Student Led Monday Mashup

This week, the students led the learning for Monday Mashup. There was a great range of activities and our children really stepped up to become leaders. 

What activity would you have chosen?

 Football

 Cooking

 Graffiti art

 Water Colours

 Making animations

 Construction

 Dancing

 Paper sculptures

 Construction

 Making Playdough

 Scratch programming

 Paper Craft

 Turbo Touch

 Construction

 Construction

 Cooking

 Water colours

Comics

Marble maze

Today's collaboration challenge was to create a Marble Maze from old boxes. The children have been developing their skills in working together and seem to be getting better week by week. Lots of fun was had today!

Funtastic Climbing Frame

You have probably seen the new spider web climbing frame in the front area of the school. The students of Tawhirimatea had the opportunity to explore this funtastic new space this week!

From the top, the arrow towards the east can be easily seen with its koru accents. The children showed their amazing climbing skills in reaching the apex at the top.

      

Collaborative Raft Building

7/2/2019

On Monday we worked together to build rafts and test their floating ability. Each group had a Year4, Year 5 and Year 6 student. Students gather their own sticks, had 1m of string and a sail.
Their task was to work collaboratively to design a raft that stayed together and could float.
There was a variety of designs and sizes, with a variety of results!

Rainbow Art

This week we created a collective work of art. We took the theme of Tawhirimatea, the Atua of Wind and Weather, and created a rainbow artwork made up of our portraits.

We did not have long to draw and colour our portraits. We were allowed to use colour pencil and pastel with only one or two colours. If we wanted to add shade or outlines we needed to use different tones with the colour.

Here are some examples of our portraits.

First Day 2019

The students had a very relaxed but busy first day back at school. We started the day with a Mihi Whakatau to welcome our new families, then we had had our new Spider climbing frame opening. We then organised out totes tray, had a free swim, some children played Rob the Nest and finally had a 'Getting to know you" scavenger hunt.