Tuesday 29 October 2013

Swimming

Last week Room 9 got to start their first lot of swimming lessons.


A lot of us have been learning about water confidence and are really starting to get used to splashing around in the water.


First we had to enter the pool safely

Judah entering the pool with the help of Miss Savidan

Room 9 entering the pool down the ladder and straight into the Monkey Crawl

Then we did a monkey crawl around the edge of the pool.

Judah and Georgia doing the Monkey Crawl

Estelle having lots of fun doing the Monkey Crawl

Ahmed being a cheeky monkey :)

What happened to Korey saying he was scared of the water??? He is having a blast!!

Ka is really enjoying being a monkey!


Then we blew some bubbles!!!

Georgia and Dakota, so confident in the water blowing bubbles!

Lucia is also showing she is not afraid to get wet!







We had some wonderful senior helpers making sure we were safe in the water.

Well done Taine you did so well to get into the water!


All and all we had a lovely week swimming and gaining more confidence in the pool. We cannot wait to get back into the pool in week 7!

Stay tuned for more swimming pictures to come!





Wednesday 14 August 2013

Art with Whaea Dagmar

Term 3, Week 3.......


This week and last week Room 9 has been lucky enough to work with Room 1 and Whaea Dagmar on some EXCITING self portraits!

As we are learning about 'change' this term we have started to create self portraits that are inspired by the late 'Pablo Picasso'. Picasso is famous for cubism and using a range of shapes and objects in his illustrations.










First Whaea Dagmar read us a story about emotions.


Then Room 9 started off their portraits by drawing their face, then adding detail e.g. eyes, mouth, nose etc.

Drawing self portraits!


We then started to look at Picasso's work and talked about what shapes he uses in his portraits.

Whaea Dagmar telling Room 9 and Room 1 about Picasso
We then got to use 5 different shapes to draw parts of our face.

Tukia, Zion, Judah, Ray, Georgia and Estelle drawing on their shapes

Lucia creating her masterpiece

Ahmed concentrating very hard

Netane deciding what to put on his shapes

Ray working hard on his self portrait
Look at Room 9's fantastic artists!



Estelle making lines and patterns on her portrait

We stuck the shapes onto our page and then drew lines and patterns in our oval shape.


Finally Whaea Dagmar blew up our pictures and we used a range of pastels to colour in our masterpieces.

Georgia using lots of bright colours to colour in her lines and shapes

Sunia is having lots of fun with his creation!
Thank you Whaea Dagmar for helping us with our amazing pieces of artwork, we really enjoyed having you in our class and hope to see you soon!