Team Works!

We took advantage of the lovely sunshine this afternoon to get outside for some team game time.

 This chair game relies heavily on team work strategy and working together: one person from the sideline team runs around the chairs with one tagger from the chair team trying to catch and tag them.

 The tagger can tag any of his sitting team mates to catch the sideline runner and only by working together is it possible to catch the runner quickly.

Sideline team mates must be on the ball and watching: as soon as their team mate has been tug the next person has to be ready to run in. We had a lot of fun learning to work together.

Aotearoa A-Z Prints

Our Aotearoa A-Z Ink Prints are finished, framed up and on our classroom wall.  They look awesome!! Call in to Room 6 and have a look at the completed display.

Room 6 Triathletes

Jacob, Regan,Blake, Bridgette, Rosa, Meg, Demi, Nick and Finn competed either individually or in a team at the recent Dunedin Primary and Intermediate Schools Triathlon.  Special mention must go to Demi, placed 1st in Individual Year 6 Girls, and Nick, placed 2nd in Individual Year 6 Boys.  Demi and Nick have now qualified for the Otago Primary and Intermediate Schools Triathlon.  We wish these top Room 6 athletes all the best!!

Maths in Room 6

We have started the year looking at Statistics in maths.

Evie and Fletcher with our pencil length measurement graph.

We have posed all kinds of questions and gathered lots of data so here are some facts and figures about us: 

There are 9 girls and 17 boys in our class.

9 of us live on a farm, 17 in a township/town.

9 of us travel to school by bus, 7 walk, 7 come by car and 3 bike to school.

23 of us play a sport, of that number 11 of us play more than three sports.

9 of us play a musical instrument.

25 of us have pets.

21 of us take part in the Outram School CAPES award scheme.

When asked about favourite school subjects, 14 of us like art, 7 like maths, 3 like reading and two like writing.

If we could choose to have a super power 5 of us would choose Invisibility,  12 the ability to fly,  3 of us would have super strength,  4 bendability and 2 of us superspeed.

If you would like to look at some of the kinds of work we do at school you could check out the NZ Maths site; there is a great section for parents (see side bar for link).

Next Stage

Today we visited the workshop again to do some more block printing. Our first stage complete, we now needed to overlay our first print with a second layer of paint. We returned to our blocks and cut out the areas that we wanted to remain the initial colour and put on a different layer of paint.

Demi lays her block carefully on top of her original print...

she uses the roller to make sure the paint comes off the block and onto the print

 

next she carefully peels the print off...

fantastic! Good job Demi.

Block Printing with Mrs Hunter

As part of our Turangawaewae inquiry we are making some kiwiana block prints to create a whole class artwork that we think will really reflect who we are and where we come from.

Here are our block prints piled up and ready to go.

We have everything ready: paints, rollers and of course washing up liquid to clean up afterwards!

 Rosa, Meg and Sam get down to work.

William and Regan work out where to place their blocks.

William rolls red the paint onto his block.

Throughout this inquiry we are working on our Key Competency skills. In this lesson today we were 'Relating to Others': there was a lot of working together, taking turns and helping others.

The block print goes down onto the paper...

it needs to be nice and square on...

we push the roller over it firmly...

and hey presto! A perfect print! Good team work too.