Concept learning: Our own designs for the model of Well Being: Hauora

Well done Zachary, this is great learning. You needed to do a lot of thinking.

Great learning Caitlin. Can you think where social well being can be represented?

Some learners decided to collaborate when creating their model, well done Tyler and Hirresh.

Great collaborating girls. You were very determined!

Cobie and Katie you did a good job together to create your model.

Thomas' home learning

Thomas has been doing some amazing home learning!  Look at all his list words that he can remember.  

Well done Thomas!

Reflections about the Howick Historical Village trip

My favourite thing was the winding thing - Luke

I liked the see-saw, it was fun - Alex

I made a boat at the village - Milan

I loved the smelly old duck pond - Xavier

My favourite thing was the school because we get to write.  I used slate - Stella

I liked the games.  I liked the horse game - Thomas

It was funny when the teacher, Mrs White said to Nathan’s Nan “Why are you at school in your underwear?” -  Ella P

I liked the well, the bucket pulled up the water - Marco

I liked the play house, the dolls were cool - Yurie

Tech Group Videos: Now Showing!

In the afternoons some of our students have been learning how to do a range of different things to eventually put together a movie.

They learnt how to:

Operate a camera and take clear photos
Find music on YouTube
Write and perform their own original song
Write a script to go along with their movie and
Combine everything together in iMovie (either on an iPad or computer)

Aren't they amazing learners and collaborators!!

I wonder...

I wonder...

Charlie H.

• "What the white thing is... is it the clouds that they just came out of or is it the smoke coming out the back?
• "Is it just the clouds or is it the world we can see?  Or is it both?"
• "Are the people wearing safety clothes or just normal clothes?"
• "Does it have a little see-through roof or is it just their head poking out in the fresh air?"

Micah

• "Why do airplanes have wings?"
• "Why do they have the little thing that points out like a little spinner (needle)?"
• "Do they have things like when they're driving a car (steering wheel)?"
• "If they have boosters to go fast?"

Thomas

• "Why they have a little wing on the back?"
• "Why they they go so high?"
• "If they have a parachute if they bump and fall out?"

Hats for term 4!

This term we all need to be wearing school hats as it is the summer term just like term 1. We find it useful if there is something attached to our hats so that we can identify our own one really easily.

These group of children are fine demonstrators!

Thank you to our volunteers :-) We like how you have put a ribbon or a button or badges on your school hats. Round of applause for all of you in hub 1!

From next week if you don't bring your hat to school, unfortunately you will have to sit in the shade during break times so please remember to bring them!

How can we help at home? Washing up the cups in writing this week......

We built our knowledge......

by bringing what we already know about washing up.

We predicted how we might wash up ......

We collaborated and drew our picture plan to record our thinking ....

We shared our ideas back to the writing group.

We got our equipment.

We made lots of bubbles.

We practiced....

and practiced....

and practiced...

washing up....

......

scrubbing......

and cleaning....

drying ....

and putting away the clean cups.

Comparing weights in Maths

"It was fun and hard because we measured stuff and I didn't know which one was heavier than the other" - Kate

"It was fun and easy because we had the scales to help us" - George

It would have been tricky if we didn't have any scales" - Ayami

"If you're not sure if one is heavier than the other one in your hands, you can put it on the scales to find out which one is harder and which one is lighter" - Annabelle

"It was challenging when they are really the same weight - then I used the scales" - Rachel

Was it easy to collaborate to start with?  No

Did it get easier?  Yes!

What made it easier?  What did you do to make it work better?  

• We used the scales
• Talking
• Lots of thinking!
• Reflecting - what was bigger and what would be heavier
• We put ourselves into small groups to work together
• We had two leaders
• We had to be determined - "because it was hard if we didn't use the scales and then when people moved things" - Thomas

We learnt that just because something is big it isn't always heavier "because other things look small but they are heavier because they are made from different things" - Dinesan

Our Marae Video...

Thank you to all of our awesome parent helpers - we had a great time on the bus and at the marae... we couldn't have done it without you!

Friday Morning Poetry

Each Friday we look at new poems in the hub.  Here's one of our groups practicing one of the poems, in which they focused on punctuation and expression (especially around the question marks).

Drama!

Today in the hub we did things a bit differently - instead of PE, we were treated to some drama!

Break Through today!

Many groups have been putting a lot of time and effort into their Break Through projects this term and many are starting to come to an end.  Here's a bit of a Break Through round-up for you.

Building Group:

They have boats in Lego City and some bridges and houses and buildings.  To make the bridges we had to push the tables a little bit open and we put the bridges in the middle of them.  The bridges are used for the people that go to the boats and the cars.

By Joe

Drama Group:

First showing...

After the first go, we shared some feedback.  We reflected and said that it might be more interesting if the different actors said and did things.  Do you agree?

So the group practiced and reflected some more to give this performance:

We reflected again and gave this feedback.  We liked the way that the actors said and did things when it was their turn and we liked how they spoke clearly.  We think their next steps could be to remember when it's their turn and they might like to practice more to help them remember.  Well done everyone!

Performing a play (with feedback)

Our Amazing Tower!

Look at our amazing tower that we made together in Break Through time.

By Carys, Sadith, George, Flynn and Thomas

Flynn - “It’s huge we are making a tower. It’s like a Sky Tower.”

Sadith - “We could make a window making cameras.”

George - “We are making a video camera to see if there is danger over night.”

Sadith- “This could be the big ball.”

Thomas - “It could be a camera.”

Sadith peers through the windows at Thomas and was laughing.

Poetry

Each Friday we get into our poetry groups and learn a new poem.  This is something we look forward to!  We've been learning about things like rhyming words and adjectives.

Do you have a favourite poem?