Art Gallery Trip

On Tuesday 13 June from 12.30-2pm Home base 4  went to the Art Gallery. We had 5 very kind parent helps who generously  gave up their time to come and help  us on our trip. If it weren't for these amazing people we could not have gone. There were so many cool pieces of art and our host Bianca explained them really well. After we had a tour of some specific pieces we got to make our own tree house. We were given a piece of card with a template on it and we had to cut it out, colur it and then go to a table and use a craft knife to cut out the windows and doors. We all sat at a table with some colured pencils and we colured everything on the tree house. Some people were really creative and put rope swinging theirs using real rope! You will be able to see my tree house down below. 


Photos of my tree house:

Picture 1: One side of the outside. 

Picture 2: door side of the outside.

picture 3: The inside. 

The aim of my out side was to have it to look like a sky.

The aim of my inside was to make it look like my dream room. 

Thanks for reading and coming to cheek back on my blog. Have you ever been to the Art Gallery? If so what was your favorite piece of art?

Harriet 

Stepout writing

For writing this term we have been doing a rotation between the four home base teachers. This is a paragraph from my follow up from step out writing with Miss Dungey. I called it Hammy and Ginger ( A take on Hansel and Gretel).

One terribly  rainy day Hammy was cooking his signature dish and Ginger was growing her favorite plant. Can you guess what it is? Yes Ginger. This is what they do every day and Once a week they go to the market to sell their food. While they did this they sang this song “ Hammy and Ginger had some ginger and ham ginger and ham it tasted way too gross. Everywhere they went the stink transported over town. As you can probably tell by the song it tasted disgusting but they were the only people that new how to cook in the town so if you didn't eat Hammy and Gingers food you would have to eat slimy worms and uncooked rotten mutton.

Thanks for reading my writing I hope you enjoyed it and have you ever done a take on a story before?

My writing

Here is some of follow up writing from the mystery box where we had a old suitcase and we had to image what was inside. Here is my favorite paragraph  

The mystery box

  Ring ring ring. What was that? Ring ring ring. There it was again, well I better go get it.  I crept  down the musty mouldy old stairs so as not to wake the others up. The postman was short and had a small moustache curling round his chubby chin, and his moles were as big as my fist. I asked him  what he wanted he said “I bring a package for mademoiselle Adalane”. Wait that's me! “Well mademoiselle I am here to do my job, so please sign here”, Ohhh okay I said lost for words. At that time I was thinking wait I never get packages. “Well My girl thank you and goodbye”

By Harriet

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My Taonga

At school we have been talking about culture for PBL ( Project based learning) . One of the tasks we had to complete was to find and bring our family treasure to school and have a presentation ready to present to our home base . Then as we presented it someone videoed but I deiced not to include this.

My Taonga

My great grandmother Margaret Mary(Peggy)  Monteith ( stanton married name) was born in 1911 and had 4 children called Judith, Elaine, Rob(Robert) and Paul. Her mother's name was  Catherine Lucy Brosnahan (married name Monteith). We don't know when Margaret's mother was born but probably around 1890- 1900.  Margaret was a very hard worker. She was a fortune teller and loved to help people. In about the middle of her life she was arrested for having a crystal ball. While serving her time in prison someone committed  a murder. The police had a lot of evidence but they needed to know who the murder was. This is where margaret comes in, because she was  a fortune teller she had a lot of talents  including seeing back into the past she saw who the murderer was and told the police.  After that the police set her free and she could go back to her family. That's the backstory but back to the actual object,  or should I say objects. The objects I have is some brooches. The reason I told you that story is because that lady Margaret owned the brooches. My mum thinks that some of them belonged to Margaret's mother. All of the brooches are over 50 years old. They all belong to my mum and use to belong to my nana. My favourite brooch is the one with the man walking the dog. I like it because the dog has lots of detail and I love dogs.

Here's some photos:

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