Gallery Seven Journal - Term 3, Week 7

Alicya and Shawn were our Kowhai Express Stars this week. Alicya got her award for effort and persistence during maths and Shawn got his for working hard to use a clear and   expressive voice when reading to the class.

Last Friday, Emelia and Lucia had dance exams. Emelia did ballet and Lucia did jazz. Lucia brought along the badges she has earnt. Last year she got her bronze and this year she received her silver. Well done Ladies, we are proud of you!

This week we had a go at drawing observation pictures from a photograph and then painting them in an abstract way to show the movement and shape we could see.

Ashtyn had a go at doing a wire sculpture at home with her dad, as practice for what we are going to do in class.

Molly and Ashtyn were our artisans of the week. Molly got her award for effort, improvement and being successful in developing skills in observational drawing. Ashtyn got her for being engaged and using her initiative to progress our Reggio exploration.

 

Gallery Seven Journal - Term 3, week 6

Eve and Sean were our Kowhai Express Stars this week. They both got their awards for effort and enthusiasm during writing.

We also got the Kowhai shield again this week.

Mrs Hocken came in one afternoon and brought in a stethoscope and a blood pressure cuff for us to look at and try and use. We listened to our heart beat and pumped up the cuff.

We finished our dancing circle observational drawing, we worked very hard on them and we can see the improvements we have made since our first drawing.

Keira and Ruben were our artisans of the week. Keira got hers for effort and persistence in maths especially with out fraction work and Ruben got his for being engaged and persistent in our circle dancing exploration.

Gallery Seven Journal - Term 3, Week 5

We have been learning about fractions, this week we did Smarties maths, we had to work out all the different fractions of coloured smarties. It was tricky but we did get to eat smarties.

We started work on our last circle dancing observational drawing.

Ashton brought in a medal that his mum had won to show us and Shawn brought in a helicopter balloon for us to see.