Science Club

Experimenting with Cornflour and Shaving foam! What kinds of changes do you notice happening?

How does it feel? What has the texture become like? Has the temperature changed? 

What do you see?

Instant snow! It feels like cold bread crumbs! 

How did we make it? 

Using 1/2 or 1/4 or 1/3 cups we measured 3/4 cornflour and 1 cup of shaving foam 

Then we mixed the ingredients together with our hands!!

Tinker Time with the Osmos coding

Coding has now been added to our apps. Lots of discussion and forward thinking is needed to solve these problems. Lateral thinking and perseverance are really important in Room 20!

Look at Joshua and see his feeling of success! 

A stunning end to our journey through art inspired by Janine andCharles Williams.

A special thanks to the children in R8 and their teacher Ms Bedford, at Bairds Mainfreight Primary School who inspired us with their creativity!

Our School houses of Takahe, Hoiho, Tui and Kea are represented in our paintings and designs. After spending hours pencil sketching, researching the birds' habitats, mixing colours and understanding what complimentary colours do to the eye, using mixed media; and cutting and designing layouts inspired by the murals by Auckland artists, Janine and Charles Williams, we have completed our own works of art!

Each art work contains the chosen Bird, which the children are to protect as they grow up in Aotearoa. The children can become the kaitiaki or guardians of these native birds so that they will continue to see them in years to come.

Bairds Road Mainfreight Primary - Art Inquiry - visiting other children as artists

Bairds Mainfreight Primary School welcomed a group of R20 and R16 children into their Year 5 class. Their teacher Mrs Bedford was very welcoming  and her class had made a fantastic slideshow presentation about their Art Experience. 

Sunnyhills children had their interview questions all ready to go. They buddied up and off they went with iPads to record the interview!

A big thank you to Ms Kardos, Evie's Mum, who helped with transport and the interviewing!! 

Now we have been able to use this experience as a great launching pad into our own Art Inquiry starting this week! 

Watch out for Slinky Malinky this Week!

Miaow Children and Teachers at Sunnyhills School!

I’m Slinky Malinky,

(a rapscallion cat!)

By day I am just like any ordinary cat

but at night I am wicked and fiendish and sly

I leap over walls and I prowl and pry

All over school I have pilfered and pillaged

 from classrooms and corridors your teacher’s belongings

I’ve pulled them and dragged them and heaved them until

I reached the music room high on the...concrete

Take yourself off to the window to see

If your belongings are sitting there one morning this week

Make sure that your teacher can identify the item I stole

So that your classroom will once again

be whole