More on our Stick Insect

Here are more photos of us making our stick insect.  

This is Lucy using the drill

James and Joshua are filing

Zane is busy hammering Room 3 into it with a punch

Morepork Garden Art

One of our art groups are making a Morepork from recycled metal products.  This is us in the planning stage with our helpers - Katie Jones and Jude Cantwell.

Then we are choose some products and putting it together without glue!! Just to see what it looks like and if we want to change.

Day 2:  Gluing - we learnt not to put our fingers on Super Glue!!

TO BE CONTINUED.......next term.

Lab in a Box

Our school was lucky enough to have Lab in a Box this week.  Each class got to visit this for a 45 minute session.

We tried to make a rocket go up by dipping the rocket into baking soda and then into vinegar.  It didn't really get the power to work, but it was fun trying.  We would have to think of a better way to make it work.

Then we got to test which product was more acidic - coke, cleaner, milk, vinegar, orange juice.  Which one do you think was the more acidic???

The last thing we did was to go and collect something in a test tube which we got to put under a microscope and get a close up look.  The ladybug looked amazing, bugs were pretty cool to see but some moved pretty fast!

Day Three - Art continues

The girls are threading beads with wire and tying onto the dragonfly wings

More sanding going on for our stick insect

The boys are adding finishing touches to their stone carvings

Chase has almost completed his mosaic heart

Brooke has started her Tin Foil art

Jemima is making an excellent job with her mosaic heart

What are children doing when not out doing Garden Art?

If our adult helpers can't come on a day we are back in Room 3 with Mrs Taylor being exposed to a variety of art works.

Today (Monday 12th September) our group tried some tin foil art and mosaic hearts.

Tin foil art

Emma beginning her heart

Jemima

Chase

Garden Art - continues...

Making a stick insect with Pi'ilani

We were sanding the stick to make it smooth and sawing off some excess branches.

Day 2 with our Koru carvings.

We got to use some exciting tools today.  We had face masks on and safety goggles.

Today our hedgehog group started with "Grandma Joy".

We had to work carefully to wrap the twine around the bottle to create our nose.  This was stuck down with PVA

The beginnings of our Garden Art....

Our school is having an art exhibition on Labour Weekend.  Each class has a conservation focus.  Room 3 has decided to combine what we have learnt about Kids Restore the Kepler into some Garden Art - which also ties nicely being an Enviro School.

We are in 5 small groups and have some great adult helpers with each group.

We will keep updating photos on this blog as we create our creatures!!

Kiwi group working with Jane - this is our planning day

Insect Punga Art working with Alessandra - looking at insect books, deciding on what we would like to do

Stone Carving with Kit.  This is Ben having a practise

Preston using the file

Ashen using a tool to make a koru on his practise piece