Upcoming Events
- Week 11 - Orokonui trips (see notice for your classes day)
- Good Friday - Friday 15th April
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Hine-Rau-Whārangi
This week we have focused our learning around the book Room on a Broom by Julia Donaldson. We have been writing recounts of what happened in the book and focusing on sounding out words we are not sure how to spell. We also have been acting out the characters and what we think they are thinking when things happen in the story. We later made puppets and told stories with them. On Tuesday we made a magic potion in Mrs Smith's cauldron. We put the following into it:
a scoop of moth eggs
a pinch of dragon tears
a tablespoon of goblin saliva
2 tablespoons of dust off the floor
3 cups of snail slime
a teaspoon of rotten cheese
330ml of snake venom
We said the magic spell Ziggity Zabbitty Zoobitty Zappitty make us something to make us full. We weren't sure what would come out but four hours later we smelled and ate warm bread! We thought it could be anything from custard to a mess to green eggs and ham.
We also made witch necklaces with ten beads on them. We are practicing our bonds to 10 by closing our eyes and pulling some beads one direction away from the others. We then count these and work out how many are on the other side to equal 10.
We also thought that witches would need good hand eye coordination when flying so we have been tossing up ping pong balls into cups and seeing how many times we can catch them.
Report by Mrs Smith
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Hinemoana
This week in Hinemoana we explored a new artist - Wassily Kadinsky and used his work as inspiration for our own concentric circle art (check some pictures below of our work in progress). We used all our knowledge of colour, using just the primary colours to make the colours we wanted. We also had black paint to make shades and white paint to make tints of the colours we created. All of our individual pieces will be combined to make one collaborative piece of art.
We have begun writing Autobiographies and have learnt that auto means self, bio means life and graph means writing. The children are including where they’re from, details about their families and their passions and talents - just to name a few! Our drafts are coming along nicely where we are learning to use sub-headings and write using paragraphs.
For our topic - Tūrangawaewae we have discussed ‘Where our place is.’ Those places we feel connected, strong and empowered and why. We are looking forward to exploring more ideas of Tūrangawaewae before our trip to the Orokonui Ecosanctuary.
Report by Miss Laing
