Commotion in the Ocean - Posters

Yesterday we worked with our buddy class, Room 11.  We had to tell them the information we knew about our sea creature. They helped us do some more research and then created a Poster using Google Draw.  Here are a selection of Posters.  Come and see the rest on our wall.

Bailey

Kalai

Will

Libby

Jakeb

James

Sasha

Gabrialla

Kids Restore - Radiata Pine

This week we looked at Pine Tree.  Did you know that the Radiata Pine was introduced to New Zealand in 1859 and is now our most important forestry tree.  At Jack Beer's farm site there is a huge old Pinus Radiata.  It was almost certainly planted by Jack some time before his death in 1930.

We made some creatures from Pine cones and feathers that Mrs Taylor had.  These are just some of them.

TJ and his Long Neck Dinosaur

Noah and his Penguin

Bailey and her Bird

Dylan and his insect

Kalain and his bird

Kids Restore - Sandfly

We listened to the seniors tell us about the Maori legend of the God, Tu-te-raki-whanoa.

The god Tu-te-raki-whanoa had just finished creating the landscape of Fiordland, it was absolutely stunning... so stunning that it stopped people from working. They just stood around gazing at the beauty instead. The goddess Hine-nui-te-po became angry at these unproductive people, so she created the sandfly to bite them and get them moving.

They showed us their art work they produced from this legend.

First they dyed the background 3 colours, then they cut the mountains from black paper.  They used some wired to create the big sandfly and black circles made from the holepunch for a smaller sandflies.  Here are some examples of their work.

Commotion in the Ocean

Room 3 have been working on many activities around our Story flight production book, Commotion in the Ocean.

Mrs Taylor helped us to make scuba pictures, and we wrote some stories with Mrs Pearson about what we thought it would be like to dive under the water.

If you look closely you may notice some fish.  As part of our measurement focus, we had to draw a fish 10cm long, using our rulers to help us.

Here are a small selection.
Come into Room 3 and ask us to share them with you.

Have you ever been a scuba diver under the water?

We would love to hear about your adventures.

Room Three's Snowy Day

On Monday many of the children from Room 3 went on a ski trip.

Those of us who remained at school decided to have a 'snow' day too.

Instead of going outside to find snow we decided to make some of our own.
We made  snow globes and created snow paint and snow flakes.
Here are our creations:

We made snow paint out of PVA glue and shaving foam.

We made our snow globes by laminating  magazine pictures that we had carefully chosen and cut out.

The we added glitter and water.

Kids Restore the Kepler

We did these Fern Prints as part of Thinking Thursday this week.  

Here’s how the children made their lovely fern prints.

1. We began by having different coloured paints on ice-cream lids.

2. Then they used a paint brush and painted the underside of the ferns

3. Then they put the fern onto a piece of paper and put another piece on top.  They then used a roller and rolled over the top.

4. Lastly, they pulled the top piece of paper off and pulled the fern up to reveal their print underneath.