Experimenting with Line and Colour

We all had a great time experimenting with line and colour using paint and
a variety of tools!!  First, we painted to a variety of different music clips and
let our hands do what the music told us to!  After that, we used fat and thin
paintbrushes to create circles and patterns on our paper.  We looked at hot
and cold colours and then added detail at the end.  Don't they look great?

The blogmasters

These two handsome dudes are the blogmasters.  We will be posting on this blog about suff we do at school. 😎😎

Famous Five by Enid Blyton

Our class has been reading The Famous Five chapter book during class time.  It is an adventurous book and the characters: Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy the dog.  The book takes us to castles, farms, mysterious houses and rock cliffs.  We have been enjoying listening to the story and now lots of us have got Famous Five books to read during SSR time.  Some of us are even writing our own 'Famous Five' stories.

KCC 30 Challenges - Holiday Idea

Holiday time is nearly here - yay! Here's a cool idea (click on link below..)
to do over the holidays that is also helping our planet, getting you outdoors and keeping you busy!
How many of the 30 challenges can you do? Take pics and post on the KCC site or on our Pod 1 Blog.
Have a safe and happy holiday everyone, see you next term xxxx

http://kcc.org.nz/competitions/

Taking care of our environment

This term Pod 1 has been studying about Marine Reserves and also learning about how to take care of our environment.  We visited Reotahi Marine Reserve where we snorkelled and looked at various marine life.  On our return to school we began to carry out an inquiry of our choice around this theme.  We could work in groups or individually.
One group of year 6 boys decided to produce an iMovie based on caring for our environment.  Please click on the link below to view it.

Drains to Harbour - part 2

Welcome to Pod 1 2018!

Hi everyone,
Welcome to Pod 1's blog 2018.
We are a class of Year 5-6 students, with Mr Parkes, Miss Cross and Mrs Magrath (in on Wednesdays).
We have had a great 2 weeks and are looking forward to the upcoming events this term - Our Experiencing Marine Reserves trip (2nd March - the notice went home today!) as well as Swimming Sports and Triathlon to just name a few.
This year is going to be awesome, keep an eye out on the blog for what we get up to.

Salvation Army Gift Boxes

Today we had Jenny, Gaye, and Mike from the Whangarei Salvation Army come to visit, to collect our fabulous gift boxes. They were really thrilled with the donations that you all made and the students beautiful wrapping paper. Thanks you so much for your generosity. It will make many families very happy this Christmas.