Artist Research

This week as part of our two week Art focus, we have each chosen one of five artists to research and create a slide show about.  The final step of our research project was to recreate a piece of the artist's work.  Then we had to figure out how to get a picture of us with our art work into our slide show using our Chromebooks.  We think we are pretty clever to have figured it out!

Measurement

This week we have been working with measurement.  On Friday we had fun playing a game using measurement.  In groups of 4 we took turns choosing a card and naming a member of our group who we would measure.  We had to each estimate what the answer would be.  Then we measured the length and whoever was the closest won the card.













  

  

Brad's experiment

Brad brought in a fun experiment.  We put very small, solid balls into water and within an hour they had expanded to large, soft, squishy balls that were very fun to play with!

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. 

Senior Swimming Sports

Congratulations to the students in our class who placed in the swimming sports finals!  

It was fun to watch them do what they're so good at!

Congratulations Emily, Jade, Tobey and Nicole.

Also congratulations to our class relay team who placed 2nd.  What a strong team!

Jade, Tobey, Jordan and Brad.  Well done!

 A great crowd gathered to cheer on the swimmers.  

Those who weren't swimming were great supporters!

 It was fun for Emily to swim against her twin sister!

Cricket!

Five boys from our class have made the school cricket team. On Tuesday they will participate in a tournament at Lloyd Elsmore park. Good luck boys and have fun!!

Summer birthdays

We had a catch up also for the summer birthdays we missed. Happy birthday Chloe, James and Brad!!  I think Brad was overwhelmed by the amazing singing!