Solar System Collage Project

We are learning about Space this term. 

We have started creating large planets and the sun as a way of sharing our learning. Have a look at the beginning of our sun. Georgia shares their task.

We would love any spare coloured paper you may have to add to our collages.

Tiritiri Assembly

The Tiritiri team shared our learning at assembly on Thursday. Our topic was Peace week.

We sang a peace song and shared a poem.

We also shared our Winter art. Well done Rosalie and Nathan for talking to such a large audience. You can watch it here! 

Winter Landscapes

Our first week back at school and we have been talking about winter. We thought of amazing winter words to use in our writing and we have done some Winter Landscapes to illustrate our writing.

We used white crayon on light yellow paper and drew a landscape scene with hills, trees and clouds.

Next we covered our picture with dye. We started with a zigzag of purple.

              

Then we covered the whole page with blue dye. It mixed with the purple and made it look like a chilly winter's day.

We turned our picture over a ndwiped the back of it to get off the excess dye. We are putting our winter landscapes with our winter writing. We are very proud of our work. 

Todd, Jayden and Cameron even got to share their writing with Mrs Sandifer. They did a great job of thinking about their next word and writing the first letter! Great writing boys.

Matariki Stars

Today was the start of Matariki, the Maori New Year. We listened to the story of Matariki and then made some salt painted stars.

First we drew about the star stencil with chalk.

We squeezed PVA glue over our chalk lines and covered the glue with salt. We tipped off the salt that didn't stick,

 

In our Fine Motor session with Mrs Buchanan, we had been colouring and cutting stars. We added these to our picture.

Next we used water colour paints and salt to colour our stars. We had to use heaps of water and the salt sucked up the watery paint. We love watching it spread.

Our finished stars look amazing!

Dinosaur Silhouette Art

We have been learning about silhouette's with Mrs Tolsma. Today we created a piece of art to share our learning about dinosaurs. 

First we used water colour paints to create a sunset background scene. We mixed the colours a bit. We could choose bright colours by using a little bit of water, or use lots of water to make lighter colours.

Next we drew dinosaur shapes onto black paper. We needed to think about the body parts of dinosaurs. We cut them out carefully. 

Our next step was to glue our dinosaurs silhouettes onto our sunset background.

Finally we added leaves to the border.

They look incredible all hanging up. We are so proud of our Dinosaur Silhouette art!

Fossils

Nath Loft used to work at a dinosaur provincial park in Canada. She shared her fossils with us today. We got to hold and feel them. They are about 72 million years old!! 

We were amazed that they were so heavy. The back pieces had sand and stuff go into it and made it heavy and stone. 

We saw a dinosaur tooth. Brodie thought it was from a meat eating dinosaur because it looked sharp. Holly remembered it was a crocodile tooth. 

Owen is holding a piece of turtle shell from a turtle that was alive at the same time as the dinosaurs. 

"Rosalie said "The plant eater tooth was very cute because it was very little. "

Koji said "the shell was smooth and flat." It is called ammonite. 

We also played paleontologists and sorted pictures into groups of fossils and dinosaurs. 

We are Paleontologists!!

Today we became paleontologists. We excavated a dinosaur from its egg using special tools. 

This is what our eggs looked like before we started. 

"We were trying to find dinosaur bones and also we were trying to be a paleontologist." Said Holly. 

"We scratched the egg and we found a dinosaur." Said Loren

We took over the outdoor inquiry space. We scratched and dug at our eggs. 

Our dinosaur fossils slowly emerged. 

As we worked we found feet, tails, scales and heads. We had to be careful not to damage the dinosaur inside. 

We loved being paleontologists. 

"There was a fossil in the egg too." said Koji. 

When our dinosaur was out of the egg, we saw the fossil marks it had left behind. 

"It was fun and dusty scraping the egg." Said Rosalie. 

We made a wonderful mess and had an amazing time. We will get to bring our dinosaurs and fossils home to share with our families soon.