Cook Island Language Week

I can't wait to see the finished products. 

Yummy Treat

Every couple of weeks the Senior Leaders have decided that Fun Fridays need a treat with them. This week we received cupcakes and each student was able to ice their own. 

No two cupcakes were the same. We even had stars we could add to remind us of Matariki.

Creating Patterns

Over the last few weeks, we have been looking at patterns. We start with Samoan Language week and creating Sasa and Siapo. Then we created Kowhaiwhai patterns. Each pattern we learnt told a story. 

In groups we created repeating patterns for maths can you pick the pattern each group has created?

Waka Journey - Dance and Drama

We have been learning how people travelled over the oceans to get to new land often to start their lives over from scratch. There were many hardships they faced.

 We have created a small dance and drama to show the journey they faced to the music of Misey Rika's Tangaroa Whakamautai

ANZAC

WAR

fearless, brave

digging, screaming, running

wounds, helmets, friends, family

forgiving, loving, celebrating

safe, food

HOME

We are learning about ANZAC and what the soldiers went through. After listening to a piece of war sounds we wrote a diamante poem then tried to use collage to depict our feelings of war. We used dye to create the background and newspaper to create a dark dreary foreground.

Reciprocal Teaching in Reading

We are revisiting how to be an effective group leader or teacher and helping others and ourselves to learn in reading. Predicting can happen at the beginning before we read or before reading the next part. We are reading about Celebrations and have picked once we can investigate in a small group.

Herd are the two charts we are using to help us, one reminds us of the steps and what they mean. The other reminds us how we can do each step.

 

Modifying Images

We are learning how to change an image so we can reuse it.
We are looking at celebrations this term. I learnt how to use the polyline tool to change part of the image for reuse. We also added a call out.

I changed the picture by making the mustache dark grey and added another grey patch to his beard.
I found using the polyline tool tricky if you click too close it thinks you have finished and you have to start over.

Next time I would try to find an easier picture.