Room6@Sunnyhills

Room 6 is embarking on a new inquiry unit... Passion Projects! These individual projects will delve into something that we are passionate about combined with something that we dislike or are worried about to create a solution for what we are worried about. First we talked about what is passion. We decided that passion is when you love something and you are dedicated to giving your all to that thing. For instance, Poppy loves horses and horse riding. It is her passion and she dedicates as much time as she can to improving her skills as a horse rider. Then we created some wonderings about a topic we are passionate about... After that, we motivated and empowered ourselves with this Kid President video. Now, we are planning at the planning phase of our passion projects. We are creating a driving question that we can research, create a product for and then present what we have done in week 8. Sound exciting? We think so! Watch out for more blogs about our passions!

Last week on Friday, we explored creating art with pastels. We blended a multitude of colours to make the background and then we cover it completely with black pastel. After that, we scratched off the black pastel to make wonderful and eye catching designs.  What do you think of our designs?

It's that time of year again when we start thinking about buying calendars for 2020! I can't believe how fast 2019 has gone. The students of room 6 have worked very hard to create some amazing pieces of art that you can now buy printed on calendars, mouse pads and so much more.  Your learner went home with a notice of how to buy these awesome pieces of art on Tuesday afternoon.  Check out some of the art here:

This morning Room 6 got comfortable and continued reading our Chapter Chat book 'Wonder'. Wonder is about a young boy who was born without a cleft palate and from this has needed to have a lot of surgeries to try and correct his face. He is starting school for the first time and must over come new challenges like making friends. We are learning all about being kind and helping others to fit in as well as reading strategies such as making connections to the text, building inferences, using prior knowledge and asking and answering questions about the book. We are now creating our own New York subway stations that one of the characters use to get to and from school. We are all very excited and can't wait to share our finished products!            

As part of our inquiry topic Turangawaewae, we are going to be creating pieces of art that represent ourselves. We will sketch the outline of our heads and shoulders, then fill the inside of our profile with pictures and words of things that are important to us and make us who we are, finally we are going to add colour in the form of dye. It will look fantastic. Today we watched an amazing tutorial on how to sketch an eye and then practiced some of the techniques that we saw. This will help us when we start to sketch the outlines of our heads and shoulders and when we sketch all of the wonderful things inside. What do you think of our eyes?