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.
- It could be used for hammering?.
- Honey stuff
- Battering
- Put sausages in the top thing like a: (deli meat)
- 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:
- Can be a tunnel / cave if flipped over
- Happy Mouth if flipped
- Half a ladybug
- Cup
- Bag
- Bouncy Castle
- Flipped over Tongue
- 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.