Mosaic Fish

Today we are learning about how to mosaic.  We are using pages from magazines and sorting them into colours.  Then we rip our chosen colours up into little pieces and paste it onto our fish to show the shape of the fish and the patterns.

Occupational Therapist

Emma, an occupational therapist, came into our class to talk to us about her job.  She helps people with their motor skills and movement, and she uses games to help them.  We were able to play some of these games and we learnt that to be successful, we had to sometimes work as a team.  We tried hard to be encouraging, to use only kind words, and to enjoy ourselves even if we din't win.  

Making Honey

During writing, we were learning how to write an explanation.  We learnt about how bees make honey.  After we had done lots of reading about the process, we then made animations to show what happens. Using our animations to help us, we then wrote our explanation about how honey is made.  We were lucky, because then Mr. Seaman brought in some pieces of his bee hives that he has at his house.  Mrs. Henare dressed up as a beekeeper and gave us all a surprise!

Sunflowers

For art, we were learning how to blend paint.  We painted some beautiful sunflowers.  Our teacher reckons they are so good, that sometimes she just sites there and stares at them!