Term 3 Week 3

 We decide to turn leftover tinfoil and old newspaper into art.

We made a scene of a city at night with the moonlight reflecting off the wet street.

Term 3 Week 2

 Ronald McDonald comes in to talk about road safety.

(Photos by Marco and Georgia)

 We got all diifferent kinds of fruit together and had it for morning tea....Yum!

We wrote a recount about it afterwards.

 We put some music on and had a great afternoon adding 

the colour to our calendar art.

We mainly used warm colours for the body and 

cool colours for the fins.

Finally we added our blue backgrounds

Term 3 Week 1 - Welcome back everyone!

 The students interview each other to gather data during statistics.

Then they had to display the data on graphs.

 The next step is analysing the data to see what the graphs can tell us.

 We begin our calendar art...fish of many shapes and sizes!

They began as pencil sketches using ovals, triangles and circles to help create the design.

Then a black marker was used to go over the pencil.

 Our sugar snaps have got peas growing on them now!

(Photos by Om)

Term 2 Week 10 - We all work together to build one big marble-run, Our Egg-Speriments show you can dissolve the shell of an egg with vinegar, Zico comes in for another visit.

 Each student took turns to glue-gun a piece onto the marble-run...the tricky bit was continuing on from the last person so that the marble kept rolling smoothly.

 Zico comes in for a visit during a wet lunch.

The homework shows that an egg-shell is no match 

for the acid in vinegar!

Term 2 Week 9 - Marble runs! We combine maths, science and technology to create a marble runs with the goal of keeping the marble rolling for as long as possible.

 We had to use maths skills to measure, estimate lengths,

think about angles, 

and time our marble runs.

 We had to use scissors, tape, cardboard, glue guns, bits of plastic pipe etc to create the marble runs.

 The only person who had to run to the cold tap to cool the hot glue on his hands was....Mr Pearson!

Everyone else managed to do it successfully.

 A really important part of making the marble runs was

working together as a team

and getting involved.

Term 2 Week 8

 The Beach Fun-Run!

We get into our house colours and head out to

enjoy co-operative challeges on our local beach.

Tatahi prepare for the next challenge...

building the tallest sand castle.

Ra are right behind us heading for the water and bucket challenge.

Moana won overall (well done).  Tatahi won best chant.

 We made popcorn as part of our writing.

We are learning to write instructions about how to make something (like popcorn or playdough) 

or how to do something 

(such as running one of our science experiments).

We are using a title and headings such as Goal, Materials 

(or Ingredients), Steps.

We are using verbs such as 'pour', 'mix', 'tip' 'measure' to help guide the reader through each step.

Yum!

Term 2 Week 7

 We eat a coleslaw made from things grown in our school garden.

Our pea plants reach the 40 cm mark and are sending out tendrils to hold onto the sticks.

 Our mint and parsley plants are growing well too!

Our Siapo Designs

Siapo use shapes found in the Samoan environment.  

We used leaf shapes but others traditionally used include nets, turtle shells, flowers and starfish.

We used hot and cool colours on the parts of the leaves that were diagonally opposite each other.