Wednesday, 13 May 2015

ART INVESTIGATION AND EXPLORATION

In Tautoru we have been working with a variety of materials to create and explore in preparation for our art celebration.



It has been fantastic to see children sharing ideas and working together to create pieces of art.





Thursday, 7 May 2015

Tip Trip and what we learned



In the middle of last term we went to the tip to explore what's in our backyard and inspire some ways we can help to maintain our wider backyard.  Here is a presentation to show what we learned and some of the ways it made us feel.  We are now in charge of the reducing, reusing and recycling of the school. 

20 Ways to Reuse Toilet Rolls

Here are some creative ideas of things you could do with toilet rolls!

Sustainability

We have enrolled in the sustainability unit of the What's For Lunch programme.  Every week we will be learning about a different resource and how we can be sustainable with this resource.  We will be doing science experiments around each resource and have follow up readings.  This week the resource is water.  One of the coolest things we learned is that some of the water we have today was around when the dinosaurs were around!

ART TRIP

Tautoru had an amazing time roaming through the streets of Wellington on the hunt for art.







Space Place - Learning Celebration

We had a great learning celebration -  Our students got to share all of their learning with whānau.  We also topped off our Inquiry with a v...