Week 7: Space Art

This week, for our space project we complete scrafito's. This is where you colour in a piece of paper with lots of different colours and shapes. Once this is done, you then use black paint to cover up all of the colour.

Then once the paint was dry we used a stick to scratch out our design. We had to make it look like we were travelling through the galaxy. Once we were all finished we put them up in our break out room to make it look like the Solar system.

Here is our display.

Week 6: Sick Sentences

This week we have been looking at our revising skills. We have been finding sick (boring) sentences and using our skills to make them better. We have learnt how to use adjectives to make our sentence more interesting. We are beginning to understand what an adverb is and when to use them.

We had great fun sharing all our different versions of the same sentence. The students then went on to finish the story and had amazing ideas, such as exploring for a mythical creature, finding an alien spaceship and being swallowed into a black hole.

Week 5: Ako Hiko Toolkits and Space

This week some of us were very luck to attend the Ako Hiko Toolkits. It was a chance to teach and learn new skills with 6 other schools.

We were very proud of our presenters - Cristian, Zuhair, Alexandra, Florence, Amelia and Muket.  It was very scary but these students showed a lot of resilience and confidence.

Photos can be found here. 

This week we also looked at the Earth's rotation around the sun.  We used spheros and cups to explore and figure out how the planets revolve around the sun.

 

Week 4: Debating do we let the pigeon drive the bus!

This week we have been learning how to plan persuasive writing. We have been focusing on making sure we have reasons to back up our points. We read the book Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus and the students had to decide whether they would or wouldn't. They then spent time writing their points ready to debate.

Here is a video of one of our debates.

Week 4: Blind Drawing

We have been working on our communication skills during oral language. This week we had to each draw a specific image our paper. Students then found their partner, they had to sit back to back so they can not see the other drawing. Students had to make sure they were very clear on their instructions so they other person ended up with the correct drawing.

Week 3: Learning about Synonyms

This week we have been looking at increasing our vocabulary. Our teachers have been reading us a book called Troy's Movie. We were challenged to find better words using a thesaurus. We are looking forward to using these words in our writing.

Wellbeing - Hauora

Hauora is a Māori philosophy of health unique to New Zealand. It comprise taha tinana (physical wellbeing), taha hinengaro (mental and emotional wellbeing), taha whanau (social wellbeing), and taha wairua (spiritual wellbeing). 

Dr Mason Durie's whare tapawha model uses the four components of wellbeing as walls of a whare (house). We built models of houses, then took one of the dimensions away. 

What happened to the houses, when they didn't have the strength of all four walls?

What would happen to us if we didn't have wellbeing in one of the four dimensions?