Cutting Plastic Bags to Make Plarn Balls

Cutting the plastic bags was just the beginning of our sculpture making adventure.  Each shopping bag had to be carefully folded and cut in a particular way. We had soooo many plastic bags we can't believe we used them ALL!

Dexton (top left) Cece and Viliami (top right)
Moses (left) working tirelessly on the first step to making our sculpture

Daiyaan 

and Uzhair 

Cutting 

Kings

Tait and Haleina working hard

A Team: Arran and Andreas                                                      Dexton the Star             

Ariyan and Zaafiya busy at work

Sketching Sculpture Ideas in the Living Classroom

Superb Sketching in the Scorching Sun 

At a hot hot day we drink our milk. I was doing Tuhituhi and sketching the fence at the living classroom. Then we lined up to go back to class.

Story by Arran

TEEN NUMBER FUN!

Teen Numbers are ten plus more!!

We had a blast creating paper chains to help us see that teen numbers all have ten plus more.  

Come into A1 to see our teen chains on display. 

11 is 10 plus 1 more  
12 is 10 plus 2 more  
13 is 10 plus 3 more
14 is 10 plus 4 more  
15 is 10 plus 5 more
16 is 10 plus 6 more
17 is 10 plus 7 more  
18 is 10 plus 8 more  
19 is 10 plus 9 more

New Zealand National Anthem in Sign Language - Auditions to be held week 5

Thank you to all those who showed interest in leading our national anthem in New Zealand Sign Language during assembly.  Please practice as often as possible before auditions which will be held Wednesday the 11th of March in A1. One last optional practice will be held on Tuesday the 10th of March in A1 please watch the notices for further details.

 

Remember to listen to the words that go along for each sign, go slowly, and move opposite to the video. 

Good luck!!!

 
Alphabet Sign from East School on Vimeo.

Watch this video to learn the sign language for each letter of the alphabet.

A big thanks to those who have sent plastic bags into A1!!! 

We have started to cut our plastic bags in preparation for making plarn! We have a lot of work to do so stay tuned.

 

We are making sculptures this term and we will be spending time outside in our living classroom sketching parts of the fence and railings.  It is very important that our sketching in the living classroom are done correctly so we spent some time outside practicing how to sketch an item we are looking at. We were careful to add as much detail we could and make our sketches look like the item we were looking at.