Movember

The class and school really got in behind Movember this month and supported men's health. The whole school and all the male teachers sported mows for the month/day. Check out the outrageous blue slug on Mr P's face!!!!
Emma with her handle-bar "sausage" mow won the class prize but some of the other ones look spectacular as well. We'll done you good things!!

The Pegasus Digi Awards

As part of the recent iPad initiative in East Zone schools the inaugural "Pegasus Digi Awards" have been created.
There were a number of categories to enter but Room 15 chose to enter the digital photo section.
Using the iPads the class set about taking photos using composition and editing techniques they had been taught. Below this post you can view all their efforts. I think you will agree the results are very impressive indeed!!
All of these photos have been uploaded to the Digi Awards site for judging. There will be an Awards Celebration Evening held at Chisnalwood Intermediate on the 19th of September to which you are all invited.

Beautiful Blue Flower-Jade de Lautour

This flower is beautiful because I used the brightness and messed with the saturation and filled the frame on SnapSeed. Also I cropped it out a lot and made it beautiful.

Spring Flowers- Brayden Wilson

I took this photo using the rule of thirds. In the photo editing app Snapseed I adjusted the brightness and made the flower a little bit darker to bring out the colours.

Out door view Taylor MC carthy

I took this photo because olden days pictures are cool. I used saturation and brightness to make a sunset to make it more olden days.

Green Grass-Amaan Ali

I took this photo because I saw the brightness of the grass and the darkness of the tree.I used saturation and rule of thirds to compose it.

Bush Fort-Kishan Patel

I took this photo to fill the frame, used the rule of thirds, blurred the edges and put on a frame.
I edited the photo on Snapseed. I used the blur strength strongly.

Death Jump- Michael Leadbetter

I like this photo because it has a frame within a frame and it's 4 metres off the ground. I used saturation, brightness and I cropped it in the photo editing app Snapseed. I hope you like it.

White Flowers-AmberTilbrook

I used the rule of thirds in this photo with a close up of these pretty flowers.
I used Snapseed to adjusted brightness and saturation. I blurred out the background and cropped it.

Tree Trunk Texture-Max Stevens

I took this because we were doing texture and I liked the trees bark. I used Snap-seed to adjust the brightness levels. I also saturated it to bring the green moss out.

Midnight Tree - Gina McGrosky

Why did I take this photo? Because it was funky looking up at the tree- branches. On this photo I used the fill the frame technique . Then on the photo editing app Snap seed I changed the brightness and made a midnight look as you will see below.

Daffodils by Cameron McConchie

I took this photo trying to fill the frame and capture the felling of Spring.I changed the brightness the ambiance and the contrast in the editing app called Snap Seed.

Representing Spring-Emma Bunn

I took this photo because it represents Spring .But the sun made it look funny so I went on the photo editing app Snap Seed and fixed it and made it better.I played with the brightness and contrast and filled the frame and now it looks awesome.

Beautiful Flowers-Kaya Waho

I took this photo because it was amazing. I used the app Snapseed to edit it. I sharpened it a little. I blurred the background a bit as well. Also I cropped it.

Fun Fall- Alicia McGifford

I took this photo using the rule of thirds with perfect action captured in it.
Using Snapseed I fixed up the white balance, brightness and saturation. I even cropped
it a bit. I am very proud of the way it turned out.

Treefort-Cade Ranger

I took this photo to fill the frame, and I used the rule of thirds. I used the brightness, blurred the edges and the saturation. I used the app Snapseed to edit the photo. Can you spot the ball stuck up the tree?

Drifty grass by Trey Jarvis

I took this photo because I like the frame on the sides. I used SNAPSEED to dolly my photo up and it's a good photo. I used heaps of cool effects like grunge. I sharpened this photo when it was raw as well.

The Race - Jake Pritchard

I took this photo as an action photo and I used the rule of thirds.
On Snap-seed I adjusted little bit of saturation and brightness. I also blurred the background.

Spring Flower - Taylor Mc Carthy

I filled the frame and did it on a angle.I took this photo because it looks beautiful and I wanted to make it prettier. I adjusted my photo by brightness and saturation and I even cropped it a little.

Wood Stream-Ben Lewis

I took this photo because I was thinking about filling the frame.
I edited it with Snapseed. I edited the saturation and brightness.I focused on the light a bit more to change the contrast.

Tree House-Noah Cruickshank

I took this photo to fill the frame, I also used the rule of thirds.
I edited this photo on an app called Snapseed.I adjusted the brightness level and cropped the photo a bit.

Flower Power-Keisha Wills

I took this photograph as I was focusing on fill the frame.
On Snapseed photo editor I adjusted the saturation, the brightness levels and I also made the flowers brighter.
I made the flowers whiter and the background a little bit darker.

Tree Walk-Eva Rendle

I got this picture looking up a tree and it was hard to get this shot.
I used the app Snap Seed and I used filter tune image. It helps with saturation, ambiance, contrast and white balance. I also used tilt-shift to do transition, blur strength, brightness, saturation and contrast.

The Beautiful Rocks - by Libby McMillan

These rocks show how Earth is so beautiful. I used satiration,white balance and I used lots of other stuff on the photo editing app Snapseed to adjust it.

Pretty Flower-Jade de Lautour

I took this flower and filled the frame. I had to adjust the brightness and saturation on Snapseed. I took this photo to show how beautiful nature is.

Puffy Bird-Holly

I took this photo to show how to fill the frame.
I used the the editing app on Snapseed. I used the tune image function that has contrast,saturation,white balance and ambiance. I used the contrast to make the the white whiter and the sky bluer.

Cliff Hanger-Lachie Shankland

I took this photo while I was thinking about frame within a frame.
I edited it with Snapseed to change the contrast , brightness and saturation levels on the photo. I also blurred the background out.

How Tiny are We?

Had to share this amazing picture with you. The Cassini spacecraft which has been in space for nearly 10 years has arrived at the gas giant Saturn- 1.4 Billion Km's from Earth.
What makes this photo amazing is that the probe took a backwards shot of Earth and our moon.
Blue, beautiful, and tiny in the vastness of space!! Can you see your house(-:

Cup Song-Pitch Perfect

Cup Song-Pitch Perfect from Gary Pinker on Vimeo.

We had a " nearly" snow day so lots were away. We made the best of it. These clever girls kept warm by practising "The Cup Song!!" You not sure what this is all about? Well neither was I until I saw it. Check it out.

Chalk Attack

Chalk Attack from Gary Pinker on Vimeo..

A chalk time had by all. We kicked an inquiry unit on New Zealand art and how it impacts our lives.
We will be back with more!! STAY POSTED

Swimming at Queenspark

It's been really good to see the quick progress of some individuals during our swimming sessions. The class and pool is divided into three groups and the instructors do a great job of running three separate programmes based on the various skill and experience levels. 

Wow!-Later on they will even have a boat for the children to fall out of (-:

Wolf Pack

In class we have been reading Jack London's books "Call of the Wild" and "White Fang". Both books are really descriptive accounts of wolves and men in the Canadian and Alaskan frozen north.
This BBC movie about the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park in the United States.
What magnificent creatures I hope you enjoy it.

Tree Monkeys

I found some rare tree monkeys when I was on camp!! They require constant feeding an attention though.

For the most part they are very gentle and caring creatures.

Blue Skies Camp-2013

Hi All

Check out all our camp photos from Blue Skies last week. Wow!! There are about a 1000 of them to look at. A big thanks to Chris for taking them all. Many of them are absolute stunner's of our two classes in action.
Miss Brady and I saw so many examples of confidence, initiative and courage during our time there.
If you want to see the photo in larger format just double click the slideshow and then you will be able to scroll through them all at your leisure and download any that you want.

Mr Gray the "Jazz Banana"

Check out are cool principal in a locally made rock/jazz video.
Who knows he might inspire us to come up with something with our new class i pads!!!!!

5th February 2013

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

I trust you all had a restful break over the recent holidays. My family and I made the most of the great weather and have recently been spending more time down at the beach. In fact we have run into a number of Parkview people down there which has been great. This is just a note to let you know how things are progressing in class and some organisational reminders.

General

The class has settled very well into the various routines of class life and there is a happy and

 contented feel to the place.

Camp

Camp this year will be held at Blue Skies in Kaiapoi. We will be going with Room 14.  The dates are 13-15 of March. Because we use our own transport to get there the cost will be $90, sounds expensive I know but many school camps these days cost well over $100.  If you wish to “drip-feed” some of this amount off that’s fine.  If you wish to come on camp please make yourself known to me or Miss Brady in the next couple of weeks.

Homework

Please check and sign your child’s homework notebook sometime during the week.  This book also has reminders and general class information in it, so it is important that you sight it.  Chores and activities after school also count as homework e.g. swimming or music lessons or even helping with the evening’s meal.  These you can list on the “homework and reminders” page.

Your child will have a list of spelling words and a family of number facts to learn by Friday.  These lists are issued on Monday and re-tested on Friday. Your child will also be expected to read for 20 minutes each evening and watch at least 3 news broadcasts during the week.

In addition to this the children will have various activities to complete which involves the web-site - www.studyladder.co.nz. There will also be information and class happenings on the class blog at http://room15parkview.blogspot.co.nz/ (this of course can also be found at the school website). It is not my intention for homework to be an onerous activity for families but something that extends learning which is already happening in the classroom. More information will be given on this at the three-way conferences later this month. Don’t hesitate to seek me out if you have any concerns or queries. My e-mail is gary.pinker@parkview.school.nz

Best Regards

Gary Pinker

Classroom Teacher                     

Room 15