Te Reo challenge

Here is a video of Room 10's latest challenge. They have been learning to count in Te Reo Maori. They took on the challenge to combine hand actions, counting forwards and backward in Te Reo Maori. I think they were amazing, and I was impressed at how quickly they learned this and how fast they were. Special mention to Olivia and Brooke, whom Jonty said "were the most practised, fastest and accurate!" Check it out...

Ken shares his learning

Ken is interested in becoming a chef. He has been reading about supermarkets and baking cakes. This week Ken went to the supermarket to recreate his book, and buy ingredients to make brownies. Zack photographed Ken's trip to the supermarket and Jesse helped give Ken instructions and bake Miss B's favourite recipe, chocolate brownies. Here are a few pics of their journey...
A big thank you to Trina for all your help, and everyone in Room 10 loved eating the brownies!!

Guess the job?

1. You come home smelling like yeast, and start working early in the morning.

2. Your uniform can save your life. Watch out you may get wet.

3. You need to have your full drivers license for this job. Every day can be different, but beware, it could get dangerous.

4. Not many people like coming to see you, but they should do about every 6 months.

Guess all the jobs correctly, don't forget to write your name down to win the points.

Students Artwork

Wire inspired

With Greta the Artist coming in to talk to our class, the students read about different artists. From inspiration from their art work the students created some artwork to share with Greta when she came in to talk. Here is some of their work...

Pacific Art

Sculpture designs

Sculpture inspired

Getting feedback from Greta the artist

Interview with Greta the Artist

Greta giving Room 10 feedback on their art work

On the first of June, Greta Greenwood  (Clays’mum) came to talk to our class about her part time me job as an artist.

Typical days for Grate are normally working towards exhibitions, but every year Grata only goes to one. So on days she is free, she paints abstract pictures or gathers ideas. Greta’s other part time job is a teacher at Appleby Primary School, and  she spends majority of her time teaching.

Grate has always loved art but doesn’t like how she has to out herself out there if she wants to sell her art, and also doesn’t like how she is always selling herself to sell her artwork.

People who suit this job are people who love art and are talented enough to draw something that someone knows what it is. Skills for this job are just to start drawing with confidence and to not get scared. Greta learned these skills by creating at our age, she also chose art subjects at college.

Greta needed a visual arts degree if she wanted to be a full time artist, but Greta did need an IT degree for this job. School subjects that are useful are art, photograph, painting and sculpting. Visiting galleries and viewing artwork, going to exhibitions are all great activities to see what you like.

It is hard to make a living out of this job but is easy to use it in different ways, like teaching.

By Maia

Interview with Gavin

Gavin Martin

Last week Gavin came in to talk to Room 10 about his exciting and rare job as a panel beater fabricator/certifier of modified vehicles. During his day Gavin would be cutting rust off cars, preparing them for a paint job and doing safety checks, he also fixes 80-90 year old cars and builds custom guards for them.

He dislikes getting dirty but loves knowing that he has built a car out of pieces for someone to drive. Maths, technical drawing, design and reading are subjects and skills that help in the job. The job suits someone who loves cars. Gavin learnt the skills from his father and was also partly self taught, but these days you need to have qualifications in maths and welding from Polytec.

He said the job is harder to get in to because it is a dying art and you also need an eye for detail and be good with your hands. Gavin also told us that one of his cars has won over 35 national titles.

By Oliva