Summer Wonderland

THE ARTS are ALIVE and WELL!

Here's a few photos of some of the Arts activities we've been doing in the last couple of weeks! 

Here we are playing the ukulele  during the Music Residency with Mark and Cathy from the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra. These photos were in the Gisborne Herald!

                    These photos show us playing "Furniture Olympics", a fun                                          drama game. 

                             
                  We had Room 7 with us one morning and designed 
                                         these shoes! 

RATS!

We were disgusted when after Matai's Mum showed us a video of rats playing in the flax outside the school...not too far from Room 10! When we snuck over to have a look the people in the front of the line saw a cat (maybe Matai's cat!) with a rat in it's mouth!!! We designed our own rat traps, did some reading about rats on the ipads and then wrote some poems. 

Houses around the world...

What a Wonderful World

Calendar Art

Calendar Art  on PhotoPeach

Technology Challenge

The challenge....

We got 6 plastic cups and 4 pieces of string. 
The challenge was to stack the cups without anyone touching the cups AT ALL! 

We talked about what makes a GREAT TEAM before we started and WOW...we had some amazing team work! 

THIS WAS THE WINNING TEAM! Tristin had a fantastic idea and working together this team nailed the challenge! 

Inferencing - the detective game

We are learning about INFERENCING in reading.
Click on this link to play....

The detective game

First Aid and Calendar art.

Ana from the Red Cross came and taught us about First Aid. 

Here's Iggy practising talking to the emergency services. 

Adrianna knew her address really well. 

Wolfe and Iggy pretended a real accident had happened. 

We practised talking and explaining clearly what had happened. 

We are doing some Aztec Sun art for our calendars. Malo, Bay and Josefa are working with 'cool' colours. 

Nellie and Rosie made sure their pastel colouring was strong and solid. 

River is ready to try some blending. 

Olympic Values