Our presenters today

Well done to Mikayla and Ted representing Hub 5 on the stage today at the Manaiakalani film festival.  

You did us proud!

Nature Crafts- Rock Painting

Concept- Term 2

This term our focus for concept has been well being.

The learners have initially been looking at emotional well being

We needed to collaborate in our learning.

We made connections between emotions and the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

We made connections between our feelings and colours.

What makes you happy, sad, angry or worried?

Our writing about Luigi

Luigi came for a visit.  Luigi is cool.  Luigi is at school.  He has a treat.

By Ivan

Luigi came to school.  He came to me today.  Luigi came to hub 5.  Luigi flew.  Luigi is black and white and blue and grey.  He sounds like a squeaky.  He is going up and down his stick.

By Cobie

Yesterday Luigi came to Hub 5.  Luigi chirped in his cage.  He ate his food.  I like Luigi because he is blue.  

By Mikayla

Luigi came yesterday to Hub 5.  We sat in a circle.  He jumped in his cage.   

By Zara

Luigi came to school because Mrs Freddy wanted us to meet him.  Mrs Freddy took Luigi around the room.  He was very cute.  Luigi jumped to his traffic light.  Luigi made sure his feathers were in the right place.  Luigi is special because he is as blue as the sky. Luigi sounds like a singing bird.  Luigi looks like a baby bird.  But Luigi is not a baby bird he is a teenager bird.

By Mishara

Luigi sounds like a squeaky toy.  Luigi is black white blue and grey.  He is special because of his colour.  Luigi is cleaning himself.

By Anton

Luigi came to school and he came today.  Mrs Freddy wanted us to meet him because she thought that we might be glad.  He was in Hub 5 / 6.  He was jumping in his cage.  He was swinging.  He is a boy because Mrs Freddy said.  Luigi is as blue as the sea.  He is singing so sweetly.  His colour is special.  He is special because he can fly.  He has a treat and a sharp beak.

By Lucy

Luigi was flying and he was jumping around in his cage.  He is cute because he is blue.  He was walking side to side.  Luigi is black white blue and grey.  He has wings to fly.  Luigi uses his swing to sharpen his nails.  He is as blue as the sky.  Luigi is blue like my Stonefields top.

By Jack M

Thinking critically in reading (and justifying too!)

Today in reading one of our groups thought about a character who liked to make up stories.  He did lots of imagining and didn't quite tell the truth about what happened.

We had to decide if what he did was right or not and placed ourselves on this continuum.  We also had to justify our thinking (which we all did a fabulous job of!)

(Click the image below to enlarge it and read our thinking)

We decided together that it's great that Eddy made up imaginative stories but he should have told the teacher that they were his ideas from his mind, rather than really what happened.

Break Through: Face Painting

Our next steps in Probability!

Today after our probability learning we reflected on what our next steps might be...

"My next step is to choose different colours and not choose all colours for the answer" - Lily R.

"To make them harder because Lily R kept getting them right" - Bella

"About closing my eyes and picking a lollypop stock" - Mikayla

"Learning about what likely and unlikely means" - Dan

"How to use other probability words like 'more likely'" - Jahvan

"To think about what I need to do with the probability words" - Mina

Cultural Day in LH1

We've had such a great time today in Learning Hub One - it's been Cultural Day!

Here we are in the morning.  We were really proud of ourselves as every single learner was able to talk on the microphone to say where they come from!

We paraded through the school showing off our cultural dress and recorded what we thought of our clothes...

Would you believe that Kyan (who was dressed as a New Zealand farmer) even arranged for some lambs to come and visit us?!  Here we are with Lily and Simba.  We asked lots of really good questions at the end of their visit.  Thank you Kyan and your Mum for organising this amazing surprise!

We sketched picture of each other in our cultural dress and had to pay close attention to the details.

Then in the afternoon, some of our big buddies from Learning Hub Three came to perform some of their Kapa Haka waiatas and hakas.  We were very lucky to get a private performance!

We had a fun day today celebrating all of our different cultures!!

Learners and parents, please share your comments and thoughts either in this box below or by leaving a comment...

Cultural Day in LH1... at AnswerGarden.ch.

The Dolphin Rescue

Today in Discovery Time, Maya illustrated a series of pictures based on a story that she, Charlie S., George, Mikayla and Dan shared.  Here they are to explain what they came up with...

Dancing to the Beat

Look at the Break Through Group- we learning how to use the count of 8 to help us with our dancing.

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!