Christmas Around the World

Pohutakawa Tree by Pyrenees

We have been connecting with schools around the world to find out how they celebrate Christmas. Please add to the Padlet below if you have anything to add. 

Goal Setting Day: Nic and Hamish's Base Group

Today is Goal Setting Day at Worser Bay.

We made an imovie about goal setting.

First we wrote a script for our movie.

We then had to check if our script was good for a movie.

Just to make sure our movie wasn't boring we added a few actions.

We had to find out who wanted to do what in the movie and make sure everyone was included.

Then we started to record.

At the end we added music and audio to the clip.

Then we shared the movies to the whole class.

Kaizen is making small steps to meet a big goal. If you have to eat an elephant, eat it one bite at a time!

By Betty and Theo

My robots not working.

In literacy we read a poem about a robot that had stopped working and doing jobs around the house.

The students designed their own robot and wrote a description about what it helped to do.

Save the Endangered Animals

During literacy a group have been leading their own research and inquiry into endangered animals.

They decided to present their findings in posters to inform people about why these animals are endangered. Some of the reasons were habitat loss, hunting, and humans.

Look out for these around Tautoru.

More Kandinsky art

In the afternoons we have been looking at the art of Kandinsky. We completed a large hip hop inspired Kandinsky last week with the students from Autahi.
This week we have been working on smaller versions of our own designs.

Mystery Skype with Goodwood School

MYSTERY SKYPE

Hi! We did a mystery skype today and it was our first time winning this year thanks to Cruz. A Mystery Skype is when you ask questions to help you to find out where their school is and what the name of the school is. They were very close to guessing our school. They said, Miramar Central and Miramar North and found out that we are near the Roxy Cinema.

We won and Cruz did guess it as we looked at different schools on Google Maps. Their school was Goodwood School.

Written by Cruz and Ridley

Maths

We are learning about time. We tried to guess  how long a minute is, without looking at the clock. Some of us stood up after 35 seconds, lots stood up close to a minute and some at 1 minute and 15 seconds. It is hard to guess without looking.
Then we had to see how many times we could write our name in a minute, if we could hold our arms in the air for a minute and stand on one leg for a minute.

Students can play Maths Games here...