Year 2 green artwork with Eva, Emilie and Shayna

2017 Year 5/6 · Post

 Posting as Leonie Young    

These year 6 girls Eva, Emilie and Shayna did some artwork with the year twos that were sharing our classroom for school photos. The options they could choose from were paper snakes, paper lanterns and bookmarks. Shayna was running the paper snakes, Eva was running paper lanterns and Emilie was running the bookmarks.

All the year twos really enjoyed the activities and were very excited. The girls would love to run this (with or without the same activities) again with a different class (or the year twos again). This was a great experience for the girls running their own arts and craft activities. It was a was a great boost of leadership skills and confidence. It has made them realise that the simplest things in life can make someones day.

By Shayna, Emile and Eva

I Can Fly

This video was very successful coming 2nd in the Canterbury DigiAwards. It has now been reworked and entered into the NZ Made Awards. Good luck guys.

This movie is about a kid who is really smart but gets bullied. He loves superman and strives to be like him. He creates something to help him fly but it doesn’t work and he hurts himself. A person he helped comes to return a favour and they become friends. There are three points to this movie don’t bully, don’t let others hold you back and push to achieve your goals.

Devon

Lex

Cam L

Madi

Taya

Ollie r

Ewan

Tane

Kwadwo

The Portal

Blurb: Fran’s inventions haven’t always been successful. Will his latest invention be a disaster or a learning experience for both Fran and his friend Ollie? Join them as they go an adventure through humour and the animated world. 

Camera man: Luca and Joseph
Actors: Fran, Ollie and Quinn, who’s now a dog 
Editors: Fran and Ollie
Animations: by Fran
Title: The portal
How it relates to our learning: It shows how working together can solve tricky problems. During maths we collaborate and share our ideas. We collaborated when we created this movie. This movie could not be created if we didn’t work together.

Yarrs Flat Trip

On Tuesday the fifth of September syndicate three my year group went on a trip to Yarrs Flat. The classroom was filled with students that couldn't keep still. At nine thirty we jumped on the bus and zoomed down to Yarrs Flat. As soon as we got there the leaders introduced themselves and the other staff. Matt the leader got us to our first rotation Mr Newton’s group had invertebrate hunt.

Invertebrate hunt was led by Mike. When we arrived he showed us some of the bugs he caught in display trays. After that he showed us a weta, he let students hold and touch it if we were brave enough.We also got to go and hunt for bugs. using his nets one of us found scorpion Mike was probably impressed. We also found woodlice, spiders, slugs and snails

Then we had some morning tea and went on to the next activity. Our group's activity was aquatic discovery. Aquatic discovery was led by Bailey and Stacy. The first thing they showed us was the shuffle test, where you sway your net in the water from side to side then you kick your leg in front of the net after that you bring it out of the water and see what you have caught. We also had to look in trays for different types of creatures like the the blood worm,Cocka bullies and snails.

Then we had planting the main part of going to Yarrs Flat led by Lou. we planted flax, cabbage trees and ribbon wood. We used tools like spades and mallets we also used sheep dags, steaks, plastic covers and fertiliser pallets. First you had to dig a hole to place your plant inside and put the fertilizer pellet in. Then you berry the bottom half of the plant and pop the sheep dags over,  then you put up the plastic cover around the plant so no animal could kill the plant and then you are done ! Did you know that Syndicate three planted 450 trees !

Our last activity was wave barrier building led by Matt, we had to make a wave barrier that will stop the waves coming so on the other side of it there would be no waves and the water weed would grow again. We had to make it out of sticks and string. We made a design with heaps of little squares in the middle so the waves would stop. Then Matt tested out all the designs and lots of them including our teams worked.

                                                 By Ella M