Hela

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= Hi! My name is **Hela** and this is my wiki. I will display my best work here! Enjoy my pages! =

__ The Wearable Arts show by our Year 6's __
Recently I went to the Wearable Arts show by our Year 6's. It was extraordinary because it had eight amazing costumes made over weeks and weeks along with dances and music that were invented by the children themselves. I liked the peacock most because it was very colourful and beautifully decorated with Toi Toi, blue paint and the most exciting thing about it was that when the tail was spread out, it was the biggest and most beautiful fan I have ever seen! The other seven costumes were outstanding too. I learned about the seasons, what we were doing to the trees and about change. The earth costume was made out of a light shade in the shape of a globe from the model's waist down to her ankles with night on one side and day on the other. Night was black cloth with small holes pricked through them so that the yellow light could shine through the miniture holes. It was breathtaking and I would have come and watched it again and again. Hopefully we will be able to get some photo's of the marvelous show.

=Garden To Table Reflections= =// 5th September 2010 //= =I really like garden to table because I get to make yummy food fresh from our gardens at school and we get to eat healthy sweet and savoury dishes. Lots of children including me really liked the Anakiwa flapjacks that had: dried apricots; coconut; sunflower seeds; oats and sugar. The oats and coconut made them especially chewy, crunchy and delicious! At gardening, we planted bamboo stakes about a metre long, for the bean plants to climb and weave themselves around. We also planted about 50 strawberry plants; Mrs Masters told us that these plants grow well when fertilised with ground coffee bean mulch which our school was given as a free fertiliser. As Auckland has a lot of left over coffee grounds. = =I think it's a wonderful idea to re-use it on growing succulent strawberries! = =﻿=

== = __ TOPIC-COMMUNICATION-12 SEPTEMBER 2010 __ = === We started doing TOPIC two weeks ago. As our topic is communication (at the moment we are all studying communication through advertisements), our teachers decided we would be making advertisements in print, digital and film: Miss Bell doing digital; Miss Myles doing print and my teacher, Miss Bryant, doing film. Do you know what group I was in? That's right, you guessed it, the one I wanted to be in, Miss Bryant's. First, everyone in Miss B's group for TOPIC split into about six smaller groups. My group included Luke, Michael, Arrian, Fatemeh, the new guy Alex and I. Miss Bryant gave us a sheet on what we would be advertising, and it turned out to be the gardens of Meadowbank primary. We gave all our group members a role to play, as in a movie. This included the directors role, the cast, script writer, camera man and editor at least. I became the script writer with Fatemeh; Alex the director; Luke the camera man; and Arrian and michael as the cast. For our next TOPIC session, We planned what gardens we would film and how we would involve Mr Potato into our advertisement, as it was said on our sheet he needed to be included in our ad. On our next session we spent the whole time taking practice shots on the gardens we would be filming. It was loads of fun and I can't wait ﻿to do our next session!!!! When we were filming we made lots of mistakes and we discovered that being serious on camera is extremely difficult! ===

=**Garden To Table Reflections** =

**__ 19 September 2010 __**
=== This week, I did cooking for the day as I had done GARDENING last time. The others made enormous ravioli squares that we each ate one of. They were filled with silverbeet and ricotta cheese and were very tasty indeed! I was told to fetch all the cooking equipment and baking ingredients for our task so I did not really get to cook this time. Hopefully I might get a chance to cook next time! I am a whizz at washing up and I managed to dry at least 50 dishes and lots of the equipment too! ===

=__Our animal gumboots __= I made a bumble bee for a doorstop because I like bees and I thought my family would like it. These were gumboots transformed into cool animals such as the cow, crab, bird etc. First we drew a plan of what we thought we wanted our gumboots to look like and then we began constructing! We all made beaks, wings and claws out of cardboard, newspaper and masking tape, attached them to our gumboots and left them over night. The next day, we began paper mache. We put tiny strips of newspaper and blobs of ' mache ' glue onto our gumboots. When we had done that, we left them to dry. Soon after that we put newsprint on for our next coat of paper mache, so it would not be to thin. For the finishing paper mache touch, we painted it in PVA glue for a little bit of extra strength. Now all that remained was painting it and adding eyes, which we would do at the end. Miss Bryant showed us different painting techniques for our gumboots such as blending, scrafitto, sponged and and plain. These would add texture to our gumboots and make them look real! So we painted our gumboots and abracadabra! The result was twenty eight BREATH TAKING gumboot animals/insects that looked so real! ( at the end of this paragraph there is a photo of my gumboot ). All it took was some hard work and look at my result! So remember, with a little work and some good luck, a miracle can happen!!!!!!! = Garden To Table Reflections =

__ 16 October 2010 __ ﻿(For Thursday's garden to table session). This session was incredibly productive! For lunch we were having broad bean risotto and a tasty salad. As I was gardening, I got to harvest herbs and lettuce. This was fun! picking off fresh healthy looking leaves of crisp lettuce and the soft, velvety ones of the thyme and parsley! I learnt that you never pick leaves from the inside of the lettuce because that is the growing tip where more leaves grow. Then we did weeding in the raised pottager garden. The weeds came in all shapes and sizes and some could be pulled out with your hands and some with a lot of hard work and a spade! I had an awesome day and can't wait to do cooking next time! = 27 October 2010 = This was the best garden to table session EVER! We had a g+t feast with potato and Parmesan pizza; silverbeet and ricotta Calzone; flatbreads with parsley pesto and olives; salad with broad beans and smoked paprika dressing and Lemon ice-cream. I did cooking and it was heaps of fun! Stephany Alexander from master chef came to eat with us. It was lots of fun and with her came t.v1! They filmed the whole process and It was incredible to know we would be on the news! __2 November 2010 __ Pig ♥  boy- Book review Pig heart boy is a great book. It tugs your ♥ strings with Cameron, a character with a serious problem. He has a bad heart and is desperately in need of a new one, and if he does not get one soon death will course through him! When a doctor approaches him, with a startling gift of a pigs heart in place of a human one, Cameron might need to accept and become the world's first pig ♥ boy! I rate this thriller a 5/5!

__Athletics Day __

On Monday the first of November we had athletics day. My class filed into a bus and we drove to mount smart stadium. When we got there we were briefed on behaviour and where to go if we needed something. Then the events began! The first event I was in was the eight hundred metre run. Twice around the track we went, hot and sweaty. I came somewhere between the middle and the end. It was loads of fun and I think I did pretty well considering I did not train at all! Then I sat down and had a drink and some food, and I felt much better. I cheered for my house members and looked at the winners of the eight hundred metres. This was also loads of fun!

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 28 October 2010 (Wednesday's garden to table session). <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Our last normal garden to table session, It was our goal to make it super fun! My group made a chocolate pudding. It was like a chocolate cream except it was a lot of work and it tasted better!

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