A Visit to the Art Gallery

We are going to be using the artworks of local artists, plus our local environment, as inspiration for our own art works, so we visited the local art gallery.
We saw art works made with different media. 
We saw paintings with animals, paintings with people, sculptures and carvings.

Alison Hale kept us spell-bound when she showed us how she creates paintings on glass.

We really enjoyed our visit to the gallery!

Do you have a gallery in your town?

What type of art works do you like looking at?

Friendship Sticks

To end our Health unit on Friendships, everyone got to make a friendship stick for homework.

The stick had to have our name and our friend's name. 

It had to be decorated so the receiver would know we spent time thinking about them.

The stick had to say 'why' the friend is receiving it!

Our sticks are beautiful!

Why is your friend special?

What do you like to do together?

Filling the 100 Chart

We worked in twos or threes to see how quickly we could put the numbers back onto a 100 grid.

We found there are many ways to do it, but some strategies are quicker than others.

Starting from 1 and hunting for the next numbers in order took far too long!

Using what we know about number patterns in rows and columns was quicker.

What patterns might you use to do this quickly?

An Extra Day

Today is Leap Day. 

This year is a Leap Year, meaning February has 29 days instead of 28! 

Read why.

What will  you do with your extra February day?

Maybe you could solve this little puzzle.

In this newspaper article from the Nelson Evening Mail, a grandmother and a grand-daughter are both celebrating their 18th birthdays within a few days of each other.

How could this be?

What Else Would You Be Doing?

We are all getting used to being back at school after the summer break, so when we read this poem in class ...

... it started us all thinking about where we would rather be!


Click on the book to read our stories.

What are you doing and where would you rather be?

Green-screening Our Holiday Stories

Our first class attempt, in 2015, at using a green-screen as we danced, was a bit raggedy 

as this post showed!

This year, we have had more success using a green-screen. 

We recorded our summer holiday stories in front of the screen then used the Doink app to put us into our drawings.

The boys:

The girls:






How did you have fun in the holidays?

Summer Holiday Art

The children spent some time during the first week back at school for 2016 making art works to enter into the local 

A & P Show 

(Agricultural and Pastoral Show).

The art works had to reflect an activity from over the summer break.

Some students chose to use water-colour pencils and others chose to use pastels.

Blake

Riley 

What did you do for your summer holidays?