Pet day Virtual Animal Entries

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

2nd Place - Bailey Thomas and her horse

3rd place - Ava with Kalua

4th place - Rakai with his dog Luna

Great entry from James and his dog Daisy

Great Entry from Lucus and Snowflake

Great entry from Hawaiki Roa and his dog

Great entry from Nakita and her dog Alfie

Team Maunga Movies

Here are our Auckland trip movies. We entered them in our School Movie Competition.  

This is how we made them:

1. Took videos and photos while we were on our trip of all our adventures.
2. Sorted the videos and photos so that it was easy to make a movie about different parts of our trip.
3. Choose a movie trailer in iMovie and then change the storyboard to suit our trip.
4. Insert the movies and photos into this storyboard so it matches with our story.
5. Check and edit our movies to make sure it is as correct as possible.
6. Upload it 

We hope you enjoy watching them.

Zoo

By Waiahi and Ivy L

Marae Stay

By Nerali & Kaelan

Kelly Tarlton's

By Nakita

Spring Blogging Challenge - Nakita

Yipee!  I woke up, I ran to the kitchen. I got a surprise on the fridge I saw a note it said, "Today is the  Okaihau traverse".  It was the Sunday morning that daylight savings changed, Mum, Royston, Jayden and I got up super early so we could get ready for the 9km traverse in Okaihau.

First, we got to Kaikohe very early in the morning. There were a lot of cars.  While we waited for the bus we got our bibs on.

Next we saw the bus.  We got on it and it took us to the starting line.

Finally, we ran an ran. I finally got to the end

It was a great morning and I got 2 prizes.  I had a fun time.

   

T shaped literacy

We have started using T-Shaped literacy in our class.  We read books as a class and then work with buddies at our table to record ideas about questions that help us think about the things that are happening in the stories.  Here are some photos and an Explain Everything that was created during this time as part of T-Shaped literacy work.  

Our T-Shaped literacy often links both our reading and writing together as well as topics we are focusing on.  Currently, we are focusing on Animals, looking at different types of animals and their different habitats (both in the wild and as zoo animals and as pets.  This is helping us get ready for our Zoo trip in late August.

The previous topic that we were focusing on was about Myths and Legends.  Here is an Explain Everything of a story that was being re-told.  Our publishing during this Myths and Legends T-Shaped literacy focus was acting out myths we had focused on and we recorded these.  We hope to be able to share with you all what these look like.

Recount Story Publishing

Here are some examples of Recounts that have been written this last week.  Super proud of how the children are structuring their writing to include their introduction, body and conclusion.  This helps our children to form a story that is interesting and informative for the people that are reading.  No wonder some of our children are wanting to become authors when they grow up.  Well done everyone.  Keep up the great work.

Nate

Waiahi

Jemima

Beau

Nakita

Isla

Kaelan

Harley

Planet reports

In term 2 we have worked hard to create different reports about both the planets and thing that happen in space.  Here are a few planet reports that have been green screened.  We hope you enjoy.  Please leave us a comment.

Rocket Coding

Today we have been working with coding in scratch again.  We linked this to our learning in class which is about space and ROCKETS which we are VERY excited about.

Here are a few examples our coding.  Enjoy and don't forget to comment and ask us questions.

Collaborative stories for Easter

Today we were working with our learning buddies to create collaborative stories about the easter bunny.  Have a look at how cute the kids were at reading their stories.

George & Rakai

Nakita

Beau

Nerali & Nate

Aston

Leo & Harley

Ivy K & Mila

Ivy L & Taysia

Waiahi & Harley B

Mesiah

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! 

Saturday Morning Rugby

Here are a few pics of children from team Maunga at their second rugby day muster.  Great seeing the children learning the skills of rugby and how to work as a team.  Keep it up Team Maunga, you rock!

Week 8 - 3 Minute Frenzy

This week Maggie joined the word works group in room 6 and did her first 3 minute frenzy in her book.  She did great and achieved 12 words with Mrs G helping her to think about words. 

This week Mrs G set the challenge for the rest of our word works group to complete their 3 minute frenzy without her prompting them with words to write.  This was quite a challenge but despite this Harley and Nakita achieved their personal best and in Nakita's case, she met goal of 21 words for this week.  Well done both Harley and Nakita.

Keep up the great work everyone, I really love seeing what you can do.

Maths Problem Solving

This week children in Team Maunga have been working on a problem that requires sorting, grouping, classifying and discussing their ideas.  It leads to lots of discussions of how to represent numbers and even looking for numbers to add together to quickly find out answers.  Fantastic stuff Team Maunga

Here are a few photos of groups sharing their ideas with the class.  Well done guys.  Can't wait for next week.

Swim Safe with Tracey

Today we had swim safe with Tracey.  We got to practice making huddles and forming lines so we could learn how to work together to stay safe together and look after each other in the water.

We got to practice these on dry land, and then in the water with life jackets on.  It was fantastic to be able to play in the water with life jackets on as this is very different to our normal swimming.  But just as important.

Here is a video that a group of children made up following the session this afternoon.  Thanks Colin, Waiahi, Taysia, Jemima, Nakita and Beau for taking the time at the end of the day to finish this for us.

3 Minute Frenzy

This week we began our 3 minute frenzy work in Team Maunga.  3 minute frenzy is where children practice writing as many words as they can in 3 minutes, the scores children get are then recorded and we will celebrate the improvements that children make in this.  

Here are a few examples of work children did in this time this week.  

Well done, Kaelan, Nakita and Waiahi!  Top scores this week!

Writing our versions of 'Baby Shark'

This week as part of writing our children turned one of their favorite songs into a new version.  Here are 2 that we shared with our assembly.   First the children listened to different versions of 'baby shark' and then had little chats about how they could change it.  We have cleaning up version to santa versions to dinosaur and kiwi version.  It was fantastic.  

Lets just say our writing on this day was not particularly quiet, but the children were very focused on their own versions, singing them away to themselves as they wrote.  

Afterwards the some children had time to record their versions in garage band using a backing track Mrs G had already made up for them.  Then this was used in iMovie to record their version.  One group even used the green room to record their version.

Well done to you all.   Writing songs is a great reason to write, and it is so fun too.

Baby Elf. 

By Olivia.

Baby Dinosaur.

By Sienna G.

Reading Plays

Every now and again Mrs G brings her iPad in from home.  When she does we sometimes use an app called puppet pals.  This is a great way to record stories and plays, however we don't have it on our school iPads.  This week Mrs G came up with a way to replicate something like puppet pals on Explain Everything.  Here are a few examples.  

The First story was the play, The birthday cake that the Hovercrafts reading group had.  They broke into 2 groups to record the whole story.  Enjoy.

Part 1

By Honey & Nakita

Part 2

By Kaelan, Harvey & Rakai

Watch out for next weeks version of 'The Terrible Fright'.  It was one of the books that the Water skiers read during the week.  They really enjoyed starting to make this into a play as well, so WATCH THIS SPACE!

Great work everyone!

Fire Story Publishing

This week we have been writing stories to help us think about fire and fire safety. One of our writing tasks this week meant that we would revisit OREO writing, with this weeks focus being that fire alarms are important.  We hope that this will help our blog readers to comment on week 9's writing challenge.

Enjoy.

Harvey

Nakita

Ross

Waiahi

Calla

Aiden

Sienna M

Nicole

Heidi

Lucus

Tahlia

Escape plans from week 8 - Writing Challenge

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.

  

Felicity                               Sienna M

Khloe                                    Harvey

 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!

Plant Report Publishing

This week we broke into 2 groups for publishing.  One group published their work by hand to go up on our writing wall, and the other group published on explain everything, so we could share these examples and help us to reflect on our learning.

This weeks writing has focused lots on how we write reports, as a topic to focus on we looked mainly at plants and herbs.  The children really enjoyed going out each morning to gather herbs from our school garden.  On friday we painted some concrete blocks with the words Kawakawa on to support Team Awa's gardening as a thank you.

We talked about reports needing an introduction, followed by information specific to what it is the report is about, and then a conclusion.  Here are some of our finished publishing examples for you to enjoy and comment on.

Abby

Kaelan

Kaye-Lani

Liam

Nakita

Olivia

Ollie

Parani

Prayz

Riah

Looking forward to seeing your comments.

Writing happens outside of school

Here is an example of a piece of writing a child completed over the holiday.  When she arrived at school on the first Monday back she asked if she could please publish it onto an explain everything and then have it uploaded to our blog.  Well done Sienna M.

Here is also an example of another piece of writing that a child created to share with the class as they were away sick.  She logged onto our class site to view what it was that the class was writing about.  She was lucky as she had access to a family iPad at home and did her work straight onto it and then shared it with our class.  Well done Nakita. 

Both pieces of writing are great examples of how writing can be an enjoyable thing to do both at school and at home.  They are also great examples that we can use as rewindable learning moments to share in class as part of learning we will do in the future.  Well done.



If your child does complete writing at home please help us to share it by either sending it to school with them or taking a photo of what they have done and emailing it to us directly.  Our kids love seeing their work up on the blog and getting comments and questions about what they are doing and learning.  This is such an important part of their learning journey.