Adventures in Stop-Go Animation

We have been re-creating scenes from novels using stop-go animation. It has been a big learning curve for a lot of us, and a great way to show our understanding of what we're reading!


Sarah: How to Eat Fried Worms

Sarah Stop Go from Room6HSS on Vimeo.

Polly: Warrior Cats: Into the Wild

My Movie 2 from Room6HSS on Vimeo.

Licca: Once

licca stop go from Room6HSS on Vimeo.

Vince: Rivermonsters

Vincent Stop Go from Room6HSS on Vimeo.

Brody: How to Eat Fried Worms

Brody Stop Go from Room6HSS on Vimeo.

Jaimen: Just Crazy

Jaimen Stop Go from Room6HSS on Vimeo.

Sophia:

Sophia Stop Go from Room6HSS on Vimeo.

Tom: Lord of the Rings:

Tom Stop go from Room6HSS on Vimeo.

Daniel: Spiderbite

My Movie from Room6HSS on Vimeo.

Harper:

Harper stop go from Room6HSS on Vimeo.

Flynn M: Once: Nuala: The Fault in our Stars:

A Stop go motion video from fault in our stars. from Nuala Tranter on Vimeo.

Josa: Trixie Belden

My Movie 1 from Room6HSS on Vimeo.

Works still in progress (check back!!) Joseph: Holes Flynn H: Holes Kael: Boy Vs. Beast Tahlia: The Littlest Witch Nuala: Th Fault in our Stars Alice: Alegiant Finlay: Crocodile Tears Jai: The Day Jack Went to the Shop

How many squares in a chessboard???

Check out our maths challenge...can you figure it out???
(It's not 64!)

Genius hour

Lookout....we're geniuses! Mr. Ashby came home from the Google Teacher Academy really pumped about Genius Hour...student led independent projects designed to inspire and extend our learners. Us teachers can't always cover all subjects that interest students, so instead, for an hour a week we'll help students explore and create things that interest them...can't wait to see the end results! Topics Room 6 chose range from coding to cooking, trolley building, dancing, game creating, model zoo building, pet hut construction, and more!

Room6 Genius Hour from Room6HSS on Vimeo.

And for more on Genius hour, watch this:

Holiday Highlights

Have you been wondering what we have all been up to over the school holidays???

Here is a slideshow we have made to show our holiday highlights!

Looks like Room 6 had a heap of fun.....

Room 6 Political Parties and Policies

After a few conversations around politics and the political process in New Zealand, we thought it would be fun to create our own political groups.

Each group had to come up with their five most important policies- 3 relating to New Zealand in general and 2 relating to our lives at HSS. The parties have been making posters and websites, we've had some class debates and next week we will be broadcasting our political debates on our school radio station, HSS 107 fm.

Check out some of the political parties. What do you think of their policies?

The Creative Animal Party

http://creativeanimalparty.weebly.com/

The Pizza Party

http://pizza-party1.weebly.com/

The Pathfinder Party

http://pathfinderpartyhss.weebly.com/

NZ United

http://nzunited.weebly.com/

http://teamnzunited.blogspot.co.nz/

Independent NZ

http://vincentmacalister.wix.com/independent-nz

Happy NZ Party

http://happynz.weebly.com/

K.A.P. Party

http://kapparty.weebly.com/

VOTING: 
YOU MAY ONLY VOTE ONCE.  VOTING WILL BE OPEN FROM WEDS MORNING TO FRIDAY 12pm
Make sure you are voting on the issues and not just supporting your friends :)

Novels

We have started an exciting unit on novels!!!! We are enjoying reading and discussing books together.

New or Exciting Vocabulary

We are word detectives....always looking for cool words to use in our own writing or just to enjoy as we read. Help us create a big wordbank of new and exciting vocabulary that you come across in your reading!!

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