Mandarin lesson

Ni hao!

Today we had our very first Mandarin lesson with Tracey Tong, who has come all the way from Shanghai, China, to teach Mandarin in NZ schools. We are very lucky to be having lessons with her this term and next.

Today we learned the Mandarin for words and phrases such as teacher (Lao shi), how are you (ni hao ma), goodnight (Wangshang hao) and more.

We sang some songs and found out about China's population, land, ethnicities and culture.

Xie xie!

Picasso Art

Over the last couple of weeks we've been working on some art that was inspired by Pablo Picasso. First we picked which facial features we were going to use, then we chose the shape we going to use for the face. We chose from the range of different Picasso styled features. We then coloured it all in with bright and vibrant colours. Our final pieces ended up looking like this:

Over the last couple of weeks we've been working on some art that was inspired by Pablo Picasso. First we picked which facial features we were going to use, then we chose the shape we going to use for the face. We chose from the range of different Picasso styled features. We then coloured it all in with bright and vibrant colours. Our final pieces ended up looking like this: 
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