Trip to Te Tuhi

Trip to Te Tuhi - 7/9/17
What a great trip we had today.  We met Salome and she took us to the art room.  The children got aprons on and they were ready to work.
Salome talked about symbols and we looked at some Polynesian tapa cloths.  The children talked about the patterns that they noticed.
The lesson today was focused on creating our own artwork inspired by Polynesian tapa.  Our objective was to use colour, shape and line in our drawings with a range of art materials to help tell our stories.
The children crunched up their paper and then flattened it on the table.  They used a brown crayon to shade it and it looked like a real tapa cloth.  Then they put brown dye over it.  Using a dark pencil they designed four boxes and drew pictures related to their family, culture, home and what they like doing.  Then they went over their frames with crayon and dye.
Then Salome showed us around the gallery and we enjoyed looking at all the artwork.  After that we created a range of Polynesian patterns before we boarded the bus.
What a busy day we had.
Enjoy looking at all the pictures:

Firefighter Matt's Visit to Point View School

Firefighter Matt's Visit to Point View School
Firefighter Matt talked to us about being firewire.  He told the children that smoke burns in a house and if this happens it is important for us to close the door, get down, get low and get out fast and then go outside to our safe meeting place.  Our parents will call 111.   A really good safe meeting place is our letterbox.  He told us that it is very important to have an escape plan.
Firefighter Matt talked about smoke alarms and showed us some different types.  He said that we must have a smoke alarm in every bedroom, the living room and the hallway.  It is important for our family to test the smoke alarms as they might need new batteries.
Firefighter Matt read us a story about Effie who needed to get down, get low and get out fast from her bedroom.
Enjoy looking at the photos:

Te Reo Maori

Te Reo Maori
We are very lucky in Room 4 as each week for 30 minutes we are having Maori lessons .  We are enjoying it so much and we can't wait for next week to learn more.  Whaea Paddy is working with us.
Enjoy looking at the photos:

We went over what we discussed last week and the children remembered it so well.

Then we talked about where we come from and the children told us in Maori.  We are learning so much.

This session we went over the words in Maori for our feelings.

Then we said, "Kia Ora", which means hello, hi or thank you.

We went over the Maori alphabet again.

The children said the numbers in Maori.

We then looked at things in our classroom and said them in Maori.  We are having such a great time learning Maori.