Our Trip to MOTAT

What a wonderful time we had at MOTAT.  The children loved being able to explore the museum and share their wonderings with adults and peers.  During the education session our tamariki had the opportunity to look at different mechanisms.  We explored how gears work, made skateboards & simple catapults and played with toys that had moving parts.  Getting to ride the skateboards after they had been built was a real highlight as was going for a ride on the tram!

Wearable Arts Show

The Room 27 tamariki have had a wonderful time preparing their shoes for the wearable arts show at school.  They took time and care to prep and paint tissue boxes and then decorate them using a range of materials.  It was lots of fun seeing them show off their beautiful creations as well as their best dance moves in front of the whole school!

"Managing self" is a key competency that students displayed during this experience as they had to listen to instructions and exercise self-control throughout the process.

Wonderful Writing

WALT:  make sure our words match our picture.

We love Story Writing time in Room 27.  We talk about what we will write about and then we go and draw our picture.  We have to make sure the story we write matches the picture we have drawn.

How do you think I did?

Stylish Shoes

WALT:  create an observational drawing of an object while thinking about size, shape and position.

This term in Art we sketched a shoe.  Nga tamariki had to look carefully at the shoe and then draw what they could see.  We discussed the different shapes and where we should put them.  It was sometimes tricky deciding how big they should be.

Once the shoe had been sketched we then drew over the lines using a black vivid and coloured it in using special water colour pastels.

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