On line classroom

We hope you are all keeping safe and well. Our online classroom is humming along. This week we have been doing our reading groups and having whole class hangouts, so we can catch up. To end the term we are going to have a fun Kahoot together.

Some of us are completing our tessellation art work. This is an image of one of the completed works. Olivia changed her shape into a dog. The class was most impressed with her effort. We can't wait to try rotational symmetry but will use a smaller template and piece of paper because this size took a lot of colouring.

We challenge our Tuhi Atu Tuhi Mai classes to come up with their own tessellation art.

Hanging Out

Today we had our first Hangout with our wonderful Cybersmart teacher Mrs M. She had cold and could not visit us in class. Mrs M sent us a link in our Gmail. That link took us into the meeting. We all had to keep our microphones off and our camera on. Mrs M could show us her screen. We could see where she wanted us to go. The chat was on so we could type any questions for Mrs M. Our headphones are on so we could hear Mrs M without it being too loud.

Science Roadshow

Our Year 5's were lucky to be able to attend the Science Roadshow. The show focussed on air pressure. One of the activities required our teacher to get into a bag and the air was removed to create a vacuum. She found it really hard to wiggle her fingers.

Around the room were lots of cool experiments related to how our bodies worked, friction, forces of nature, physics and chemistry. Have you ever been to a Science Roadshow? If so what did you like about it.

Tessellation Art

We are making art based on the work of M C Escher. We used this You Tube video tutorial to get us started. We can't wait to see the results. It has been fun learning about how we can integrate maths and art. We hope you will use this video to create your own art work.

Welcome to the new school year

Welcome back to school. We have some of our lovely learners back from 2019 and new group of learners. We are looking forward to having lots of fun and learning lots of new knowledge and skills along the way. We hope you continue to follow our blog in 2020 and we look forward to lots of new viewers so feel free to recommend our blog to others. Our year has start with a round of assessments but this is now largely completed and we are looking forward to more enjoyable tasks.

Recycled Art

Piwakawaka has been creating artworks from junk, nothing could be bought. It took us a long time to complete our creations and a few groups were challenged with construction. After we had finished we held an art exhibition for our friends and family. This is the slide show we presented at assembly.

Paper Storage

We have had a new paper storage unit made for the class. We needed it to store the art paper tidily. Jack S painted it for us. We chose the colours because they were already in our room and they looked really good together. Jack taped the areas that needed to painted different colours. He did an amazing job using a roller.