My Toy

 

We are learning about toys and how they have changed over time. We made our own toys with paint, cotton wool, googley eyes and stickers. We labelled our finished work using the Skitch app on our tablet. Check out our great artwork! 

 

 

 

Wooden Peg Dolls

We are learning about past and present toys. As a part of our study we made our own peg dolls from wooden pegs and material.

 

 

 

Our Visit to Howick Historical Village

Room 7 went to Howick Historical Village to explore how people lived, worked and played in the past. We played with old toys, went to a historical school, sung and danced to nursery rhymes and learnt about how people travelled to New Zealand from England on a big ship... It was a 100 day journey! We loved exploring the village at the end of the day, walking through the houses, workshops and community buildings. We had a great day!

 

 

Literary Walk

We had a great end to Book Week with the senior students putting on performances around the school. Thank you for creating a fantastic literary walk we really enjoyed it!

Check out some of our favourite moments below:
 

Author and Illustrator Lyn Kreigler

We were very lucky to be visited by Lyn who inspired us with her funny stories and furry puppets!

 

Lyn told us about when she was a little girl and use to create her own stories with teddies and dolls.

 

 

She taught us how to draw animals using numbers and our names... Did you know the number '5' can be made into a dog?!

 

 

We loved being a part of her stories and making funny puppet voices.

Book Week

We had a fantastic start to Book Week with a parade from another decade! Children and teachers dressed from another decade to learn about how we dressed, worked and played in the past.




Mr Cain and Miss McKeen enjoying the parade
 

Room 7

Jae In's beautiful outfit from the 1930's

Auckland Art Gallery

We are learning about 'Landscapes' ...

To help us understand more about landscapes we went to the Auckland Art Gallery. We saw different types of landscapes painted by famous artists and we even painted our own using dye!

In the Gallery we learnt that things that are near to us in a painting will be big and things that are in the distance will be much smaller. We loved making a 'soundscape' together - we all imagined that we were inside the painting then made noises we thought we would be able to hear.


In this landscape we noticed that the objects at the front of the painting are much bigger than those in the distance

In the Studio we painted our own landscapes using three different colours of dye. We tilted our paper so that the dye mixed together and made different colours and shapes. Then we used a straw to blow the dye into all different kinds of patterns!

We really enjoyed painting our own landscapes inspired by what we saw in the Gallery!