Leaf and Bark Rubbings

 For Art this term we are doing Printmaking. The first thing we did was leaf and bark rubbings. We 

turned these into art pieces by adding

a dye background and a NZ bird in the forefront.

ST JOHNS

 We had Catherine from St John come to teach us CPR. Unfortunately due to COVID 19we were unable to do the breathing but we could do the compressions.  

                                           

We had to be very careful sanitising each time we moved mannequins, which was every 3 minutes. One of the mannequins was synced to the phone to help us see how we went. One of the others lite up as we managed to get blood to the brain, this really helped us see how much pressure was needed. We were all surprised how hard it was and some of us were very red in the face when the time was up. We all got given a small pencil case sized first aid kit.

STATES OF MATTER CHOCOLATE

 We have been looking at Sates of Matter one of our experiments was to look at solids and liquids using chocolate. We used white, milk and dark chocolate.

We had to work out how to transform it from solid to liquid. We had to make a plan and hypothesis and then do the experiment. 

We had to work out how to transform it from solid to liquid. We had to make a plan and hypothesis and then do the experiment.

We also had to read the ingredients on the labels and take into consideration what the chocolate contained. We had to use our hands only. 

There were lots of things to be considered like temperature, the heat of our hands and the time each chocolate took to turn into a liquid.  There was a bucket of ice available and some of used this to turn our chocolate back to solid by putting our hands in it. We were able to eat/lick our chocolate when we were finished. Each of us did a presentation with our results for our individual blogs.

WE LEARNT that objects move through different phases of matter and that this usually happens through temperature change.

Live Stream Assembly 3

We spent a lot of time writing scripts, filming skits (which didn't make it in as we ran out of time) for our Third Assembly. We are getting much more professional at putting the presentation together, filming and live streaming it. Here is the link WE ARE PROUD OF OUR PROGRESS Blaketown Assembly June 2020

Self Portraits

Sandra Silberzweig

We watched a presentation about Sandra Silverzswig art. She is a contemporary artist who lives in Canada. She has a condition called Synesthesia which means she sees things in lots of colours and sees sounds as colour and tastes words and feels things on her skin when she smells different things. We love her art and decided to do our portraits. Some of used the glue technique and some of us just went straight to pastel work. It was really interesting to see how we say things.

                 

School Kit Writing

We took part in a School Kit sponsored by The Warehouse. We had an amazing time writing poems and looking at the maps. We have had to wait over lockdown and them some to receive our parcel from our partner school but are really impressed with the work we sent and the interesting  place and street names they found in NZ

ANZAC SERVICE

During Lockdown four of us worked on Hangouts with the teacher and we had an ANZAC service. The Englebrestein family lived near the school so they made some wreaths from egg cartons (the teacher put the task out on one of her planning sheets ) and went down and laid some wreaths and their mum filmed it. This was our first time working live stream and we made many mistakes (listen to the singing of the national anthem) but we are very proud of ourselves.

This is the link to our service ANZAC SERVICE 2020