Halloween Madness

A week ago we celebrated Halloween with A4.  We painted our face like zombies and made spooky marshmellow ghosts.  It was fun and we scared lots of people.  Take a look at our slide show to see pictures of what we did.

Words of Flight

Over the last few weeks we have been learning about flight.  Last week, as an independent activity, the children worked in pairs to create a tagxedo.  They typed in all the words that came into their heads when they thought of flight.  The only rule was that the shape of their tagxedo had to be something that could fly.  Take a look at the slideshow to see the amazing work they created.  Let us know what words come into your head when you think of flight.

Volcano Paintings

We have spent the last few weeks making volcano pictures.  First we painted the background using water, sponges and paint.  Once it had dried we painted the volcano and used a scrubbing brush to flick black paint onto our pictures to create the ash.  We then used cotton wool to make smoke and glued on black paper to make the rocks. Take a look at our slide show to see our finished work. Thanks to Ben Des Forges for taking the photos of the volcanoes for us.

  

Kei Te Pehea Koe?

We have been practicing asking and answering how we are in Moari.  We used the camera, mimio and easy speak to practice asking and answering the question 'kei te pehea koe?'  



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Open Day

On Thursday we had an open day.  Parents and families were invited to come and see what we have been doing in class and watch some special performances in the V.W room.  A3 and A4, lead by Katie and Hayzel, performed Whatiwhati to hope for the visitors.  Then the Kapa Haka and the Samoan dance group performed.  It was a great day and we loved having our families come to visit, we can't wait to do it again.

The cake we baked for our visitors

Our Olympics

We are all very excited about the Olympic games and we have been talking about the different sports that we've seen on T.V.  Last week we practiced making freeze frames of our favourite sports, we then went out with the cameras and took pictures of our freeze frames and recorded ourselves acting out the sport.  Take a look at the movie and see if you can guess what sport we are doing.

Lavender Paintings

Last term Mrs Botica came into our class and taught us how to sketch lavender.  It was very enjoyable and everyone did great sketches.  We then wanted to create a lavender painting and lucky for us Mrs Botica and Loveday had a great idea on how to create amazing lavender pictures.  Take a look at our finished art.

Lavender Paintings on PhotoPeach

Matariki Celebrations

On Friday we celebrated Matariki with kite flying and a feast.  Have a look at our slideshow to see how we celebrated.

Here is Harman reading his recount of our celebrations:

Gymnastics

We did gymnastics a few weeks ago.  It was lots of fun and we learnt how to do forward rolls and how to land.  Take a look at our slide show to see what we did. 

Fairy Tale Day

It was fairy tale day on Friday.  We got to dress up as our favourite fairy tale character and there were lots of exciting activities to do at lunch time.  Take a look at the slide show to see everyone in their costumes.  Thanks to Shubhreet, Hayzel, Vicky and Paki for taking the photos.

Botanic Gardens

On Tuesday we went to the Auckland Botanic Gardens.  We were very lucky to have wonderful weather and we had a great time exploring the gardens and learning about plants.

Standing under Mr Wheelers Sculpture

Take a look at our slideshow, most of the pictures are taken by A3 children and a few by Miss Mac.

Here is Kobi, Edrin and Krishicant reading the stories they wrote about the trip

Exploring plants

We are going on a trip to the Auckland Botanic Gardens next week.  As part of this we went outside with a partner and took photos of all the different plants around the school.  Have a look at these amazing photos.

Picasso Portraits

We have spent the last six weeks learning about portraits.  We have sketched a partner, taken portraits of each other with the digital camera and used paint on the computer to practice drawing our faces.  We looked at Picasso's portraits and we practiced drawing our faces without lifting our pen off the paper so that they would look like Picasso's work.  Then we learned about mixing colors and we have finally completed our pictures and they look great! Take a look at the slide show to see our completed work.