Elmer the Elephant - calendar art

Room 19 have been learning how to paint using water colours.  First, we read stories about Elmer the Elephant and looked at the illustrations to see how he looked and moved.  Then we traced his outline and painted him in different colours.



Look on the Visual Arts page or on Room 19's classroom window to see all the different Elmers.
This is our Calendar Art for 2016.  You might like to order a calendar, diary or notelets that feature Elmer this year for yourself or your family.

Auckland Museum trip

Rooms 2, 19, 10 and 8 visited the Auckland Museum. While we had enough time to look around all the exhibits at the museum, our main focus was Ancient Civilisations.  We looked at artefacts, man made objects that give us clues as to how people lived in ancient times   We all visited the Ancient Civilisation exhibition and took photos of artefacts from Ancient Rome, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece and Ancient China.

Everyone was impressed by the Ancient Egyptian mummy and its wooden mummy case.  There were plenty of other artefacts to photograph and study in the Ancient Civilisations Hall as well.

After lunch, we visited the museum classroom to learn more about ancient artefacts.  Each group was able to handle some artefacts and find about their original use.  Then each group shared what they had found out with the rest of the class.  Can you remember what each artefact was used for?

CBS Olympics

We made olive wreaths from green paper leaves, ready for the CBS Ancient Olympics.

Let the CBS Ancient Olympics begin!
We acted out different Olympic disciplines with Mrs Bell in Drama:
some people swam, some rode horses, some ran and jumped.  

Roman aqueduct

We made a model of a roman aqueduct.  We watched how water travelled from the mountains, across the valley to the hills and down into the reservoir in the city.  Here the sediments in the water sank to the bottom and the clean water at the top flowed through pipes into the house, and finally trickled into baths and sinks in the home.

Taniwha Narratives

We traced a taniwha shape, and then learnt how to use water colours to colour them.

We shared our taniwha narratives and read each others' stories,  and made comments about our buddies' writing.
Read our narratives on the Writing page.

Mediators' Assembly

Year 2 and 3 dancers performed the monkey dance they have learnt for the Dance Festival.

Mrs Bear tried hard in the Chubby Bunny competition.  She could still talk (sort of) with six huge marshmallows in her mouth.

Leadership Week

During Leadership Week, some of the school leaders came to talk to us, and answer our questions, about what it meant to be a school leader at Cockle Bay.  After they left, we brainstormed the main facts we had learnt and Mrs Bear wrote them on the whiteboard.