Mad-hatters Hat Making

For Queens Birthday we made hats and decorated them with crayons, glitter, and stickers.  

It was a fun day and everyone was able to express themselves with their own designs.

Below Kawsar will show you how to make a hat.

First, you fold a piece of paper in half

Next, you fold one side into the middle.

Then, fold the other side into the middle

Then fold the bottom of the paper on each side up and press
along the fold.

Next, add any decoration you want

Room 2 and Student-Teacher Miss Daf wearing their hats.

2D Shape Pictures

Room 2 has been learning about 2D shapes.

We joined our shapes together to make other shapes and objects.  We tried to use not only different shapes to make a picture but we also wanted to use different colours that we have learned about.

Aritra

Luna

Rayne

Mila

Millyrose

Kohen

Ali

Zace

Alex

Marshmallow and noodle structures

Structures

Our inquiry STEAM topic for term 3 is Structures.  

We have been reading two books relating to structures - The Three Little Pigs and The Three Billy Goats Gruff.  As a class we have been  discussing how to make a structure strong enough to not be blown over or to not collapse once it was made.  For this experiment we used marshmallows and pasta noodles.  While making our structures there was lots of talking to each other about how to go about using the marshmallows and noodles without it breaking when joining them together. 

Devinah holding up her structure.

Malama has designed a house shaped structure.

Melina and Malama discussing their structures.
Melina has made a square and Malama has made a pyramid
that can stand alone.

Marcel is trying to make a three story structure that can stand alone.  He is very proud that he made such a strong structure.

Aryah is proud she has a finished structure that can stand up.

Jeremiah's structure is the Sky Tower.  He used marshmallows as the feet
of the structure so it could stand alone.

Ahea is proud of his structure.

Cook Island Language Week

 Cook Island Language Week

Kia Orana

As part of our celebration of Cook Island Language Week we looked at different cultural pastimes.  As a class we chose to investigate the tradition of tivaivai.  Tivaivai is sewing colourful patterns,  usually using leaves and flowers on to material for use around the home, bedspreads, pillow cases and table clothes are some we looked at. 

 

Patterns

We have been learning about 

different types of patterns.  

There are colour, shapes and symmetrical patterns.

We drew butterflies and used different coloured and shape 

stickers to make the patterns on the butterfly symmetrical. 

Jeremiah wanted to use lots of shapes and join them together to make different shapes.
Donyal only wanted 3 shapes and colours for his butterfly.

Sweet-E used different sized circles to make her patterns.
Devinah lots of colours for her patterns.

Tanush used lots of stickers close together to make his pattern.
Ahea spaced his stickers far apart to make a pattern.

Micaela used the same colour stickers to make her pattern.
Melina used the same shapes but different colours to make her pattern.

Welcome Room 6