Lego Maze Coding

Today Team Maunga split into 2 groups for Coding.  Tanya and Mrs R stayed in the class and learned about scratch and Mrs G took a group into the Library to do some coding unplugged.

Mrs G's group worked with buddies and used Lego to build simple mazes and then had to get their Lego character to move from the start of the maze to collect the treasure at the end.  Keywords for this learning were, forward, backwards, turn, left, right and 90 degrees.

      

Waiahi also went home and redid this activity to show her parents.  They recorded it and sent it back to school.  Check it out! 

GREEN ROCKETS FOR BASIC FACTS

Congratulations to these four boys for being able to get 100% in their stage 2-3 basic facts check this week.  They are very excited to be able to trade their red basic facts rocket in for their new green basic facts rocket.  Well done guys.  Can't wait to see how you keep improving. 

Looking forward to seeing lots of other kids move onto their green rockets too.

Week 9 - Word Works Star

Here we go again with 3 Minute Frenzy Stars

Congratulations Levi, Jemima and Beau.  Remember everyone to keep practicing writing word families as this is a way to get quicker at writing as many words in 3 minutes as you can.  Start with ones like 'at, cat, mat, sat, bat, rat, that, spat...' then move on to other ones like 'it, fit, bit, sit, mit, kit ...'. 

Maunga Iti's Assembly Term 3 2018

On Friday Maunga Iti did an amazing job sharing their learning at assembly. We were so proud of all the children standing up to talk into a microphone in front of the whole school. Mrs Edwards was really impressed by the way you used clear strong voices. Tisayah did an awesome job on the computer changing our presentation slides. 
Well done Nate for getting our class Cool Kid Certificate this week for his great progress in reading!

We made a movie for our 'Chicken Yeah!' song. We made up some chicken actions and dances to go along with the music. We had a lot of fun pretending to be flying, scratching, racing. clucking, chickens!

We also made a movie to show our school values and how we practise these values every day at school. Our values are responsible, reliable, honest, caring, trustworthy, and respect. We also talked about why these values are important and how we can be the best that we can be.

Our native bird pastel art is up on Room 4's walls. They look very impressive with their warm coloured birds on a cold coloured forest background. The children used strong, bright colouring techniques.

Last Wednesday we had our inter school cross country. Well done to all the children who ran in their first ever cross country! Here are some photos of Maunga Iti children at the end of their long race. 

Keep up the great learning Maunga Iti. I can't wait until our next assembly!

Fifth Installment of Stop Motion Movies

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!

Liam, Violet, Harlem

Riah, Levi, Charlee

Riah, Charlee

Nicole, Rakai

Frank, Xoriin, Tahlia, Asha

Aiden, Saxdyn, Bailey, Travis

Sage

Fourth Installment of Stop Motion Movies

Yes!  Here we are again.  The children in our team had great fun making these and are so eager to share.  We hope you enjoy.  Please keep commenting and adding your ideas and thoughts.  See if you can work out what these stop motions are about.

Grace, Waiahi, Ollie

Kaye-lani, Ivy, Ross

Heidi, Felicity, Calla

Riah, Levi

Stella, Nakita, Sienna G

Welcome to Room 4!

Last Friday we had our first assembly. All the kids spoke so well in front of a large audience to share their learning. Here are two items we shared in assembly. In the first video we are introducing ourselves in Te Reo with our box selfies we made. The second video is a movie we made about getting ready for school. Harvey and Kaelan shot all the footage independently! Keep an eye out on the blog for our sequel - 'Learning Time.'