Vincent Van Goh

We have been studying Vincent Van Goh and his artwork for the last week of the term. We have created some Vincent Van Goh inspired sunflowers and have looked at how to create texture.

Check them out below!

Arnica's Puppet Pal

Check out Arnica's Puppet Pal!

Tom's Puppet Pal

Check out Tom's Puppet Pal! We loved the sound effects at the end Tom!

Raynor's Puppet Pal

Check out Raynor's Puppet Pal! She even did her own voice over!

Maddy's Puppet Pal

Check out Maddy's Puppet Pal!

Minecraft for Beginners

Kea Room are Minecraft mad! Mrs Sherie thought she would tap into that Minecraft energy and get Kea Room to write explanations for people who have never played Minecraft. We got to use an app called Book Creator and we also had to learn how to take screen shots with our ipads so that we could import the photos into our books.

Mrs Sherie had to learn how to post them online which has been a mission, but she thinks she may have worked it out.

What you need to do is click on the student's name of the book you wish to view. It should take you through to another page......here is hoping! If your child's work is not here don't fret it is coming! Watch this space.....

Liam 
Grace
Raynor
Maddy
Adda
Arnica
Jeremy
Tess
Casey
Kahn
Sean
Tom
Lacey

Puppet Pals

We have been writing a lot of interesting stories in class lately. We have looked at explanations and narratives. Mrs Sherie wanted us to be able to publish our stories in an interesting way. We used an app called Book Creator to publish our explantions (she is still working out how to put them up on the blog). To publish our narratives we used an app called Puppet Pals. Check it out at home it is a lot of fun! Here is Adda's story that Mrs Sherie helped her put together on Puppet Pals.

Puppet Pals is a lot of fun to use! We needed to use two people to put our story together. One to put our play together one to read the story from our book and the other to move the puppets.

Watch out we will be uploading more of these next week!

Welcome to Meep!

Kea Room has a new classmate! Meep! He has come all the way from Australia. Meep is sent home with one lucky student every night, he has a diary that needs to be filled out to record what he gets up too.The students love hearing about Meep's adventures. Some students have been able to take pictures with him at home and email them to school so we can print them off. We have started a Meep wall as well!

Next time you are at school come and check out what Meep has been getting up too, and don't be surprised if you see this guy come home in your child's bag.

Taonga Puoro

Yesterday Jerome Kavanagh came to Granity School to teach us about traditional Maori musical instruments. He showed us how to make music with a hue which is a gourd. He also showed us the putatara which is a conch shell. Another instrument he used and made music with was the purerehua that sounded like the wind.

Weird and Wonderful Wednesdays

This week we had vegetable soup! At first we were a bit worried about what it would taste like. We all gave it a try and we loved it! We also planted our own carrot seeds. We are looking forward to having our own carrots to make more vegetable soup!

Anzac Biscuits

We made ANZAC biscuits today in class. We have been learning about ANZAC day. Some of us were surprised to learn it is not about biscuits.

Weird and Wonderful Wednesday

On Wednesdays Mrs Sherie brings in food for us to try as part of the Great Food Project. It could be weird it could be wonderful, it could be both! We promise to give it a try, but it's ok if we don't like it. 

Today she brought in hummus and vegetable kebabs with chorizo sausage. We hadn't tried chorizo before, but we really liked it! The hummus was good too!

Duffy Books

Today Duffy Books came to school! We had a great time watching the play! Then we received our Duffy Books. We are so lucky here at Granity School to receive Duffy Books!

Thanks Duffy!

Goal Setting Interviews

Goal Setting Interviews are next week on Monday 10 March, Tuesday 11 March and Wednesday 12 March. Your child has been sent home with more information. Please select a time so we can meet to discuss your child's goals.

I look forward to seeing you :)

Mrs Sherie

Welcome

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Here you will find updates on what is happening in our classroom over the year. We look forward to reading your comments :)

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