You Rock Ilam School Kids!!

Run a kilometre for kids!!

On Thursday of Week 7, we are going to 'run a kilometre for kids!' The Ilam School House Captains have chosen to support the KidsCan charity. We are also doing some fundraising for our very own school so we can purchase some picnic tables and welcome signs in different language.

How can you help?

Get some friends, family, relatives or neighbours to sponsor you to run the kilometre.

Remember to explain what you are going to do to earn the money and who the money is going to.

This is your last weekend to gather some sponsors!

KidsCan Website

Anti-bullying Week at Ilam School!

Here is the link to all of the competition entries: 
2017anti-bullying.blogspot.co.nz/

'Quake City' and 'Rock On!'

Last Tuesday we traveled by bus to the inner city to experience the science behind earthquakes at 'Quake City' and then walked to the Canterbury Museum to 'Rock On' and learnt about igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. This was part of our geology based inquiry called 'Rocks Talk' which is all about land formations and their causes. It was extremely informative and interesting. We really enjoyed ourselves and the learning!

 

 

 

     

 

Wainui, 2017

Luring Ladybirds

Some Room 3 children have created a ladybird garden based on their inquiry from last term 'The Secret Lives of Living Things.' Ladybirds like umbrella shaped flowers that are wide so they can land on them easily. They also love herbs. 

Some of the flowers and herbs ladybirds like are parsley, coriander, fennel, dill and angelica. They love cosmos, alyssum, geraniums and dandelions. Ladybirds also like cornflowers, especially the blue ones!

One of the girls wanted to attract ladybirds because they are beneficial in pollinating flowers. They are also predatory insects that help control garden pests. The girls painted their planter box in the colours of a ladybird. They have planted alyssum and parsley around the edge with blue cornflowers and mixed cornflowers in the middle.

Observational Drawing & Still Life

We have been doing observational drawing using different mediums including pencil, pastel and paint. We are practising drawing 'what we actually see' not 'what we think we see'. First of all, we look at the outline of the object's shape. We can add detail through different shades and we can add dimension through light (white) and dark (black) or through using different depths of shading and creating shadow so that it looks 3 dimensional.