The Big Friendly Giant

During reading this timeless and language challenging novel, we created our BFG.

We added small descriptions of our BFG.

Rocky Shore

We had a brilliant day! The weather behaved and we had many parents to engage in the activities with the children.

I didn't know sea anemones could be so small - Ashton.
I didn't know that sea anemones were slimy - Jess.
I didn't know that the hungriest fish was the size of a pie - Tuawhio.
I didn't know that crayfish could get so big! - Callum.

I didn't know that sea anemones are black - Sarah.
I didn't know that sea cucumbers could spew out their guts - Sam.
I didn't know that sharks can eat 500 fish each day - Eden.
I didn't know that sea cucumbers breathe out of their bottom - Maria.

I learnt that sea spiders can grow their legs back - Alec.
I didn't know that neptune's necklace is edible - Joshua.
I really enjoyed searching for the crabs in the pools - Kieran.
I enjoyed feeding the turtles and the big fish - Rachel.
I learnt that a starfish has an eye on the end of its leg - Emma.

Sarah and Zoe were the only ones who put meat in their mouth and fed the turtles - Tayla.
It was awesome holding the spider star - Ruben.
I didn't know that sea anemones will suck your finger on the yellow bit - Chiara.
I enjoyed holding the starfish - Katelyn.
I didn't know that the starfish had a mouth under their body - Gabrielle.

I didn't know that starfish could grow up to 40 legs - Eli.
I enjoyed picking up the crabs - Campbell.
I didn't know that starfish were so bumpy - Stephen.
I didn't know that when mother octopus have their babies, she works so hard to look after them that she then dies - Ashley.

I enjoyed looking at the octopus - Navah.
I have never touched a sea star before - Ellemay.
I have never touched a sea anemone - Callum.
I enjoyed searching in the rock pools - Sarah.
I have never picked up a hermit crab - Maria.
Fish can stay still and look dead and frozen - but they aren't - Tayla and Alec.

Looking in rock pools and lifting up rocks to find creatures is fun - Jess.
There is a shark called the carpet shark - Eden.
When you hold a crab you need to make a nest with your hands - Ruben and Katelyn.
A hermit crab can move extremely fast inside its shell - Tuawhio.
When you pick up sea creatures you need to wet your hands with sea water - Callum.

When you pick something up, replace it back where it came from - Ashton.
When you hold a sea star, they suck to your hand - Emma.
A spider star's legs can wrap around your hand - Tayla.

When something is growing - DON'T pull it out - Jess.
The sea anemone wants to kill you when you touch it, with its stingers - Ruben
You will find a glass shrimp in the rock pools if you look carefully - Chiara and Rachel.

It was gross when I ate the neptune's necklace - Tuawhio.
You can only eat the top part of the neptune's necklace - Callum.
Be careful to not run because there are sharp rocks and you will step on creatures - Alec.

There are orange sea anemones - Jess.
Glass shrimps move very fast! - Tayla.
The octopus can move through really small spaces - Sam.

Octopus and sharks and some other fish have cartlidge in it - Eden.
The rock pools can be visited at low tide only - Joshua.
No rock pools are the same - Callum.

Octopus can lay over 40,000 eggs - Eden.
Don't run, just walk - Rachel.
Spider stars can drop off their legs to keep them safe, and they still live - Stephen.

A starfish has it's mouth at the bottom of its body - Emma.
When the mother octopus dies, the babies eat their mother - Katelyn.
I never knew that rocky shore was so important to the environment - Eden.

The tide can come in very big - Ashley.
It was hard to catch the glass shrimp with your net - Eli.
You can catch fish in the rock pools with a net - Sam.
When the tide comes in, the animals in the rock pools open up to catch food - Katelyn.
Sea cucumbers try to slide across your hand - Emma.
Starfish walk on the tips of their legs - Tayla.

A huge thanks to Victor and Judy! We had an amazing day!!!

Agricultural Day!

Well here we are...agricultural day!

We have had a busy day, the children have had a wonderful time eating lollies, creating bouquets and face pikelets and Mr. Potato head.

The rain has stayed away and it is now shining down on the best school around.
Take a peek at our achievements...

Bouquets and Sand saucers.
We had to make a pattern - Ashton.
We needed a saucer - Dominic
We used a small amount of flowers - Emma
We needed a big flower in the middle - Alec

And our mosaic stones...

We needed to make 2 sides different - Kieran
We chose from 5 colours - Sarah
We had to make sure that the bits fit - Chiara

We had to be careful putting the pieces of tile on - Callum
It was exciting making them at first - Navah
It was complicated - Rachel

And prints...

It was a very hard process because we had to put a certain amount of ink on to make it look good - Eden
We had to cut out pieces of paper to make the print - Gabrielle

Mosaic stones

Leah and Tessa drew the leaf outline on our stone - Alec

Then Sereah put the adhesive onto the stone for us to put the tiles on.

Spring Art with Miss Brunton

First we had to design our background- Callum
We put a sun, clouds, grass, hills, rivers and blue sky on our background- Eden
We ripped up pieces of magazine paper to put on our background- Dominic

We used green for the grass and hills. We used white or blue for the river, blue for the sky and yellow for the sun- Tuawhio
We put lots of glue on our picture to hold the small pieces of paper down- Ashton
We had to make sure that the pieces of paper fit on our background, and we kept to the lines that we drew- Alec

After we had finished our background, we drew a daffodil on a piece of paper -Haylee
Next, we traced over our drawing with a marker onto see through plastic- Emma

We painted the daffodil- Sarah
We put it in the sun to dry- Jessica
We stapled our daffodils onto our backgrounds- Kieren
It was fun!- Tayla
It looked superb- Campbell

Modules - Bridge making in Room 4

In Room 4 we had some really complicated things like building towers out of straws. (Eden)

We had to make a bridge out of newspaper. (Callum)

We had to make triangles because it is the strongest shape! (Rachel)

The bridge had to have a tractor go over it. (Gabrielle)

We had to make it so the tractor wouldn't sink in the middle. (Tuawhio)

In our group some people were building triangles, some people were rolling up paper and then folding the paper and putting it on the side and cello taping it so the tractor wouldn't fall off. It was complicated. (Tayla)

I learnt that when the triangles are smaller, the stronger the bridge is. (Alec)

My group had to build a tower and balance a ball on it so it couldn't fall off. (Emma)

When we were making the tower Mrs Papworth said we could join up as a group. Tayla's group joined up to our group and we built a tower and balanced a ball, and it worked. And we were the first one finished. (Ruben)

I found out that there is always a way to build an object. (Joshua)

Thank you Mrs Papworth for teaching us how to build structures.

Eli's Art Experience

Wnen I was using the indian ink I pressed too hard and I smudged it by accident
but when I got on with it I started getting better and better and better
at it and once I was finished I had to paint to on it with the
same stuff except it was faster to do but when you get to the top you
have to be really careful because it is really sharp at the top and
there was a flower that we had to do which was even harder.

Winter at Koputaroa!

WOW!! What a treat! Snow at Koputaroa School. The children have had fun all day - no need for any sports gear today...