Welcome to the Arohanui Syndicate page, featuring Year 2 children from Rooms 1, 2 and 3.
What a creative day we’ve had at the Te Tuhi Art Gallery in Pakuranga. Arohanui studied with Briana the educator at Te Tuhi in the I AM NZ workshop. We worked on our images at school, took them with us and then created etches based on important information about Aotearoa NZ. Our phrase was : Our Whenua Aotearoa New Zealand.
This week is national Samoan Language Week and Room 2 has been busy learning about the language and culture of Samoa. A quarter of our class identifies as Samoan and it’s awesome to get to connect with some of the cultures in our classroom.
We made tapa patterns in art. First we looked at typical patterns in Samoan tapa designs. We noticed that there were lots of flowers in Samoan art and repeating patterns. We studied what other artists had made, we used thick and thin markers to create thick and thin black lines, then we used white pastels to highlight parts of our design. Then we dyed the paper brown.
Finally we used bleach to put on our final touches. Bleach is tricky you can’t get it on yourself or your clothes. Miss Skipper has mounted our art now and we think it looks good!
You cannot image how much work the students of Room 2 have put in to creating egg drop containers. We have planned, we have checked out, looked at and felt materials, we have thought about what can work, we have researched, we have watched others and today we have made, crafted and dropped our egg containers.
What happened ? Well out of 20 eggs only 2 survived ! Back the the drawing board for us. What will we change, keep, get rid of ?
Ji Zai!
Greetings and best wishes to you. Atawhai joined Arohanui on our trip to Fo Guang Shan Temple. What a cool day. We learnt about the Three Goodness (3G) which are Do Good Deeds, Say Good Words and Think Good Thoughts; and the Four Givings (4G) which are Giving others Confidence, Joy, Hope and Convenience.
From the website :
Goals of the Festival are:
Our tour included a Temple Tour, Origami, a New Zealand Police talk, Mindful Meditation, and Refreshment.
What a great way in which to explore our community.
Room 2 looked at the different people at the wedding at Cana and what they might have been doing there. What’s a miracle ?
STEP 1: Place an egg in the jar and cover with vinegar. The acid in the vinegar reacts with the calcium carbonate in the shell. This reaction is producing a gas called carbon dioxide! STEP 3: After 3 days, remove the egg and rinse it off.
What changes did you see? What do you notice?
