Gallery Seven News - Term 2, Week 3

Eve and Gabriella were our Kowhai Express Stars this week. Eve got her award for being an engaged and self-managing learner and Gabriella got hers for being an engaged and persistent learner who strives for excellence.

This week we decided what colour we are going to paint Ankylosaurus. We all got to colour in an outline to show what colour we would like to see him painted. When they were finished we all got one sticker and placed it on the colour combination we liked best. We have decided that Ankylosaurus will be browns and black.

This week Shawn’s reading group read a book about pedals. In it was a picture of a very cool pedal car. When Shawn got home he made a model of the pedal car using Clikko. It looked very much like the one in the book.

 Room 11 has been learning about flight and Mrs Hill brought some big lanterns that looked like little hot air balloons to fly. Mr Hill  helped light them and we watched them fill with hot air and rise.

We found this really cool leaf bug on someone as we came into class the other day. It kept hopping onto different people. It was quite small and bright green, we put it on a plant outside where it could camouflage itself.

We have been reading some Myth and Legends about where the Earth and people came from.  We read the story about Rangi and Papa and how Tane pushed them apart.  Thomas noticed that there were some cool Maori patterns in some of the pictures, these are called kowhaiwhai. Miss Bell drew some of them out for us and we practiced copying them on different shaped pieces of paper.  Later in the week we drew some patterns with chalk outside on the concrete we worked together adding shapes onto each others to make a big art work..

Harriet and Matt were our Artisans of the weeks. Matt got his for being an engaged and enthusiastic learner who gives everything a go and Harriet got hers for being an experimental learner who works well and enjoys working with others.