Picasso Portraits

During Term 3 in the art suite we were creating our own Picasso inspired portraits. We had to learn how to mix prime colours to make other colours and we also learnt how to blend our paints properly on the paper. The portraits look really effective and are awesome hanging up on our wall in the class.

Making Ice Cream

This term we have been looking at production and process and changes in food. We have been looking at the different stages that foods go through. For a treat one day Miss Lind bought in the ingredients to make homemade Ice Cream. We had to put some ice and some rock salt into a big bag and then put some milk, sugar and vanilla essence into a small bag. We put the small bag into the big bag and then had to shake and shake and shake. It took us a while and we all got sore arms after all the shaking but when we got to eat the ice cream it was really nice. None of us had made ice cream before so we didnt know if it would work but when it did we were really happy.

Our Olympic Day

On August 8th we had our own Olympic Ceremony at school. Each class was given a different country to represent and we all dressed up and had a parade of the countries in the hall. Room 13 dressed up as Norway and we got our faces painted. We also had a show of the different sports being played at the olympics and the house captains said the olympic oath and took down the banner. We also had a torch bearer relay. We had medals to give out for the best dressed classes. Room 1 came 3rd as Australia, Room 9 came 2nd as Japan and Room 16 came 1st as Jamacia. It was such a great day!!!

Raincoat BP Technology Challenge.

On Friday 1st August the Taranaki Syndicate had a syndicate wide BP Technology Challenge afternoon. The children were split into groups of 5 or 6 and were all given 6 plastic bags, 2 meters of sellotape and 1 pair of scissors. Their challenge was to make a raincoat to protect them from the rain. One person in each group had to be able to wear it. The kids had heaps of fun making their raincoats. All of the raincoats were modelled for the rest of the syndicate at the end of the day then the teachers chose the best one from each class. The people wearing those ones had to walk around the courts 3 times so we could see if they raincoats were durable and wouldnt fall apart. Mr Dickey also got the house out to test that they would keep the rain out. It was a great afternoon! Here are some of the photos:

Woven Koru

Miss Lind saw some cool Koru designs in the holidays and came back to show us. We thought that they looked pretty cool too so we decided to make them ourselves. We had to weave our backgrounds first and then had to draw a koru design that we could cut out of the black paper to put overtop of the weaving. Here are some for you to have a look at.

Newspapers

We are now back at school for term 3. For the beginning of the term we are using the Newspapers In Education resource as our reading programme. Each child gets a newspaper every day and there are activities related to the newspaper and a story that is written in the paper especially for the children. Room 13 is loving making their way through the papers and completing the activities. Here we are hard at work.

Our Culture Swap Powerpoints

When we had been to every country in our syndicate wide culture swap we took our passports with us to the computer suite. When we were in the computer suite we had to turn the information in them into a powerpoint presentation. We learnt how to hyperlink and 'spruce up' our presentations. You can have a look at some of the presentations by going to our class knowledgenet page. Here is the link to take you there Greenpark KnowledgeNET