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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Singing Up A Smile

On the way to and from our final swimming lessons today, a dozen or so of our new *swimming passport holders* mesmerized the bus driver and their classroom teacher... Miss Osborne captured some of our awesome impromptu singing talent on her cell phone, so we wanted to share it with you, too!

The Magic of Swimming at Massey Park Pools

Whanakitanga Whare have been attending SwimMagic swimming lessons at Massey Park Pools this week...

We have been honing our swimming skills and learning all about water safety, too!

Here are some highlights from our first lesson...!

Auckland Basketball Lessons

Here are a few pictures from our very enjoyable basketball training sessions with the trainers from Auckland Basketball on Wednesday 2nd March, 2016...

We had a great time, and we look forward to working on developing our B'Ball Skills with the coaches next time, too!

School Safety Traffic Team - refreshing day!

Click on Image to View! Here's the link to the NZTA Traffic Safety Team Website.

Learning: Literacy Lyrics

On the afternoon of 17th November, we found out about some really awesome songs that we can listen to and watch on YouTube that will help us to remember our spelling rules... So we thought we'd share them with you, too!

W.A.L.H.T. spell and use homophones...

W.A.L.H.T. spell the long vowel sound-letters correctly by using the'silent E'...

There's also this one that tells you some word phrases you can use to make your good writing EVEN BETTER by helping your reader to VISUALISE...

W.A.L. what good writers do...

Creating: Kiwiana Visual Art

This term, our Inquiry Learning topic is Kiwiana. In response, we are doing a Level 3-4 Visual Art unit as planned by Ms Osborne. We had modelled examples, where we all worked out together how to draw the lines by first breaking them up into shapes we could see, before adding the finer details:

We used the designs we had drawn to then create our own versions of the designs using oils pastels. Again, Ms Osborne modelled how to use these:

Our 'success criteria' were: using lightest to darkest colours and making sure we moved the paper to avoid smudging it or mixing the colours, to get the best result we could. We had a lot of fun creating our own images to share with others. Here are some of the images we have created in response to this 'so far':