RA HAKA DAY! (Friday 19th May)

 This was an amazing day lead by Whaea Maha and Matua Te Tahi.    If you have ever wondered what it was like to do a Haka with 400 people this post will show you how amazing it is.  The hairs on your arm prickle as the strength and mana of the tane voices bellow and the dulcet voices of the wahine give another layer to the power of this Haka.  It was a very tiring day but what a privilege to be a part of.  I hope we have another one to practise what we have learnt.  Do you have a school Haka?

TOTARA

MATAI KAURI RIMU WHOLE SCHOOL

My Top 5 pick for Stories

 In Class, we have been writing recounts.  Our focus has been on adding detail, upgrade their words to sound sophisticated, and different ways to start a story.  Each of these stories do something from our focus well.  What do you like about them?

The Power of Yet - Growth Mindset

In a growth mindset, people believe that they can develop and grow.  The Power of Yet, establishes that we may have found something hard, this means we just haven't mastered it - yet!  Here is what the kids watched and here are my top 5 responses.

               

Part of the task was to pull out the key messages of each video and put it into their own words or key sentences that stood out to them.  It ended with a final reflection of what they got out of these videos.  Here are 5 from our class.

ATN Research Projects

As an end of year activity ATN was asked to chose a topic related to camp.  We went to curious cove!

Creating questions to answer, they had to research their information on the internet.  BUT it had to be written in their own words.  It could not be copied and pasted.  This is called Paraphrasing.  Here are my picks for top 5 research projects.  Tell me what was your favourite slide and something you learnt?

Manufacturing Media - adverts

 In Manaiakalani, our class has been looking at the power of media.  How they have two messages.  To get us to DO something, or to get us to BUY something.  Here are a few of our awesome adverts created in the last two weeks.  Do they make you want to do it/ buy it?

What Good Writers Do!

 At the end of last term, ATN had to put together a teaching slide about all the things they had learnt in writing.  It had to give an example and use a range of media to present their learnings.  They have blown me away with what they learnt.  I wish I could post all 24  but I will add just my top 5.  P.S.  it has been really hard to narrow it down.  I hope you learn something from these very cool slides.  Leave us a comment about your favourite tool or new learning.  Enjoy.

Our Classroom Political parties

 Over the next three weeks we are learning about the New Zealand Political system and government.  In the process, we are creating our own political parties.  This involves coming up with our key classroom values and 3 laws they think will make better classroom.  We will be holding elections at the end of week 4.

Our next step is to have a leaders debate.

For now here are the advertisements promoting each of the parties in our classroom elections.