Bees Wax Wraps - Maunga

Team Maunga was really engaged in the process of beeswax wrap making and 2 groups of children decided to make a movie to share the process on how we would make them and created storyboards to show this.  They then recorded the rest of the class making their beeswax wraps.  They then went back and added to their storyboard.

Once the videos and storyboards were sorted, children worked with Mrs G on editing and trimming these in iMovie.  The groups worked hard on this and were able to cut movies down (Then Mrs G did cut a bit more out as well to make it a better length).  The next day the groups worked on their movies again recording and typing in the words from their storyboards.  Finally, the groups choose backing music and turned its volume down on this, so they could still hear their recorded words.

Here are the movies that have been created.

Subira, Evie, Quinn

Tommy, Tyler, Hawaiki

 

Te Tino O Te Taiamai - Shared book

Mrs G wrote a Story for our Shared book Last week, and we became the illustrators for our own book.  Then Mrs G turned it into a digital book that we could read whenever we wanted to.  WE LOVE IT!  

It was based on our visit to Te Tino O Te Taiamai.  This week while Team Moana was away at school camp we were also able to borrow Whaea Aimee to help us turn it into a Movie, where we were the stars.  We had so much fun learning and reading about our local landmark.  We also wrote our own stories which we published as well - We were so excited to share these with Matua Ken.

Below is our Digital book, and the Movie we made.  We will create another post with our amazing Te Tino O Te Taiamai Stories.

 

Karakia to support a pepeha speaker

Here is a rewindable learning video Team Maunga created to help them learn this karakia that would support someone who saying their pepeha.  Again leading up to our Auckland trip, where we will visit and stay on a Marae this video will be very useful to help us all remember what we could say.

Pepeha learning

In Team Maunga we like to learn about our Pepeha and to begin sharing these with others.  Here is a rewindable learning video to help team Maunga (especially leading up to the zoo trip).

Ma is white

Here is a video that Team Maunga created to help them learn and remember words for Te Reo this term.  It starts with our traditional Ma is white and then it introduces the new Te Reo words and actions.  

To create this our class recorded using greenscreen.  Several of our Year 2 children were able to support Whaea Carol to learn how to do greenscreen.  Thank you Khloe, and Legacy for that.

You taught Whaea Carol about how to download pictures that are free to use and modify, then your showed her how to put them into DoInk (our greenscreening app), and then how to record and save our little clips.

This video also required us to create the music.  Mrs G helped us to use garage band to create a backing track and record our lyrics.  We had to create lots of different layers to make the final track.

Finally we were able to piece it all together.

This has been a great opportunity to use both our Technology, Te Reo and Music to help us rewind our learning.  Matua Ken loves using these videos to help us and the other teams at Ohaeawai School to learn Te Reo.

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.

Simile Story challenge

What am I Story challenge!

I have two wings and a nose.
I have a tall tail.
I soar among the clouds.
I have many viewing spots, where eyes can look through to see the world below.
I fly many, many kilometres year after year to exciting destinations around the world.
What am I?


By Miss Fletcher


I have a big tail.
I love to eat fish
I soar among the sea.
I drown everyone around in fear.
I have stared in many movies, always the bad guy.
What am I?

By Braeden


I have a frame.
My frame comes in different colors.
You can see through me.
I am used for reading.
I have two arms and two big glass eyes.

What am I?

By Ronan

Instruction videos - Linking writing to real purpose

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

How to cross the road - By Honey, Legacy and Sage

How to do the Floss - By Felicity, Aiden and Liam

(They even got MRS G involved - LOL)

Stop Motion Movie Making Instructions

This week during writing time children working with Mrs C Monday and Wednesday were asked to make a  movie explaining the steps of stop motion.  

Their first task was to discuss the steps that needed to make a movie.

Write these down clearly for others to read and listen to.

Record the scenes that supported each of the steps.

Piece it all together using iMovie - including adding the written steps.

What a great result they have come up with.  Ruby, Nicole and Heidi did a great job of piecing it together and they did a great job of sharing it at assembly.  Well done.

Heidi I am so proud of you for stepping up and volunteering.  This was not your writing group but when you saw and opportunity to get yourself involved you grabbed it (and nailed it).  To be honest, once you saw the opportunity to get involved.  MAGIC!!!

Fractions - Cupcakes in a mug baking

As part of our fractions rotation children have been working with a buddy to reading a recipe with lots of fractions in, and discussing what that means and finding the right measuring cups/spoons to use for each ingredient.  Please feel free to remake these at home.  If you can come up with some new cupcake recipes that help you and your children discuss fractions at home, please feel free to share these in the comments below so that this post becomes a resource for everyone.

Here are some photos of the kids with their finished cupcakes, just before they go into the microwave for 2 minutes.

Here is the link to the recipe we used for this lesson.

 

 

 

Fractions Wall building

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.

Found Poems - Get NZ Writing

Here are some examples of Found poems that we created.  We looked them up and decided they were a bit like blackout poems.  Below are some examples of what we came up with.

To make them we had to start with a piece of text.  We decided that rather than using a newspaper we would use some of the story we had focused on last week.  And why not ... MONSTERS are ALWAYS a fun topic.

Second we spent time finding and circling key words that we liked in the writing.

Next we found words that would link our key words together.

Finally we spent time blacking out the rest of the words on the page.  

Maia                               Parani                           Ruby

 Kayelani                        Sara                         Charlee

 Liam                             Aiden                           Stella

 Laylah                            Olivia

'I can see' stories

Lately in Team Maunga we have started extending a simple sentence as part of our weekly writing.  The children are able to take this to a variety of different stages and ALL are able to succeed and challenge themselves with it.

Some children work on using the simple sentence to tell their story.  Some children add simple extensions, and others are now working towards elaborating on one idea.  

A child from our 'Accelerated Writing Group' shows how a simple I can see sentence, can be created into a magical piece of writing.  She was so excited to share this at our school assembly on Friday and is eager for this to be included on our blog.  

This is also a great example that we can use as a rewindable learning moment with the children next week as we work on our next simple sentence.  Well done Nicole.  Great stuff!

Elgregor Magic Show

This week we have been trying to use Explain Everything more to create and share our ideas for writing.  Here is an examples of how we have used it this week.  Keep watching out for more examples.

This is a recount that Stella wrote about going to the Elgregor Magic Show.  She was very motivated to write about this because she was chosen to be a helper during the show.

Stella was really excited about her work as well because she knew she had included all the elements for recount writing.  She had her Introduction, Body and Conclusion (we refer to this in class as a hamburger).  What made our class even more proud of Stella is that she did this independently and only had some support in publishing this - mainly because she initially tried publishing in Pic Collage but soon discovered that you couldn't record it.  

Great learning all around.  Well done Stella.

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.'

Maths Statistics Inquiries.

What a busy start to school we have had in Team Maunga.  Mrs G has been working hard to establish new routines to make using iPads in our class easier and while she was doing this she discovered some Statistics work that we had wanted to share (but it got lost in our old system).  So here it is

Children came up with ideas/topics to ask questions about.

Laylah continued on with finding out about how much plastic is brought to school in peoples lunchboxes.  This showed that in Team Maunga we don't bring much 'plastic rubbish' to school, with many children in Team Maunga not having any rubbish at all.  She found that in Team Awa there seemed to be more rubbish and in Team Moana there was LOTS.




So in Team Maunga we have decided to set a CHALLENGE!

We want to Challenge the other teams to beat us next time we do this survey.  Lets reduce our rubbish and keep our school looking fantastic!