The Hikers Big Day Out

 Wow! What an amazing day we all had on Wednesday.
It was our Hikers Junior School day out this week. We spent the day in town and visited the Margaret Mahey Playground and the Imagination Station. It was a fantastic experience to be there together as a school and the children had a fabulous time exploring, playing and encouraging each other.
Many children experienced something for the first time or tried something that they had been afraid to try before.Yavnit encouraged me to try the big silver slide. "Yes you can, Miss D!"he said. So I did!

After spending the morning at the Margaret Mahey playground our collaborative class walked down the road to visit the Imagination Station.
There was more than enough lego for everyone and the children were free to create and build from their imagination.
There was a lot of quiet sharing and working together.

On the way home we were all very tired after our big day out.
The bendy bus was very exciting to ride, however, most of us had spent all our energy on having a fantastic day!

Art Attack with Paint

Today in Team 2 we have been exploring different tools we can use for painting.
Some of the previous 'mediums' we have used are pastel and pencil. Now we are using paint.
First we talked about the types of paintings we could do and then Miss Clifford set up some voting stations so that we could vote for our favourite style of painting. Then we watched a slideshow of paintings that people and children had made using lots of different objects.
Next, we tried out these different objects to see what patterns they made and how useful they were for painting with.

Art Attack with Pastel

So far we have learnt about using pencil, where the features on our faces are placed and have practiced sketching and shading.
Now we are learning about pastels.

Some of the children from Ako Ngatahi came and showed us their Pop Art self-portraits in ink. We were very impressed by the focus and stages that they went through to create such detailed portraits.
We knew our self-portraits would be just as impressive if we took our time and showed excellence.

To create our self-portraits we coloured over printed photos of ourselves. We started by outlining the largest blocks of colour like our hair or skin. The we coloured it in. We added details and shadows to our face by blending in another colour. Finally, we chose a bright colour to fill in our background.

Art Atack with Pencil

To start of our Art unit we began by looking at ourselves.
We used pencil to sketch self-portraits by copying photos of ourselves.
Miss Clifford explained how symmetry could be used when drawing our features as each of our faces were symmetrical. We practiced sketching and drawing to get a better understanding of symmetry and spacial awareness.
Our next step was to sketch half of our face and match it up symmetrically to our photos.
Then we used shading to try and match the tone and shadows on our faces.

Showing excellence...

Showing excellence means trying our personal best.
Please come and check out some of our awesome work displayed each day in Team 2.

Our Handwriting Goals

Hello to a New Year! Hello to a New Term!

Welcome to all our wonderful new students and families in the forest and sky collaborative team. It hs wonderful to have you joining us this year.
We hope to be sharing lots of our lovely learning with you here this year.
If your child comes home asking you to check the class blog, it may mean that we have posted a new video or shared some of their learning here with you!

We are all already looking forward to getting some of our learning up here so hold your breath and see what come s next!