Thursday 24 March 2016

The taste of Easter

If you are going to resist the urge to eat chocolate this Easter - read these wonderful samples of writing. You'll feel like you've tasted something yummo after reading these!
 Logan wrote . . .
The delicious treat gets placed in front of me. It smells too good for me to eat. It is an oval. It is really easy to chew. It is smooth inside the egg. It was hollow. I could not stop myself from eating it.
  Max wrote . . .
The delicious treat gets placed in front of me. I peeled it open. I feel it slowly melting in my mouth. It was all I was waiting for. Then it was in the belly of the beast.
  Xavier wrote . . .
 The delicious round treat gets placed in front of me. It is soooo hard to resist but Mrs Keach says we can't eat them yet. The egg smells soooo good, a chocolatey flavoured smell. I can't wait to eat it. I can imagine unwrapping it and savouring every bite. 
It is starting to change colour as I start to unwrap it. It is hollow. I put it to my mouth and lick, everyone else did it to. It felt smooth. My teeth crunch. I chew it. Chew, chew, mmm, yum, finally what I have been waiting for... I take the whole wrapper off and... crunch, crunch, nom nom nom. Now I feel disappointed that it's gone. HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!!!     
Nicole wrote . . .
 The delicious treat gets placed in front of me. It smells like melted chocolate hardened into it's shape. It feels hard but with tiny little lumps. It looks purple on the outside but on the inside I know it is chocolate. It's finally time to take the coloured wrapping off. The colour starts to change as I peel the wrapper off. Wow, it felt so smooth in my hand and it looks so delicious. I give it a lick and it tastes like softened chocolate. Then I take my first bite, milky warm chocolate. I start to eat more. Inside the hollow area I get a surprise of little bits inside. I am slowly demolishing it in my mouth. It gets smaller and smaller . . . all gone!

News Reporting - Week 8

This week Cassie and Cooper were our news reporters. They chose to cover a national story relating to our topic Native New Zealand.


Friday 18 March 2016

Soccer Skills with Greer

On Thursday the wonderful Greer, our Sport Activator, kicked us off on learning the important skills of playing soccer in preparation for the upcoming Year 3 and 4 tournament. Here is the action from our session!

Saturday 12 March 2016

Book Making with the 3 sisters, Thelma, Irene and Mary!

On our final day with our visiting artists we made books - first screen printing our covers, then covering the back and insides, then finishing with binding our books - which took some sewing skills! 
We also had an opportunity to make a piece of flax paper each - a big thank you to Cassie with her help in leading this.
They will be books to treasure!!!
We will post the fabulous finished products next week.

Thursday 10 March 2016

Day 2 of our Visiting Artists

Today we spent the day with Norman, our very talented visiting artist. We sketched, learnt about primary and secondary colours, then painted the Kaka Point Nuggets using water colours.








And our wonderful school even made the news!


 

Our finished masterpieces will be posted tomorrow!







Wednesday 9 March 2016

Stone Carving


Today we worked very hard on the art of stone carving! A big thank you to our art teacher for the day, Suzannne!