Week 7 Summary - Tie Dye

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During Week 7 we have been doing tie-dye with pillow cases and painting on fabric as part of our Antarctica study.

The first step is choosing which design of tie dye you want to do.

We all chose our designs, some scrunching their pillowcase up and some making circles or using pegs to make stripes.

Aimee used a fan fold and pegs to end up with a striped tie dye

Te Iwa tied lots of little circles

Next we had to choose an Antarctica animal, a penguin or a whale to paint onto a small piece of calico fabric.

Jordyn paints her penguin

Ben adds some background detail to his penguin picture

Then we put our designs in the blue dye and waited for the dye to soak in.

Emily gives the dye a stir to ensure it covers everyone's pillowcases evenly

Hanging the pillow cases out on our balcony to dry

When the pillowcases had dried we needed to iron them and also the fabric painted picutres needed to be ironed for 2 minutes to seal the paint. Our animal paintings were then sewed on with the help of Miss Lythgoe's Mum and Ben's Mum.

Jackson enjoyed ironing so much he wants to do all the ironing at home Mum!

Connor is another keen contender for weekly ironing duties!

Trish helped Heke complete his pillowcase by sewing the whale painting on

Josh waits patiently as Kate sews on his painting

Here are some examples:

Aimee's,Emily's and Renee's Tie-dye

Heke's Tie-Dye

Written by Connor N

Week 5 Summary

We have had a busy week in Rm 24. Most of us have now completed our written mammal reports on the laptops and these are displayed in the classroom. We are now working on presenting this new knowledge orally in the form of an imovie or video.

On Tuesday we were meant to have our run-athon but the weather was so bad it was postponed till Thursday. We all ran really well and have raised lots of money to bring the cost of camp down.

We have continued to work on our penguins made from plastic bottles. We have finished painting them and stuck on the eyes and beaks etc

We were really disappointed that our final day of winter sport at Hagley park was cancelled but it has been a good week working on our reports and penguins

Written by Renee

Topic -Our Inquiry

This term we have individually researched a country or city to discover

'How would my life be different if I grew up in ............?'

Back in Week 2 of this term we discussed the differences our environment can have on our upbringing and looked at a few examples. The children then had time to browse through a large amount of books and decide which area of the world they would like to explore. We had places such as the Amazon, Rwanda, Jamiaca, Sweden, Mexico and Kenya chosen.

Over the next few weeks they decided on questions, researched, took notes and made decisions on our to present their work. They also had to come up with a conclusion on where they would prefer to grow up, NZ or their chosen country.

Now in Week 8-9 it has been time to share their new knowledge with the class. They were assessed by one of their peers and by their teacher. It has been a fascinating time, learning about so many different areas of the world and just how it would be to live as a child in that country. Almost all concluded that life in NZ is just about perfect, though we may now have a few students with a great desire to travel in the future!

Bridget and Te Iwa use the laptops to research

Costa Rica and Jamaica

It looks like chaos but....here is Rosie, Aimee,

Jayde and Renee putting their posters together.

Proud of their efforts and so they should be...

Harlen - Afghanistan

Olivia - France

Josh R - Kenya

Dominic - Samoa

We had power points, speeches, homemade videos, booklets and posters.

Connor N - Madagascar

Dragos - Romania

Cullen - Rwanda

Tom - Amazon

More proud researchers with their finished work

Renee - Hawaii

Ben - Amazon

Connor D - Jamaica

Jordyn - Sweden

Cayden - Amazon

Corben - Mexico