Cook Island Language Week

I can't wait to see the finished products. 

Positive Ponchos

Starting Term 3 off on the right foot. After trying to find all the positive that students do to help the more active students stay on task in Term 2. We thought we would encourage the students to find positive things to say about each other using Positive Poncho.

We created a poncho each using two colours of paper the top one we folded into 8 before cutting to make a pattern. Then we unfolded it and glued it to the second piece before cutting out the hole for our head to pass through. 

After going through a range of words that students could use we broke into groups and selected a word they thought matched the person. This part was quite tricky to start with they wanted to put words on their own poncho, then some tried telling people what to put on their poncho. The blue words are our school values.

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

What Inspires You? - Music

We have used a couple of different resources to help learn these notes. We even learnt rhymes from the olden days used for skipping. Which the children then tried out - Tinker, Tailor...

We fingered the notes with the recorder on our chin a couple of times before we tried to play it. It was tricky trying ot read the notes, it really is another language.

What Inspires You? - Marbled Milk

As part of the Kitchen Chemistry we did more experiments - This one was called Marbled Milk the students were fascinated how the colours didn't mix together like they would in a milkshake.

What Inspires You? - Percussion Instruments

Today we take a look at how Music can Inspire us 
and Food can gross us out!

What Inspires You? - Ice cream

We are looking at how we can use science to make food.

Next week we change over and try the other, I wonder what the probability of having ice all over the floor again is? Or the chance Mrs Mundy will be able to try some this time?