Gallery Seven Journal - Term 1, Week 8 and 9

Katelyn was our Kowhai Express Star this week

She got her award for being an engaged learner who is working hard to improve her writing.

We continued our discussions about space and we talked about New Zealand and Earth. We have lots of ideas about New Zealand and lots of questions too!

Over the last two weeks we completed some paintings, this time it was a painting that used lots of water. When we used the water with the paint the colours mixed together. We had to let the paint dry once we had painted our background before we could finish our painting. We think they look awesome.

Te Atahaia was our Artisan of the week, she got her award for being a super EXPRESS learner.

Zac was our Kowhai Express Star for week 9, he got his award for effort, persistence and improvement in reading and writing.

It was Jump Jam Mufti Day on Friday we dressed up as our favourite Jump Jam characters. We drew portraits of ourselves.

 

 

Gallery Seven Journal - Term 1, Week 7

Amber was our Kowhai Express Star this week, she got her award for effort and persistence with a smile in all areas of class learning.

This week we practiced our brush control during exploration , trying hard to paint inside the lines, it took a lot of patience and concentration.

 This week we read a big book called ‘Going to the Moon’, it is about a mouse that packs his bags and goes off on his bike to see the moon. It made us think about space and all the things we know and all the things we would like to know. We drew pictures, wrote and talked about space.

William was our Artisan of the week this week, he got his award for being engaged in classroom learning and sharing his ideas about space and New Zealand.

 

 

Gallery Seven Journal - Term 1, Week 6

Joe was our Kowhai Express Star this week, he received the award for being an engaged student who can share and justify his ideas. 

This week we did an art activity which involved tinting using white in order to get different shades of the same colour. We also experimented with tinting to work out what colours primary colours make when mixed together.

We continued to work on observational drawing and this week we drew our own hand which was quite difficult.

Joe found an egg outside his house underneath a tree. It was blue and broken.

Some of us have been playing with the multilink a lot in class seeing how far they will reach when they are all connected. It stretched halfway around the room. WOW!

We also had our Kowhai fun afternoon, there were challenges, races, bubbles and a fire engine. The fire fighters sprayed us with the big hoses, it was fun!

Daniel was our Artisan of the week, he got his award for sharing his thoughts and ideas with the class.

 

Gallery Seven Journal - Term 1, Week 5

Mollie was our Kowhai Express Star this week, she received the award for being an engaged student who always tries her best.

Gallery Seven won the Kowhai shield this week at assembly for showing good manners and singing beautifully.

This week Michael Holland came and visited us he is a full time artist, who creates huge amazing artworks with lots of detail in them. One of his paintings were full of boats and we had to try and count how many their were, there were a lot. Sam won a small painting by Michael because he counted the closest.

We really liked the bubbles in Michaels paintings, so we experimented with how you get the different shades, we tried using different pressures on our brushes, adding water and adding white paint.

Tiger-Lilly  was our Artisan of the week, she got her award for being and engaged student who always tries hard to improve and achieve.

 

Gallery Seven Journal -Term1, Week4

Tyler received our Kowhai Express Star award this week for being a self managing student who always makes good choices.

We learnt that our pencil can make lots of different marks depending on how we use it.

We used the marks we learnt about to do observational  drawings of a shell.

Emily was our Artisan of the week, she got her award for being observant and drawing what she can see.

 

Gallery Seven Journal - Term 1, Week 3

 

Miss Bell was sick this week and she was away for the first three days, so we had three different teachers, we had Mrs Gill, Mrs Chambers and Mrs Neal. We did all sorts of things with these teachers including make clocks with little mice for the nursery rhyme Hickory dickory dock, we made pasta stars and created graphs about our birthdays and our favourite ice creams. On Wednesday we went outside and drew pictures of trees and wrote stories about what we could see. In the afternoon Mrs Neal asked us to make trees using classroom equipment, it was quite tricky but these are our trees.

 

Gallery Seven Journal - Term1, Week2

Phoebe was our Kowhai Express Star this week, she received her award for being an engaged learner, especially during writing activities.

This week we had a look at some paintings by Cezanne, he liked to paint fruit and jugs and wrinkly table cloths that we think  would be hard to draw and paint. Miss Bell brought some fruit to school and we had a go at drawing some of them, We had to work hard to draw what we could see and not what we thought things looked like. 

Sam brought a Crab to school that he found while he was on holiday. It was great you could see the nippers, legs and tail. It was a purple colour.

Jaxson’s Aunty B came to visit us on Thursday, she is an artist and is studying art. She brought photo of lots of different types of artworks she has completed. She draws, paints, collages and work in fabric and sculpture as well.  Her art work was incredible and we got to ask her some questions. We thought the collage she had done was really funny, so we had a go as well.

We also had a go at doing an observational  drawing of an alstroemeria bloom, we are still working hard to draw what we can see.

Mrs Brickwood also sent us some photos of artworks that her second cousin, Rebekah Codlin,  created, they are amazing.

Our Artisan of the week this week was Emily, she got her certificate for  being observant and drawing what she can see.

 

 

Gallery Seven Journal - Term 1, Week 1

There are 20 children in Room 7 and our classroom is called Gallery Seven.

 

On Monday we made our classroom logo by using lots of different equipment to make the letters for gallery seven.

 

We talked about what things we needed to do in Gallery Seven to make Gallery Seven a safe and happy place for everyone to be. We came up with some guidelines which Miss Bell put on  a canvas and then we all did a handprint around the outside to show they were ours.

 

We have decided that we would like to learn about artists and how to paint properly. Jaxson and Joe found some art books on the library shelf and tried drawing some pictures out of it, we also drew our self portraits for our CD frames and created an unusual pet using vivid and dye after reading Heironymous Betts and his unusual pets.

 

Jacob was our Artisan this week he got his award for being a self managing and engaged student who always tries his best.

 

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.

Gallery Seven Journal - Term 3, Week 4

Jasmine and Shaun were our Kowhai
Express Stars this week.  Jasmine received her award for neatness and persistence in making a pentagonal prism. Shaun  received his award for effort and persistence during maths.

We won the Kowhai shield again at a assembly!

WOW!

This week the Junior Journal group read a story about some children making double waka’s for presents, included in the journal were instructions on how to make one. Shawn made this one at home and brought it to school to show us, it floated well.

We have been completing small sketching studies  for our circle dance project working on the things that we identified. These are a sample of them.

Gabriella and Ashton were our artisans of the week. They both got their awards for great observation and persistence during our circle dance exploration.

Gallery Seven Journal- Term 3, week 3

Emelia and Lucia were our Kowhai Express Stars this week. They both got their awards for effort and persistence during reading.

This week we had conferences which meant we didn’t have school on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon. We have managed to start doing some observational drawings or small studies of parts of people we need to work on before we draw our dancing circles again. We have towers in our room with our pictures on them and we are adding our studies to them as we go.

Shawn and his dad made these cool lego dinosaurs, and Shawn brought them in to show us. They are cool.  Long Live the DINOSAURS!!!!

Quinn and Kyla  were our artisans of the week. They  both got their awards for great observation and persistence in our circle dancing exploration.

Gallery Seven Journal-Term 3, Week 2

Crystal and Jewels were our Kowhai Express Stars this week. They both got there awards  for being persistent and successful in maths.

We were awesome in assembly again and got the Kowhai Shield! GO GALLERY SEVEN!!!!

This week we started work on our Reggio Exploration again. We have broken into 5 groups. Some of us have questions we still wish to answer about the human body and the rest of us are looking at aspects of the  life of the early Maori.  We have worked out some questions we want to answer and where we think we might find the answers.

On Wednesday afternoon some of Room 11 came and joined us for the afternoon. We did some circle dancing together and then drew pictures of what we think it looked like.  We have spent some time looking closely at them and have talked about how we can  improve them.

Gallery Seven Journal - Term 3, Week1

When we arrived back at school it was exciting to see that the fence around the new junior playground was gone. Everyone was very  excited and eager to  have a turn on it. Miss Bell took us out and we came up with a list of verbs for things you can do on our new playground there were heaps..

Noah and Matt were our Artisans for the week they both got awards for writing as they have been working hard and being successful.

Gallery Seven Journal -Term 2, week10

This week at Kowhai Assembly we got the shield for being the best class. Our Kowhai Express Star awards went to Ruben and Thomas.  Thomas got his for being experimental and persistent in his creation of kowhaiwhai taniwha’s, and Ruben got his for being experimental in how he takes photo’s for our Reggio documentation.

Mr Morrall came into our room to see what we had been up to, he gave us a copy of our finger prints so that we could see what patterns are on them and compare them to our own.

Mrs King brought us some Dr Seuss books for our class, we really enjoy reading them.

Crystal drew this really cool windmill on the blackboard, lots of us have been trying to draw windmills too!

Gallery Seven Journal - Term 2, Week 9

This week we explored Rangoli patterns, they are patterns from India . We saw some similarities with Kowhaiwhai patterns and somethings that made them different. We attempted to create Rangoli patterns with  crayon and chalk pastels, we are looking forward to trying to create them using coloured salt.

We  also spent time creating Jo’s , heart and lungs. Along the way we discovered things about the tongue, brain and  the skin as well.

Jasmine

Snowmen have been made

Snow falls on the green grass

Body freezes to death

Delicious warm weet-bix with toast

Heater is on to get warm in the house

People go outside and see that snow is still there

Snow is on everybody’s roof

Snuggling in the blanket watching two movies

One called Coraline and Despicable me

My favourite movies

Snow Day

Shawn - Snow Day

Snow out the window

Snowman with bug eyes in the front yard

Snowman with no arms driving a car

Snow Day!

Watching Flushed Away with Mum

Throwing snow on the fence

Eating yummy sour squirms

Snow Day!

Harriet - Snow Day

Morning

Yummy hot chocolate in bed

Skiing on a board down hill

Scary snow monster in my yard

Scrummy rice puff cakes.

Snow Day

Scrumptious blue drinks

Put ice up my Mums jacket

Beautiful pyjamas to keep warm

A very nice breakfast

Melted cheese on toast

Snow Day