Group Drawing Projects

Today, we had the opportunity to work in a small group to design, draw, and colour a scenic picture of our choice.  First, we had to sit with our group and decide together what our picture would be.  Then, we worked together, using pencils and stencils, to draw our amazing scenes.  When we were finished drawing, we had another team decision to make.

   We had to decide what we were going to use to colour our pictures with. We could choice either "skinny" crayons, "fat" crayons, or oil pastels.  Of course, we ALL picked oil pastels!  We had so much fun working in our groups, and we even learnt that we could use a tissue to blend the oil pastels together!

Kharizma, Persia and Leah showing off their beautiful zoo!

Kauri and Teingoa show off the amazing garden they created with Sauma and Cherish!

Victoria and Jemma worked hard with Keyana to create this amazing garden and sky picture!

The Colour Wheel

Today, after we finished our writing tests, Mrs. Moala brought out the paints that we had mixed together last week, and we were able to paint our very own colour wheels!  It was so much fun, and we were so well behaved!  Surprisingly, almost all of the paint ended up on the paper!

We put each paint colour on a plastic plate to share.

Teingoa, Sauma, Persia and Kharizma and doing a fabulous job!

Exodus T is showing off his final project and Kauri is still working hard!

Some of the finished projects drying on another table.

Kharizma, Persia and Keyana worked hard to create this beautiful painting together!

Art Attack: Mixing Colours

During our writing on Thursday, we took some time to explore with paint colours.  Mrs. Moala put two colours of paint into a plastic bag, and we were able to take turns "mushing" the paint around the bag.  We were so surprised to see what happened!

Here is what the bags looked like before we started to mush them up.

Keyana and Alexus watching Kharizma make green using blue and yellow paint.

Persia mixed yellow and red to make a beautiful orange.

Teingoa shows off his bag before he begins mushing.

 Bryston is so excited to see what the blue and red in Teingoa's bag will make!

Next week, we will be using the paint colours we created to paint our very own Colour Wheels!

Terrific Thursday!

Today, we started out with our Star Student, Kharizma, reading her very own book to our class.  She did a fantastic job, and we loved how she showed us the pictures on each page!

We were even very lucky to have two of our school's ambassadors spend the day with us!  We really enjoyed having Jordan and Aaron in our room!  They helped us finish our writing, played math games with us, and they helped us with our reading!  We even spent some time showing them our Maori songs, and they showed us the motions to one of our special school haka songs, Powhiri Mai. Thanks for being so wonderful Jordan and Aaron!  We hope you come back to help us learn again soon!

Jordan helping Israel with his reading.

Bryston enjoyed reading his book to Aaron.

Leah and Persia are helping Jemma with her new book.

Exodus S. is doing a great job reading a special book that he picked out all by himself!

Check us out learning the motions to Powhiri Mai!  

Our Writing Process

Class 24 is becoming amazing story tellers, and they are doing an excellent job learning how to put their ideas into sentences on paper.  Yesterday, Mrs. Moala captured portions of our writing lesson to show how well we are doing.

First, our class "used our own brains" to look at the funny monkey picture Mrs. Moala showed us. Then, we were allowed to "talk with our buddies" and share our ideas about the picture.  After sharing with our buddy, we had a whole-class sharing time.

Monkey in a Field Sharing from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.

During our class discussion, Mrs. Moala helped us create a writing web.  The writing web helps us with special words when we are writing our own sentences about the picture.

When we finished writing our sentences, we read them aloud to Mrs. Moala, and she even recorded some of us!

Keyana from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.

Sauma from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.

Leah writing from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.

Class 24 Persia 2014 from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.

Presents from the USA!

Class 24 had so much fun using their new Dr. Suess pencils and animal stencils today!  They worked very hard to create their very own pictures.

Bryston, Sauma and Keyana are so excited to sharpen their new pencils!

Working hard to outline their animal shapes using the new stencils.

Exodus S. and Cherish both have blue pencils!

We had to carefully punch out the shapes to make the stencils usable.

Students had to decide to use the outside of the shape or the inside of the stencil.

All of our drawing was done in pencil before we were able to add colour.

Persia even added an amazing "Zoo" archway across her paper all by herself!

Be sure to check back another day to see some of our finished products!

Friends and Fun

Class 24 works so hard learning new things everyday!  However, we still have time to build relationships and have lots of fun when we play with our friends!

Siu, Teingoa, and Keyana worked together to make this amazing structure.

Did you notice that you could crawl under it?

Leah and Persia are enjoying some quiet time colouring in their unicorn pictures.

Bryston made this amazing truck all by himself!

Exodus T. and Israel are all smiles playing our new favourite maths app "Slide"

We've had lots of rainy days this week, so here we are watching a fun cartoon during lunch.

Our First "Reading Celebration"

This week we are celebrating with Exodus T., Exodus S., Kauri, Keyana, and Persia for their excellent effort in reading!  They work very hard reading their books at home every night, and practicing their word list.  If you are at Pt. England, they love reading their stories to friends who stop by before school everyday!

Weekly Writing

On Monday, Mrs. Moala read the story, "Echo the Dolphin" to Class 24.  Echo is a sweet dolphin who is always a good friend.  He and his friends always help each other get out of tough situations, and have great adventures together.

After reading the story, our class had a great discussion about what it means to be a good friend.  It was decided that since everyone in Class 24 are such great friends, we should write a story about it!


Cool Adventures from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.

Persia, Leah, and Keyana did such an amazing job copying their story off the board!  They each made sure that they drew a beautiful picture to match the story that we had written showing their favourite way to play with their friends from Class 24.  The girls were able to show their amazing confidence and share their writing with Miss Wild and Class 21!  Miss Wild was so impressed she gave them each a special sticker to put in their writing book!

Leah drew a picture of her friends all playing together wearing their red Pt. England shirts.

Persia did a fabulous job drawing a picture of her friends playing outside of Class 24.

Keyana showed how she and her friends like to play at the school park.

Marvelous Maths!

Class 24 has been working very hard to read, write and count our numbers from 0-20.  Check out all the different ways we are learning in Class 24!

Sauma and Amelia put the numbers 1-20 in order and then counted out the correct number of sticks for each number.  They even sorted the sticks by colour while counting!

 Leah worked very hard to put the numbers 1-10 in order using our new puzzle.

Israel and Bryston were working hard to match the number with the right number of objects.

  

Persia and Kharizma are such clever girls!  While colouring their maths pages, they decided to sort their crayons by colour!

Peni is working hard learning to write double digit numbers.

Keep up the good work Class 24!  Mrs. Moala is so proud of you!