Buddy Class Christmas Art

On Friday we spent time with our buddies doing some Christmas art.  First we gave them cards we had made and a little gift (from Mrs Nichol's daughters' extra stuffies!)  Then we taught our buddies how to make their own Christmas tree cards using 10cm pieces of paper that we had to cut to make a tree.  Ask us how we did it... we are pretty clever!   We also used rolled paper dipped in green paint to create trees, with fingerprint decorations.  Afterwards we had our lunch together.

Fitness

This week our fitness rotation has been strength and agility. We go to the various playgrounds around the school and practice our skills.

End of term

Out of this world, our new unit. We researched what the planets looked like and sketched and coloured our own solar systems. 

Reading our PPP letters. Thank you for the lovely letters you wrote to your children about their recent PPPs. The children thoroughly enjoyed reading them. 

End of term boys' picnic. Today the boys had their classroom picnic complete with animated videos and computer games. 

Happy birthday to Tobey!!

Extra reason for Tobey to celebrate today. He was awarded the CBS celebration award for our class for consistently demonstrating the CBS core values. Well done Tobey!

PPPs

Today we practised what we will share for our PPPs on Wednesday.   We look forward to sharing our learning with our families.

Google drawings

Today we learnt more about how to use Google Drawings. We looked at the work of Roy Lichtenstein and how he used colour and words to create powerful visual images. We brainstormed a large list of onomatopoeia words that we could use for our art.  After we created our picture we posted it to our blog, so be sure to check our out blogs to see our cool artwork!

Here is a link to the Google Drawing lesson.  HERE

Let the Paper Mache Begin!

Today we began to paper mache our letters.  They certainly are big and will take us awhile to finish but we are excited about our project!

Watch us in action HERE

Buddy Science

Milky way experiment.  We filled a small tray with milk.  Then we added a few drops of food colouring into the milk in separate places.  After we added a drop of dishwashing liquid, we used a toothpick to swirl the colours in the milk.  It made beautiful patterns.

Our next experiment was to make paperclip helicopters.  We had to follow directions to fold and cut the paper and add a paper clip to make our helicopters work.  We had fun letting them go from as high as we could reach and watching them spin to the ground.

Our Art This Term

In Term One we have completed two pieces of artwork. The first one was to sketch our team bird, the kakapo. We also had to sketch a background of New Zealand native plants and then colour it with pastels. Once we were finished, and had cut and mounted it for presentation, we had to self assess it against our success criteria. We are very proud of our finished work. 

Our second piece of art was a tiki or marae for our new theme, Mana Te Ao. First we had to find a picture on the internet that we wanted to draw. Next we saved the image to a Google doc so that we would be able to find the same image again. We then sketched our image making sure to add detail. We coloured using pastels, colouring pencils or jovies, depending on which would work best for our drawing. We printed off our original image to mount alongside our finished artwork. Our next step will be to self assess our work against the success criteria that we came up with for our project. 

James, MacKenzie and Andy are very proud to have their work on display in the school entrance. 

Kakapo

We are learning all about the bird that represents the Year Five team, the Kakapo. We have read about Richard Henry and his efforts to protect the kakapo. We've watched some great videos on YouTube of the kakapo. Today we began learning how to sketch a kakapo. Here are some pictures of us hard at work as artists.