Movement

Our concept for term 4 is Movement.
We will be learning that…
"Movement has consequences on people and the way they live.
 Inspirational people move us to serve God."
 It is a technology, health and well-being, and arts based concept.

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.

Phases of the Moon

Mrs Batchelor was very creative on Friday and children researched the phases of the moon using digital devices. They also used Wheelie biscuits to represent the different phases of the moon. Of course they could eat the biscuits afterwards. The children thoroughly enjoyed this activity.

School Cross Country

Last Friday was our School Cross Country. The children in Room 10 did extremely well and we have 9 children representing our school in our class as well as 2 reserves.
9 Year Old Girls       5th- Saelor   6th- Khaira
9 Year Old Boys      1st- Alex      7th- Jayden
10 year Old Boys     3rd- Nathan  5th- Joshua
11 Year Old Girls    1st- Jessie     5th- Charley   6th- Holly W
11 Year Old Boys    5th- Jared     7th- Ukeaba
Congratulations and good luck!!
They will be representing our school at Barge Park on Tuesday.

Space Website

Here is a link to the Science Kids website which has some fun activities to help you learn more about space.

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/space.html

Ripper Rugby

This week Paul, Bruce and Justice have been coaching Years 3-6 in Ripper Rugby. There is an inter-schools ripper rugby tournament at Kensington on Thursday. Go SFX!!!!

Out of this World Immersion

Our concept for Term 3 is Out of this World. On Wednesday each whanau had rotations where children could create art and crafts based on Matariki. Puriri whanau organised a parade on Thursday where each whanau could share what they had created. These are some of the things that Karaka Whanau made.

Out of this World

Our Concept for Term 3 2015 is Out of this World.

We are learning that ……

There is only one earth!

Looking out of this world we can reflect on the earth’s unique ability to sustain life.

God created a unique universe for us to care for.

Patterns of Nature

These are two examples of our artwork "Patterns of Nature." It is based on Andy Warhol's work. We used pastel and each square represents one of the patterns of nature- exploding, packing, meandering, spiral, branching. Every thing you see in nature may be a form of one of these patterns.

Hockey Skills

We are very fortunate that our school is next to the Hockey Stadium. All classes had the opportunity to participate in hockey skill sessions wit Brad from Northland Hockey. Brad is an excellent coach and our skills certainly improved over the 4 hockey sessions.

Tessellations

For this pattern work we started off with a square piece of cardboard. We cut out the top and right hand side making sure there is a gap between the two corners. You move the bottom piece to the top and tape it, then you move the right cut to the left hand side and tape it. Then you tesselate the shape making sure there are no gaps.

Zentangle Fish

Zentangle patterns are multiple patterns within a shape. Each section has a different pattern. They are also the 5 patterns of nature. It is also about being creative.

Colour Patterns

As part of an independent inquiry looking at pattern, we made colour block artworks by taking photos of various objects in the environment of the same colour. Here are some examples.

Autumn Diamante Poems

We wrote diamante poems about Autumn. A diamante uses a noun, 2 adjectives, 3 verbs, a 4 word phrase, then 3 verbs, 2 adjectives and 1 noun to finish.

Quilt Patterns

As part of Immersion for Pattern we designed some quilt squares. The patterns we used come from the 5 patterns of nature- exploding, meandering, spiral, packing, and branching.

What in the World?

These quizzes have been taken from a Kids National Geographic magazine.
Can you guess where these patterns are from?
Try to work out they are to find the answer to the question at the bottom of each page.