Book Week

Te Pihinga have started back at school in term 3 with fantastic and positive attitudes. We were glad to see happy faces all arriving on Monday morning. We are all excited about week one because it is Book Week! We are exploring lots of new books and texts in Te Pihinga during our reading programmes. 

On Tuesday we had a visitor called Helen Taylor- a New Zealand author and illustrator, we were lucky and grateful to have Helen visit us in Te Pihinga. We were lucky enough to see illustrations from picture books illustrated and written by Helen, we saw the beginning (fine sketches) and the end results after they had been beautifully painted! After our visit we had a lot of children wanting to become authors and illustrators. 

We even got to ask some questions: 

Corbin: What inspired you to become an author and illustrator? 

Travis: How do you get your drawings so neat? 

Hana: Where do you get your ideas from? 

Chloe: Where do you get your drawing ideas from? 

Below are a few images snapped yesterday. 

What happens when Coke & Mentos meet?

Today for writing we did something a bit different. We got to watch a science experiment. We learnt a new word called 'hypothesis'. This means that we have to think about what might happen, a prediction. Each of us wrote our prediction. Some of us thought things might explode, some of us thought the coke might catch on fire or turn to ice. Some of us wondered if the coke might change colour. 

So we went outside to see what happened. Check out our video.

This Week's Writing Task

Walt: write a recount using Book Creator.

We are all working on writing recounts about Show Weekend. We are learning how to do it using Book Creator. Some of us are sharing them on our own blogs and some of them are shared here.

We hope you enjoy reading them.