Tinker time with Beads

As part of our Tinker time we get to work with Hama beads. Our focus this time round was to create a design that celebrates " The Year of the Pig" Oh so cute!! However as they used up all the pink beads because it was tricky to make a small version, we are now going to design Butterflies to compliment our Arts Week art work. 

Playing String Games

We have discovered that String games are played both in Chinese and Maori culture. Ashton is our class expert and he taught us a neat trick.

Publishing completed

 Anzac Art with Mrs Smith. Poppy prints, printed onto the lyrics of the National Anthem.

Our Anzac display in our room reminds us to remember .

 Our Marae Recounts surrounded by designs using mostly Koru patterns.

 Dia's recount was so detailed that the font needed to be teeny tiny to fit the story on the page.

 Here is Charlie's Scream Art which accompanies his story about things he is scared of.

We used a straw to blow the paint across the page. It made some children feel a little dizzy.

Nature Scavenger Hunt

                                    Here is the list of things to find and the cup to put them into

                                                        Finding three blades of grass

                                                            Finding a purple flower

                                                            Finding a glossy leaf

                                         About to find a white stone or a smooth grey stone

                                 The only pair to find a snail's shell and the snail was still inside.

On Friday after morning tea, in the beautiful weather, we had an outside Challenge. It was a Nature Scavenger Hunt. It was a fun, non academic activity. We had to find things like a sprinkle of sand and a small stick. It was a great thing to do on a gorgeous sunny day!

Here we are and here we SHINE!

Our first story writing was about things we were good at. We wrote I shine at.....
We then published them on a sunny yellow balloon. It was tricky to keep the balloon still.
We shone at lots of different things!!

Find Someone Who......

As part of getting to know each other we were given a recording sheet. Our task was to roam around the room and ask questions like a reporter. If the person said yes, they wrote their name in a box on our grid. We tried to collect as many different names as we could. That way we were mixing it up and getting to know something about a lot of people in our class. One of the questions was - Does your family have a pet? Room 24 well done for getting to know each other better!!