Today we had our showing of the Kaikohekohe Movies so we are FINALLY able to share one of the movies we created in term 3. The movie was made by Iti and Maunga. It was based around the movie documentary theme.
To make it we watched a few David Attenborough movies so we could get ideas on what types of shots to take and what kind of voice/style we wanted for our Voice Overs.
Our recordings were shot at different times of the day to capture lots of different events, some were funny, some were serious. We had so much fun shooting footage for this movie. Mrs S and Mrs G thought it was halarious watching us finding sneaky places to record from, so they started recording us as well.
Mrs S then helped us to piece it together on the iMac and then we did our 'voice overs'. We hope you enjoy our movie.
This week our shared book has been based around Bees and much of our 'Bee amazing' learning. Here are a few examples of Explain everythings that have been completed by students to share some of what they have been learning.
We have also had students starting to work on the Create part of our 'Bee Amazing' learning. Most students have also made a Bees-Wax wrap (we just have a few people who have been away to catch up). We also had 2 groups of students recording this and have been working hard to make this into a movie. Watch out next week for the upload on this, as one group has a little bit more tweeking to do.
All in all it has BEEn a full on week with lots of great learning.
Hawaiki
(Hawaiki you have become so independent at completeing these and uploading them to the right place)
Tyler
(Love how excited and focused you have become at reading time)
L'Sayn
(What a great example of work you have shared this way! Well done on perserveering to get it finished and uploaded. Keep it up. I can't wait to see next weeks!)
We are learning how to reduce, reuse, and recycle to become more responsible 'tidy kiwi's' by making beeswax wraps.
We looked at the rubbish in our lunchboxes that we were taking home and how we could reduce it and prevent adding to landfills.
First, we created a design on paper based on a honeybee and a flower.
Then, we drew our design onto material (calico) with crayons.
Finally, we grated some beeswax onto the cloth and ironed it.
Here is another post of work from last week. Well done both Hawaiki and Tyler for fixing a few mistakes and posting your work to Drive and Seesaw! You are all doing a fantastic job.
Here are a couple of examples of Explain Everything that were completed last week as part of our reading program. Last week was an extremely busy week for us with all our other activities going on at school, and Mrs G being out for a couple of days as well as Greats and Grands day.
It is fantastic to see how independent some of our tamariki are getting at completing these tasks and uploading them to the right places. Well done guys.
We are hoping to have a few extra "T-Shirts from Nana" EE's added to our blog later this week, but enjoy these in the meantime. Also, look out for this week's Honeymakers activity which will also link to our play make create T-Shaped literacy, reading and Beeswax wraps that we will be completed in class this week and next.
Greats and Grands 2020 was again a great hit with both grandparents and students. It is such a fantastic opportunity to see these generations together and sharing/connecting with each other. Grandparents a such an important connection to our students. This year in team Maunga we even had 'fill-in grandparents' as some whanau couldn't make it due to our current COVID-19 situation. To those grandparents who traveled from across New Zealand to be with us; thank you so much.
As normal our morning started with an assembly but today was a little bit different as this was in front of a large crowd of visiting grandparents. We performed our kapa haka with Matua Dwayne's help. It also rained while we were performing so we had to quickly move to an inside space to continue. This did not phase us at all!
When we got to the new space, it was time to share a few speeches about our special people. Evie, Hawaiki-Roa, James, and Tyler did an amazing job of sharing their work. We were all very nervous but did a great job. (We will upload 3 of these as movies at the bottom of this post)
After our assembly, we took our grandparents back to our classes to have a look around and to present them with special Tonga we had created, and a card and story about them. We also had made little bookmarks that said things like 'I love you'. Our grandparents were excited about these and most wore their Tonga for the rest of the time. Mrs G snapped some pictures of us before we all headed back around the front for some yummy Kai.
After our yummy Kai, we did a quick jump jam with our grandparents (even as it started raining again). Our normal games had been called off due to the weather. All in all it was a fantastic day, making memories with our grandparents.
We had a fabulous day last Friday celebrating our Greats and Grands.
The day started with an assembly. Maunga were amazing with their Junior Kapa Haka performance. We really appreciated Matua Dwayne's support with his guitar and vocals. Giovanni, Manaia, Abraham, and Tayani presented their speech about their special person to the whole crowd! We were so proud to see them stand up in front of so many guests to share their writing. After assembly we took our greats and grands back to our classroom to show them our learning and present our gifts we had been working on this term, a special necklace toanga and a beautiful card with their writing. This was followed by a delicious morning tea. The weather changed our plans from whanau games to a group Jump Jam.
This year with COVID-19 our school speech assembly wasn't able to take place as we would have liked, so rather than canceling it we postponed it until it was safe to hold this event altogether.
All children wrote speeches as part of our Term 3 learning and these were outstanding. Quinn and Kaden were the children selected from Team Maunga Iti, and Amelia, Hannah, Tommy, and Sadie were selected from Team Maunga, to share their persuasive writing/speech making.
Here are their speeches, as they were great examples of what Year 1 and 2 students can strive to achieve. (These will automatically play below so keep watching).
Each year Mrs G organizes an Angel week at school for all the teachers. This is great fun for everyone as we get to all try and guess who is who's angel and ... WHO DOESN'T like getting presents and seeing others open them.
Maunga are especially lucky as they become the Angel delivery service! Here are some pictures of our little angels ready to go out and do some deliveries.
We had so much fun! We can't wait for Angel week next year!
