Samoan Language Week

We have been learning to greet each other and share how we are feeling. Next we want to be able to introduce ourselves.

The Giant Pouatai Bird

 

We had to pick a Maori Legend or Myth leading up to Matariki and read it then we had 3 activities we had to complete and a range of activities we could complete.

I read The Giant Pouatai Bird with a group. they had to share their favourite part using screencastify.
The Giant Pouatai was a mean bird so I created a wanted poster to warn people.

Here is the menu of a meal I would share with the old woman in the story. 

Duffy Theatre - Gaming Magic Bricks

Malakai - Before the show I like the dance off  competition.



Iroam - I enjoyed the part where Duffy was sucked into the game.

Letrae - I like how Duffy could jump so high. He said he had to practise and a key is to lift your knees, to get the power ups.

Stinah - My favourite part was when the actors were dancing.



Tinara - Dismantler pulled the blocks out from where duffy was sitting and he would crash.

Puna - I thought the characters in the story were funny.

Victoria - I like how the Dismantler chasing Duffy, because he had brick/block shaped muscles.



Chad  - I was fascinated by the way they could move the stage for what they needed.

Janaya - I like the way they are able to change their voices for the difference characters such as the computer voice.

Kihira - I like when Sam came into the game and helped Duffy Chicken.



Demitrious - I liked how the Puzzler came out and mucked up the word puzzles.

Mythiah - I like how they use audience participation as I was one who could move a brick.

Natik - I like the way they used the bricks to say GAME OVER.

Mrs Mundy - I like how they incorporated all 3 official languages, Te Reo, Sign and English.

Following Instructions

After reading and playing with string we had to order the instructions to show other how to make string for string games. Then we had to add the instructions to make our favourite shape, the parachute, diamonds, teacup and saucer...


You need: Scissors and a ball of string.
Cut a piece of string that is about 120 cm long
Tie a knot with the two ends of the string together.
Put the ends of the string together.
Put the string over your thumbs.
The tuck your pinkies into the string too.
Using your middle finger tuck it into the string on the other hand,
Do this with each middle finger. 
Tuck your thumbs under the third string
The bottom string on your thumbs lift over the top one.
Release your pinkies from the string.

Pink Shirt Day

It was an interesting Day Dressing Up.  We even did Buddy Reading with our Juniors.

Coding - Through Writing

We had a great day creating a code to write secret messages.

After reading Stefania's Dancing Slippers the children had to leave a secret message for her Dad who had left for war.

After deciding which number to start the alphabet e.g.

A   B   C  D  E   F   G  H  I   J   K   L  M  N  O  P  Q  R...
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 1

or A=5 of A=26 (children were working in pairs who had the same code)

We wrote a message then change it into code (this is called encrypting).


It was tricky after we had worked out our message to write the number code making sure the numbers were readable and had space. - Marlie

Working out the secret message was hard to start with especially when number could be 1 and 9 or 19. - Dan

Once I knew half of the message the rest was easier to work out. Demitrious

Coding - Through Math

STEM - Catapults

Then the challenge was to modify the catapult to make it better. Aim straight instead of straight up. (Although this was handy so people didn't get pieces flying in their face)

One part I found tricky was adding the rubber band that twisted around all the craft sticks. - Malakai

was trying to get my catapult to aim straight, more horizontal than vertical so I tried lifting the base of the catapult so it was raised off the table. It still went high with a more horizontal momentum. - Akram

I wanted to aim more accurately so I added more sticks to increase the torque of the spring. It ended up with more power to fling in the object in a vertical direction. - Dante

Heating up the plastic spoon I was able to change the shape of the bucket. Now the object flies in a more horizontal arc. - Paul

We had a lot of fun making a catapult. It was even better when we could change it up I added two buckets. - Josh

Anti-Bullying Pohutukawa Whanau Meeting

(Chorus)
Don't be a bully when you walk through that door.
Don't be a bully…...we don't need that no more
DON’T BE A BULLY

(RAP)
Hey Bullies Listen Up.
Stop Walking Around Thinking Your So Tough.
Walking Around Slapping People On The Head,
It's Time To Make A Stand Yea You Know What I Said.
If You Wanna Stop The Bullying Then You Gotta Make A Change Doesn’t Matter If Your Different Cause We’re All The Same.

Mother's Day Cards

Creating Safe Passwords

We are learning to use trickier passwords so people can't work them out.

We had to pick a sentence like The roof of the class is white 19.
The pass word would now be Tr0tciW19.

We had fun coming up with sentences we could remember.

STEM - Straw Aeroplanes

Today our challenge was to make a straw plane. When we first heard this idea we thought we had to make a plane with wings and a tail and it was tricky to understand how it would fly. Then we watched the video.

I like that this strange shape truly flew. I thought it was completely made up and would fail. - Kingston

Making it from a picture was tricky because we had to guess the size of the two circles. I could see that one was smaller than the other, some people didn't notice this and their planes didn't like flying. - Tawhirimatea

Attaching the straws was easy, but making sure they were spread around the circle was tricky as I didn't want to bend the cardboard circles. - Puna

My plane didn't like flying it kept on breaking. I think my fingers ruined the cello-tape and stopped it sticking. - Iroam

New Toothbrushes

Thank you for my new toothbrush. I enjoy using it as it helps to keep my teeth clean. - Moala

It was neat to great a new brush, because my other one was all worn out. Thank you very much.  D

Writing - Keeping the story rolling.

Passage from a child who usually copies the teacher's example, this was done by herself. Way to go!

I looked out my window, I saw a hopping bunny in my backyard. She was putting eggs out. When the bunny left I walked outside and there was eggs everywhere.

We had just finished recapping beginning a story and how it briefly needs who (I and bunny), where (backyard) and what (putting out eggs).