Robot Construction

We are learning about Construction in Art this term. We decided that construction means when you build something out of something else. 

We have been helping Miss Brown collect recycling since the term started (even some of the teacher's helped - thanks Hampstead teachers). 

Finally the day arrived that we got to use that recycling to make a robot! It was so much fun! The class was really messy but we were all hard at work making the best robots ever.

Some had wings, some had water bottles on their back, some had jet packs and some had no arms or legs!! 

Have a look at our photos, who's robot do you like the best? 

The pile of recycling was WAY bigger than this when we started

Yellow table kids working hard to put their robots together. 

I wonder what these robots will look like at the end? 

Working very hard here to make a cool robot.

The finished product... awesome robots! 

Even more robots! 

Great job Room 14! 

Teddy Bear's Picnic

Last Tuesday we were allowed to bring our teddies to school for a teddy bear picnic. 

We went under the trees on the field in the shade to have it because it was a hot day. 

Some boys from Room 11 judged the teddies and gave out prizes. 

We got to show our teddies to our buzz group in class.

Some of our teddies had funny names.

Some of our teddies came dressed up in our uniform, like Kneecap the Moose.

Some had big teddies and some had small teddies.

Some of us forgot teddies... whoops! 

Here are all our teddies! 

Harold and the Life Education Bus

For the first two weeks of this term we had Harold visiting Hampstead School. We went into the Life Education Bus twice to hang out with Harold and learn about what makes us different. 

We learnt about our personality and our body parts. 

Everyone in our class, school, town, country, even the world has a different personality and that is what makes us unique and different... and awesome! 

We now know that our personality is the way we: feel, act, think and what we like to do.

Here are some photos of us from inside Harold's house. 

Zac and Rudi are showing us how big our brains are... put your fists together to see how big your's is! 

Brock is putting a label on which sense he thinks the picture is showing, can you guess which sense it is? 

Amelia is also helping show us which sense is which. 

It's beginning to feel a lot like... SUMMER!!!

Wow! It was really hot today here in Ashburton! We came back inside from lunch and were sweating heaps! 

We said that we needed a fan to help keep us cool and someone asked Miss Brown if we could make one and she said yes! 

Charlotte said that she thought Miss Brown was joking but then she put some paper in the middle of our circle and we folded it into a fan. Then we stapled the bottom and pulled the sides out to make it wider.

We taught each other how to wave the fan so that it air blew on our faces to keep us cool.