LI - We are learning to look after our environment by adopting a koha garden
We have been very lucky to have Mrs Robertson, the gardening guru, with us this year. We have been learning how to weed and water the garden. We also learnt how to grow vegetables from our koha garden. We grew many kinds of vegetables - kale, spinach, strawberries, tomatoes, potatoes, cabbage and more! We made kale chips and spinach dips and tried some of our vegetables fresh!
As part of our Under the Sea inquiry, we explored the affects of pollution on sea creatures. Freddy the Fish was a happy fish swimming through the clean water. He noticed that the ocean was starting to change, the water was getting warmer and there were more obstacles in his way. Freddy swam through... soil from erosion, fertilisers, run off, salt, acid rain, oil from cars and rusty metal. Freddy was not well. We realised that he won't survive long in the sea with all these pollutants contaminating our oceans.
We are learning to enjoy the library Room 8 love going to the library to get books out every Monday morning. We are good at keeping quiet, reading quietly and putting books away correctly. Shhh... quiet in the library!
Room 8 has been working on their self portraits this term. We started off by sketching ourselves without any direction. We then drew ourselves with direction from the teacher to ensure all our facial features were in the right place. After we were happy with our entire sketch, we outlined in vivid and coloured using water soluble pastels. The pastels turned into paint after water was added. We chose a pair of sunglasses to wear in our portraits. I can draw all the facial features in the correct place. Our work looks beautiful!
WALT identify the author and the illustrator in the text.
Room 4 has been using all of our reading skills this year, ready for Year 2. Every week we have a new 'test' about different parts of the book. We have been searching for full stops, exclamation marks, question marks and commas. This week we are focusing on finding the author and the illustrator. We all had a turn to come up and point to where the illustrators name is. Miss Donnell tried to trick some of us and changed the pages!
'I know the illustrator is the person who draws the pictures for the story.'
We looked in our writing books at the first piece of writing we did this year and the most recent piece of writing. We talked about what had changed in our writing, what we have learnt so far and are excited to learn next year in Year 2.
Something I have learnt in writing this year is how to use full stops.
Something I am proud of in writing this year is adding more detail to my story.
Our art focus over Term 2 and 3 has been creating a piece of art we can wear. Miss Donnell introduced us to a song in The Little Mermaid called 'Under the Sea' which was the focus of our art work.
We created our artwork by sketching sea animals in our books and tracing them onto laminated sheets. We coloured them in and created patterns using vivids. Miss Donnell glued them on to tutus and t-shirts for us to wear.
Braelee was chosen to visit Mrs Plowright and share afternoon tea with her while showing her some work. Braelee chose to take her storywriting book and share some of the wonderful stories she has written in Room 4 this year. Ka pai Braelee!