Thursday, 26 June 2014

Matariki

We have been learning about Matariki (The Maori New Year celebration).  We watched the telling of some legends on u-tube and learned how to do the Matariki Macarena.  We really enjoyed using scraffito art to represent the night sky showing the seven sisters.






Aboriginal Art

The Rua team did some fun art during "Living World" Art interchange.

In M8's room we used Aboriginal Art to represent a reptile.  We used the fat end of a skewer to make our dots.  The dots needed to be the same size and spaced evenly apart.






Stanley the Skeleton

This term in M8 we have been 'thinking like a scientist' and have been studying biology, in particular the human body.

Meet Stanley. M8's skeleton.  We had to put the major bones and the major organs in the right places.