Book Making

As part of our literacy and social studies program, we have been looking at communication. One of our literacy activities was to make a mini-book that we had to write and illustrate then share with others. It was heaps of fun but also difficult as the books were so tine and our writing had to be tidy and able to be easily read. The illustrations had to tie in with our story.

Lots of people in the class never completed this as they had to keep restarting when their writing was too big. We had to really think about how many words went on each page as we were limited to 8 pages only. On the back, we had to have a synopsis of our story. Some of us need to look carefully at the size and shape of our handwriting letters.

Friendship Table and Chairs

We have been lucky enough to be gifted a table and chairs made from recycled wood and pallets. We plan to buy some Resene test pots and to give everyone in the school a chance to paint these. We will then move them out beside our school sandpit and playground and they will become our friendship seats. You will be able to sit at these when you are feeling a little alone and down, hopefully when someone sees you they will come along and sit and talk or invite you to play a game.

RNZAF BAND

Our school was lucky enough to see the RNZAF Band when they visited. It was limited seats for the matinee and a fantastic concert.

Even though we usually walk to the theatre (it's only about 20 mins walk into town) this time we bused both ways as some of the junior students are a little slow. They explained and demonstrated all the different sections of the orchestra. The band also had some amazing singers that accompanied them and encouraged us to join in. Lots of students in our class were going home to see if they could talk their parents into going to the evening show. 

Mothers Day Gifts

We made some pop-up boxes for our caregivers. We made sure that they were personalised and had messages from us that were meaningful. Some of us even made paper flowers and bows to decorate the top.

       

We also made paper flowers that we tied into bunches with floral paper and cellophane.   Then some people made wrapping paper while others wrapped their boxes in tissue paper and cellophane to match the hand made flowers.

We were really proud of ourselves.

BALANCE - Homework Projects

We were studying balance at school and had lots of activities to do as we learnt about balance points, counterweights and a balanced lifestyle.

We also had a homework project where we had to design and build an object that showed balance.

We then had to make a movie where we explained how we made it and how it exhibited balance (CHECK OUT OUR BLOGS FOR THESE)

ANZAC

I'm sure you all know the story of ANZAC but each year even though we think we know all about it, we manage to learn something new. It's always emotional as we think about what people did, put up with, experienced and lost.  We did some art to about ANZAC.

We were going to go to Shantytown and do an in-depth study about how New Zealand was badly affected by the 1918 influenza epidemic where 2500 men got ill and over 160 died  (in NZ) there were lots more around the world as soldiers bought it home. Maybe we will look at it more closely next year (we ran out of time)

POETRY

This term we have learnt heaps about writing poetry. We have also researched types of poetry and tried writing different styles and types. We then made a poster on the lucid press of all our poems. We look at Katie Perry's 'Firework' song and realised it was a poem so spent time dissecting it with some of the tools we had learnt. We also looked closely at a Robert Frost poem - 'The Road Not Taken.' Click on to our individual blogs on the side and see some of our work.