Stars of the Week - Zara and Sofia

Maths Maestros

Every Monday the Room 8 maths class do a Canta-Maths problem solving session.  This morning Daniel and William took the reins and organised it for us.  They spent time last week gathering their questions and then Megan checked them.  They did an awesome job and made it really challenging for everyone!  They displayed several aspects of our Ranzau School vision this morning!  Awesome work boys!  You are Super STARS!

Star of the Week - Daniel

Leaf Art

This afternoon we are doing some lead art. We had to choose an animal and find lots of leaves that had already fallen from the tree! We then had to use the leaves to form the shape of our animal. It was quite tricky finding the perfect sized leaves to use!

Ben's first regatta

Toot, as the five minute hooter went.  Four minutes later it was go! I pulled my main sheet in and I was going up to the first mark. I was coming first round the first mark.  Kapash! as a wave hits the bow. The second mark was harder to get to.  I got to the mark and sailed around it.  Once I got to the the last mark it was blowing at least  twenty five knots. I finally got to the finish line.  I headed to the slipway and finally I was on shore.

By Ben

Kendall's Bio Poem

Kendall
Artistic, sporty and skate park lover.
Lover of... reading the hunger games, BMX and scooters.
Who wonders.... what the world would look like in millons of years to come.
Who feels.... that anyone can follow the dreams.
Who fears.... Rapids and getting wiped out down stream.
Who.. would like to become a famous BMX person and follow Sarah Walker.
Who dreams.... to be a famous BMX person or a scooter person.

Star of the Week - Bree

Shaving foam art

Here are some of our finished pieces. We learnt a lot from our first attempts. This time around we made sure that we didn't mix the colours into the foam with a lot of force. We tried to treat the foam like eggs when you make a pavlova and blend the food colouring in really softly. We also learnt that pulling the shaving foam off at the end is the most important part. You have to push and pull really hard to reveal your pattern! How great do these ones look?

Spring Show

Yesterday was the Ranzau Spring Show. We had an awesome day with our buddies. There were 4 activities that we rotated around throughout the morning. The activities were: Painting, sand sauces, fruit and vegie creations and boot decorating. In the afternoon all of our creations were in the multi-purpose room for our parents to see. We finished the day off by playing games outside with our buddies.

Sofia's Star Challenge

This is Sofia's inquiry part of her Star Challenge.  Have a read about this inspirational woman!
Sofia created a book using book creator on the iPad.

Open publication - Free publishing - More challenge

Calendar art in progress!

We are using shaving foam and food colouring to create the background for our art! Watch this space for our finished master pieces.

Megan took the first group through what to do and then that group had to teach the next group.

Digital Citizenship

This morning we had a chat about being good digital citizens and how we can keep safe online.
Here is what we came up with:

What being a good digital citizen means to us:

Being a confident and capable user of ICT
Using sites that are appropriate for our age
Leaving positive comments for others
Keeping our personal details safe.  Not sharing our address, home phone number etc with others
Treating ICT equipment with respect

We will be using a site called Edmodo so it is really important that we know what being a good digital citizen means.

Joshua's Bio Poem

Joshua
Funny, Sporty and Reader.
Lover of frogs, soccer and reading.
Who wonders what it would be like to live in another country.
Who feels we're destroying our earth.
Who would like to become a billionaire.
Who is able to fly like a kiwi.
Who dreams of traveling the world.

Daniel's Bio Poem

Daniel 

Dedicated Sporty Awesome.

Lover of mountain bike riding hunting and great

   books.

Who wonders what the world will be like in years to come.

Who fears global warming.

Who feels if you believe in your in your dreams you can fulfill them.

Who would like to become a famous mountain biker.

Who dreams of becoming a famous mountain bike rider.