Life Education Mobile Classroom

Art Exhibition

I am Lachlan.  I want to make sculptures.  I want to design chairs. When I grow up I want to be an artist.  Lachlan

My name is Glory and I am an artist.  I like to do sketching. Sketching is my favourite thing to do in the whole world.  I love to draw every day. I like to draw faces. Glory

My name is Alize and I am an artist.  I like making sand castles in the sand.  I like making birds too. I like to design dragon masks because they are colourful.  Alize

You are invited to our amazing Art Exhibition.  There is going to be a lot of fancy art and you might find my art.  I created a big tropical flower. Laurence

I am Maxwell and I like drawing art.  I like detailed designs and I like designing costumes from movies.  Maxwell

When I grow up I want to paint a cheetah.  I like cheetahs because they are faster than a racing car.  They are the fastest animal in the whole world and they have super sharp colours.  Mahir

I am Darcy and I love to paint and draw lots of things.  I love to do every kind of art. I love to draw animals. I am an artist.  I love to weave and we are weaving a Kingfisher. My favourite colours are blues.  Darcy

Dear Family, I have invited you all to the beautiful School Art Exhibition.  You won’t believe your eyes when you see all the painting and the flowers and leaves.  You will love my art. Miah

I am an artist.  I love painting and weaving with wool and string, and drawing cats and dogs and unicorns.  Brooklyn

I am an artist,  I can do painting and drawing.  I can draw a star and Pacifika flowers.  You can ask me to paint anything you want.  Allyza

I like the colours of the rainbow.  I like weaving birds with all their colours.  I am going to weave the Peacock and the Tui. I love colour.  You can use lots of colours to weave and you can make lots of weaving pictures if you know how to weave.  Theo

I am an artist and I like to draw spiders.  Glassie

My leaves for the Art Exhibition are special.  They are green and long and light. Ello

I am Braxton and I am an artist.  I love to draw Sharks. Braxton

I like Kingfishers because they can catch fish as fast as they can.  Kingfishers can catch worms too. If I was a Kingfisher I could fly anywhere.  Hussain

I am an artist and I like to draw animals.  I like to build lego too Nixon

I like to paint butterflies and like to paint cats.  Qalekah

When I grow up I will be an artist and I will draw a dog chasing a cat.  Ceddrick

My name is Nio and I am an artist and I like weaving.  It goes like this - over and under, over and under. Nio

I am Honor and I like to go to the museum to look at all the carvings.  It’s cool in my class because we do lots of art like drawing kingfishers, flowers and leaves.  When I get older I will carve a number by myself and I will carve animals too. My favourite things to look at in the museum are all the designs that people do.  Honor

We are drawing tropical flowers for the Art Exhibition.  There will be, orange and yellow, red, blue, pink and purple. The leaves have bits of yellow and dark green and then they are done.  Emily

I like drawing and making flowers.  I am an artist. We are making the Kingfisher from our weaving. I like weaving.  Tirzah

Ronnie the Carver has been carving for 30 years.  He has a leather pouch for the sharp tools and the mallet.  He has some mallets of different sizes. Some are small and some are medium and big.  Nate

Grandparents Day

Daffodil Day

Spring

Bees are pollinating flowers and birds are making nests.  The sun is beating down on us. Spring is my favourite season of the year. Spring brings new life.  I like spring because I get to see all the baby animals and all the baby birds. Lachlan

Spring, Spring.  The bees are making honey and the daffodils are growing.  I see butterflies.    

The day the bus broke down.

Bus students of HES had a very memorable day last week when the bus broke down.  We were lucky that it was fixed quickly and went straight back to work the next day! 

 Some students enjoyed using speech marks in their stories to convey the excitement!

Yesterday the school bus broke down because the battery was flat and the engine was broken too.  Everyone was wondering how they would get home.

Suddenly I heard Sue shout “everyone, get off the bus" It was an adventure.  Theo

Yesterday the bus broke down!  The teachers told all the children to hop off the bus. Then the bus was going to be half an hour late and all of the teachers had to drop off the kids.  When the engineering person came I thought he didn’t know what to do Laurence

Yesterday the bus broke down and the mechanic had to fix the Hamilton East School bus.  I got picked up late and I saw them fixing it up. My cousin was crying and the 5 year olds were crying too.  I got annoyed from all that crying and crying. Glory

Visit to the Hamilton Museum

Thank you to all the wonderful parent helpers who braved the cold and rain to support our trip.   

We had a very enjoyable Museum experience.

Weaving for the Art Exhibition

Learning to Weave has taught us to be patient and persistent!  If at first you don't succeed 

then unpick

your work and try again!

 

Come and see our finished product in 

Term 3 at the Art Exhibition!

Ronnie the Carver

We are all feeling very inspired after watching Ronnie carve his beautiful designs in Room 6.  Some of us have decided we would like to learn how to carve when we are older.

We watched Ronnie set up the carving room with tools and equipment.  He explained how he loves carving and the quiet peacefulness of the craft make him feel refreshed.  His tools are very sharp and he needs to be very careful using them.  He has a range of chisels and mallets of different sizes.  

Ronnie has been carving for over thirty years.  He is also a talented artist and his carving pieces are all self-drawn and etched into the wood first.

Measuring Kumara

Our Kumara tubers were finally ready for harvesting.
Although our Summer lacked rain, we hoped the tubers would be big and plump!






What a good opportunity to practice our measuring skills.
 I wonder how long and how wide the tubers will be?











   Celebrating Matariki.  Launching Matariki rockets up to the Seven Sisters

River Walk

We had a lovely morning walking along the Waikato River.  

We had a close look at the old Paddle steamer The Rangiriri.  

We sat and sketched the  outline of the boat.  There is not much left intact as it sat on the bottom of sand bank for 90 years!  Parts of the Paddle steamer have rusted and broken off.

   



   

The Old Paddle Steamer  Rangiriri

We have been learning all about the insects and birds that live along the river.  

We were hoping to see Kingfishers and Fantails and big dragonfly insects!

        

The kingfisher eats fish and snails and lizards.  They are colourful. They are purple and yellow and blue.

Honor 

The dragonfly is flying to the river to go  home and catch mosquitoes before the other dragonflies eat them all.

 Rangi

Legend of the Waikato River and the Servant Dog

There is a creation legend about the Waikato River
 In this story there is a servant who happens to have a very helpful dog.  The dog cuts a pathway through the land.  He makes way for the healing waters of Tongariro to flow through to a very sick Taupiri and thus creating the pathway of the mighty Waikato

                                   

Together with our partner we illustrated this legend 
 using oil pastels and black paint

An Ancient Legend about the creation of the Waikato River 

 ( Courtesy of Mesh Hamilton )

The legend began with siblings Tongariro and Taupiri mountains living side-by-side until marriage took Taupiri away to her new home near Ngaruawahia where, upon her arrival, she soon became ill. Taupiri believed that only the waters of her homeland could heal her so she sent a message to ask Tongariro to deliver her its healing waters. 

Tongariro sent his faithful servant, in the form of a dog, to cut a pathway for the waters of Tongariro to reach Taupiri. It is said that the river widens and slows at Taupiri, so that she can still draw healing from its waters. The river became known as Waikato te Awa and its waters continue to provide life and prosperity to those who live amongst it today.