Watercolour Madness!

We tried a new medium today - watercolour! We used watercolour paints and watercolour pencils. We also got to spray our art to make it run - check out what the colours do in the timelapse at the end of the video.

Caption This!

We created spring paintings using paint and then we wrote captions. Look at our growth mindsets at writing time.

Quarter Pizza (Caught A Pizza!)

As part of our learning in fractions we embraced our inner chefs and created pizzas. We had to put toppings onto quarters. Miss Eve wondered why there were a lot of mushrooms left over. 😎 it was fun and we wish they were edible. Ask us if we can explain the fraction that we explored today. 

From the Lions:

"My pizza had mushrooms, cheese, bacon and capsicums. It was (cut in) quarters." - Chase 

"My pizza had a quarter mushrooms and I put lots of cheese and green stuff and mushrooms on my pizza." - Tom

"I like learning about pizzas." - Thomas

"I love quarters. I think I'm never going to stop doing them." - Hunter T

"I like to learn about quarters. 2 quarters is the same as a half." - Daisy

"I like quarters. They make one whole." - Caeleigh

"I like learning and I like learning about pizzas." - Mason

"I like learning about pizzas, it is fun!" - Tessa

A Hovering Visitor

We were so lucky to have a visit from a helicopter! Mrs Clarke's husband Shaun is a helicopter pilot and Shelly is a paramedic. They work together to help hurt people in the Wakatipu. It was so exciting to wait for the chopper to land on our school field. We use experiences like this to inspire us in writing time. 

Children's responses:

Olivia: It was noisy. Helicopters start with 'h' Miss Eve. (It's our sound of the day!)

William: It was cool going inside it and I liked the propellers.

Elsie: I thought it was weird that they didn't have a boot in the back of the helicopter because when I saw my first helicopter they had a boot where they put all their stuff. 

Thomas: It has a spinning thing on the back and on the top. On the top it had a lot of things. The rescue helicopter comes when you need it. 

Tim: I liked going through the helicopter. When I went up the steps and when I went down the steps myself.