Wednesday 31 May 2017

Pepetuna Artwork

We read the beautiful story Pepetuna by Denise Whitmore and used it to inspire our artwork about the special puriri moth. We were learning to blend paint and pastel. 

Our first layer was the night sky. The second layer was black shadow trees and the third layer was our pastel pepetuna flying into the moonlight for just one night. 

Monday 22 May 2017

Bugs, bugs, bugs

We collected leaves and created awesome bugs to go with our writing. We glued them onto branches with some of our leaf writing. 












Leaves, wonderful leaves.

We used leaves to inspire our writing last week. Here is some of our wonderful writing/poetry.

Leaf Poem


Orange
and red you
are awesome. Slish
you look nice. Bright like
the sun and white like the moon.
You fluttered down into my hand. Crunch!
You're crumply. At night you fly and day
you sing. Every day you curve up, please don’t die.
Moist and damp you get soggy. When you're red you’re
like lava slowly dropping into the sea. Dotty and
big and small it doesn’t matter as long as
you’re alive. Soft and silky you fluttered down
to me. Glossy green and maroon you’re still
my friend. Green veins in you.
Ferociously the breeze blows
you while the wind is singing Please don’t
go without me.
By Ronan

            Wooooooosh!
Went a lava leaf as it flew down like a magic carpet. Smooge!! Went the leaf as it hit the ground like an aeroplane cruising in. A gust of wind hit the old oak tree and leaves fell like lightning as they charged at the ground. They formed a gooey lava mixture and glooped towards me. The spines reminded me of the soldiers in WW1 and WW2. Where do they go? Probably around the world and back again before moulding into the soil so new plants can sprout and a new environment can form. It keeps on going around and around and can’t be stopped. Leaves are a hope of the environment and nature can survive and life can move on.
By Frank