Art during Week 1 Term 3

Room 7, 8 and 9 have started the term off with some exploration around how to blend with oil pastels. We will be creating some different art works over the next two weeks to show our learning and progression. It is great way to start our new inquiry topic. Keep an eye out!

BLENDING COLOURS

End of term Jump Jam Competition

On the last day of term, KNS had a Jump Jam Competition.  

Each hub entered a group of children to participate and perform in front of the whole school.  

Akeake had two teams - Hub 7, 8, 9 and Hub 10, 11, 12.  

It takes a lot of courage to get up on the stage in front of the whole school - and it was great to see so many of our children taking part and having fun!  Both Hubs did an amazing job and made their teachers very proud.   Well done to all involved

Hub 7, 8 & 9 doing a fantastic job dancing to 'Cant Hold Us'.

Hub 10, 11 & 12 being cool dude's to 'Uptown Funk'.

Akeake @ Kapahaka

We have a great group of Akeake children who go to Kapahaka practice every Monday lunch time.  

They have been working really hard to get ready to perform at the Cultural Festival being held next term.  

Check out this sneak peak of what this dedicated bunch get up to.

The girls having fun during one of the warm up songs:

The boys showing off their dance skills.

Keep up the great work Team Akeake!

Upcycling Competition

Thank you so much for supporting our entry in the upcycle competition a few weeks ago. Thanks to the generous number of votes, we got the People's Choice award! The money we won will go towards resources to provide more options during Explore Time.

Check out the pictures of our Fairy/Scary Village. The individual houses will be going home in the next week so you can see the real deal in person!

Mini Beast Reports

This week we are researching mini beasts.

We could choose which one we wanted to do, honey bees, the New Zealand weta or the Hercules beetle. With our buddies, we are reading articles, watching very interesting video clips and learning lots. When we have written our reports we are going to share back to our home classes.

Did you know that the weta breathes through holes in its exoskeleton and that the name wetapunga means 'god of ugly things?' 

Minibeast Collages

This week we started our minibeast collages. We were learning all about warm and cool colours. We had to use pieces no larger than our thumb nails. We got to decide if our minibeast was going to be a warm or cool colour. The outside area will be the opposite. It is careful and slow work but it looks awesome!

We can't wait until they are all finished and they are displayed around our learning space!

Assembly

 We like going to Assembly on Fridays.

We celebrate a lot of things, sing songs, do Jump Jam and we have guests. Today we had someone tell us about Drama. He asked three people up on stage.

Mr Henderson was one of them. 

 It was a lot of fun.