Angels by the Room 17 Angels

Angels on PhotoPeach

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Phoofed Out Fairy Fabricators

We have had a busy day on the production line today! Thank you to Tracy for all her help and encouragement.

By lunchtime we'd painted all the bodies and shoes.

By home time MOST fairies had their skirts on.
Tau kē koutou!

Farewell Ms Neale

 Today was Ms Neale's last day in Room 17. We have loved having her with us.

 We wrote a poem using hyperbole based on the poem, As I Walked Out One Evening by W.H.Auden.

Thank you for being a great teacher in Room 17. 

We will miss you.

Fair Soundscape

You all worked hard with Ms Neale to create this soundscape of a fair and the bunting that goes with it.

This time in two weeks the fair will nearly be here!

Next week we begin the production of our fairies.

Fish Fun

You each created a fish (or other water creature) using collage and used water colours to make a scene to present your fish on. These are up on the wall in Room 17. Before they went up on the wall Ms Neale helped you all use the app Puppet Pals to make a short movie. I have compressed these movies into three compilation tapes.


Next time we use this app we'll write scripts and plan the action too. It is a lot of fun.

New Art Displays

We've freshened up the displays in our room. Art that has been waiting for its turn to impress is now up and glowing.

Happy Mothers' Day

Mothers' Day Fairies
Unfortunately some children were working with Mrs Hunter when we took the photos - it's pretty hard to be secret squirrels!

I hope you've got your fingers crossed for fine weather for tomorrow!! Orana Park here we come!

Arts Interchange

We are having our turn working with the clever Ms Emeleus at the moment. She is an amazing singing teacher and the sound she teaches and encourages you all to make is beautiful. This clip is just a snippet of you singing a warm up song. I love the way you can also see some of the community quilt hanging on the walls around you.

Just a Taster

The quality of this clip isn't very good but it is just to whet your families' appetites enough so they come in and have a look at the real things.

Community Quilt

Thanks to Ms Douglas for making the creative quilt squares with us! You will be able to see the real things when they go on display with all the other children's work, in the hall.

Buddy Class Learning

On Friday we invited our buddy class, Room 23, to come and do some observational drawing with us. We were drawing lemons and tangelos that had been cut in half.

Amazing ABC

Today Midori brought along her family's fabulous ABC book. We all love this book, it has very clever paper engineering and design ideas in it.  Here's a video of the book.
I also discovered that the author and creator of the book won a prize named after another author who created 3D books a long time ago here is an article about that.

March Madness

Today we had to draw pictures of ourselves looking awful. It was really strange and challenging to do. We used mirrors, photo booth on the computers and screen shots to help us see what we look like when we're moaning, yelling, seething and all sorts of other unpleasant things. We used these awful pictures to make this fabulous book.  

Fabulous Fuchsias

I went into the gardens with my mum and dad on Friday evening and I saw a banner waving in the breeze. It reminded me of the fabulous fuchsias you had all drawn that morning. Observational drawing helps us to see, notice, think and wonder.