Trip to the Botanical Gardens

Botanical Gardens Trip - Kizoa Movie - Video - Slideshow Maker

We have been thinking about growing and planting as part of our Inquiry. Today we met with Anneke from the Wellington City Council to talk about plants at the Botanical Gardens. What a fantastic day!

Hour of Code

Today we did Hour of Code. It is a fun coding simulator. We learnt how to move animals and stuff to get to the right places. The levels get harder and harder. There are ages for each theme. You can learn how to programme video games.  Some of the games are Star Wars, Minecraft, Angry Birds, Flappy Bird and Frozen. 

By Adam and Dylan

Hour of code from Matariki on Vimeo.

Matamata Intermediate Mystery Skype

Today we did a Mystery Skype with Matamata Intermediate School. We are getting better at asking questions to find out where the school is. 

Games in the park

Today we had a great time at Kilbirnie Pool and we played some sports at the park. 

This weeks Spanish song about a house!

Yo Tengo Una Casita

Today our Spanish group practised this song with Maria. It is all about houses.

The link is above if you would like to practise at home.

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...

Reading

On Monday the weather was so nice that we did our reading outside on top grass. We talked about our stories, read our books in our reading groups and then did some buddy reading. Some of us looked very relaxed when we were reading!

PE

Today at PE we practised our catching, throwing, kicking and bouncing and then in pairs we made up a new game. We taught it to another pair and played the game. We had to use collaboration and team work, as well as a bit of resilience at times. It was fun.

Kandinsky Art

At transition last Friday, Scott and all the children who will be in Tautoru next year, created a piece of Kandinsky art. Everyone contributed and worked together collaboratively to create this beautiful mural.

La Casa

In Spanish lessons this week we learnt about la casa. We are LOVING our Spanish lessons. Thank you Maria!

Learn La Casa:

Chris' Garden

Chris' Garden on PhotoPeach

Chris wanted to take us to his garden but it is a bit of a walk so he shared some photos with us today. We were fascinated with the lettuce growing out of the side of his house. He thought that he might have dropped seeds by accident. 

Garden Visit and Sketching

Some of us went to Mitchell's garden and we also spent some time sketching the beautiful view from the lookout. 

Thank you for showing us around Mitchell. What a great leader!