Sunnyhills Rooms 20 and 16 visit to Bairds Mainfreight Primary School Otara

On Thursday last week our class and Room 20 visited Room 8 BMP school in Otara to look at their Charles and Janine Williams inspired artwork.  We had a great time learning about how our big buddies created their art.   We got to see a powerpoint presentation and lots of pictures of their art work.

Room 20 and 16's Art Journey has begun and can't wait to see our finished art hopefully near the end of the term.

Whole School Assembly Friday 17 June

Todays' assembly is really special for us.  We finally get to perform our song to the whole school.

Last term we created a dance to Meaghan Trainor's "Better When I'm Dancing."  Samantha chose our song and we all created the different moves.

We were supposed to perform at the last whole school assembly but there was a power cut.

Whaea thinks we did really really well and she was very proud of us.

Whole School Assembly

Our penultimate assembly for term 2 is upon us.

Mrs Driver talked to us about the yellow lines on the road outside of the school, we must be safe!!

She also told us that we will be taking our learning reports home this afternoon.

Tino kapai Isabella for recieving this week's Principal Award certificate for excellent explaining her maths thinking in class well done.

Explaining How 1st July

This morning Mrs Driver came to Room 16 to see our Nga Manu paintings that are inspired by Janine and Charles Williams.  Andreas and Joshua explained all the steps we took to paint our manu.  We have worked on our art all term as part of our Eye on the World NZ artists.

Buddy Class Art Appreciation Rooms 20 & 16

Today Room 16 and 20 did an Art Appreciation Tour of each others rooms to get a feel of and look at each others Charles and Janine Williams inspired Nga Manu Artworks.

Both classes had tips on what to do if.... for each other.  Room 20 have already finished their painted backgrounds while Room 16 are nearly finished their birds.

We are all looking forward to seeing our finished piece of art.

Strike Performance 23 June 2016

We were very lucky to see the Strike Performance.

The instruments they played were the drums cowbell marimba Cook Island drums

Jimbo the flying Jimbo, Thomas the Tank, and Tim.

More to come later when we do our workshop.

Whole School Assembly Item Friday 17 June 2016 - Meaghan Trainor Better When I'm Dancing

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Whole School Assembly Friday 17 June

Another whole school assembly is upon us and it is our special time to shine in our special spot.

Auckland Art Gallery 2

In the studio we learnt about story telling.  We brainstormed words on journeys.  Then we experimented with ink and symbolism. 

Auckland Art Gallery Trip

Arriving at the Art Gallery.

We are waiting to go in.

Room 16 went into the Studio first.  We will be learning to  create a special piece of art work.

Our Enviro Tech Challenge

Today Room 16 read Weslandia by Paul Fleischman, with Mrs Daniel. We talked about the author's messages about sustainability, innovation and being true to yourself.

Next we broke into teams to take part in a tech challenge. Could we build a tower for Weslandia with 20 bamboo skewers, Blutak and 3 rubber bands?

Yes we could! It took lots of talking, problem solving and quite a few fails before BINGO success! Well done Leon, Jenny & Tiffany for creating the tallest tower.