Fashion Designers for George!

As part of our inquiry topic 'Stick It' we have been exploring fastenings, and in particular fastenings on clothes.  This last week we became fashion designers for  our class mascot George the monkey.  First we had to decide on what we were going to make for him (or his imaginary sister Georgina).  Our ideas ranged from Soccer Shirts, dresses, t-shirts, vests, bow-ties to  tail warmers!  Then we had to draw our design and decide how our clothing would be fastened.  Then Melissa, one of our kind parents came in and helped us sew them.  Sally thinks we did a fab job and enjoyed seeing people problem-solving and learning new skills.

Calendar Art

Here is the artwork we created for the Calendar Art Fundraising. Come into class to check out the hard copy of the artworks. Order forms for the art will be coming out soon!

Something Old, New, Borrowed and Blue!

This week we finally got to go and visit the exhibition Something, Old, New, Borrow and Blue at the Suter after being rained off last term. We explored the great variety of artwork on display and Esther talked to us about a number of the different pieces. then we created a piece of art based upon our observations of the artwork.

Sorry its been a long time since we lasted posted on.  Here are some of the things that we have been up to lately.

  

We began soccer coaching sessions with George from Nelson Football.

We are lucky enough to have six sessions with him throughout this term



During the recent buddy time we helped our little buddies from Room 11 with their skipping.  Our little buddies had to hold onto our waists whilst we turned the rope.  We had to help them try and jump at the right moment

This term our topic is called 'Stick It'.  We are exploring all the different ways things are fastened.  Then we will explore fastenings suitable for masks as we build up to the mask parade at the end of this term.  To kick off this unit the teachers acted out the story

 of the The 3 Little Pigs.  Following this Sally set us the challenge of creating a house suitable for a 4th little pig.  She gave us 1m of masking tape, 15 sheets of newspaper, some staples and stapler, gluesticks and PVA glue. 

There were many interesting and creative designs.  Some designs worked well and others not so well.  Here we are creating! 

The last few weeks we have been writing poetry. We have watched these two great poems to help us learn about adjectives and syllables. We thought you might enjoy them too!

Science Fair

Yesterday we had our school Science Fair.  Our class created a science fair called 'Soak it Up'.  We investigated the absorbency of different brands of paper towels.  We found out that the Signature Range was the most absorbent.  However, there was only 6mls on average between the different brands of paper towels.  We enjoyed looking at all the other classes investigations also.

Hats, hats, hats!

On Wednesday we went to the Museum to an exhibition called 'Hats'. We all had to wear a hat that was special to us. We each got to share why the hat was special to us. Some of us had great stories behind our hats. Mackenzie's hat from a traditional hat from Vietnam that her Mum got when she visited there. Holly wore a hat that was her Great- Grandma's made out of fur. Sally also wore a hat of her Great-Grandma's that she wore to her son's weddings. Ellie wore a very nice top hat that was her Grandfathers. We also explored what the hats were made of our how they were made. Finally we got to create a hat. We all agreed that we had a lot of fun!

Poetry

This term we are learning how to write a variety of poems.

This week we wrote about couplet poems. Couplet poems are poems where two lines rhyme. Here are two couplet poems that Sally thought were great.

Mouse

By Ranita

My mouse fell down the drain,

So now he has a lot of pain.

He had to go to hospital.

Will he get better, is it possible?

He did get better one sunny day.

Now I had to take him away.

Now he is safe and sound

Curled up warm and round.

Mrs Blue

By Mackenzie

I've got a neighbour

Who likes lightsabers

Her name is Mrs Blue

She tried to eat my shoe.

But Mum didn't believe my story,

So I told my big sister Dory.

She didn't believe my tale,

So my story was a fail.