Finished masks!

Today we finished our pest masks by adding elastic to make them fit to our heads properly. We also added fine details like wrinkles, teeth and snarls to make them look even scarier!

Production Masks

Today we started making our pest masks look scary for the show next week. We blacked around the eyes and have started adding teeth! After our run through this morning we are all excited and a lot more confident.

Visit from Gavin Bishop

Today we had a visit from Gavin Bishop. He told us about his childhood and read from his book, Piano Rock. We asked him lots of questions and then gave him a signed copy of our class book, and he gave us a signed copy of his book.

Kauri Class Dance

This is our first proper run through of our class dance for production. Thank you Whaea Meg for filming and sharing it with us.

It still needs a lot of practise. We reflected on what we needed to improve and came up with the following:

• Pests walking slower and hunched over with claws out
• Pests stepping slowly, in time with the beat
• Not pushing kiwis roughly
• Kiwis flapping harder
• Not turning our backs to the audience
• staying with our group
• waiting quietly to go on stage

Production Masks

This week we started painting the base coats onto our masks. We researched the colours of our animals on the internet to get a realistic colour on first. Tracey and Ray came in to help us paint our masks and we really appreciated their help.

Passion Projects

Today we had passion projects. The activities that we did were:

• dancing with Whaea Petrina
• costume making with Michelle
• marble run with Mr Pickard
• making pikelets with Mrs Bates
• movie making with Whaea Meg
• music with Mrs Fleming
• science with Mrs A
• manuka planting with Mr A

Kauri class thought that everything was fun, except for Manuka planting with Mr A! 😏

Below are some photos of what we did in Kauri class.