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

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.

Maunga Nui and Iti's Assembly 10th May 2019

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. 

Here are their Stop Motions.

Week 11 - 3 Minute Frenzy Stars

Here are term 1's final 3 minute frenzy stars (We did it a day early as we have heaps of fun planned for our last day). 

A big congratulations to all our tamariki on how they are setting themselves goals to improve each week.  Love seeing how you are achieving your goals Team Maunga.

 Remember to keep practicing over the holidays so you are ready for Term 2. 

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!

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 6 Term 1 - 3 Minute Frenzy

Here is this weeks 3 Minute Frenzy Stars.  They are showing both how they can write words quickly and also improve their own personal bests.  Well done Nerali, Harley and Rakai.  Keep working hard.  We can't wait to see what you can achieve by the end of this year!

Week 4 - 3 Minute Frenzy Stars

This weeks 3 minute frenzy stars go to 3 students who are working hard to get better and write more words within the 3 minutes.  These students may not have gotten the highest scores in our class we like to share the successes that our students make along the way. 

Well done Rakai, Aston and Beau for bettering your score from last week.  Can't wait to see what you can all do next week.

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.

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!

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

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.'