Our Collages.

For the last few Fridays, we have been making beautiful  collages with our Room 6 buddy class. We read a book called 'Window' by Jeannie Baker. All of the pictures in the book are made from collage.  Here is one of our favourites:

One of the beautiful collage pictures from the book Window by Jeannie Backer

We worked with our buddy to draw a draft of what we might see out of our window. Next, we painted the background of our picture (just the sky and ground, no details). While they were drying, we had a look through all of the materials that people had brought in from home. There were some very cool things to choose from!





Our buddies helped us glue things on to our picture and we helped our buddy to glue theirs. We mainly used PVA Glue, but if something was too heavy, we could use the hot glue guns. 

Some of our favourite things were jumping on Paua shells to break them into small pieces, using sand to make our beaches look realistic, and finding treasures in the box of materials. We had fabric and paper with pretty patterns, cotton wool, towels, pebbles, feathers, bark, dried leaves, foam shapes, glitter and so much more!

We had a lot of fun sticking everything on. It was messy, but it looked awesome. We think everyone did a great job. 

Here are our finished windows. Do you like them?

By Morgan, Amalea, Victoria and Ayaana

Room 21's Calendars

Sunnyhills School is making school calendars for a fundraiser. In Room 21, we made stained glass windows. First, we learnt all about shades of colours and how to make them with paint. We were amazed by how many shades of one colour you can make by adding white, black or other colours. 

First, we drew a small circle on our page. This is where the sun is hitting the stained glass. Next, we drew lines from the circle out to the edge of the page. This is to show us how the sun's rays would hit the window. Next, we drew a simple picture over the top of our lines. We needed to keep it simple, with big shapes, because painting tiny shapes is too hard. 

Drawing and colouring our drafts. Can you see the different shades?

Then we started to colour in. Wherever the shape we were colouring in went across one of the lines we drew at the beginning, we had to change to a different shade of the same colour. This is to show how colours change with light. We used crayons to colour in our drafts. It was tricky to colour in with crayons, because there are not many shades of crayon. Luckily, we are a creative class and we managed to make a lot of different shades. We weren't too worried about it though, because we knew that we would have more shades when we painted.

When our draft was finished, we carefully drew our design onto our calendar and then it was time to paint! We had such a great time painting - even though it was VERY messy! Luckily we had two parent helpers and a learning assistant to help us. We worked super hard and got all of the painting finished in one day.

Once our paintings were dry, we ruled over the lines in vivid and went around the outline of our shapes with black crayon. 

We also used crayon to highlight important parts of our picture and to make it look clean and finished.

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We put a lot of time and effort into our calendars. We hope you like them! If you do, remember to order some to help the PTA with their fundraiser. You can buy calendars, diaries and cards of your child's work.

By Lokkie,Matthew,Dhruv and Baxter

Topsy Turvey Day

 On Friday at school it was Topsy Turvey Day! Topsy Turvey Day was a Mufti day to raise money for a charity. We all came dressed in strange costumes - some people came in their pyjamas (even Miss Williams!), some were wearing half uniform and half mufti, and some even came with their underwear on their heads!!

During the day, we did some fun and silly activities that were all topsy turvey too. The only thing that wasn't allowed to be topsy turvey was our behaviour. First, we walked backwards in line to our music class with Mrs Larcombe. It was really hard to walk backwards! When we arrived, she said "good afternoon Room 21", even though it was 9 o'clock in the morning! She told us we were doing geography for the day, but she was just being topsy turvey, because we did do music.

After music we had a parade of all our topsy turvey clothes in front of the whole junior school. We loved looking at other people's creations and we REALLY loved showing off ours. There was music playing and we danced around the courts and posed for people to look at us. We felt like we were famous!

This is Room 21 showing off our weird and wonderful clothes in the Topsy Turvey Parade!

After the parade, it was time for Morning Tea. Then we went back to class and read a poem by Spike Milligan called 'On The Ning Nang Nong'. It was very silly and funny. We tried reading it backwards, which was extremely hard. Since we liked the poem a lot, Miss Williams found a story by Spike Milligan on Youtube called 'Bad Jelly the Witch'. We listened to the story, but there were no pictures so we had to create the pictures in our heads.

For the afternoon, we had buddy time which is our favourite time of the week. We played a water balloon game with our buddies. We had to throw a water balloon back and forth to our buddy without dropping it. Each time we caught it, we had to take a step away from our buddy. It got harder and harder to catch and a lot of people got wet! Luckily, we played it just before home time, so no one had to stay wet all day.

Everyone in the whole school had a fun day. We got to be silly and look funny. We all laughed a lot. We hope we made a lot of money for the sick children.

The gorgeous Room 21 wearing topsy turvey clothes, poing in topsy turvey
poses on Topsy Turvey Day!


By Neela, Chris, Rubie and Ethan

When We Made Gloop

On Monday we made gloop for Maths! We used our measuring skills to mix one part water to two parts of cornflour to create a gloopy mess!                                         

The gloop was as slippery as snail slime! We had so much fun playing with the gloop. The gloop looked runny, but when you hit it it was solid! When we had finished having fun with the gloop, Miss Williams and Mrs Wallace poured the gloop in some balloons. We got a vivid 

to draw a funny face on the balloon. We all had our own balloon. The balloons were squishy and a lot of fun to play with. 

                     

 We learnt some things about measuring and about making gloop stress balloons:

1. Some balloons popped because people were throwing them or pulling them hard. Next time, we would know that we have to be very gentle. 
2. We made a big mess and lost a lot of our gloop by not keeping our hands over the bowl.
3. You need to add the water very slowly and mix the flour in really carefully each time you add water. It turns from gloop into liquid really suddenly. Next time we would add smaller amounts of water at a time.
4. If you add too much water to your gloop, you can try three things to thicken it. Add more cornflour if you have it (we didn't), add some baking powder (this only worked if it was just a tiny bit too runny) or leave it to sit in the sun for a while.

By Kate, Karina, Max and Anna

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Junior Disco

On Friday we had a disco! When we arrived, there were some ladies giving out some glow-sticks. The glow-sticks were very shiny. We danced with our friends. The DJ chose some leaders and we played follow the leader. Wow, it was a long line! 

We got very got and thirsty dancing. If we were thirsty we went to our drink bottles box  and got out our drink bottles.

After that the DJ called the year zeros to get their sausage sizzle. The year ones and the year twos had to dance until they were asked their sausage. Finally the music man called our room number. 

Afterwards we played the zombie game. We had to put our hands out and act like a zombie. Then we had a pretend sword  fight. We  had to get a partner and fight like knights. At last, the DJ asked us to sit own and let our mums and dads to come to collect us. Some teachers gave us some chips. We had a great time.



By: Leticia, Ryan, Kaylum, Isabella.