Koru Painting

As part of our koru painting unit, we learnt how to mix paint colours to make a new colour.  Usually Miss Swney just gives out all the colours but this year she was brave enough to let us mix our own.   Red, yellow, blue and white were the only colours we started with.  After a discussion about what is a hot and cold colour, we were left to experiment. 

We learnt that if you mix the following colours you will get a new colour:

yellow and blue - green

blue and red - purple

pink and white - red

red and yellow - orange

If you add white to a colour, then it becomes a lighter shade.

A sample of our final products are below:

Kite Flying

Last week, Robbie and Maiya read a book called 'The Blowaway Kite'.  We all thought that this was the perfect excuse to fly the kite that Mrs Stupples had given Miss Swney to hang up in the classroom.  Mr Pask, a first year teachers college student visiting our class, took us outside in groups to fly the purple octopus kite.  We had lots of FUN!!!!!!!! 

One of the things that Robbie and Maiya told us, was that we needed to hold onto the plastic ring otherwise we could lose our kite - just like the boy's dad in the story they read. 

A big thank you to Mrs Stupples and Mr Pask!

Canterbury Earthquake Anniversary 2012

To mark the anniversary of the 2011 Canterbury Earthquake, Rooms 2 and 3 picked flowers from the school gardens and placed them in a road cone that had been put in front of the Sacred Heart Church.  We each said a few words or a prayer as a sign of respect for the brave people of Canterbury and Christchurch.  Our thoughts and prayers continue to be with them.

A belated welcome from Room 3 2012!

Welcome to Room 3 2012!!!  This update has been a long time coming.  We look forward to sharing with you snippets from our learning journey.

Making milo

One or two teaspoons of milo are tipped into a cup.

Adding in the milk.

Can we drink our milos yet?

Is there anymore?

Badminton

Today we had someone from Badminton Southland come to teach us badminton skills.


Did you know?

• badminton is the 4th most popular sport in the world
• you use rackets and shuttles
• it is an indoor sport
• the shuttle has a cork covered with goat skin at its base. This is the bit you hit with the racket.
• the shuttle has 16 goose feathers above the cork
• it takes feathers from 8 geese to make one shuttle
• a shuttle can travel at 420km/hr.

Nogards

Yesterday Mrs T-K gave our class a set of instructions to visualize and draw a creature called a Nogard. Miss Swney read the following instructions and we drew the individual parts.

What is a Nogard?

The Nogard is an animal. It has an oval-shaped body. It has a long neck and tail. The top of the neck, back and tail are covered with a row of triangular-shaped plates. The Nogard’s head is shaped like a long triangle. It has big eyes and eyebrows that stick out. It also has big nostrils. Its body is covered with scales. The Nogard has four short legs. At the end of each leg is a foot with five toes. Each toe has a sharp claw at the end. The Nogard has two wings attached to its body. These are located behind the front legs towards the top of its back. Nogards are usually green but change to a deep purple during the winter months.

We noticed that everyone’s interpretation of the instructions was different. You can see our ‘Nogards’ if you stand outside our classroom and look at the windows.