Animal and their colours.

 This term our overall theme is animals. We have been learning about the colours of different animals and why they have the colours they have. We then used our blending skills using pastels and then we dyed them.

Little Kiwi's Matariki

 At the end of  last term we read a lot of different stories about Matariki. Here are our responses to the story about Little Kiwi.

We used mixed media to create pictures of the Little Kiwi. Can you see how we painted bubble wrap to give texture to our pictures.

WE also made some lovely Matariki stars and enjoyed icing them and decorated them with hundreds and thousands.

Matariki Kites/ Manu Tukutuku

We have been learning all about Matariki and so we made some Manu Tukutuku (Matariki Kites).

Te Kinga students helped us to make them. We used flax/harakeke, bamboo, toi toi and wool.

It was great to have Te Kinga students helping the younger students. Tuakana Teina learning at its finest.

We also made some mixed media pictures based on the theme of Little Kiwi's Matariki.

Water water everywhere

 

We have been learning how to paint water.  We then added our pastel blending skills to add the sea creatures. Was a lovely activity to complete our water theme.

We have been very busy building awesome creations.

We are using different materials to make our pictures. We painted bubble wrap green and added it to our pictures.

It Was So Cold!

It was so cold this morning! We talked about being cold and used our imaginations to write and draw about the cold day. Enjoy our book movie we made! Come visit our classroom to read the book itself on our bookshelf!

Splashing down a hydroslide!

Today in Moana, we designed super fun hydroslides! Some of us drew our designs and some of us made them. 

When we had finished designing them, we wrote about them. 

Later, we pretended that we were going down hydroslides - we made the faces we would make when we splash into the water at the bottom.

Then we practised our pastel blending skills to make water. 

Our finished pictures look super-splashy, don't you think?