Thursday, 8 November 2012

MADE Awards



Good luck to all the finalists in the MADE Awards tonight.

Fingers crossed for our year 4 group with their entry in the Year 4 -6 documentary section - topic Ancient Greece.


Wednesday, 7 November 2012

Skyping our Quad Buddies - Cambridge School in Melbourne

Today we skyped our Quad Buddies in Melbourne Australia.


  • there school is bigger than ours , 800 children, to our 560
  • its a lot warmer over in Melbourne
  • they have a special computer teacher as well as their own class teacher
  • both classes have class mascots 
  • there are 25 children in their class, we have 27
  • we thought it was quite funny that we were just finishing school and they still had 2 hours to go.
  • some class levels have an ipad or laptop per child and they get to take them home!!!!
  • They have more playgrounds than we do 
  • their school is 20 years old, ours is nearly 150! 

Thanks for skyping with us, it was fun. Hopefully we can do it again sometime.


 
 

Art Gallery

Here are the finished pieces of work.
Thank you to Emily for teaching us about Eileen Mayo and her various types of art work.



The finished product on PhotoPeach
Yesterday Emily, from the Christchurch Art Gallery, came out to work with us. We looked at Eileen Mayo art work and then we created our own versions. This is the process of our work.

 Art Gallery Visit- Eileen Mayo Pictures on PhotoPeach

Friday, 2 November 2012

Week 2 and 3 round up


This week
  • We went to Willowbank with our whole team? We looked at animals and did the Maori experience there
  • we did athletics
  • Today we had buddies
  • Today we wrote poems about animals we saw at Willowbank
  • Ad work - made adds about a Rob-tidier and a Jet Propelled Air Pack
  • Wrote to our quad blogging buddies
  • Did more on our Andy Warhol art work
  • Started reading a book in the "Magic Tree House " series
  • Had a school assembly outside
  • ..........
By Molly and Gemma