Taking the learning home

This week we have been doing lots of work at school about COVID-19 and keeping ourselves safe from germs that are around us.  One of our Play, Make, Create activities was to create a germ using wool and pipe cleaners.  Peri create a very cute one and uploaded it to his seesaw account, and took the piece of art home with him.  A few days later I get a very cute photo back from his mum to show me the cake he had asked for, for his birthday.  

It wasn't a super hero cake or a truck or farm one...  

It was a replica of his Germ creation that he had taken home earlier in the week!

It is always fantastic to see and hear how learning that happens at school can be continued on at home and how excited and engaged children are in their learning!  Keep it up Peri!

10 colourful Squares/Monsters

Here is a movie to show the shared book that we created for maths about our shape monsters.  These are stories we created to share our knowledge about numbers.  We hope you enjoy.

We took pictures of our work and then put them into Explain Everything.  We then recorded ourselves reading our stories to share with everyone.

 

Maunga and Iti's Lock down message

Here is the message we all worked hard to create at the end of Lockdown.  We shared it at our whole school assembly that we had online towards the end level 3 before we returned to school.

Enjoy.

Maths movie for Farming maths.

Here is a movie that we took of children completing maths work.  Our class topic at the moment is all about farms and farming.  We hope you enjoy.

Stop motion creations to publishing our writing

This week we were very excited about our publishing.  We had written stories about events on a farm and then we created a stop motion to show this.  We then recorded over the top our stories and this was our publishing.  We had so much fun.  It was hard work but we really enjoyed this experience.

Andrew

Colin

Evie

Peri

Farm Scenes Using Stop Motion

Currently, we are doing a fantastic school kit called 'the farming kit'  So lots of our learning at the moment is all about farming and what it is like, the animals, who work on farms and why they are important.  

This week we had lots of fun working together to create small movies using the blocks, farm animals, and vehicles that Mrs G brought in.  

Some things we have been learning about when making Stop Motion movies

• You need to set your scene up, where it's not in the way (otherwise it gets broken by accident)
• You have to take LOTS of pictures
• Each picture is only slightly different from the last picture (MOVE IT JUST A LITTLE BIT).
• Your iPad needs to be set up so it doesn't fall over or get moved.

Here are some examples of what we have been doing to practice these skills.

Colin

Andrew Tyler & Quinn

Colin, MacKenzie & Peri

James & Dimitri

MacKenzie & Peri

Author Unknown

Sadie

Tommy & Hawaiki

MacKenzie 30 Nights reading

This week Mackenzie earned her 30 Nights Reading certificate. We're so proud of all the reading that is happening at home in Maunga Iti.

Keep up the great reading Mackenzie!

Charlee's Farm Stop Motion

Charlee has been learning to use the the farm set to create a stop motion. You need to remember to only use small movements for each shot. Charlee took over 20 photos to get 5 seconds of video. She is now showing others how to do it too. 

Harry 30 Nights Reading!

Way to go Harry! 

Harry has earned his 30 nights home reading certificate. We really appreciate the support from home with daily reading.

Nickleby the Magician

Today we had Nickleby the Magician come to visit Here are some of the great messages he had for us to think about as he did his magic.

Respect... do things to others that you would like them to do to you.

Be careful not to say things to others that are not going to help them. Think ... Is it true, is it kind, is it helpful!

It is so important that we follow through with what we say we will do. E.g. we can be relied on to do what we say.

Bullying is...is when someone keeps being mean to you. It is punching (physical) and also the things we say (verbal) as well.

Cyberbullying - it causes lots of damage because it is not so obvious.

Bullying is also exclusion e.g. when we don't let people do things.

Evie and Tyler get 100% in List 2

Well done Evie and Tyler for getting 100% on list 2.  You now have an extra list added to your ring of words.  Well done.  You also got to choose the colour for the list 3 words cards.  Onwards and upwards.  

Keep practicing your lists everyone and this can be you too.  Remember that you must get 100% on the whole list before you can move up to the next level, not just all your spelling words for the week.  So keep practicing reading and writing ALL your list words.  They are also super helpful when writing little stories at school and at home.

Hawaiki Roa - 30 Nights Home Reading!

Well done Hawaiki Roa! 

Hawaiki Roa is Maunga Iti's first learner to achieve 30 nights reading at home. Each night after you read and sign the reading log at the back of their learning journal they get a sticker to help them get to their reading goal. There will be a few more earning this soon with all the wonderful reading that is happening at home. Keep up the great work!

Sunshine Classics Fun

This week we have been learning how to login and use Sunshine Classics.  For some, it was just a quick refresh and learning their new login details.  For others, this was more difficult, but we are really proud of each other as everyone can now login with NO teacher support!

This is great learning for all and will be something that supports our reading learning both in class and to continue this at home.   Sunshine Classics is fantastic as the teacher sets books for students to read and then students can login and complete both reading and activities based around books at their current reading level.

Ask your child to login and show you at home.

Evie and her Ring of Words

Today Evie was tested on all her List 1 words.  She got them all correct and got her Ring of Words.  She is so proud of herself.  Keep up the effort Evie and you will soon be getting your List 2 words added to this ring.

Tommy and his Ring of Words

Today Tommy was tested on all his list 1 words.  He can now read and write all of these independently.  Well done Tommy.

Peri and his Ring of Words

Today Peri was tested on all his List 1 words.  He aced it and got all of them correct.  Well done Peri.  Onto list 2.

Ava's last day

Today was Ava's last day at Ohaeawai School.  Her and her family are moving to Australia.  We wish her and her family all the best in their journey.  We are excited about how we may now have a penpal to write and send letters to.  We can't wait Ava!  Remember to send us your new address.

5 Little bubbles Poem

In the last few weeks we have been practicing poems about Bubbles and writing our own stories.  Here is some of our work.  We have been focusing on reading and writing simple sentences that use high-frequency words.  These will help us with our spelling, reading, and writing.  We are so excited about what we are able to achieve.

We also recorded our poem using garage band and then made it into a movie.  We hope you enjoy.

5 Little Bubbles Poem

Bubbles Stories

Ring of words List 1 Achievement

Today we had Tyler ace our List 1 words.  He is so excited at being able to read and write all of these words independently.  Here is Tyler with his certificate and a photo of him with his Ring of Words.

Reading Time in the Library

Mrs C snapped these happy readers loving their time in the library today.

Just a reminder that this is our last week for issuing books this term. During the last week you can choose holiday readers to take home. Please see Mrs C or your classroom teacher if you're interested in borrowing books for the holidays.

Keep up the great reading Maunga Iti!

'Happy New Ears!'

Check out Maunga Nui and Maunga Iti's collaborative infomercial movie 'Happy New Ears!'

We worked together to design a device to help our school values. We then came up with the idea to create an infomercial to advertise our product to enter into our school's movie presentation. We looked at other infomercials and then created our own storyboard. We also designed a logo for our product. We are so proud of how well you all worked together and shared ideas!

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

Greats and Grands Day

We had a great day for Greats and Grands 2019.  Here are some photos of us all together.  We really enjoyed sharing our blogs with our grandparents when we got back to class.

Mesiah's Scratch Jr

Yesterday Tanya came in and worked with Maunga Nui and Iti on Scratch Jr and Bee Bots coding. We had to draw our grandparents and programme their drawing to do something they love.

Mesiah created a Scratch Jr of his family dancing. He is with his nan and sister Manea. Next time Mesiah wants to add music to his animation. 

Additional Movie for our school competition

Here is another movie we created together for our school movie competition.  We learned a song and then decided to remake it to reflect what we saw and liked about being at the zoo.  When we got back from the zoo we set up making masks to use in our movie remix.  Finally, they were finished and we were ready.

This is what we did next.

1. We re-wrote the verses to fit with the animals we had made masks for.
2. We choose backgrounds for each of the animals we were going to record
3. We recorded small clips using a greenscreen app called DoInk.
4. We remade the music to fit our animals and our verses using garage-band.
5. We merged the music and the video clips together using iMovie on the iMac.

We hope you enjoy watching and start singing to our catchy new tune.

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

Maunga Iti at the Library

Every Tuesday Maunga Iti visit the library. We return our books from the week before so we can take new ones home. Sometimes we ask Mrs C if we can have a book for another week because we don't get it finished before Tuesday. 

Today Mrs C spotted these wonderful learners reading quietly. They definitely know what to do in library time!

Harolds First Visit

To start our session we recapped on what to do in a fire.  We talked about where our safe meeting places were (this would be something to talk about at home again as well.  We also talked about ringing 111 and knowing what to say.

Following this, we moved on to talk about how all living things need some of the same things.  These are... 

Food - aim for healthy low-fat sugar and salt.  We need things that will feed our brains and help us get big and strong.  Fruit and vegetables are the best.

BREAKFAST is the most important meal of the day so you have lots of energy for the day.

Oxygen - we breathe air in with oxygen and then we breath out waste called carbon dioxide.  This is what trees need and they breathe out oxygen.

Exercise - this helps our heart.  Our heart pumps air around our bodies.  When we exercise we are making our hearts stronger and get more blood going around our body.  It also helps our lungs get stronger as well.  It is really important and it gives us energy too. 

Water - we are 80% water and we are losing it all the time so we need to keep putting it back into our bodies.  Kidneys need water to help wash the blood and the clean stuff goes back into your body and the dirty stuff is what you end up peeing out.

Sleep - helps your brain.  Your brain's job is to help you control your body and keep your heart pumping and your lungs to keep breathing.  Sleep is really important to help your brain keep everything organised

When we were talking about sleep we also did a few experiments to use both sides of the brain.

The first exercise/experiment, we had to put our left hand on our nose and our right hand on our left ear... then cross these over...

In the second exercise/experiment we had to aim our fingers at our other hand (the target), then again swap these over.

This made us have lots of giggles!

Love - this makes us feel good and gives us energy.  

Safety - keeping personal details safe while online and when out and about.  Wearing safety equipment when playing sport.  Sunblock and sun hats, seat belts. and not talking to strangers...

A quote from today that we liked was ...

"To be the best we can be, we need to make sure we are doing all these things".

Like Harold says - We are all special and unique - we are all amazing.

Harold then came out and shared a joke with us ... why do giraffes have long legs?  They have smelly feet!  And then sang us a really cool song.  

WE LOVE GOING TO VISIT HAROLD!

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.

   

Taking care of an egg

                                                            Taking care of an egg
Mum said," We can't use a real egg because it is Kai"  So I got an eggshell and I filled it up with cotton wool. Then I drew a face on the egg.  I found a plate to carry my eggshell around on. It was hard because I had to look after the egg all day.

My Friend

I am starting school when school starts next term. I am very excited to go to school.

I look after Chilli my pet lamb. I hug Chilli and play with Chilli. I feed him with milk in a bottle. He can run and he chases and tries to bunt  Bronc and Baxter our dogs because he is starting to grow horns.
 

Bird Feeder

How to Make a Bird Feeder

A piece of wood

scissors

cardboard

rocks

bread

First I got some scissors then I cut the cardboard into a house.

Next, I broke some bread with my fingers then I put the bread on the wood.

Finally, I got dad to help me to put the bird feeder onto the netball goal.

My First Fish

My First Fish

Waiahi waiting for the fish to bite.

On Saturday I went to catch a fish off the wharf at Whangaroa. I went with my family and my cousins.  My first fish was a yellowtail. 

First, we waited for Mason and his family to arrive. We waited and when they arrived we started
to fish. I had to use a fishing rod with some nylon on it and there was squid bait on the hook.

Next, I lowered it down into the calm sea and then I felt some big, big nibbles but then the fish
swam away. I then took Uncles fishing rod and there were heaps of hooks on it.
When I felt them pulling I saw two yellowtails. Then I wound it up slowly and then
I caught the yellowtails and I picked the fish up by their heads and put them in the bucket.
They were trying to get out of the bucket and one
slipped out of the bucket. I picked the fish up and the scales were really cool on
my hands when I picked the fish up. They were all over my hands and they were sticking
to my hands.

Finally, we went on to the other little floating wharf and we waited and waited.
We didn’t see any fish so we went back up to the big wharf.
Then I caught one more fish on Uncles rod. I picked it up and put it into the bucket.
It was sliggering around the bucket. It looked really cute.
I wanted to throw it back but I also wanted to keep it.

It was a good fishing day.

Waiahi holding her two Yellowtail fish.