Concentration...

Here are some photos of our children concentrating during our writing sample...

Week 8 Highlights

Where has the time gone?  We are already at the END of week 8...

Things we have done this week:

• finishing of our art for the Gallery
• made frames for our art - constructing and spray painting
• started pointillism
• started tessellation 
• worked on our symmetry skills
• practise our Narrative writing skills
• completed our Narrative writing for moderation
• explored art
• meet a bearded dragon (apparently the best part!!)
• brought in donations for the SPCA Animal Party

We are looking forward to watching the SPCA Animal Party.  We are wondering what we will be seeing during the show. 

Here are our messages to the SPCA:

• Thank you for letting us donate the food, blankets, toys and more - Yuri D
• I think this is a pretty cool thing for Riverdale to be doing - Te Oka K
• I hope you enjoy the food, blankets, toys and more - Artemis K-P
• I hope you and the animal enjoy our donations - Spencer T
• We hope you enjoy the donations and have a good time at the SPCA - Willow A
• Good luck - Maidah M
• We hope that the puppies enjoy playing with the toys - Ayla P
• I hope the cats enjoy the cat food!! - Daniel G

What does SPCA actually stand for???

Society for the prevention of cruelty to animals

Going the Extra Mile

Hello to you all,

We have had such a blast with our latest inquiry into Art and telling a story without using words.  Some of our students are going that extra mile and continuing their work at home!

We have had students bringing in their pictures they have drawn after school and sharing them for news and a LOT of kids who are using their Explore - Genius Hour time to research some of their favourite artists.

Hunter Thomas has been creating his own Master pieces at home and sent me some of the photos.  Have a look at his creations...

If you have any examples of work, research or anything else you would like to share on the blog email me on tash@riverdale.school.nz and I will put it up.  Happy creating!!

Week 6 highlights

Our Assembly

Hello to you all,

We are on Assembly this week and have created a fantastic presentation!  If you can't make the assembly I can share the presentation with you.  Email if you would like to be added.

Here are three of the videos we created to be part of our assembly...

Week 5 Highlights...

I enjoyed drawing the Tiki art - Matt

I liked cutting out my feathers and sticking them onto my cloak - Willow

I enjoyed practising my cloak drawings in my thinking book - Te Oka

I have enjoyed learning about famous painters - Artemis

I enjoyed publishing our poems - Yuri

Making our cloaks has been a lot of fun - Maidah

I have enjoyed publishing my reading research - Charlie

I like learning about famous artists - Reihana

I am proud of myself for moving to workshop 3 - Ngakau

I enjoyed moving to workshop 3 - Daniel

I enjoyed making the Tiki art - Luke D

I enjoyed learning how to sketch like John Bevan-Ford - Ayla

Te Manawa

Thanks to Chris Speirs for taking these photos of the trip.  It looks like you all had a great time!