Recycled Rockets

One of our last activities was to design and make rockets out of recycled materials. Our creative juices were really flowing!!!! 

Whanau Developmental

This term our whanau held two developmental days. The activities children could choose from were make, built, design and do activities related to our concept "Out of this World." It also gave us the opportunity to develop the concept of tuakana teina where our older children help our younger children.   The main aim was to also develop our skills of cooperation and problem solving. We all had a lot of fun!!

Planet Poetry

We are trying to sell one of the planets in our solar system. As part of this, children had to create a piece of poetry about their planet. Here is Theo's poem


Saturn

Rings for sale
Rings right here
They're floating outside my atmosphere
Not gold, not silver
But really quite nice
No diamonds here
But cold, cold ice

Theo

Planet Art

We used a crayon/ dye resist to create a piece of planet art. We thought about having one central object with one or two planets overlapping in the background. We also thought of a planet we were standing on to create the fore ground.

Space Fantasy Art

We created some space fantasy art with Mrs Smith. We used chalk pastel and had to think of different elements when creating our piece of art. We had to think about balance, composition, overlapping, planets to go right to the edge of the page. We also had to think about where our light source would come from and creating shading to portray 3D planets.

Space Travel

Mrs Batchelor taught us on Friday. We designed rockets then used pastel to add detail to space.

Year 6 Retreat

On Monday our Year 6 children from Rooms 1, 20 and 10 experienced a retreat with Margaret. It was a chance to think deeper about our faith, grow as a community, and make our scriptures come alive through drama. It was a fun filled day!!

Whanau Tabloid Sports

At least 3 times a term our whanau try to get together for a tabloid sports afternoon.
Our class loves organising modified games for the children to play. It is a great chance to live our tuakana teina concept, where we awhi the younger children in our whanau. It is soo much fun!!

The Planets

We got this cool idea off Mrs Webber. We wrote poems using metaphors about the planets.