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.

Sorting the Stones

This morning Cole decided to sort the stones Catherine found on the beach in Whanganui.  He decided which stones were similar and put them in different groups on the sorting grid. 

Our First Experiment - How Effective Soap is Against Viruses

Equipment:  soap, water, pepper and a bowl

1. We put water in a bowl.
2. We sprinkled pepper on top of the water.
3. We dipped our finger in and viruses (pepper) got stuck to our finger.
4. We wiped the viruses off with a tissue.
5. We put liquid soap on our finger and spread it all over our finger.
6. We dipped our finger in the bowl and the viruses dispersed.

This experiment showed us how important it is to use soap when we wash our hands.

Sunflower Champions?

Today Room 10 went to the garden to see the sunflowers that we planted last year.  Room 10's sunflowers were taller than Catherine.  We were surprised to see how tall they had grown over the holidays.  The classes are competing to see who can grow the tallest or the biggest or the craziest sunflowers.  We think we might win something?