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Today Nui syndicate had a visit from the Capital-E 'Story Studio Live' team!  It was very interesting and exciting.  We learnt how sound is added into TV and movies... there are people that make the sound to put back into the film when it is finished and they use all sorts of normal, everyday items to make these sounds. Some of us were recorded and used later on in the play they presented... watch the video below to see some clips on how hardly any costumes were used - but that it was all about the sound ! What do you think of the dance warm-up moves at the beginning of the clip?!    :-)

By Lani By Kaya Last week in Moana 3, we learnt about positive and negative space within art pieces.  It was fun to learn that it is how our brain sees different spaces.  Also, that we can use this positive and negative space to create different effects. By Taj By Ruby We were each given a square of black paper and an A3 sized coloured piece.  We cut patterns out of the black paper and used the 'fit it, then flip it' method to create our art works. By Kohine By Carys                                            It was a bit of a puzzle to start with, but once we really understood the fit and flip method and how this created the positive and negative space - we were away.   We were all so proud of our art pieces!

Just before Mother's Day, those of us in Moana3 created some wonderful Mother's Day cards for all of our wonderful mums! We wrote a poem for our mums using the following guidelines: Line 1: Alliteration Line 2: 3 adjectives to describe our mums Line 3: a nickname Line 4: a simile or metaphor about our mum Line 5: a 3 word statement about our mum We chose whether we wanted to create the inside digitally or by hand. For the outside of the card, we used tissue and dye to create a blended pattern.  Koka Ngaire took our photo and we cut out fabulous hearts from a big pad of patterned paper. We were all really proud of our efforts and our mum's appreciated and loved our efforts too!

We thought that some of our parents may not have seen our Collaborative Art pieces from the start of the year that are displayed in our two spaces.  As a whole class, we are so proud of our art work. Koka Ngaire posted our end results in the NZ Primary Teachers Facebook group and as you can see from the photo - we got over 800 likes from teachers from all around NZ !  Their comments were beyond what we hoped for - many teachers have taken the idea and used our work to show their classes so that they could do the same kind of activity. We found this awesome artist Wahyu Romdhoni who creates these amazing animal portraits. So, we printed the pictures out A4 and then divided the picture into a grid to match the number of students (these were both roughly 5x6 squares). We cut the picture up so that we had 30 sm all squares for each pic. Each learner got a little square and a square piece of cartridge (A4 size but squared off). Then we just went through skills for enlargement, then...