Our Trip to the Suter Art Gallery

Here we are on a sunny morning r
having a run around after our morning tea and before we go in for our art lesson.

Esther explained showed us where the Torres Strait strait people lived and we looked at the exhibition of their artworks.

These masks were a little scary !

sometimes the people would wear head dresses when they were having a celebration.

We are being scary with the mask we made.

Are you scared by our scary expressions/

What a fabulous time we all had, looking at the exhibition and then making our own masks in groups. We can't wait until we get back to school so we can make a mask each!

Grandparents' Day and Special Friends

So many people came to watch our grandparents and special friends assembly.

All the classes in the Junior Syndicate shared their learning. We sang the National Anthem ,shared poems ,stories and artwork.

We had a wonderful time with our grandparents and special friends. We played taught our grandparents maths games and activities.

A fabulous time was had by all!

Riwaka School visit to our local Marae. What a wonderful time we all had!

Here we are waiting with excitement before we entered the Marae.

The children at the Kohanga Reo were learning about their ancestors and the importance of family.

Room 3 were fascinated with the paintings on the ceiling of the Kohanga Reo

and and I'm sure some of them would like to see our ceilings decorated with paintings !

Seeing the carvings and the tools used was impressive .

The Marae has its own church and this building is very very old.

The carvings outside the meeting house all tell a story and are very important to the  local iwi. It was very interesting hearing what they represented.

Maths,maths,maths ! on PhotoPeach

Discovery time with Room 1

Here is the group that were making telescopes

Mackenzie chose to begin at making a space station.

Dylan was so proud of his completed space station sitting on the surface of the moon.

William and Alex are absorbed in creating their rocket ships and space stations!

Alex was sharing with us what he found tricky and how he added orange paper to his rocket to show the flames coming out.

Bruno decided to make a roller coaster for the  astronauts to use after they had defeated the aliens.

Leo is seen here  sharing with us how he created his space station.

Honey and Keira chose to work together to create their  space art. 

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Room 3's Assembly item. on PhotoPeach

Our Autumn Sense poems

We have been very busy learning about our 5 senses and then writing autumn sense poems. Tomorow we are going to show these at whole school assembly and several children will read theirs out.  

Both Beth above and Emma  are very proud of the work they have done in writing their poems.

Leo is one of the children who has been practising really hard to read  slowly and project his voice so the audience will be able to hear him clearly.

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Honey and Alex are learning to use their 5 senses to help them learn each day!

Room 3's class celebrations

Room 3's class celebrations! on PhotoPeach

Autumn Art

We have talked about the vibrant Autumn colours and used a sponge background with blended crayon for the leaves.

Honey, Beth and Bruno are sharing with the class what they liked about their artwork.

Isla created a swirling background effect with the sponges and blended the crayon colours for the leaves.

Ngahere created a different sponge background leaving white patches which looked like autumn leaves on the background as well.