Elements and Principles of Art

This afternoon Miss Perry taught us about the elements and principles of art. Things like line, shape, form, value, space, colour and texture. We talked about the types of visual art - drawing, painting, sculpture and photography.

After looking at some amazing examples of each in Wearable Art, we had the chance to experiment in our classroom. We played with paint, play do, tinfoil and even cameras.

It was such exciting learning that we are now bursting to apply this to our cool Wearable Art ideas.

Colour wheels

Value

Texture

Form

Line

Space

Form

Colour

Certificates

Congratulations to Anika, Van, Maddox, Gabriela, Brodey and Georgia for receiving certificates this week. We are so proud of your engagement and participation in class! 

Inquiry Groups

This morning we had a great discussion and came to an agreement that we would focus our desert theme on the Egyptian Desert. There are so many exciting creatures that live in this environment.

This afternoon we chose the area that we were most passionate about.

Check out our awesome groups below!

Temple / sphynx	Rattle snakes	Animal Gods	Lizards	Crocs	Camel	Scorpion	Vultures
Jack	Anika	Micah	Lochie	Maddie	Danica	Gabriela	Ella
Cooper	Franziska	Ben	Kyan	Arthur	Teagan	Isabella	Leah
Noah H	Felicity	Eva	Leon	Rosa	Georgia	Maya	Abaigh
Leroy	Zak	Brodie	Ashton	Maniah	Sam	Arya	Maddox
Jai	Connor	Kuhu	Van	Simone	Smilla	Kara	Hugo
Harvey	CJ	Greta	Aaron
AJ			Isaac
Louis

EPro8

Today we had the EPro8 heats at Christchurch South Intermediate. We took 4 teams called The Wolf Pack, 

20 Volts of Power, Shockers and The Robo Chickens. All the teams got great scores. 

Two teams got into the semi finals in Week 6. Grace, AJ, Kuhu and Hugo of the Wolf Pack 

came 2nd with 480 points and Harvey, Elsie, Jamie and Hashim of 20 Volts of Power 

came 1st with 510 points! Whats more is that they broke the New Zealand record for highest 

scoring yr 5-6 EPro8 team ever! WOW! Congratulations also to the Shockers and Robo Chickens. (:

Team 1 - Shockers - Alex, Jack, Gabriela, Felicity 

Team 2 - 20 Volts of Power - Harvey, Elsie, Hashim, Jamie 

Team 3 - The Wolf Pack - Hugo, AJ, Kuhu, Grace

Team 4 - The Robo Chickens - Leroy, Connor, Ben, Joshua

By Grace Billings

Welcome Back!

Welcome back to the start of our third term together. It was exciting to be greeted by so many smiling faces this morning - how lucky are we?!

We had fun this morning looking through today's edition of The Press - it's amazing that most of our students had not read an actual newspaper before! We will learn heaps about newspapers, writing news stories, and even creating our own this term.

We tried to find out what our students know about fractions, decimals and percentages so that we are teaching them maths they didn't already know.

We also began our exciting new Inquiry learning all about avant-garde wearable arts in the desert!!! Wearable Arts - The Journey of the Lost Temple.

Banqer Auction

Today there was great excitement in class as we prepared for our pod Banqer auction. Students were able to use the money they have saved in their virtual bank accounts to buy items brought in by everyone. We had books, cars, robots, art, even musical instruments.

We learned about reserve amounts, bidding increments, and how to place a bid on a silent auction. What incredible learning.

Thanks to all our families for their continued support!

Simone's slippers!

Zak's books and games

Connor's magical model

Gabriela's stunning artwork

Kara's books

Danica's self made artworks

Inquiry Share

This afternoon we shared our amazing learning with each other, other classes, Mr Callaghan and our families.

We have had so much fun and excitement this term learning about Space and our students have totally immersed themselves in their learning.

Take a look at some of the presentations, these inspire us as teachers.

Connor and Jai recreated the ISS

AJ created a rocket to scale, 1:100

Jack recreated Saturn V as well as making a movie

Sam created a stunning project

Danica and Smilla used their papier mache skills

Maddy and Felicity's solar system

Maddox and Louis with their ISS

Ella's core of Europa even lights up!

Aaron and Brodey found out all about space food

Arthur wrote his own book!

Arya and Maya created this diorama about Kepler 90

Kuhu's solar system

Rocket Challenge

We have had so much excitement and learning associated with our Wonder Project Rocket Challenge this term.

Jack, Leroy, Ella and Leah have created a video to take part in the final part of the Rocket Challenge and win us a trip to Wellington!

Please take the time to watch this link as a family.

Life Ed

This morning we had our second visit to the Life Education van with our educator and Harold. One of the many things we talked about was empathy, how understanding how other people are feeling is really tricky but also necessary for us to build positive relationships.

1. Watch and listen
2. Remember
3. Imagine
4. Ask
5. Show your care

We know that we all need to keep working on our abilities to respond in the right way to help others.