Portraits

At Hamilton East School every class learns about sketching. We understand about whispering, talking and shouting pencils, which is about how much pressure we put on the lead of our pencil. We learn how to use different techniques for shading. 

This year all senior students are wearing masks so we often do not get to see what our classmates look like until we are outside. We have been sketching ourselves with and without our masks. A lot of care has been taken to produce quality work.

 

Whiteboard Portraits

We have been looking at self portraits. We watched this video and then had fun making our own portraits using a whiteboard. 

We had some issues with the pens not always working or rubbing out what we had already drawn. It was fun drawing in a different way using different media.

Here are some of our portraits below.

You should watch the video and have a go too. It's lots of fun.

Building Shapes

One of our math tasks this week was to work together to make shapes using skipping ropes. We weren't allowed to let the skipping rope go. It was quite easy to make a rectangle but making a square have the exact same length sides was tricky. So was making a 5 pronged star. We had to communicate with our group to make decisions.

Baby Hedgehog

Lots of students came inside all excited saying that they had found a baby hedgehog by the big mural at the end of the basketball court. The little hedgehog was fascinating to watch, to see it move, snuffle and curl up into a ball. We weren't sure why it would be awake during the day as hedgehogs are nocturnal, maybe it was sick. It got moved to the other side of the metal fence but later in the day it had moved itself back into a nice hole in the wood to have a sleep.

Our class had lots of discussions about what it looked like as well as lots of quick looks outside to check no one was touching it.

Look how cute the baby hedgehog looks curled up in the leaves.

We also did some writing about it using the chrome books.

The Day the Crayons Quit

Today the story for you to listen to is:

The Day the Crayons Quit

Here are some tasks to do:

Write a new letter from one of the other crayons to Duncan. Illustrate the letter with drawings only using that coloured crayon.

Yellow and Orange crayons have an argument about the colour of the sun. What colour is the sun? How can you prove your answer?

Write Duncan's replies to the crayons' letters.

Find out about colour. What is it? Why do we see things in different colours?

Write a story about a magic, multi-coloured crayon. What might happen to the person that uses it?

Design a box or packet or pencil case to keep your crayons in. Use lots of colour.

Find the synonyms for different colours (eg red = crimson, rose, cherry etc). Make a colour thesaurus that you can refer to in your own writing.

Build something out of crayons. Take a photo of it.

Create a poster that teaches children about primary, secondary and tertiary colours.

Use paint to create many different shades of the same colour.

Design a new wrapper for the peach crayon.

Have fun! Send me photos of your creations to put on the blog.

Wiki Rima

 Kia ora koutou, 

This week is a little different. You will do online learning Monday, Tuesday and Friday, which you can find on here and in your google drive. Check daily for new tasks.

If your last name starts with an A-L you will come to school on Wednesday.

If your last name starts with M-Z you will come to school on Thursday.

You will need to wear a mask in the classroom.                                  

Today is Pānui - a reading task.

The Bomb - author Sacha Cotter

Listen and watch the video.

I love this story, who doesn't love swimming, rope swings into the river and for some of you bombs at Wellington Street beach or off the bridge at Raglan.

Here are some tasks to do:

Write a moment in time when you went swimming, or did a manu, or went down a waterslide. Use all your senses to describe your experience.

Design and plan the perfect bomb. Maybe you could test it using a lego person?

Write a list of instructions for the perfect bomb or manu.

Build a prototype of a platform or structure that could be used to jump off into the water. Use whatever materials you have or draw it on google drawing.

Make something that you could use in the water, either for the river, a pool or the sea. Be creative.

Have fun! Send me photos of your creations to put on the blog.

Mahi Term 4 Week 4

Kia ora koutou, 

Wow, the term is flying by and we are already in week four of the term. Thank you to all the students working hard on their Education Perfect tasks and the George's Marvellous Medicine activities. Please keep sending me the work you have done so I can share it on our blog. 

Here is a selection of activities for this week in the slideshow.

Make sure you are getting outside, running around, going for a bike ride, a scooter or a skate on your skateboard. 

Also if anyone is keen to have a zoom call, email me to tell me what you would like to talk about.

George's Marvellous Medicine Part 3

Kia ora koutou, 

This is that last 5 chapters of the book. I hope you have enjoyed listening to it and had fun trying out some of the tasks. 

Mahi from George's Marvellous Medicine

Here is a selection of mahi from George's Marvellous Medicine. Ka pai. Keep sharing your mahi with me via your drive, email or text.

Big pot bubbling on the stove  & a shopping list- Leni

Would large animals be good or bad? What are the good points and the bad points for this? - Jake

Bigger pieces of meats and other foods.	They might step on you.
Don’t need many animals.	They will have big poops.
Good to try new things.	Where would they sleep?
They could be friendly	How would we get the food
What if some animals couldn’t grow	What would they eat?

Mahi - Vienna-Lee