Creating & Sharing: Ms Osborne's Animation

Thanks Mrs Gupta for showing us how to create animations in class today - and thanks to Selu for letting me borrow her Google Draw character to tell a short story... Collaborating and learning new skills is AWESOME!!!

Creating: Illustrations for a 'Big Book'

WALHT create illustrations for a narrative story.
The Year 5-6 students working on their SC's -
acrylic painting technique, colour selection and composition. 

Looking Good!
The image ideas the students came up with are already meeting the SC's,
and Anita's smile shows how much they enjoyed watching their 'compositions' come to life!

Community As Home - Visual Art Project

As part of our Year 4-8 Visual Art Cultural Group  over the past term, we have been 'Learning, Creating, Sharing' together to complete three final designs that will be on display at Keri Downs Park in Papakura by mid December 2016. 

Check out the slideshow below to see the different stages of the project... 

We will add the photo's of the A2 sized signs once they're up, too!

Creating: Mrs Gupta's First Animation

Collaboration about collaboration

Learning: Topic Inquiry via Padlet

Creating: Collaborative Narrative Writing Online (Holiday Project)

Here's an example that Dakota and Ms Osborne have started collaborating on together for this holidays... Dakota created the character and Ms Osborne has made a setting. What do you think we could add to our story? Add your narrative ideas to the comments below, and we'll take all positive feedback on board for our story board ideas! :-)

This is our writing homework for the school holidays... You can view it in more detail on our class website - feel free to join in and share your narrative ideas and suggestions, too!
(Add these via the comments section below...)

Creating: Community Art Project - Term 3 2016

Here is a video of our visual art, created on PhotoPeach.

Learning & Creating: Visual Art linked to Our Topic Inquiry

Learning: Our Wanderings About the Amazon Rain Forest in Brazil

This week, we had a KWL discussion about some of the non-human creatures we might find in the tropical rain forest around the 2016 Olympics city of Rio, Brazil...

Here is some of what we already know:
“It is in South America, in the same country as Rio, Brazil. There are anacondas - a huge snake - and piranhas in it. There are crocodiles, and poison frogs - they are blue and orange and red.” ~ Travis
“The proper name for a jungle is a rain forest.” ~ Sharlotte
“There is a type of big cat called a jaguar that lives in the Amazon.” ~ Aaliyah
“There is another cat called a puma that lives in South America.” `~ Ngatokoa

We look forward to sharing our independent research Google Slide efforts with you on our individual blogs later this term! :-)

Sharing: "Food For Thought" Health Topic

In Term 2, we did "Food For Thought" with Nicky from the Heart Foundation. 
This morning, we completed our own interactive Google Draw to show our understanding of healthy eating food groups... Here's an example modeled by the teacher, that we 'modified' and used to share our understanding on our own individual student blogs!

Sharing: Wai Care Planting Day at Keri Downs

Learning: Ripper Rugby Skills with Counties Manukau Sport

Learning: Gymsport Skills Session at Bruce Pulman Park

Whare Ako Whanakitanga had an awesome session at Bruce Pulman Park for Gymsport...

As you can see, we're learning how to balance, curl, roll, climb and even jump as high as the sky!

Creating and Sharing: "When I Grow Up"

Sharing personal information online

We are learning about what we share on blogs and what we keep private. Here is what we think.

Learning and Creating: Native Bird Drawings

Our whole hub topic-linked visual arts lesson on Friday of this week...

Breaking the images into shapes we could replicate ourselves...

The E1 class group sketching their own versions...

A couple of our finished sketches - well done!!!

Our Initial 'Wanderings': Term 2 Topic Inquiry

Our Class Brainstorm!

Our ANZAC Day Research Project

Our collaborative Guided Inquiry 'research project', with the slideshow questions being adapted from NZ History.net and completed as a mini unit on our chromebooks at the end of Term 1, 2016...

Scaffolding our 'Prior Knowledge' for the start of Term 2!

Learn, Create, Share: All About Us

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