Sketching Wolves

For the past two weeks, we have been learning how to sketch using a 5 point tonal scale. Using our 6B sketching pencils, we followed Mark Crilley's YouTube tutorial on how to sketch a wolf. 

We were so excited and proud of our results that many of us carried on at home, and also came to school early to do more before school started.

                       

Rat/Stoat Trap Update

The rain finally cleared and it was a beautiful day to go down to our Rerenga Awa to do a quick clean up of rubbish, see how the new natives we planted are doing, and check out our traps to see if the rats liked the dog biscuits we laid as bait. And they answer is.....NO! The traps have not been touched. We're going to reset them again with a rotten egg. The white trap that Josh is holding in the photo had cheese - it looks like they didn't like that either. We still can't find the peanut butter container on Mrs Naden's desk so she will bring in some more...unless someone has some nutella at home they could give us a scoop of?
We'll also have to do some weeding around the natives when it's not so boggy.

                                                        Mrs Naden's own 'rats nest'! 
                                                       (where is the peanut butter jar?)

Chemistry

This term we have been learning about chemical reactions and finding out about mixtures, substances, reversible and irreversible change.
For today's experiment, we made gummy worms. Now we are using appropriate words and phrases to exlplain what happened.

Saints and Inspiring People

In R.E. we are learning about saints and inspiring people. Today we learnt about St Maximillian Kolbe:

We were amazed that he gave up his life for a friend. Now we are busy researching other saints and inspiring people. We are focusing on:

• how the saint was treated by other people and why;
• what they did that inspires us and why they are good role models for us today;
• finding out why they are a saint;
• identifying the way they responded to Te Wairua Tapu (the Holy Spirit) and followed Jesus;
• would being a saint be easy? Why/why not?

Our research will be collated into a report on our chosen saint.