Wednesday 5 November 2014

Animal adaptation - Different Beaks For Different Jobs

Today we were looking at why birds have different sorts of beaks. We used kitchen utensils to imitate a birds beak and the method they use to gather their food.



Filter feeder
Breaking or clipping at shoots and grasses


Using a bristly tongue to drink nectar from a flower
A small sharp beak for picking up seeds and insects






Pushing a long beak down into the ground to search for worms and insects

Follow up activity that we did

Sunday 19 October 2014

Collage Balloons construction


                              First we painted the grass and sky then used combs to give it texture
                                           Next we applied paper collage to  a balloon shape
                                                                After that we wove baskets
Lastly we used a hot glue gun to attach the basket to the balloon and glue on polystyrene to the back.                                                   We then attached the balloon to the background


Come And See Our Tapa Art




                     This is our art that was inspire by patterns that are used by some  Pacific countries

Thursday 26 June 2014

A Visit From Stu Duvall during Literacy Week


 In our morning session Stu created a twisted fairy tale.  He also did some drawing for us.  His presentation was awesome!  In the afternoon he spoke to us about how we could improve our writing.









Monday 16 June 2014

Lots Of Fun At The Book Character Parade


                                                    The hall full of colourful characters!



                                 Can you guess what book characters we are?



Wednesday 11 June 2014

Wednesday 11 june

Today we were lucky to have grandparents come to school and read stories to us.  It was awesome!


Thursday 29 May 2014

Trip To The Auckland Central Library

On Thursday the 29th of May we visited the Auckland Central Library.  The children's area is quite new and is very cool.  There are lots of awesome books to read and fun places to read them.  We went up stairs to the George Grey Specialist section where we saw the smallest and the oldest books the library have.  We were even allowed to have our morning tea in the library.  Later we got to go down into the lower levels of the library where they store lots of books and other things such as maps.  It was amazing.  We also did a quiz and a rebus and Mrs Venville read us some stories.








Sunday 4 May 2014

Vector Stay Safe around Electricity Presentation




Today we had a presentation by Tracey from Vector about how to stay Stay Safe around Electricity.  We are going to talk to our parents tonight about what we learnt and find out where the switchboard is in our house so that if there is an emergency we know how to turn the power off.

Tuesday 8 April 2014

Our Negative Positive Black and White Art


               We are learning to create a negative and a positive image
               using a line of symmetry to reflect the shape