Here are some Virtual Animal entries that were sent to us. This year there was a great selection of entries and many of our Maunga kids did really well. Great work everyone!
1st Place for Virtual Horse - Ivy L - Photo board for her horse
1st place for Virtual Calf - Nakita Gardiner and Coco
On Friday we shared our learning at our assembly.
Here are are our movies that show our space writing that we put onto green screen. Nui wrote about a starry night, Iti were using adjectives to describe the sun. Come into our class and have a look at all our published stories on our writing frames.
In the afternoons Maunga Iti have been working with Team Maunga exploring rocket launches into space. Hannah worked with Harley Barlow, Susanna worked with Kaelan, Tyler worked with Rakai, and Andrew worked with Ivy and Daniel S, to create a Stop Motion of a rocket launch. First they had to create their rockets in the LEGO room. Then we learnt how to take lots of pictures moving our rocket slowly each step. When we played our movie it made our rockets look like they were launching into space all by themselves. This week we are learning about gravity. The children choose the activity they want to do over the week to learn and explore more about our theme.
Part of week 8's writing challenge had students talking at home and creating escape plans with their parents. Here are some examples of escape plans that children shared.
Keep up the amazing writing guys it is fantastic to see. This week we have enjoyed receiving your different and creative ideas about fire safety.
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Bailey worked with her mum and dad and came up with different versions with the same meeting place. They had great fun thinking and talking together.
Kaelan used Pic Collage to share his ideas about his fire plan and safe meeting place.
Nakita created an Explain Everything about her escape plan.
Aiden even made a cool movie about his fire safety plan!
Here are some movies that the children in our class created based on what we have been focusing on in both writing and within our topic of keeping ourselves safe.
A small group of children work with Mrs G each morning as part of a group who are learning about how writing has a real purpose in life and on strategies that help them get their ideas down. Below are the videos they created as part of this groups focus. They asked some other children in the class to help them make their writing into a movie as they worked out this was something they would need help with.
First they came up with their instructions (morning focus and classroom writing time).
Next they asked buddies to help them video (or take photos) of each of these steps.
Third they asked Mrs G to help them put it into a iMovie.
Then they added their words.
Finally recording their words.
I'm sure you will agree these are fantastic examples of both writing and a real life application of writing for purpose.
How to wash your hands - By Bailey, Riah and Laylah
How to brush your teeth - By Sapphire, Brody, and Parani
This week we have been learning the days of the week in Te Reo. We have been learning the actions to go with it to help us remember.
So...
To help us remember the days of the week, we created a short movie that we can replay to help us.
Mrs G got Matua to help us work out how to convert this into a Matua/Whaea Says (like Simon Says) game which we hope to present at our assembly in Week 2. Thank you Frank, Liam and Cheyne for volunteering to take on this role in our assembly! It is a big one.
Here is the words that we will be using to help us practice our days of the week (as well as other actions that we use in our classroom on a daily basis).
Final installment of these stop motions (THIS TIME AROUND!!!). I'm sure there will be more just around the corner as the children really enjoyed making these and are constantly looking for opportunities to create some more. So watch this space!
This week our team has been having lots of learning about fractions. We have been rotating around different activities including Fractions wall making, Playdough shape cutting, Fractions colouring, and Fractions BAKING!
There is a Explain everything about the Fractions Wall making. Watch this space for more examples from our fractions week.
The Wind Surfers (reading group) have been having fun with their reading. Their reading goal is to read fluently the words on the page and to follow each word. They are getting pretty good at it. As a result we decided to recreate the worm house story with photos of us making one. We invited a group of Maunga Iti learners to join us. Our Boogie boarder reading group who use iPads lots helped to make these look and sound amazing. Well done Everyone!
