Painting With Watercolours

Painting with Water colours.

I learnt that you can go over some dry paint with a different coloured paint. You can use a wet brush on wet paper and a dry brush on dry paper.  I am proud of my landscape because I used all of the information from my sketch.

Painting with water colours makes me happy, because I can do lots of effects with water colours.

I especially like the texture of dabbing with a giant brush to create really fine strokes to build up my picture.  

My sketch of Waihola Hill

My Practice  Paintings



By Elsie.

St clair sand dune loss!!

Tom and Wiremu have been reading an article abut st Clair's sand dune loss. Since the 24th of July 2015 the dunes have lost approximately 5 metres of sand. The sand sausages that were placed in the sand dunes have been dug up by erosion. The worry for the sand dunes are the spring king tides. They come when it is a new full moon at the same time the moon is at its closest to the earth.      

Writing an Explanation - Homework task

Following on from our discussion in class today, here is the outline of our explanation for our experiment.

Structure your writing to include the following information:

• the purpose of our experiment - We wanted to find out...(how the plains, like the Taieri plains were made/created/formed)
• how we did this - To do this we carried out an experiment using... 
• what we observed - We noticed that... (the murky/dirty/silty water began to clear...Layers of...)
• what we think - We think this happened because (the heavy particles sank quickly/rapidly and began to settle...)
• conclusions about our observations - Over time we think that...This links in with how the plains are created because...

Have a go writing your explanation! I look forward to seeing them tomorrow!

One Geology Kids

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One Geology

Kei na fiafia (fatele) - for ukulele jam

The History of Earth (HD - 720P)

Our Inquiry topic this term is 'Digging Up the Past'. In class we have been exploring the creation of our planet. We have been using the video below to help us learn & think about these big ideas. Watch the rest of the video at home. I am looking forward to hearing about what you have learnt! Remember to think about & discuss the new information - show you are thinking & making connections by asking questions. Write down any questions or wonderings you have and share them with us in class.

Max's Holiday Writing

This week for writing we have been focusing on creating writing that is interesting and engaging for our readers. A goal for our writing was to create a first sentence that 'hooks our readers in'. We have been making careful choices about what information to include in our writing, ensuring that the important details are included.

Here is Max's writing from this week. We would love it if you would read this writing and post a comment for Max. What makes this good writing? What is your favourite sentence or part of the writing?

At The Movies

The lights are slowly turning off. It is dark. The movie starts. We are starting to eat our popcorn and drink our Bubbles. The lollies were good. There was a part of the movie when a minion took all his clothes off except his underwear.

A villain got so angry she got her lava gun.She went to the castle! The door broke and it fell to the ground. She pointed the gun at the three minions and Bob gave the crown to the villain.Then the villain was the Queen. 

The villain had an acid grenade that can destroy anything.

By Max   23/7/15