Art: Our Families

In Great 8, we have worked really hard to create our calendar art. We choose to draw our families because they are super important to us. They take care of us in lots of different ways and we love them.

Our goals were to:
- draw our people in proportion (adults the tallest and children shorter).
- remember to add all the important details like hair etc.
- use the right colour in the right places (grass is green, not purple).
- use a variety of bright colours that our families would like.
- stay inside the lines and to leave no white gaps when colouring in.


We hope you enjoy our art work and remember today is the last day to order them, so get in quick!

Inquiry: Our Trip to Te Manawa

On Tuesday, we went on a bus to Te Manawa to see Anne. We went there to learn about Tapa Art. There are 3 different ways to make the patterns on the tapa art. You can do rubbings like in Saoma called Siapo, or free hand drawings called Ngatu from Tonga, or Masi which is stenciling from Fiji. We had a chance to make our own tapa by rubbing, drawing and stenciling and dyeing. We are going use our individual tapa art to make a Great 8 tapa cloth.

We hope you enjoy the some of the photos Miss Veena and Mrs Te Amo took at Te Manawa. We had a great time there.

Our DigiAward Entries

Making Playdoh Animation. 

By Kayden, Maia, Latai, Byron and Emile.

I see you.

 by Antonia

A family of toes.

By Byron

Look into my eyes.

By Henri

Working hands.

By Riley

Three fingers.

By Caspian

Mrs Te Amo and Miss Veena are very proud of the quality of work we created!

Discovery

Take a look at all the amazing things we are doing and learning in Discovery.

PMP

Here are some of our stories that we wrote about PMP today.

Everyday Room 8 does PMP. I like the spots and the balloons and I felt happy. By Emile

I am on PMP throwing the balloon. By Byron

I like playing on the spots and the bridges. We do PMP at school. By Corban

My favourite things are the spots and balloons. We do it in PMP time to get stronger. By Maia

I like to go on the spots and I like to go on the bridges. By Riley

I like the balloons. I can use my hand to hit my balloons. I want to do PMP. We do it in Big 8. By Henri

In PMP I like to play balloons with my friends. I feel happy because only Room 8 does PMP. By Kayden

In the morning I do PMP. My favourite things to do is spots and balloons and threading and we do PMP in Big 8. By Latai

I like to play with the balloons because we like to play these games. We do PMP in Big 8. By Antonia

Inquiry - What is unique to New Zealand?

Discovery - Week 1

On Friday, we had Discovery. In discovery, we explore and try new and different things. 

This week some of us did dancing, gardening, and building in the sanding pit and with blocks/other materials. We also made paper chain dolls and self portraits. Some of us choose to practice for Athletics and challenged ourselves with the high jump.

Phonics - W.a.l.t. recognise the middle sound 'a' in CVC words.

In Big 8*, we are learning about CVC words in phonics. This week we are focusing on the middle sound 'a'. 

Our poem of the week is called Pat the Fat Rat.

Did you know cat, mat, fat, rat, pat, sat, and hat rhymed?

*We are called Big 8 because we have the longer/bigger classroom.

Welcome back to School

Kia Ora, Bula, Namaste, Bonjour, Sawadee, Nihao and Malolelei

Welcome back to school for the final term of the year.  The year has zoomed by and this term will be no different.
The fourth term always brings lots of exciting events, the warmer weather a lead up to our Junior Liturgy, Athletics Day at the Massey track and of course the summer holidays.

We welcome two new friends to our room Ella Clear and Isidro Reidel we are very excited to have them join our Room 8 family.  Also we have grown in classroom space too.  We now have the luxury of two learning areas and an extra teacher - Miss Veena who has been working in our Room throughout the year.

Reminders:

Please bring PE gear into school every Monday, Thursday and Friday.
Library books returned every Wednesday.
Make sure Mums and Dads sign up to the school newsletter alerts so you do not miss out on any school information.
Summer uniform which means sandals and school green hat please as of Week 2 we will be checking these are worn correctly.

We look forward to sharing our learning with you over the weeks, so make sure to add your comments!


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Mrs Te Amo