Picasso Cow Presentation Day 2015

Picasso Cow Presentation Day

by Peter and Jack P.

At 9:30am in the morning we got on the bus to go to the RSL in Blacktown. Once we got on the bus it took about 1 hour to get there. We helped get the cow of the trailer, we got it into the RSL.  The only choice to get the cow up to the area was to get it into the elevator. It just fitted! Peter and I helped it getting it out of the elevator. Once we got the cow into its place,  we had recess. 

Then the Presentation Day started! 

The first activity was a Quiz for every school. One student from each school had to go up onto the stage so we chose Amelia to represent our school. Each school had to choose a sound as a buzzer. We gave Amelia a Cat sound. Amelia made it into the grand final but we didn't win but at least we had fun. 

We played this game where we throw the ball in the air until the music stops. Who ever had the ball when  the music stopped, had to read out what it said on the ball. Each  word on the ball was an activity. After the Quiz there was a milking challenge. Two people were needed for the activity.  They didn't actually milk a cow. They milked a teat on a bottle. It looked funny! 

 After all the milking we all did an activity together we had to make a own milkshake. We didn't win that because we forgot to put some healthy stuff in there. After that then they announced the cow that won. A school called Emu plains won the Picasso cow presentation. We were close to winning because we look a little bit like them. 

We enjoyed watching the activities and the free Yogurt and Milk they were really tasty.

What did you learn from our Picasso Cow project? What could we do to improve? 

The Vote is in!

Our Picasso Cow project is progressing along!

The students in Years 5 and 6 voted on the designs of their peers to choose the designs that they felt showed the theme "From Paddock to Plate" theme. 

These are the designs that received the most votes:

Amelia, Jemimah and Livia's Design

Zoe and Payten's Design

Cows by Design

The next part of our Picasso Cow Project is designing how our cow is going to look. It needs to reflect the research and discussions that have been occurring through the previous weeks about the Dairy Industry. 

Picasso Cow Project - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

The students showed enthusiasm and came up with a lot of great ideas. They discussed and drew how milk moves from the paddock to the being on the supermarket shelf. A great idea was to create a milk powered Backpack...powered by Calcium. Another idea was a Milky way filled with Dairy products. It will be very hard to choose a design.

A key part of the project is to keep a journal of all that we are learning and doing about the dairy industry and our Picasso Cow project. We have a special blog that has been set up so that we can keep track of the great work that our students are doing. Please take time to visit and feel free to leave a comment on the blog. Please click the photo below to visit our Picasso Cow Project learning Journal.