The Mapua School Cross Country 2010

On your marks, get set, go! Everyone started running their guts out, in the year five races! The boys went first then the girls. It was wet, muddy and slippery. People were slipping over, kicking mud on other people's faces, and kicking mud up their own back!
It was a very exciting race. Some people almost slipped into the ditch by slipping on
the mud! It was a great race. Mac won the boys race and Brooke won the girls.
By: Zane Room 8

How to make a leaf print!

First to make our leaf prints we had to find a leaf. Next we drew a picture of the leaf on a piece of card. After that we got some p.v.a glue and glued over all of the lines. The next day the glue had dried so we got a piece of newspaper and we chose a colour,then we rolled over our print with a roller for a minute or two. Then we went back to our desks and folded the newspaper in half then got a piece of paper and put it on top of the print. Then we got a clean roller and rolled over our print. Finally we took off the piece of paper and we had a leaf print! By Latai and Sophie

It's all about clay!

Clay here, clay there, clay everywhere! Room 8 have been sculpting with clay because art is our topic. We have made coil pots, thumb pots and clay tiles. The coil pots were made by making long snake bits of clay and then wrapping it round and round in circles. The thumb pot was made by rolling a ball of clay and pinch the inside of it.