Wearable Arts

Team Moana showed us their wearable arts masterpieces at the latest school Assembly. We had our turn at being creators in Developmental.
Project Runway here we come!!

Teen and Ty

We are learning about 'teen' and 'ty' numbers.
We had a class challenge to circle the 'teen' numbers green and the 'ty' numbers blue. We only made 4 mistakes. When we tried again another day we only made 1 mistake.
Next time we are aiming for 100% correct. Fingers crossed!

Zoo animals - can you guess what they are?

We made our zoo animals on the iPad app Explain Everything. We have put these pictures into a movie with the song "Daddy's Taking us to the Zoo Tomorrow". We can watch our movie when we sing the song.

Painting

We practised making different shades of green - ready for the next set of paintings! But first we will add the daffodils to our Spring in Hagley Park pictures.

 Some of our next paintings: The Canterbury Plains and Southern Alps.

Place Value

This week we had fun with the new place value equipment. The Papura Stars maths group made the numbers from 10 to 20!

Surprise Visit

Mr Griffiths brought a helium balloon to our class. We had turns jumping up to try and catch the ribbon.... because it was maths time we graphed how many jumps we took to catch the balloon!

X Week

Not many words start with X! We learned about X-rays and Xylophones.  We had songs and stories about foxes this week because fox ends with X.

Matching the x-rays with the pictures.

We don't have real xylophones so we played musical patterns on glockenspiels and we wrote stories.

We went to the music room with Mrs Ward. We got the xylophones and then we walked back to class. We got to play the xylophone. It sounded very nice and it sounded mellow on the keys. We made beautiful music with the keys then we put them in the piles.   

Milla

I am going to the music room with my friends and we all have xylophones.  

Zayne

We went to the old hall to get xylophones. Then we came back to class. Then we played the xylophones and we did lovely musical notes and then we did story writing.

Oakley

Glockenspiels from Annette on Vimeo.

Fox weaving - looks great but it is quite difficult. Thank to Mrs Koster who helped us!!

Cricket Coaching

Andrew and Theo came to teach us cricket skills... we played a speedy version of the game. It was great fun!


Cricket from Annette on Vimeo.

Painting - Hagley Park is Daffodil Park

We have started on our next painting. We looked at a photo of the daffodils in Hagley Park.

Stage 1. Paint the sky and grass. Mix blue and yellow paint to make a great colour for the grass. Try and make the grass look like it is growing - short up and down brush strokes. How should we paint the sky?
Stage 2. Paint the trees. Notice that the trunks are the widest part, then the branches and then the twigs. Notice that the trees are not all growing on the horizon. Some of them are closer and seem bigger.
Stage 3. Go on a daffodil hunt at school to see what they look like up close. Use cardboard strips to make the stems and leaves of our daffodils.

Next Week - paint the yellow flowers.