Bronwyn the famous Rock Painter came for a visit to Room 10

We were really lucky to have Mrs Low's friend Bronwyn come and visit us and help us with our rock painting for our PReP projects.  Bronwyn has painted rocks for many different organisations and is famous in the Palmy Rocks world.  She told us how she got her ideas and that Posca pens were a great help when outlining or adding in detail.  When choosing a rock she also explained how she could see a shape of an animal etc and that helped her with her designs.  She is really clever and helped us out alot - our rocks will look awesome now as we have had some professional tips and tricks shared with us :)

We have the Wairua in us ...

For our assembly item we learnt the song Wairua by the band Maimoa.  Then Ruby and Ashley choreographed a dance to go with it which we also learnt by practicing hard.  We put in hours and hours of work and every day we got better at singing and dancing.  We used all of the TRUMP key competencies and were a fabulous buddy class as we supported Room Five as well.  It was a neat opportunity for us to shine and Mrs Low was super proud of us all.  Here are some photos of us rehearsing in our room.

Marble Maze with Miss Donald

Miss Donald comes in and releases Mrs Low every two weeks for a morning.  When she came in and worked with us for the first two times we built marble mazes with her which was heaps of fun.  We had to work in pairs, follow instructions, problem solve as well as be creative.  We are really proud of our mazes and think that we did a great job with them.  Mrs Low thought they were pretty cool too :)

and Whoodini is replaced by Owl McOwl ...

During the term we decided that Whoodini was a tired old owl as he has been working with Mrs Low and her students for two and a bit years now.  After all of that handling he needed a break so we put him into retirement and Owl McOwl came in as his replacement.  Quinn was the last person to have Whoodini and Samuel was the first to get Owl McOwl - it was a sad but special day when that happened.  We can still visit Whoodini as he is lounging in Mrs Low's office :)

Some more Whoodini recipients ...

And some more smiling faces for you to be proud of ...

Who has had Whoodini?

Whoodini was our classroom Owl - he was awarded to the students by one of their peers - we looked at how well we were managing ourselves and working hard.  All of the kids were very proud of themselves when they received him as you can tell by their smiles :)

The start of the year

Hi all

I have now mastered the blogging as there was so much else to master before this :)

I will be posting many of the photos that I have collected over the year so far.

These ones were taken in the first week where we were learning to manage ourselves and think about ourselves as learners.

As you can see we are all focused and on task.

Ruby was the first student to receive Whoodini (who has now been replaced by Owl McOwl) and that was pretty exciting for us as we did a lot of learning around owls since we are a bunch of O.W.Ls - organised wise learners.