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

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.

Room 3 Modules - Printmaking.

This was our first week with Modules and Room 3 children experienced print making with our trusty 'Yellow Express'.

The photos tell the story and show the activities. The results are amazing! What a bunch of clever kids!! (hehe).

The children cut out their templates and NAMED them. The first print was white, this is our background or base. After a day the children then cut out the centre square from the original template and printed this red as our frame.

Finally the children printed their koru shape black. WOW! Good work guys.

"I enjoyed rolling the ink," said Callum

"I liked spreading the ink on my koru," said Alec

"I enjoyed turning the press down," remarked Ruben

"We all enjoyed seeing our pictures in the end," commented Eden

"I enjoyed cutting out the koru, I had to remember to turn the paper to get a straight edge as I cut," noted Ashton

"Well done for such good listening and enthusiasm!" Cried Mrs Robinson