Sketching week 5

We have learnt so much about sketching this term.  The children have been making a variety of marks with their pencils and practicing using light and dark lines.

Today we observed a bird and broke it down into shapes.  Step by step the children joined basic shapes using very light sketchy lines. Slowly the added detail and shading.

The Tawa children were delighted with their final pieces.  So was I!

Term 1

What a great start to the year. We have 10 awesome children who are all enthusiastic and so keen to learn. We have begun the year concentrating on belonging.  Today we read about Elmer the elephant and learnt how it's great to be different.  We thought of many ways we are all different and unique.  

We then looked at Elmer's patterns and tried to sponge paint our own Elmer's.

The children had great fun today dressing up into spooky clothes for Friday the 13 th.  Some children were so spooky I didn't even recognise them!

Term 4 week 3

What an exciting start to the term with 3 new children in Tawa class. Madison has joined us from Parkview School and Trelise and Arthur have turned 5.  We are eagerly watching our tadpoles waiting for them to grow some legs.  We have many questions we want answers to so have to observe them closely in find out our answers.  Our potatoes plants are growing beautifully and we have planted sunflowers and beans as part of our life cycles unit.

We are studying Eric Carle for art and have been creating the Grouchy Ladybug.

For PE we have been practicing athletics, what wonderful athletes we have in our class!

Our creations

After a term of exploring different parts of the world we put all our knowledge and inquiring minds together to create models of what we've studied.

The children have been busy all week designing, building and creating a corner that reflects our learning.

We have had a fun filled last week of term with lots of collaboration and team work.

The children love to lie and read under the drooping vines of the amazon and gaze amongst the crazy deep sea creatures......

Life Education

Harold the Giraffe came to visit Broomfield Schol this week.

Tawa learnt about our  bodies. We learnt that we breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide.  We saw that the oxygen goes into our lungs then into the blood and gives us energy.  We also learnt we breath out carbon dioxide and the plants use it.  

Tawa learnt about smog and smoke and how they are not good for our lungs.

We loved seeing Harrold and hearing his special messages.

Deep sea explorers

Deep sea exploration.

This week Tawa explored the deep dark ocean. After reading Tiddler and watching a you tube clip we pretended to dive deep down in a submersible and explore. We drew what we saw and brainstormed what  we'd like to explore next.