Countdown to Christmas

We are counting down to Christmas with only two weeks to go until the end of school. We have been doing some wonderful artwork in class following our visit to the quarry art centre. This has included some Picasso art, mosiacs, clay and woollen kiwi pom poms. We will be posting some photos this week so have a look at our works. We are pretty proud of them!!

Quarry Art Visit and Town Basin

We sat on a big tuatara. It was made from concrete with glass eyes. It felt rough.  Myra - Mei

Andrea told us about the kids making clay bowls, houses and cups in the holidays. Puao

We were standing behind a rock ring. It was made out of rocks. It was huge. Phoenix

We saw a big dragon. It was made out of plastic and metal. It had sharp spikes under its neck. Daniel

The dragon was gigantic. It is tough and made out of steel. It has fire coming out of its mouth. David

We all sat down on the grass to have morning tea.Then we walked down to the town basin.It was hot so we sat in the shade. Stella

This is a picture of a ruru, kiwi and its egg, a tui, a penguin and a fantail. This is painted on the bridge that the train goes over. Zethan & Jahnay

We are standing by a flower on the other side of the road under the railway bridge. Shantel & Michael

We all got trapped in the eel trap. Do you think we all look like eels trying to escape? Nepia

Help! The dragon is grabbing Sahil's head!!!

The two faces on the Korean pou outside the library

Inside the eel trap

These seats look like whale tails sticking out of the water.

We had an awesome day visiting the Quarry Art Centre and the town basin to look at all of the fantastic work that is being done by local artists. We were shown around the Quarry Art Centre by Andrea who explained how local artists created their works on site and were displayed for sale within the quarry. From there we walked to the town basin via Whangarei Library, stopping to look at the pou and some sculptures and murals before going on to the Town Basin and doing the sculpture boardwalk down to the wave and waka sculpture. We will now be creating some of our own works of art in the next few weeks so keep checking to see what we have created

Quarry Art Craft and Town Basin Visit

Next week we will be off to the Quarry Craft Trust and Town Basin to look at art work by some of our local artists and to also look at some sculptures down at the town basin. Check out our photos next week to see how our trip went.

AFL Development

Phoenix and Kaiarahi ready to kick the ball 

                                          Lennox showing great follow through with his kick

                                                            Rona kicking to her buddy

                                                          Ngairo with her eye on the ball

                                                      Nepia concentrating on his kicking

                                                     Zethan ready to connect with the ball

                                                     Jess watching Roemin's kicking skills

For the next six weeks we will be learning the skills of AFL (Australian Football League). This week we learned to kick the ball using a drop punt to each other and how to aim our kicks. We had fun kicking to each other and then using the teachers for target practice.

Term 4

Well we have all had a great break and are back for an action packed last term before the Christmas Holidays. Our topic this term is 'Our place, Our Artists'. We will be looking at the works of some local artists and hopefully spend a day in our local community looking at local artists works. We have a very busy term coming up with end of year testing, cricket and hockey coaching, swimming and six weeks of whole school AFL development. It will be an exciting time so keep checking in and remember to leave a comment at the bottom of the post so we can see who is visiting us!

Build up to Term 3 Holidays

Holiday time is near and some of us have exciting plans ahead. Read what we all plan to get up to in the next few weeks over the school holidays and also look at our wonderful pictures.

Pepeha

As part of 'our history' topic study this term we created 3d pepeha using wool, cardboard, fabric, cellophane, paper, wood, pipecleaners and buttons. The pepeha represent our whanau, our location and our favourite things we like to do. These took a while to complete but the effort was worth it and they look awesome hanging up in our room.