MADE AWARDS 2014...

Winner Music Video, MADE AWARDS 2014, Year 4 - 6 category, How Bizarre

Winner Storytelling, MADE AWARDS 2014, Year 1 - 3 category, Tui's Garden

Second Place Documentary, MADE AWARDS 2014, Year 4 - 6 category, Honeybee News

Charlotte, 3rd Place for Best Actress, MADE AWARDS 2014, puppeteering Queen Bee…photo taken by our bee garden...

Tui's Garden - The Movie Set...

We made a movie called Tui's Garden.  This is the movie set.  We filmed the movie in our classroom.

We had to design the backdrops.  I designed the character Praven and he was from Singapore.  I wrote the story with Summer and I drew Mrs Camilla.  I think she looked really good in the movie.  Aogan was the voice for Mrs Camilla. 

Tui's Garden - Behind the Scenes

We made honeybees for the movie because it was a movie about honeybees.

It took a long time to make the movie.  

The honeybees look like they are flying because they are on string and someone is holding them with their hands.  They have a lot of stripes and they have wings.

We all made the fence, the puppets and all the clothes.  Summer designed most of the puppets and their clothes.  

We made some flowers.  All of the Year 3 children worked together to make Tui's Garden.  The Year 4's were working on Honeybee News and the How Bizarre while we made our movie.  

We all worked very hard on the movie.  Our favourite parts were puppeteering the little honeybees and drawing the backdrops.

Tui's Garden - Behind the Scenes

We made the movie because we love honeybees.  We wanted to tell people to plant for bees.

I used the camera to video the movie and I did some puppeteering.  I coloured in lots of clothes and coloured in some puppets.

I made a house for the backdrop.

The best part was filming because it was a very important job.

Honeybee News - Behind the Scenes

These are the the photos of Room 6 behind the scenes. 

Everybody helped to make the backdrops and Flynn and Luke worked on the script.  

The people who filmed the documentary were Chloe, Flynn and Kyan.  

Before we did the puppeteering we had to practise and learn our lines.  It was hard work, but it was worth it because we think it is a really good documentary.

Drawing the backdrops for Honeybee news...

Honeybee News - Making the Puppets

We made honeybee using black socks.  I made some honeybees and they took a bit of work, but we got them all done.  The best part that this was our first time making puppets for a real movie.

I was the puppeteer and voice for Worker Bee 1.  I really liked it and I had to practise.  We videoed each other on the iPad.  This helped me get better at puppeteering and sometimes you need to make a voice different to what you've got.  I learnt to make sure my puppet was looking at the camera.

Tui's Garden - The Storyboard

After writing the script we then had to turn this into a storyboard.  We all worked together to think of what shots we could use.  After this we worked out what artworks we needed to create.

Honeybee News - Backdrops

We drew a backdrop that was yellow and black.  The black was meant to look like jail bars.  Then we stuck the varroa mite poster on top.

Luke, Jack and Nathan helped to design the backdrop with all the food.  This was meant to show that if there were no honeybees to pollinate flowers we wouldn't have all of this food.

Honeybee News - Behind the Scenes

These are some of our original ideas.  We did a lot of exploring of ideas and had to think what we wanted to teach other children about Honeybees.  

People use neonicotinoids on flowers and people probably don't know bees can die because of that.  Varroa mite hop onto bees and then they suck their blood and honeybees get diseases.

I did some puppeteering of a honeybee and I was the voice for the man who was spraying the apple tree.

Flynn designed the Honeybee News logo and Luke helped to colour this in…  

These are our signs to say 'stop' varroa mite and 'stop' using neonicotinoids. Connor designed the 'stop' using neonicotinoids sign and Nathan designed the varroa 'stop' sign...

Up Close with a Honeybee...

Can you see the pollen? Honey bees are V.I.P's.  That means very important
pollinators.  Guess how many wings are on a honey bee...

Honeybee can see in UV. Click here to see how bees find flowers...

This honeybee has chewed wings because of varroa mite.  The varroa mite sucks their blood and they get diseases!

Honeybee Garden...

Room 6 planted flowers for the bee garden because we love honey bees. This is why we planted a bee garden.  

Honeybees are in danger so plant for bees!

Room 6 loves honey, so please help the honeybees.  Plant flowers that honeybees like.  Honeybees like lavender, camellia's and lemon trees.

We planted lavender, sage, oregano, cat mint, sunflowers, cosmos and seeds for bees.  We watered the gar dent, that's why it grows.  Room 6 love Honeybees!  From Summer and Lily.

The seeds for bees have germinated!

Ouruhia Nursery...

Chloe, Charlotte and Nathan went to Ouruhia nursery to get flowers for our bee garden.  These are the flowers we brought from the nursery Oregano, Lavender, Sage and Cat mint.  We were going to get peaches, but we forgot to get them.

We went across the road and we took some photos of bees and beehives.  Chloe took some video footage.

A Beezarre Assembly….

A vist to Ouruhia Nursery...

It's Bee Aware month!

What flowers do honeybees like?

Charlotte, Chloe and Nathan visited Ouruhia Nursery to buy some plants for the bee garden.  Over the road we found bee hives!