Book Character Dress Up Day!

On Thursday 21 November, Room 10/11 had a fun day dressed up as their favourite book characters. There were princesses, witches, wizards, Hairy Maclary and many other characters from different books! It was great to see the love of reading and making a connection to those characters. Well done Room 10/11 for your amazing effort and costumes! 

We are learning to draw a sea lion.

Room 10/11 have made the Sea Lion artwork for the Art Show that is taking place in Term 3 Week 9. We observed different features and postures of the sea lion and learned to draw it step by step to make our own sea lions. Then we made our background by blending different shades and tints of blue. We also made rocks by scrunching up some brown paper.

Hosting the Junior Assembly

Junior Assembly 

WALT celebrate and share our learning achievement with others

This Term we were lucky enough to host one of the Junior Assemblies. Some of us volunteered to speak while others showed our amazing Harold the giraffe portrait and writing. We worked really hard, practising our items and reading our script. We can't wait till it's our turn next to host assembly! 

Magnificent Masks

LI - to use variety of skills to design and make a mask

Room 2 has worked incredibly hard to work on this project. We started nice and early from end of Term 2 to study the history and the background of masks, came up with our own first design in our sketch books and then added more details to it after watching designers making them on videos.

We first chose our colours we will use. We were heavily influenced by Venetian masks so our plan was to add silver and gold to one of our chosen colour which made it look extravagant.

Then we designed a personal headpiece(s) to go on the mask. We thought using cardboard will be the best idea as it light and sturdy. We painted it and added details using beads, sequins and  diamanté beads. 

The eyes were later decorated with the diamanté beads - we learnt how to cut the top thread so the beads will still hold together but it will bend to the shape of the eyes. It was hard work!

Lastly we added mesh and feathers and other sparkly bits to make our mask stand out even more. We made sure the right colours were chosen so it matches the masks.

We hope to see all our parents in Term 4 when we showcase these amazing masterpieces.

Making bread!

LI - observe change from liquid to solid

We made bread. We added the ingredients following a special recipe (please refer to our Poem book). We used our skills we learned before to measure the ingredients. Mrs Christie and Miss Lee brought in their bread machine and we watched it go chug chug chug and mix our dough. When Mrs Christie cut the dough it felt like soft marshmallow. We told the story of The Little Red Hen as we watched the dough going in the oven. We had our bread with jam butter or marmite.

Yum!

Tread Lightly

LI - to be aware of our environment

In Week 7, we had a special visit from Tread Lightly van. We have learned that plastic waste doesn’t degrade so we must learn how to sort our rubbish correctly. We also got a small seed that we will plant in our school planter box. I wonder what it will turn out to be!

Welcome to Room 2!

This is my blog. There will be lots of learning going on this year in Room 2 and I am ready to learn. 

Diwali Divas

We have been learning about celebrations around the world.  One of the celebrations we explored was Diwali.  We learnt that it is known as the festival of light and one of the parts of this festival is lighting diva (pronounced "diya").  We made our own diva using clay and tea-light candles and then we decorated them with paint and glitter.  Happy Diwali everyone!

"There are fireworks when it is Diwali", said Elly.

Bunnings visits Elm Park

This week we were lucky enough to have Bunnings come and visit us and put together a fun day where students got to build a project.  Nga tamariki had an absolute blast hammering, glueing, problem solving and painting to create a masterpiece.  Here is a brief snap-shot of the fun:

"I liked it when Bunnings came to school because they gave me a toy hammer.  It was tricky putting the hooks in."

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