Monday, July 20, 2009
Robin's holiday
Lucky Robin! He got to go on a trip around the northern part of New Zealand with one of Room 27's students. You might remember that Robin came all the way from the U.K. to learn about New Zealand. He thoroughly enjoyed his trip and got to see lots of new things!
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Life Education
This term the Life Education Caravan came to Meadowbank School. Harold the Giraffe lives in there, and he taught us all about healthy eating! We talked about how important it is to eat a balanced diet. We need to eat lots of fresh fruit and vegetables daily, as well as rice, cereals, bread and pasta. We also need to make sure that we eat nuts, eggs, beans, fish, meat and milk products. We also discussed how we are allowed to eat treats, as long as it's only occasionally! We had a great time visiting Harold, and hope that he enjoyed meeting us too!
Tie-dye
We wanted to explore how we could change the colour of a piece of fabric, so we did some tie-dying. We each had a piece of calico, and first of all we scrunched up our piece of fabric. We then wrapped elastic bands very tightly around parts of the scrunched up fabric. Next we dipped the fabric into buckets of cold water dye. After a couple of minutes we took the fabric out and removed the elastic bands. We wanted to see whether the fabric that had been covered up by the elastic bands had remained the same colour, and sure enough it had!
Weaving
We practised weaving using strips of different types of fabric, and created these colourful works of art!
Tapa Designs
As part of our "Fabrics and Fibres" Topic we have been finding out about tapa cloth. We looked at some examples of Samoan tapa cloth to see what sorts of designs might be used. We then created our own patterns by cutting out and tracing around our own shapes, and then flipping or rotating them. Can you work out which designs have been created by flipping shapes? Can you see which designs have been made by rotating shapes? Which designs have some uniquely Kiwi pictures?!
Comparing two stories
In Term 2 we have been reading a variety of traditional tales from around the world. Close to the end of the term we read "Rainbow Bird," which is an Australian folk tale, and "How Rabbit stole the Fire," a North American story. We were looking for similarities and differences between the two stories, so that we could compare them. To help us organise our thoughts we used a SOLO compare map to record the ideas that we brainstormed. We found out that both stories have FIRE in them! Here are some of the other similarities and differences that we noticed:
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Hessian Bags
We made some cool hessian bags! First we chose the materials that we wanted to use from a collection. There were different coloured pieces of hessian, pompoms, small wooden shapes, rhinestones and sequins. Next we experimented with our materials and drew our bag designs. After this Miss Brookshaw helped us to glue our materials onto our fabric using the hot glue gun. We then had to sew our pockets on. We used large needles and wool for this. Once the pockets were on we were able to sew the sides together. We put velcro fasteners on the flaps to keep the bags closed. Finally the bags were finished!! We talked about all the different things that we can use our bags for, and had lots of different ideas, for example; money, pencils or small toys.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
The Paper Bag Princess Storyboards
In Term 2 we read a big book called "The Paper Bag Princess." We were learning how to retell a story in our own words and be engaging storytellers by using lots of expression and interesting words. We made these storyboards so that we could retell the story to other people. First of all we made some maps of the different settings in the story. We used pencil, crayon, vivid and dye. Next we used felt tips to draw the characters on cardboard, and then cut them out. There are three characters in the story - Princess Elizabeth, Prince Ronald and the dragon. We ended up making two Princess Elizabeths - one wearing beautiful clothes, and the other in a paper bag! We stuck the characters onto the maps with blu-tack, so that we are able to move them around as we tell the story. Finally we added some captions with key words and important events in the story. These act as prompts if we get stuck! We all had a go at retelling "The Paper Bag Princess" using the storyboards to a partner in the class, and then our buddies from Year 5 came to visit us and we were able to retell the story to them too. Some of us have been over to the New Entrants class already to tell them the story, and some more of us will also go next term. Here are a few examples of the storyboards we created.



Monday, July 13, 2009
Playball
We recently had some visitors from Playball at Meadowbank School who came and taught us lots of different ball games! We got the chance to practise some soccer and hockey skills, and had great fun learning how to play "Here comes the wolf!" Here are a few photographs of our session!
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Making Pom Poms
This term we have made some pom poms. First we needed two cardboard rings and lots of wool! We put the two rings together and wound wool around them until the hole was almost closed. That took a long time! Then Miss Brookshaw and Jan cut around the outside and then tied the pom pom together with another piece of wool, and they were finished!
We then decided to be enterprising and make the pom poms into toys. We chose different materials such as feathers, googly eyes, pipe cleaners and mini pom poms. Then we experimented with our materials and drew some designs. Miss Brookshaw and Jan helped us to glue our chosen materials onto our pom poms. We created all sorts of interesting animals and aliens!
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We then decided to be enterprising and make the pom poms into toys. We chose different materials such as feathers, googly eyes, pipe cleaners and mini pom poms. Then we experimented with our materials and drew some designs. Miss Brookshaw and Jan helped us to glue our chosen materials onto our pom poms. We created all sorts of interesting animals and aliens!
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