Writing: Keyana's Wacky Hair Day

Today in Class 24, we drew pictures and wrote stories about our upcoming "Wacky Hair Day' on Friday.  Keyana did a wonderful job with her story, and we decided that it should be published!  She also created a KidPix picture to match the drawing she did before writing.

Excellent Job Keyana!

We are having wacky hair day on Friday.  I am going to be silly.  My hair is going to be colourful.

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!

Thank you Class 21!

This afternoon started out just like any other in Class 24.   We were all sitting comfortably around the room reading our chosen books when all of the sudden there was a knock on our door! Class 21 came to visit us!  Ms. Wild's Class come down to invite us to play a game of soccer with them!  We had so much fun spending our afternoon block out in the sun with Class 21 and we played with mixed teams so we were able to make new friends too!  Thanks for picking us to play with Class 21!  You're the best!

Just enjoying our reading time...

Leah, Cherish and Keyana are great at the Pt. England Way!
Check out how they are sharing their pillow!

Ms Wild led both classes out to a special field that had just been mowed just for us!
(Well, kind of...)

We were told the rules and split onto two teams.

Really!  We are playing soccer not rugby!

Check out this opening kick!

Teingoa is ready to play!

We ran and ran...

until we needed a break!  

Then, we played "Duck, Duck, Goose!"

Our BIG hand for our teachers!

Before we went back inside, we showed our teachers the love with a big high 5!

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!

Art Attack! Day 1

This term the students at Pt. England are working under the theme "Art Attack" and Class 24 (Team 1) is going to be exploring the question, "What does the river really look like?"

To kick start our very own Art Attack Class 24 spent some time today thinking about the Pt. England Reserve and the river that runs alongside our community.  Students made mental pictures before sharing what they remembered with the class.  They were then asked to do a pencil drawing of the river.

Bryston and Leah were sharing their work with each other while Teingoa remained focused on his drawing.

Kharizma and Keyana were working hard on their drawings!

Cherish put forth excellent effort in her beach drawing. 

Kauri and Israel were trying their best to recreate the river in their drawings.

Special Story Time

Today we had a very special story time!  Keyana was our "Star" Student today, and instead of selecting a book for Mrs. Moala to read us this morning, she chose to read her reading book to the class all by herself!  She did a great job, and we are so excited to have other students read to us in the future!

How Many Sticks Are You Tall?

In Class 24, we have been talking about different ways to measure things.  Today, we decided we could measure how tall we are using Mrs. Moala's cool ice block sticks!  

Measuring with Sticks from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.

Leah and Bryston are counting Kauri's sticks

Victoria is taking a break while Sauma sees how tall she is!

We had to measure Kauri twice!
This time Exodus T and Peni are seeing how tall Kauri is!

Keyana is being measured by Leah, and Bryston is trying to join in too!

 How many sticks tall are you?  Come visit us in Class 24 and maybe we'll measure you, too!

We even learnt what 1/2 meant because a whole stick was too much for some people's heights!

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!

Class 24 Athletes

During Term 3 we are learning what it means to be a champion.  We are also training for our school Cross Country race later this term, and learning how to do gymnastics with our fabulous coach!

We had gymnastics with Class 25 this week.
Look how well we are listening to coach!

Alexus practicing her dismount on the trampoline.

We learnt how to do forward rolls.

Check out Keyana's forward roll!

Coach is giving Sauma some helpful hints.

Team 1 is practicing for Cross Country everyday after morning tea.