Creating our Animal Carriers

Thanks to all our parent helpers today. We had so much fun making our carriers and are looking forward to the next stage ... PAINTING!

View our YouTube clip HERE

Can you tell us all the part of your animal carrier you like the most in the comments?

Kyle Mewburn visits us...

Next week is Book Week and at Goodwood we started early with a visit from Kyle Mewburn who is a published author.

He told us lots of stories and they made us laugh. Kyle spoke to whole school at different times. Lucy thanked him for talking to all the Year 1 tamariki.

What books have you read that Kyle has written?

Designing an Animal Carrier

We talked about the problem, then we looked at some animal carriers and talked about what we liked about them.

We shared our ideas.

From that point we made a brief of what a good animal carrier needed and then we designed our carriers.

Summer

Emma

Lachlan

Ashleigh

Max

Hannah

Melissa

Baxter

Lucy

We are really looking forward to the next stage - making them!

What are the Olympics all about?

This morning we shared all we knew about the Olympics with each other. Lots of us had watched the opening ceremony and some sports on the TV.

A few of us brought in newspaper clippings, others brought in some sheets about the Olympics and Emma made some Olympic rings and even told us what they were all about.

Then we wrote about what we know, what we have seen, what we hope will happen and what we would like to know.

Here are a few...

Baxter

Hannah

Lily

Max

We have a few wonderings about past Olympics and how do you get to compete in the Olympics - we think you some money and a ticket. We plan to do some investigating to find out more - can you help us?

Sketching...

We love drawing in Ruma Ruru - and now we have our own sketching books. Each week we will take some time to focus on drawing different animals, people, creatures and vehicles.

We looked at some 'how to draw... ' examples on the internet. There are LOTS! We will use some of these to help us think about our drawing and how we can improve on it.  A handy hint is to think of objects as groups of shapes...

Below are some links we have looked at....

http://www.squidoo.com/drawing-cats

http://www.ehow.com/how_8393950_draw-cartoon-cat-stepbystep.html

http://www.malanenewman.com/tutorial_donald_duck_fullface.html

We would love to show you what we have been doing so please come and look. Ms Copping also says we can bring some 'how to draw...' books from home to help us.

We wonder what we will look at next week? Dragons? Dinosaurs? Princesses? Trucks?

Olympic Games 2012

Well... it is here.... we can't deny it. The time to celebrate, recognise and support our top achieving sportspeople competing in the Olympic Games 2012 has come.

In Ruma Ruru we have been 'Reaching Out'... as a branch of this we will be having a look at 'Reaching Out for Success'. We will be looking at the Olympic Games through our Year 1 eyes and wondering what it is all about.

It would be great to talk with our Mums and Dads at home about the games - do you have anything from the newspaper to bring in? What do we know or want to know about the Olympic Games? What sports are there? Where is it? Who are some of the people? What does it take to be successful at teh Olympic Games?

Below are a few websites about the games... if you find any others that are good, please share them with us.

http://projectbritain.com/olympics/

http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/all_about_the_olympic_games.htm

http://www.london2012.com/

http://www.olympic.org/london-2012-summer-olympics

http://www.olympic.org.nz/

This is the link on the links and activities page - lots of fun games -

Games and Learning about the Olympics

Reaching out to the SPCA

On Tuesday we visited the SPCA. We had a look around at "The Haven" and saw all the rescued animals. It takes lots of time and effort to look after all the animals.

We saw cats, kittens, dogs, puppies, rabbits, chickens and a goat. These animals are sometimes fostered out while they look for their 'forever home'. We also saw the 'hospital area' where the sick animals are looked after.

We took some kitten and puppy food and donated to the SPCA. They LOVED it and it was good to see the animals that will be eating the food we donated.

Mr Dog is soooo happy he has his 'forever home' with us in Ruma  Ruru!