Tessellations

In maths we are learning about shape rotation, reflection, enlargement and translation.  Today we began making our own tessellations.

Rotation - when a shape has turned - clockwise or anticlockwise
Reflection  - when a shape can be folded onto itself perfectly or has the 'mirror' effect
Translation - when a shape is moved from one place to another
Enlargement - when a shape is made bigger by a scale

An artist called M.C. Escher uses reflection and symmetry in his artwork.  Here are some of his work.
What patterns and shapes can you see?

All Blacks vs France winner

Congratulations to Riley again! He was the closest to the score for the 2nd time! Well done Riley - hopefully you can predict the next games in favour of the All Blacks.

All Blacks vs France

The All Blacks are playing France on Saturday night. Go the All Blacks! Here are our picks for this game.  We also wish the Warriors the best of luck for their game against the Melbourne Storm. Go the Warriors!

Jaia - 17-25 to NZ
Katie - 47-21 to France
Max - 48-24 to NZ
Libby - 39-14 to NZ
Zoe - 20-49 to France
Curtis - 32-23 to NZ
Dylan - 45-18 to NZ
Anabel - 37-45 to France
Roisin - 40-25 to NZ
Suma - 11-56 to NZ
Isabella - 18-55 to NZ
Nikita - 49-25 to NZ
Jesse - 49-23 to NZ
Cassidy - 22-17 to NZ
Kirsten - 48-35 to France
Riley - 39-16 to NZ
Gabrielle - 18-34 to NZ
Eli - 36-27 to France
Miss Woods - 32-27 to NZ

Speech competition

Congratulations to everyone who stood up on Friday and gave a speech.  You all have worked really hard over the last few weeks and I was really proud of your efforts.

Who is representing Room 23 in Tuesday's speech finals?

ROISIN, ZAC and KATIE with GABRIELLE as our super sub if someone is sick.  Keep practising you guys and good luck for Tuesday!

Art Gallery lessons

On Wednesday morning we were lucky to have Susie from the Christchurch Art Gallery visiting.  She showed us some different pieces of art - one a metal etching of Lyttleton when it was first being settled and another which was completely different - an abstract piece.

Here are some photos of us screening printing in the style of the abstract artist we looked at.

Jonathan screen printing

Jesse screen printing

Playing bingo waiting to screen print

Ben screen printing

Getting ready to dye abstract style

Also getting ready to dye

All Blacks vs Japan

The All Blacks are playing Japan on Friday night without our superstar Dan Carter.  Here are our picks for this weeks game:

Libby - 48-14 to NZ
Katie - 27-8 to Japan (only because she picked out Japan as her country)!!!
Riley - 33-9 to NZ
Curtis - 45-10 to NZ
Zoe - 42-19 to NZ
Kirsten - 25-20 to NZ
Ruth - 20-10 to NZ
Roisin - 38-20 to NZ
Gabrielle - 39-18 to NZ
Sammi - 42-20 to NZ - (Sammi picked out the All Blacks and everyone is very jealous)!!!
Dylan - 34-13 to NZ
Max - 35-10 to NZ
Anabel - 42-24 to NZ
Isabella - 5-7 to Japan
Zac - 40-25 to NZ
Ben - 47-15 to NZ
Jaia - 25-16 to NZ
Cassidy - 27-0 to NZ

In class speech competition

Just a reminder that our in-class speeches are tomorrow (Friday) 1.30pm.  Don't forget to bring your cue cards! Happy speaking.

What makes a good speech?

Check out this video another teacher made for her class to show what a good speech looks like and what a not so good speech looks like.  Can you see the differences?

Try videoing your speech and see what you look like. Or practice in the mirror.

Canterbury Winter Sports Tournament

Congratulations to the Netball A team for coming 1st place in the B division at the Canterbury winter sports tournament last week. That is a huge win! Mrs Bateman must be very proud.


The hockey team went for the first time and came 4th place. They played 8 games in total.  They played superbly!

vs Kaiapoi Nth score 5-0 win
vs Sumner score 3-2 win
vs Glentunnel score 2-2 draw
vs Freeville score 4-0 win

Semi final vs Paparoa St score 2-0 loss
3rd/4th playoff vs Allenton score 2-0 loss

The soccer team also went and had a good day finishing 10th.

Well done to everyone who competed!

All Blacks Sweepstake

On Friday we all put down what we thought the score between the All Blacks and Tonga would be.  Riley was the closest.  He picked 41-11 to the All Blacks!!! Great guess Riley.  The final score was 41-10 so he was very close. I wonder who will win next week....

Room Raiders

Ben found this clip of Corey Jane interviewing Israel Dagg and Zac Guildford on allblacks.com.

Study Ladder

Make sure you are practicing your maths on study ladder. There are heaps of new activities that I have put on there for some of you.  Remember you can practice these before school on the laptops if you can't get on at home.

All Black team to play Tonga

The first game of the world cup will happen on Friday night with the All Blacks playing Tonga.

Here is the line up:

Team:

Israel Dagg, Richard Kahui, Ma'a Nonu, Sonny Bill Williams, Isaia Toeava, Dan Carter, Jimmy Cowan, Victor Vito, Richie McCaw (capt), Jerome Kaino, Ali Williams, Brad Thorn, Owen Franks, Andrew Hore, Tony Woodcock.

Reserves: Corey Flynn, Ben Franks, Anthony Boric, Sam Whitelock, Piri Weepu, Colin Slade, Cory Jane

Basketball A team the Oaks

On Thursday the 1st of September the basketball A team Oaks played the YMCA team,
and we lost 16-14.  I thought that Jaia got player of the day because he kept creating space for us
to pass to him.

By Ben

Maths whizz-kids

Eli, Curtis, Ethan, Cassidy and Nikita playing StudyLadder practicing their maths.