Christmas Trees made from magazines.

 

We have spent the last few weeks folding our magazines to turn them into Christmas trees. Mrs Minehan took them home and spray painted them, then today we decorated them and sprinkled glitter to make them sparkle. It was lots of fun but quite challenging to fold the pages but Mrs Swinburn and Mrs Minehan think we have made a fantastic job. . 

                  

Christmas Figgy Pudding

Today we learnt about what a Christmas Figgy pudding is. Did you know it was made with figs and that is why it is called figgy? After we had created them, we opened a new Explain Everything project and put in a background, then we took a photo of our Figgy Puddings and made them move across our background. We recorded them moving while we said,

"Run, run as fast as you can,

You can't catch me, I'm a Figgy Pudding!"

 

Fun Friday

We had lots of fun today learning new things. 

First, we had some maths problem-solving activities to do.  The activities challenged our thinking.

We used skip counting and counting on to find out the answer to this question.

We read a very funny poem written by Spike Milligan called 'On the Ning, Nang Nong'. It was very funny and we enjoyed drawing a picture to illustrate the characters in the poem. 

Harmony liked the part where the monkeys went Boo!

We also learnt how to do some algorithmic thinking. We did this by using code to make animals race each other. We tested our race challenge to make sure it worked. Next week we will challenge each other and try and predict who will win the race.

We ended the day with fun Hapu games that the Yr 6 house captains had organised for us. We had to do all the games inside because it was raining AGAIN! 

We really enjoyed the cup challenge and go noodle dancing. 

Ruma Kotuku explores MEDIA

 We learnt that media can be signs, pictures, sign language, clocks, our voice, books and computers. We used our iPads to take photos of things in our classroom that are media. We went outside and made a recording about the photos we had taken. Finally we drew a picture of ourselves communicating. We learnt that media is everywhere. Have you seen all the banners about voting? They are a good example of media. 

 Hapu Day Friday 18th September

Today was Crazy Hair Day!👏 Hapu are our houses that consist of family members together in each house. It was also Hapu Sports afternoon and the senior class organised all of the sports. It was fantastic! Well done senior class.

Here is a photo of Kotuku Class crazy hair

 Some did forget to smile but I think it is a cool photo of a very cool class. Some had wigs, devil ears, long plaits, coloured hair, plenty of pigtails like Pippi Longstocking! Zoe won it for Koutku with her lookalike Pippi Longstocking hair.

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and it is an excellent time,  before the holidays to complete a number of very relevant activities. Relevant activities for our students at an uncertain time. Try them as they are very cool and each day I will share the activities Kotuku completed.

Enjoy your week everyone

Day One  Rahina 13th Hepetema

https://www.mhaw.nz/assets/MHAW-2020/Daily-Activity-PDFs/Schools-and-kura/Rahina-Monday-Activities-Kura-and-Schools.pdf

We went on an adventure in a bubble!

We had a great session with our big buddies from Ruma Piwakawaka. We watched a movie about a girl going on an adventure on a bubble and then our buddies talked about where we would like to go to if we were travelling on a bubble. They had to finf a picture of that place and use it as a backdrop. Then we found a bubble picture and added it t the picture. Next they took a photo of us and used remove.bg to take away the background so we could be on or in the bubble. Finally they shoed us how to make an animation about our trip. They have added a link to their blogs where they have embeded the animations. Then it was our turn to show them something we had learnt on Explain Everything. We drew ourselves on our bubble and then we recorded our story. We had so much fun today.