Mikylah's Dinosaur Story

My dinosaur is pink.  It has a spiky mohawk.  It has blue eyes.  It is pink like a flamingo.  It has little claws.  It has claws at the front and the back.  It has dark pink spots.  It is a girl.  It lives in Auckland.  It goes to the toilet in the field.  It has a little house.  It is called Danielle.  Her friends are Bre and Zyesiah.  My dinosaur is awesome.  My dinosaur has little friends.  She is as skiinny as a stick.  My dinosaur has little hands.  It has long arms and legs.

Can you guess which one is Mikylah's dinosaur?

 

Today we had our Graham Braddock Workshop where we learnt how to sketch a face.  We did an amazing job because we did it step by step.  We had an outline on our paper already and learnt how to place and draw eyes, noses, mouths, eyebrows and hair.  It is harder than it looks but we think our portraits are great!

Mikylah and Murray

Murray spent the week at Mikylah's house where they did all sorts of fun things like making sushi, reading books and playing on the keyboard.  Mikylah - that sushi looked very yummy!!

ANZAC Biscuits

On Tuesday we learnt about Anzac biscuits and why they're important.  Then we made them!  They were so yum!  However, there was a challenge - we had to create the packaging for our biscuits to go in.  We could use any materials we wanted and decorate them however we wanted.  What a great job everyone did.  Miss Sharland is super proud of how well you all worked in your teams.  Superb effort!!

Dancing

We spent three Monday afternoons with Miss van der Merwe learning all about dance.  We had to think about things like expressing ourselves, moving our body, responding to the beat.  We had a whole lot of fun whilst we were learning about the elements of dance. Thanks Miss van der Merwe!

AROHA

Last week, when we were in the ICT room, we had a big talk about AROHA and what it means to us.  It's great to see that so many of us know what it means and what it looks like in the classroom, the playground and around the school.  We then used Kidpix to draw our heart and write our 5 values.

Painted Animal Faces

A couple of weeks ago we started making animal faces with Mrs Martin.  We looked carefully at a photo of our chosen animal and then thought hard about it's features such as its eyes, markings, nose shape, whiskers etc.  From here we carefully painted our animal faces to make them look as realistic as possible.  Now we have a scary jungle wall.  Thanks Mrs Martin!

Avatars

Today we learnt how to create an avatar using buildyourselfwild.com.  We had to think carefully about what our hair looks like, what our eyes look like as well as our mouths.  From there we could choose any arms, legs, tails, bottoms and wings that we wanted.  Don't we look cool!

Swimming

We love having 5 minutes of free time at the end of our swimming lessons.

LSS Values

Welcome to our new LSS Values! LSS children are going to have lots of AROHA.

Akohia (learning)
Respect
Ownership
Hautoa (courage)
Ambition.

When we talked about them we decided that we would write down what they look like in our classroom and everywhere else in the school. We even gave each part of AROHA an animal to make it easier for us to remember. Look at what we came up with.

There is always a lot to do in 'The Jungle' during wet lunchtimes.