The beginning of our portrait art

We are creating portraits at the moment in our art sessions.

Mrs Holmes took a photograph of every member of the class.  These pictures were printed in black and white.  Then, we folded the picture, of ourselves, into quarters.  After that, we cut the quarters so that we had 4 separate pieces of the picture.

We will be treating each piece of our picture differently.  On one piece we will use coloured pencils, on another we will use crayons, on the third piece we will use oil pastels.  On the fourth and final piece, we will do a mosaic collage effect.
So far the pictures are looking great.

We have been discussing how we can achieve some depth in our portrait by using shading as well as avoiding repetitive straight strokes with a pencil or crayon, instead using curved lines.

Our Classroom Treaty

Room 9 had just enjoyed a day off school for Waitangi Day.  The Treaty of Waitangi was on our minds, and we discussed this important document, who signed it and what was the purpose of it.  

We had also recently read the picture book, The Tree Hutt Treaty.  Once we had a better understanding of what a treaty was, we decided that a classroom treaty would ensure that we could have a learning environment that every class member would enjoy being in.  We talked about all the things that were important to us like, no bullying and respecting property.  We wrote a really big list together.  Because we had so many ideas, we needed to reduce or combine our ideas.  We worked in collaborative groups to do this, and then shared our thoughts with the class.  Finally, we came up with our classroom treaty.  We have all signed it just like the Treaty of Waitangi, and are in the process of surrounding it with our decorated hands.

The Tree Hut Treaty

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The week that was ...

What a busy week we have had. We've been exploring maths games.  Discovering how to play them, what equipment we will need and also identifying what maths skills we have been learning whilst playing.  Also this week, we have been refreshing our skills on Mathletics.  Remembering our passwords and familiarising ourselves again with the site.  I have been really impressed with how nicely everyone has worked this week.  You are all sensational!

We have discussed, at length, the importance of being cyber safe.  To support our learning we use Skooville, which is a fantastic site that aims to educate children about cyber safety.  This week we have been working on gaining our Skooville Stars.

With all the excitement of the Cricket World Cup it has been fantastic having some cricket skills training.  We have been taught some basic batting and catching skills.  One particular activity was really tricky.  Try covering your right eye with your left hand, and with your right hand throw and catch.  You'll quickly discover that distance is hard to judge making the ball hard to catch.

High fives all around!