The World of David Williams

As it is now officially to school holidays, I thought you might like to listen to David Williams reading some of his stories.

Below is the link:

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Our Portraits - a work in progress

The students that have been at school on Friday last week and Monday this week started painting their actual portraits based around the work of Darcy Nicolas.  The drawings at the bottom of these paintings are the plans we have been working on.  I think they are going to be spectacular!

Home Learning

This slideshow was put together for the students in Kauri Team to give you some ideas about what you could be doing at home.  If you have created something from here please feel free to share it with me at cmaunsell@hameast.school.nz

Our Art Focus for Term 1

As part of our Turangawaewae unit students create a portrait of themselves.  This year we are basing our portraits on an amazing New Zealand Artist called Darcy Nicholas.  I put together a presentation for the students to show them what Darcy's portraits look like.  The class has been working hard on planning our portraits so that they re-create his style.  Now it is time to start putting paint on the paper.

If you would like to take a look at the presentation we have been looking at please click here.

Being Scientists!

We are trying to discover, through our reading programme, what a scientist does.  Here this group of readers were actually having a go at being a scientist.  They had to make a guess about whether an item would float or sink and then test their ideas out.  They then had to record the results of this testing.