CALENDAR ART!

Here are a few examples of each of the types of art we made for our calendars.  

We are really proud of how well they turned out.

  We hope you like them too.

Order information will be sent out soon.

LEARNING ABOUT MONEY

We have started to learn about money.  Yesterday we had a whole lot of activities to choose from to help us learn about money.  We also had some activities that taught us about tally charts because we are going to conduct surveys and ask kids who would like to buy our products.  That way we will make sure that we make enough products for our customers demand.

We also talked about our Needs and Wants.  For example we WANT ice cream but we don't NEED it!  We do NEED things like fresh air and water and food.  We had pictures that we had to classify into whether they are a NEED or WANT.

You can help us at home by getting us to read prices at the supermarket or in our junk mail.  We can practice counting our pocket money.  We could even do a few jobs at home to earn some money.

PIZZA BUNS

Some of us got to make delicious pizza buns with Mrs Kenyon today.  They were sooooo good!

  

REFLECTING ON OUR ART!

Today was the final day of our Art Inquiry.  We had to REFLECT on what we had learnt and how we had learnt it.

ART - THINK IT GREAT

On Thursday, we took some time to REFLECT on our learning.  We had an organiser to complete for each of our pieces of art.

The organiser helped us think through the criteria that Mrs Peck set us WAY back at the start of the term.  We had to identify the strengths and weaknesses of each of our pieces of art and reflect on what the audience might think of them.

Once we had evaluated each piece, we had to compare our two pieces and decide which piece we wanted to share in the Art Expo.  The other piece, would be the one we share in assembly on Friday.

Our teachers were very impressed with how well we evaluated each piece and that every single one of us was able to state what piece we were exhibiting and why we chose that piece.

We are brilliant art critics now!

Petra, Keira and Samantha evaluating their Bubbly Hydrangea pieces

Connor A thinking about his Monster Building

Hareem and Sofya evaluating their Kiwiana pieces

Mika deep in thought looking at his Patterned Print

Busy thinking...

Deep in conversation about JC's Kiwiana piece

Emily's completed organiser

GEOMETRY AND PATTERN AND ALGEBRA

As part of our Art inquiry, we are looking into Geometry, and Pattern and Algebra.  Here are some photos of us busy learning last week.  Karys and Bentley are completing colouring in a complex geometric pattern...

The boys are using shapes to fill in a tan-gram...

Connor and Regan are busy sorting art pictures by their elements...

Connor and Tasman are practising making repeating patterns out of coloured beans.  They were able to tell the teachers the rules for these patterns.  

For example:  the rule for yellow, yellow, blue is AAB.

Ms Palmer was helping to teach the kids all about symmetry.  If something is symmetrical, what is on one side is reflected onto the other side.  These kids were challenged to make symmetrical pizzas!

The look good enough to eat!

Well done Georgia and Jacob.

Check out Emily's completed pattern picture!  

Perfect!

You could help us at home by getting us to use objects around the house to make symmetrical patterns.

For example...

Exploring Shape

We had a wonderful time exploring shape yesterday as part of our new Inquiry.

  

  

100 Days Smarter Writing

We wrote some wonderful stories about our 100 day party today.  What do you think of them?  Leave us a comment.

"Yay!  It was soooo fun on our 100th day of school.  You could make paper chains with 100 chains, 100th hats, and 100th day glasses.  Pop!  Suddenly one of the balloons popped and gave everyone a big fright.  We also got to make fairy bread.  It was delicious".  By Emily & Blake

"Yay!  Yay!  Today is the 100th day.  I can make my own fairy bread.  I made my fairy bread but not blue.  So I ate fairy bread and then I went to the painting and then it was clean up time."  By Anushka

"Yay!  Yay! It's the 100th day today and I liked the paper chains and making the hats too because I like the hats".

"Yay!  Yay!  It's the 100th day today.  Mum I'm not sick.  I can go to school.  So my mum dropped me to school".  By Kaleb

"I was doing some activities and I was having fun because I was doing paper chains because I wanted to do it". By Riley M

"Yay!  It's the 100th day.  I like sharing my dinosaurs stickers and Darious liked eating fairy bread and we did fun things".  By Darious & Devon

"Yay!  Yay!  It is our 100 birthday party.  We did some activities.  I liked the painting.  I hope we do it again".  By Taika 

HAPPY 100TH DAY OF SCHOOL

On the first day of Term Three we are celebrating our 100th day of School.

We are 100 days smarter! 

Hooray!

Our teachers have asked us to bring in 100 things.
Watch the videoes and get a few ideas!

Here are a few songs about 100 to get us in the mood to celebrate!

Our Concert

Wow!!!  What a fabulous concert we had today.  Thank you to all of our parents and families for coming to help us celebrate.  We had children share their instruments, piano playing and dancing.  We had singers, drummers and rock stars.  I'm sure you are as proud of your children as we are.  Congratulations Piako Rua!!! You are ALL superstars.