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.

Masks

Whaea Kat's sister Bronwyn sewed some material masks for the students in our room. 

We now have enough for everyone in the class to have one if they would like one.  

We were allowed to draw designs on them.

Thanks Bronwyn!

Before we got to draw designs on the masks.

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.

Being back at Kura and learning about the Toolkit

We have had two days at kura getting to know one another, getting used to rules and routines and remembering to wear our masks in the classroom. 

Before school we are able to draw, build with lego, play games on the courts or inside, read, talk to our friends, use the juggling balls among other things and just generally chill out before the day starts.

Drawing and sketching.

Checking out the lego.

Building with the magnets.

Basketball is always fun.

We have been learning about the Hamilton East School Toolkit.

In groups we talked about what each one of these looks like to us and discussed how important the toolkit is. We will be continuing to revisit the toolkit on a daily basis over the year.