kaha the Kea.  Kaha the Kea was a really cheeky kiwi.  After that he talked o us for a while.  Then he drawed a big dragon chasing a goblin in a broken car.

Harmony

Bruce Potter visit to Paerata School

In the morning, at Paerata school in room one, Bruce potter visited us . Our favourite par was when he drew the picture of the broken car and goblin and dragon. The whole school was there. He sang a song drew a picture of a dragon breathing fire at a goblin in a car and read a short story. Then he gave us his picture.

Re-planting our Strawflowers

Our new pots for the strawflowers.

On Friday 16 November Room 8 repotted their strawflower plants into bigger pots.  We did this because the pots that the plants were growing in became too small.  Then we replanted the extra strawflower plants into the garden under the big Tōtara tree outside Room 3.

While we were doing the replanting, Tyler used the iPad to video what Room 8 was doing.  She also talked to some of Room 8 to see what they were doing.  Her video is below (Miss Bolton has edited it a little bit.)

Proof-reading #2

As a class we looked at the piece of writing below.  Miss Bolton highlighted the mistakes that we found and then we told her how to fix the mistakes.  How do you think we did?

Proof reading

We are practising proof reading our writing. In the photo below, some of Room 8 are proof reading a story - looking at capitals, full stops and other punctuation.

Flintstone's Animation #3

Aloysius's animation.

Flintstones Animation #2

Here is Harmony and Monomono-Ava's animation.

The Flintstone's Animations

On the twentieth of October the Flintstones reading group did animation.
We could work together or by ourselves.  I was doing Captain Underpants punching a bad guy.
The hard part was drawing.  After you've finished drawing you colour it in.  Then you have to go on the Apple laptop to do iMovie.
First you had to go to new project by doing command N or File, new project.  Then you had to typ in a name.  After that you put the pictures in order.

By Kevin.

Here is Kevin's animation:

Our trip to the Paerata bush

On Wednesday 31 October each Junior class went down the the bush.  We learned about the native plants that were in the Paerata bush.  We used the camera and iPad to take videos and photos when we were in the bush.

Here is a video of Robynne Sutton (the Park Ranger) explaining about the different native plants in the bush.



Junior Bush trip 31 Oct 12 from mbolton on Vimeo.

Kevin's Comic about our bush trip

Click on the comic to make it full screen.