This week we learned about the art of Henry Matisse. He discussed how he used bold colours, clear shapes, contrast and also looked at his use of collage. This helped to inspire the background for our portraits.
Thursday 5 May 2022
Matisse Inspired Portraits
Food for plants and food for thinking
Thursday 7 April 2022
Making Maths Visual
Here is a group of dots. How would you add them together? Which different ways can they be grouped so that we can count them?
Exploring how to group numbers in different ways helps us to develop understanding of patterns within numbers as well as extend our ideas and grow our thinking by describing the many strategies we've used. It is also fantastic, creative mathematical fun!
If you would like to learn more about subitising and how to use it at home, here is a link.
Developing Grit and Resilience Strategies
This term we’ve been inquiring into what is Grit and what strategies we can use to get us through challenges both in learning and with other people. This Grit Toolkit will grow over time and help us to take on new challenges with confidence.
Sometimes challenges might make us feel frustrated so we can practice breathing, going to nature outside or drawing to calm us down. We can also use positive self-talk and tell ourselves positive things so we persevere. We can also find someone we can tell our feelings to.
Thursday 24 March 2022
Baking Cupcakes đ§
This week we thought it would be a great idea to utilise cooking in our writing and maths practice. We did this through baking cupcakes! Measurement and and fraction techniques were used whilst baking the cupcakes, and then students wrote about the experience of baking.
The best part about this was that the students all then got to enjoy the delicious cupcakes they worked so hard on!
Te Reo MÄori
Our Te Reo lessons have been a true highlight recently! This week we revisited our work on the numbers in MÄori, introducing ourselves, the person next to us, and our parents.
We have utilised fun games to help us in our learning, for example we would spread ourselves around the classroom, and on a clap have to find the person closest to us, tell them our name and the names of our parents. We would then introduce the person next to us to the rest of the class.
Thursday 17 March 2022
What am I? Using details in writing to give clues
How do we describe an animal in detail by giving lots of clues? We have been writing 'What am I?' descriptions of some animals we know and sharing them with each other. This has given us an opportunity to describe an animal while thinking about what information our audience needs to have.
Here are some examples of our writing. Can you guess which animal it is?
My secret animal it has flippers and a long tail. Its teeth are scary and sharp. By Otis