Lockdown Part two

Here is some of our work from the second New Zealand wide lockdown.

Here is an object from Ms Finikin’s house. What could it be used for?

Here are Alex’s ideas.

  1. It could be used for hammering?.
  2. Honey stuff
  3. Battering
  4. Put sausages in the top thing like a: (deli meat)
  5. Tying toilet paper

One of the groups got an adult to draw a picture for them. They then had to look at the picture, remember it, and draw it.

Here are the pictures from Caidyn’s bubble.

The younger children are learning to write “Look at ……”

By Aria

By Leo

By Lausi’i

The younger children also worked on writing “Here is….”

By Aria

We drew baby bees.

We drew kiwi.

By Tanu

By Sebastian

By Louis

 

We drew mice.

We drew cats.

By Leo

We drew Hairy Maclary

By Antonella

We drew dinosaurs.


Caidyn shared this one that he did with his Kete.

We read Number One by Joy Cowley. We drew ghosts like Jill McDonald.

We read No, David! We drew pictures of him.

By Antonella

By Nehan

 

Leo did a picture for our classroom wall based on David at School.
This is what Ms Finikin says to the five-year-olds a lot.

 

One group did origami butterflies.
Here are Alex’s butterflies.

Here is Alex’s cup.

Alex drew ‘Winnie-the-Poop’

 

Here is a pirate ship.

 

Kareem-Lamarr drew his family as superheroes.

 

Leo wrote about what he likes.

 

The older ESOL group is working on The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes.

We looked at how speed can be shown with speed lines.

We attempted our own drawings of speed.

By Tanu

By Emily

 

Here is Emily’s picture of the highwayman.

Here is Tanu’s picture of Tim, the ostler.

Here is Kian’s picture.

Here is Emily’s picture.

He did not come in the dawning.

By Kian

By Emily

He did not come at noon.

By Kian

By Emily

By Tanu

 

Copy this shape and complete it. It is not a cat.

 

By Alex D

We then asked questions where the answer was what we drew.

1/ Who is that yellow Pokémon with the red cheeks? Pikachu

2/ Who is Ash’s Pokémon? Pikachu

3/ Who can do electricity? Pikachu

4/ Who has a cute nose? Pikachu

5/ Who can say ‘Pika pika’? Pikachu

 

Alex then answered what D could be, if not a capital d.

My 5 things about the D: 

 

  1.  Can be a tunnel / cave if flipped over 
  2. Happy Mouth if flipped 
  3. Half a ladybug 
  4. Cup 
  5. Bag 
  6. Bouncy Castle 
  7. Flipped over Tongue 
  8. Leg

 

We created teddies and monsters to put in our windows at home.

Here are our stories from our winter holidays. We were in Week 4 of the term when we went in to Lockdown and Week 7 when we came out. This time was not so long as 2020, but we will still be pleased to see our friends kanohi ki te kanohi.