Technology

On Tuesday and Wednesday the 12th and 13th of October, Mana Syndicate was doing Technology. On Tuesday the 12th Room 2 were making bridges in our table groups. We made them out of 15 pieces of newspaper. After we sorted out the newspapers, Anna set the timer for 20 minutes. When the timer went we started building our bridges. Julia and Jessica’s table did the biggest and widest bridge. The bridge had to hold Anna’s toy moose. Julia’s table went first because we had the moose on our table. We put Mr Moose in the middle of our bridge and then… our bridge… fell over! The last group won.

By Jess and Julia

Room 2 Plays Tennis

At Plimmerton School, Kowhai, Mana and Hongoeka Syndicates played tennis. When Room 2 went to play, we did a game called Pacman. The way to play it is you pick 4 Pac-men and the rest have to run away from the pac-men on the yellow lines.

Next Room 2 practised playing tennis with a partner. Katie hit the ball too hard and Aimee hit it too high – it was harder than we thought!

After that Room 2 played Padda tennis. The way to play it is you pick 6 people to be the catchers and the spares are the hitters. If you are a hitter and you don’t hit it over the net, you become a catcher. When you’re a catcher you have to catch the ball when it gets hit over the net. Blake missed out because he got hurt – poor Blake! That was the day Room 2 went to tennis. We can’t wait to try again next week!

By Katie and Blake

Te Papa Visit 2010

In Mana Syndicate we were learning about drama, dance, art, music and poetry, so we were having a visit to… TE PAPA! Our tour guides were Aaron, Andrew and last of all Riria. When we stepped inside everyone was crowded so we had to squeeze. Olivia and I learnt so many things, like you can make your own stories when you are looking at the artist’s work. Left or right? You’re right, you can! We went to things like the Earthquake House, caves, rumpus rooms, and last of all computer rooms. We had so much fun and we hope you did as well.

By Olivia and Sana

The girls and their ukuleles

Ryan and Lucas are thinking VERY hard

Some of the boys inside a fake whale heart!

Swimming

On term four, weeks one, two, five and six, Mana Syndicate are doing swimming! We have had… SO MUCH FUN! (so far). On Monday we had our first swim and only like nine people remembered their togs. On Tuesday there was a BIG difference – only Jess forgot her togs (sorry Jess) but anyway, all 23 of us had great fun. Today is our last day swimming this week and we’re pretty sure we’re going to have great fun again!

By Millie and Georjah

Alan Bagnall

It' s Term 3 and Mana Syndicate are studying poetry!
We're lucky enough to have Alan Bagnall coming to visit us soon so brush up on his poems - there are LOTS in the school journals!
Check out this interview with him for some more information about this cool poet :)

http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/kids/childrensauthors/alanbagnall.asp

Stu Duval

Last week Mana Syndicate were lucky enough to have Stu Duval come and take us for a drawing workshop. We got to use chalk pastels which was a lot of fun. We learnt how to draw portraits. Did you know that when you're drawing, a person's eyes sit half-way down your face?!
Have a look at some of the pictures of us at the workshop and come in to see all our finished work displayed in the hallway outside our classroom.

Stu showing us how to draw a face.

Lucas learning how to work with chalk pastel.

Millie part-way through her masterpiece.

Vinnie shows us how it's done :)

Zoe and her finished work - isn't it great?!

Term 2

Welcome back to Term 2. This term Mana Syndicate is looking at famous New Zealanders and their contributions to our communities. Keep checking back to see what we've been learning.

We had Swimming Sports at Cannons Creek Pool in Week 1. Well done to everyone who participated and check out this weeks school newsletter to see some of the awesome results :)